Publications
Journals
Online Probabilistic Topological Mapping (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert.
International Journal of Robotics Research, 30(6):755-771, May 2011.
Online Sparse Matrix Gaussian Process Regression and Vision Applications (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan, Ming-Hsuan Yang, and Jeffrey Ho.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 20(2):391-404, Feb 2011.
iSAM: Incremental Smoothing and Mapping (pdf)
Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, and Frank Dellaert.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 24(6):1365-1378, Dec 2008
Bayesian Inference in the Space of Topological Maps (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan, Emanuele Menegatti, and Frank Dellaert.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(1):92-107, Feb 2006.
Note- The published version of the paper has an error in Figure 13 where the ground truth is wrongly indicated. The above link points to the corrected version. The published version can be found here. Thanks to Patrick Beeson for pointing out the error.
Conferences
Keyframe Guided Automatic Non-linear Video Editing (pdf)
Vaishnavi Rajgopalan, Ananth Ranganathan, Ramgopal Rajagopalan,
and Sudhir P. Mudur
ICPR 2010, Istanbul.
PLISS: Detecting and Labeling Places using Online Change-point Detection (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2010, Zaragoza, Spain.
Semantic Scene Segmentation Using Random Multinomial Logit (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan
BMVC 2009, London.
Bayesian Surprise and Landmark Detection (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
ICRA 2009, Kobe, Japan.
Online Sparse Matrix Gaussian Process Regression and Vision Applications (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Ming-Hsuan Yang
ECCV 2008, pg 468-482, Marseille, France.
Place Recognition-based Fixed-Lag Smoothing for Environments with Unreliable GPS
(pdf)
Roozbeh Mottaghi, Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, Richard Roberts and Frank Dellaert
ICRA 2008, Pasadena.
Fast 3D Pose Estimation With Out-of-Sequence Measurements (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan, Michael Kaess, and Frank Dellaert
IROS 2007, San Diego.
Semantic Modeling of Places using Objects (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2007.
iSAM: Fast Incremental Smoothing and Mapping with Efficient Data Association (pdf)
Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, and Frank Dellaert.
ICRA, Rome, 2007.
Fast Incremental Square Root Information Smoothing (pdf)
Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, and Frank Dellaert.
IJCAI 2007, Hyderabad
Ananth Ranganathan, Michael Kaess, and Frank Dellaert.
IJCAI 2007, Hyderabad
A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for Topological Mapping (pdf)
(Best Conference Paper Finalist)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert.
ICRA, pages 810-817, Orlando, 2006.
Data driven MCMC for Appearance-based Topological Mapping (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert.
Robotics: Science and Systems, 2005.
Inference In The Space Of Topological Maps: An MCMC-based Approach (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert.
IROS, pages 1518-1523, Sendai, Japan, 2004.
PDRRTs: Integrating Graph-Based and Cell-Based Planning (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Sven Koenig.
IROS, pages 2799-2806, Sendai, Japan, 2004.
A Reactive Robot Architecture with Planning on Demand (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Sven Koenig.
IROS, pages 1462-1468, Las Vegas, 2003.
Technical Reports
Automatic Landmark Detection for Topological Mapping Using Bayesian Surprise (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
IC Tech Report GT-IC-08-04, 2008.
Probabilistic Topological Mapping for Mobile Robots using Urn Models (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-07-03, 2007.
A Variational inference method for Switching Linear Dynamic Systems (pdf)
Sang Min Oh, Ananth Ranganathan, James M. Rehg and Frank Dellaert.
GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-05-16, 2005.
Data Driven MCMC for Appearance-based Topological Mapping (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-05-12, 2005.
PDRRTs: Integrating Graph-Based and Cell-Based Planning (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Sven Koenig.
GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-04-10, 2004.
Dirichlet Process based Bayesian Partition Models for Robot Topological Mapping (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert.
GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-04-21, 2004.
Invited Talks
BIRS 2006 Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision,
Banff Internation Research Station (BIRS), Alberta, Canada
Workshops
PDRRTs: Integrating Graph-based and Cell-based Planning (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Sven Koenig
Workshop on Bridging the gap between task and motion planning
ICAPS 2009.
Semantic Modeling of Places using Objects
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
First IEEE Workshop on Visual Place Categorization (VPC ’09), CVPR 2009.
Toward Topological Localization with Spherical Fourier Transform and Uncalibrated Camera
Francesco Rossi, Ananth Ranganathan, Frank Dellaert, and Emanuele Menegatti
Omnidirectional Robot Vision Workshop
International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, SIMPAR 2008, pages 319-330.
Thesis
Probabilistic Topological Maps (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan
PhD Dissertation, College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology, Feb 2008
Following is a list of my publications in reverse chronological order in each category. The paper titles link to summaries of the corresponding projects.
