More about my Research below

The following is a complete list of my scholarly publications, which touch on aerial robotics, deep learning and computer vision, among other things.
For more information, visit my Google Scholar page

Peer-Reviewed Papers






2023




Ajna

Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots


Science Robotics 2023

Nitin J. Sanket*, Chahat Deep Singh*, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Sci. Robot. 8, eadd5139, 2023.
* Equal Contribution

Cover of Science Robotics Journal, August 2023.

 Paper    UMD    WPI  


Olive The Above

Detecting Olives with Synthetic or Real Data? Olive the Above


IROS 2023

Yianni Karabatis, Xiaomin Lin, Nitin J. Sanket, Michail G. Lagoudakis, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.

 UMD    WPI  


WorldGen

WorldGen: A Large Scale Generative Simulator


ICRA 2023

Chahat Deep Singh, Riya Kumari, Cornelia Fermuller, Nitin J. Sanket, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.

 Paper    Project Page    UMD    WPI  


OysterNet

Oysternet: Enhanced oyster detection using simulation


ICRA 2023

Xiaomin Lin, Nitin J. Sanket, Nare Karapetyan, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.

 Paper    Project Page    UMD   WPI  


TTCDist

TTCDist: Fast Active Monocular Distance Estimation from Time-to-Contact


ICRA 2023

Levi Burner, Nitin J. Sanket, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.

 Paper    Project Page    UMD   WPI  




2022




DiffPoseNet

DiffPoseNet: Direct Differentiable Camera Pose Estimation


CVPR 2022

Chethan M. Parameshwara, Gokul Hari, Cornelia Fermuller, Nitin J. Sanket, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.

 Paper   Project Page    UMD  


GradTac

GradTac: Spatio-Temporal Gradient Based Tactile Sensing


Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2022

Kanishka Ganguly, Pavan Mantripragada, Chethan M. Parameshwara, Cornelia Fermuller, Nitin J. Sanket, Yiannis Aloimonos, Frontiers in Robotics and AI,, vol. 9, 2022.

 Paper    UMD  


Grasping In The Dark

Grasping in the Dark: Zero-Shot Object Grasping Using Tactile Feedback


ArXiv 2022

Kanishka Ganguly, Behzad Sadrfaridpour, Pavan Mantripragada, Nitin J. Sanket, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, arXiv Preprint:2011.00712, 2022.

 Paper    UMD  



2021




Pollination Using Bee-Quadrotors

Active Vision Based Embodied-AI Design For Nano-UAV Autonomy


Doctoral dissertation

Nitin J. Sanket, Doctoral dissertation, 2021.

Awarded the Larry S. Davis Award for Best Computer Science PhD Thesis at University of Maryland, 2021. News Article

Awarded the MDPI Drones 2021 PhD Thesis Award for a highly anticipated academic thesis that shows great potential, 2021. News Article

 Paper    UMD  

Featured in



EVPropNet

EVPropNet: Detecting Drones By Finding Propellers For Mid-Air Landing And Following


RSS 2021

Nitin J. Sanket, Chahat Deep Singh, Chethan M. Parameshwara, Cornelia Fermuller, Guido C.H.E. de Croon, Yiannis Aloimonos, Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), 2021.

 Paper    Project Page    Code    UMD  

NudgeSeg

NudgeSeg: Zero-Shot Object Segmentation by Repeated Physical Interaction


IROS 2021

Nitin J. Sanket*, Chahat Deep Singh*, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
* Equal Contribution

 Paper    Project Page    UMD  

SpikeMS

SpikeMS: Deep Spiking Neural Network for Motion Segmentation


IROS 2021

Chethan M. Parameshwara*, Simin Li*, Cornelia Fermuller, Nitin J. Sanket, Matthew S. Evanusa, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
* Equal Contribution

 Paper    Project Page    Code    UMD  

MorphEyes

MorphEyes: Variable Baseline Stereo For Quadrotor Navigation


ICRA 2021

Nitin J. Sanket, Chahat Deep Singh, Varun Asthana, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , 2021.

 Paper    Project Page    Code    UMD  

Featured in



PRGFlow

PRGFlow: Unified SWAP‐aware deep global optical flow for aerial robot navigation


Electronic Letters 2021

Nitin J. Sanket, Chahat Deep Singh, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Electronics Letters, 2021.

 Paper    Project Page    Code    UMD  

0-MMS

0-MMS: Zero-Shot Multi-Motion Segmentation With A Monocular Event Camera


ICRA 2021

Chethan M. Parameshwara, Nitin J. Sanket, Chahat Deep Singh, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.

 Paper    Project Page    Code   UMD  



2020




EVDodgeNet

EVDodgeNet: Deep Dynamic Obstacle Dodging with Event Cameras


ICRA 2020

Nitin J. Sanket*, Chethan M. Parameshwara*, Chahat Deep Singh, Ashwin V. Kuruttukulam, Cornelia Fermuller, Davide Scaramuzza, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE International Confernce on Robotics and Automation, Paris, 2020.
* Equal Contribution

 Paper    Project Page    Code    UMD  

Featured in





2019




SalientDSO

SalientDSO: Bringing Attention to Direct Sparse Odometry


T-ASE 2019

Nitin J. Sanket*, Huai-Jen Liang*, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2019.
* Equal Contribution

Awarded the Brin Family Prize, 2018. News Article

 Paper    Project Page    Code    UMD  



2018




GapFlyt

GapFlyt: Active Vision Based Minimalist Structure-less Gap Detection For Quadrotor Flight


RA-L 2018 | IROS 2018

Nitin J. Sanket*, Chahat Deep Singh*, Kanishka Ganguly, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018.
* Equal Contribution

Awarded the Brin Family Prize, 2018. News Article

 Paper    Project Page    Code    UMD  

Featured in




and many more



2017




PennCOSYVIO

PennCOSYVIO: A challenging Visual Inertial Odometry benchmark


ICRA 2017

Bernd Pfrommer, Nitin J. Sanket, Kostas Daniilidis, Jonas Cleveland, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017.

 Paper    Project Page    Dataset    UPenn  



2014




Face Recognition

Face recognition using adaptive filter wavelet transform based feature extraction


ICSMR 2014

Nitin J. Sanket, Vyshak A. V., K. Manikantan, S. Ramachandran, IEEE International Conference on Science Engineering and Management Research, 2014.

 Paper    MSRIT  



2013




Face Detection

Recursive Binary Particle Swarm Optimization based Face Localization


NCVPRIPG 2013

Nitin J. Sanket, K. Manikantan, S. Ramachandran, IEEE National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics, 2013.

 Paper    MSRIT  

Lane Detection

Novel approach to lane and path detection in unmanned ground vehicles


ICATE 2013

B. Chandan, Chetan Sadhu, Madan Ravi Ganesh, Nitin J. Sanket, IEEE International Conference on Advances in Technology and Engineering, 2013.

 Paper    MSRIT  

CHAMP

CHAMP — A low cost modular humanoid platform


CARE 2013

Nitin J. Sanket, Chetan Sadhu, Harsha B., Abhiram M. H., Madhu G., IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems, 2013.

 Paper    MSRIT