George Kantor

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1996-2024
Publications (10 Years): 39

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University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA (PHD)

Education History

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

PHD

Publications

Ruiji Liu, Francisco Yandún, George Kantor
LiDAR-Based Crop Row Detection Algorithm for Over-Canopy Autonomous Navigation in Agriculture Fields. CoRR (2024)
Dominic Guri, Moonyoung Lee, Oliver Kroemer, George Kantor
Hefty: A Modular Reconfigurable Robot for Advancing Robot Manipulation in Agriculture. CoRR (2024)
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Jessica M. P. Bell, George Kantor, Nirav C. Merchant, Soumik Sarkar, Patrick S. Schnable, Michelle Segovia, Arti Singh, Asheesh K. Singh
AIIRA: AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture. AI Mag. 45 (1) (2024)
Harry Freeman, George Kantor
Autonomous Apple Fruitlet Sizing with Next Best View Planning. ICRA (2024)
Moonyoung Lee, Aaron Berger, Dominic Guri, Kevin Zhang, Lisa Coffey, George Kantor, Oliver Kroemer
Towards Autonomous Crop Monitoring: Inserting Sensors in Cluttered Environments. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 9 (6) (2024)
Chung Hee Kim, Moonyoung Lee, Oliver Kroemer, George Kantor
Towards Robotic Tree Manipulation: Leveraging Graph Representations. ICRA (2024)
Eric Schneider, Sushanth Jayanth, Abhisesh Silwal, George Kantor
3D Skeletonization of Complex Grapevines for Robotic Pruning. CoRR (2023)
Harry Freeman, Eric Schneider, Chung Hee Kim, Moonyoung Lee, George Kantor
3D Reconstruction-Based Seed Counting of Sorghum Panicles for Agricultural Inspection. ICRA (2023)
Harry Freeman, George Kantor
Autonomous Apple Fruitlet Sizing with Next Best View Planning. CoRR (2023)
Chung Hee Kim, George Kantor
Occlusion Reasoning for Skeleton Extraction of Self-Occluded Tree Canopies. CoRR (2023)
Chung Hee Kim, Moonyoung Lee, Oliver Kroemer, George Kantor
Towards Robotic Tree Manipulation: Leveraging Graph Representations. CoRR (2023)
Mohamad Qadri, Harry Freeman, Eric Schneider, George Kantor
Toward Semantic Scene Understanding for Fine-Grained 3D Modeling of Plants. CoRR (2023)
Chung Hee Kim, George Kantor
Occlusion Reasoning for Skeleton Extraction of Self-Occluded Tree Canopies. ICRA (2023)
Eric Schneider, Sushanth Jayanth, Abhisesh Silwal, George Kantor
3D Skeletonization of Complex Grapevines for Robotic Pruning. IROS (2023)
Moonyoung Lee, Aaron Berger, Dominic Guri, Kevin Zhang, Lisa Coffee, George Kantor, Oliver Kroemer
Towards Autonomous Crop Monitoring: Inserting Sensors in Cluttered Environments. CoRR (2023)
Harry Freeman, Mohamad Qadri, Abhisesh Silwal, Paul O'Connor, Zachary B. Rubinstein, Daniel Cooley, George Kantor
Autonomous Apple Fruitlet Sizing and Growth Rate Tracking using Computer Vision. CoRR (2022)
Abhisesh Silwal, Francisco Yandún, Anjana K. Nellithimaru, Terry Bates, George Kantor
Bumblebee: A Path Towards Fully Autonomous Robotic Vine Pruning. Field Robotics 2 (1) (2022)
Harry Freeman, Eric Schneider, Chung Hee Kim, Moonyoung Lee, George Kantor
3D Reconstruction-Based Seed Counting of Sorghum Panicles for Agricultural Inspection. CoRR (2022)
Francisco Yandún, Tanvir Parhar, Abhisesh Silwal, David Clifford, Zhiqiang Yuan, Gabriella Levine, Sergey Yaroshenko, George Kantor
