Candidacy Exam Bibliography -- Paul Blaer

1. "Automatic Sensor Placement from Vision Task Requirements,"
C. K. Cowan and P. D. Kovesi. PAMI 1988.

2. "The MVP Sensor Planning System for Robotic Vision Tasks,"
K. A. Tarabanis, R. Y. Tsai, and P. K. Allen. Robotics and Automation
1995.

3. "Computing Occlusion-Free Viewpoints," K. Tarabanis, R. Y. Tsai.
CVPR 1992.

4. "Planning for Complete Sensor Coverage in Inspection," G. H. Tarbox
and S. N. Gottschlich. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, January
1995.

5. "View Planning for Multi-Stage Object Reconstruction," W. R. Scott,
G. Roth and J.-F. Rivest. International Conference on Vision Interface,
2001.

6. "The Determination of Next Best Views," C. I. Connolly. ICRA 1985.

7. "A "Best-Next-View" Algorithm for Three-Dimensional Scene
Reconstruction Using Range Images," J. E. Banta et al.  SPIE 1995.

8. "Occlusions as a Guide for Planning the Next View," J. Maver and
R. Bajcsy. PAMI 1993.

9. "Autonomous Exploration: Driven by Uncertainty," P. Whaite and
F. P. Ferrie. PAMI 1997.

10. "Automatic 3-D Digitization Using a Laser Rangefinder with a Small
Field of View," D. Papadopoulos-Organos and F. Schmitt.  3DIM 1997.

11.  "A Mechanism of Automatic 3D Object Modeling," X. Yuan. PAMI
1995.

12. "Active Modeling of 3-D Objects: Planning on the Next Best Pose
(NBP) for Acquiring Range Images," H. Zha, et al. 3DIM 1997.

13. "A Best Next View Selection Algorithm incorporating a Quality
Criterionm," N. A. Massios, R. B. Fisher. The British Machine Vision
Conference 1998.

14. "Uniform and Complete Surface Coverage with a Robot-Mounted Laser
Range Finder,"  G. Soucy, F. G. Callari and F. P. Ferrie. IROS 1998.  

15. "A Solution to the Next Best View Problem for Automated Surface
Acquisition," R. Pito. PAMI 1999.

16. "Constraint-Based Sensor Planning for Scene Modeling," M. K. Reed and
P. K. Allen. PAMI 2000.

17. "View Planning for the 3D Modelling of Real World Scenes,"
K. Klein and V. Sequeira. IROS 2000.

18. "Planning Views for the Incremental Construction of Body Models,"
S. Xie, T. W. Calvert and B. K. Bhattacharya. International Conference
on Pattern Recognition, 1986.

19. "Motion Planning with Visibility Constraints: Building Autonomous
Observers," H. H. Gonzalez-Banos, et al.  Robotics Research, 1997.

20.  "Randomized Planning for Short Inspection Paths," T. Danner,
L. Kavraki. ICRA 2000.

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21. "Planning Robot Motion Strategies for Efficient Model
Construction." H. Gonzalez-Banos, et al.  Robotics Research, 2000.

22.  "Autonomous Exploration via Regions of Interest," R. Grabowski,
P. Khosla, and H. Choset. IROS 2003.

23.  "Planning Robot Motion for 3D Digitalization of Indoor
Environments," A. Nuchter, H. Surmann, and J. Hertzberg. ICAR 2003.