Reaching Pruning Locations in a Vine Using a Deep Reinforcement Learning Policy. ICRA (2021)
Abhisesh Silwal, Tanvir Parhar, Francisco Yandún, Harjatin Singh Baweja, George Kantor
A Robust Illumination-Invariant Camera System for Agricultural Applications. IROS (2021)
Abhisesh Silwal, Francisco Yandún, Anjana K. Nellithimaru, Terry Bates, George Kantor
Bumblebee: A Path Towards Fully Autonomous Robotic Vine Pruning. CoRR (2021)
Abhisesh Silwal, Tanvir Parhar, Francisco Yandún, George Kantor
A Robust Illumination-Invariant Camera System for Agricultural Applications. CoRR (2021)
Mohamad Qadri, George Kantor
Semantic Feature Matching for Robust Mapping in Agriculture. CoRR (2021)
Francisco Yandún, Abhisesh Silwal, George Kantor
Visual 3D Reconstruction and Dynamic Simulation of Fruit Trees for Robotic Manipulation. CVPR Workshops (2020)
Weizhao Shao, Srinivasan Vijayarangan, Cong Li, George Kantor
Stereo Visual Inertial LiDAR Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. IROS (2019)
Sumit Kumar, Wenhao Luo, George Kantor, Katia P. Sycara
Active Learning with Gaussian Processes for High Throughput Phenotyping. CoRR (2019)
Wenhao Luo, Changjoo Nam, George Kantor, Katia P. Sycara
Distributed Environmental Modeling and Adaptive Sampling for Multi-Robot Sensor Coverage. AAMAS (2019)
Weizhao Shao, Srinivasan Vijayarangan, Cong Li, George Kantor
Stereo Visual Inertial LiDAR Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. CoRR (2019)
Sumit Kumar, Wenhao Luo, George Kantor, Katia P. Sycara
Active Learning with Gaussian Processes for High Throughput Phenotyping. AAMAS (2019)
Xingyu Lin, Harjatin Singh Baweja, George Kantor, David Held
Adaptive Auxiliary Task Weighting for Reinforcement Learning. NeurIPS (2019)
Tanvir Parhar, Harjatin Singh Baweja, Merritt Jenkins, George Kantor
A Deep Learning-Based Stalk Grasping Pipeline. ICRA (2018)
Humphrey Hu, George Kantor
Compensating for Context by Learning Local Models of Perception Performance. IROS (2018)
Guan-Horng Liu, Avinash Siravuru, Sai P. Selvaraj, Manuela M. Veloso, George Kantor
Learning End-to-end Multimodal Sensor Policies for Autonomous Navigation. CoRL (2017)
Merritt Jenkins, George Kantor
Online detection of occluded plant stalks for manipulation. IROS (2017)
Tim Mueller-Sim, Merritt Jenkins, Justin Abel, George Kantor
The Robotanist: A ground-based agricultural robot for high-throughput crop phenotyping. ICRA (2017)
Humphrey Hu, George Kantor
Introspective Evaluation of Perception Performance for Parameter Tuning without Ground Truth. Robotics: Science and Systems (2017)
Humphrey Hu, George Kantor
Efficient Automatic Perception System Parameter Tuning On Site without Expert Supervision. CoRL (2017)
Guan-Horng Liu, Avinash Siravuru, Sai P. Selvaraj, Manuela M. Veloso, George Kantor
Learning End-to-end Multimodal Sensor Policies for Autonomous Navigation. CoRR (2017)
Humphrey Hu, George Kantor
Instance selection for efficient and reliable camera calibration. ICRA (2016)
Humphrey Hu, George Kantor
Parametric covariance prediction for heteroscedastic noise. IROS (2015)
Bhaskar Vaidya, Michael Shomin, Ralph L. Hollis, George Kantor
Operation of the ballbot on slopes and with center-of-mass offsets. ICRA (2015)
Marcel Bergerman, Silvio M. Maeta, Ji Zhang, Gustavo Medeiros Freitas, Bradley Hamner, Sanjiv Singh, George Kantor
Robot Farmers: Autonomous Orchard Vehicles Help Tree Fruit Production. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 22 (1) (2015)
David Bourne, Howie Choset, Humphrey Hu, George Kantor, Chris Niessl, Zachary B. Rubinstein, Reid G. Simmons, Stephen F. Smith
Mobile manufacturing of large structures. ICRA (2015)
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis
The ballbot: An omnidirectional balancing mobile robot. Int. J. Robotics Res. 33 (6) (2014)
Stephen Tully, George Kantor, Howie Choset
Monocular feature-based periodic motion estimation for surgical guidance. ICRA (2013)
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis
Integrated motion planning and control for graceful balancing mobile robots. Int. J. Robotics Res. 32 (9-10) (2013)
James Lee, David Wettergreen, George Kantor
Lightweight Laser Scan Registration in Underground Mines with Band-based Downsampling Method. FSR (2012)
Ji Zhang, Sanjiv Singh, George Kantor
Robust Monocular Visual Odometry for a Ground Vehicle in Undulating Terrain. FSR (2012)
Abhinav Valada, Christopher Tomaszewski, Balajee Kannan, Prasanna Velagapudi, George Kantor, Paul Scerri
An Intelligent Approach to Hysteresis Compensation while Sampling Using a Fleet of Autonomous Watercraft. ICIRA (2) (2012)
Stephen Tully, George Kantor, Howie Choset
A unified Bayesian framework for global localization and SLAM in hybrid metric/topological maps. Int. J. Robotics Res. 31 (3) (2012)
Paul Scerri, Prasanna Velagapudi, Balajee Kannan, Abhinav Valada, Christopher Tomaszewski, John Dolan, Adrian Scerri, Kumar Shaurya Shankar, Luis Bill, George Kantor
Real-world testing of a multi-robot team. AAMAS (2012)
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis
Integrated planning and control for graceful navigation of shape-accelerated underactuated balancing mobile robots. ICRA (2012)
Abhinav Valada, Prasanna Velagapudi, Balajee Kannan, Christopher Tomaszewski, George Kantor, Paul Scerri
Development of a Low Cost Multi-Robot Autonomous Marine Surface Platform. FSR (2012)
Wei Liu, George Kantor, Fernando De la Torre, Nanning Zheng
Image-based tree pruning. ROBIO (2012)
Chaohui Gong, Stephen Tully, George Kantor, Howie Choset
Multi-agent deterministic graph mapping via robot rendezvous. ICRA (2012)
Stephen Tully, Andrea Bajo, George Kantor, Howie Choset, Nabil Simaan
Constrained filtering with contact detection data for the localization and registration of continuum robots in flexible environments. ICRA (2012)
Gustavo Medeiros Freitas, Ji Zhang, Bradley Hamner, Marcel Bergerman, George Kantor
A Low-Cost, Practical Localization System for Agricultural Vehicles. ICIRA (3) (2012)
Ji Zhang, George Kantor, Marcel Bergerman, Sanjiv Singh
Monocular visual navigation of an autonomous vehicle in natural scene corridor-like environments. IROS (2012)
Abhinav Valada, David Kohanbash, George Kantor
DSRP: Distributed SensorWeb Routing Protocol. CONIELECOMP (2011)
Tong Tao, Stephen Tully, George Kantor, Howie Choset
Incremental construction of the saturated-GVG for multi-hypothesis topological SLAM. ICRA (2011)
Stephen Tully, George Kantor, Howie Choset
Inequality constrained Kalman filtering for the localization and registration of a surgical robot. IROS (2011)
Paul Scerri, Balajee Kannan, Prasanna Velagapudi, Kate Macarthur, Peter Stone, Matthew E. Taylor, John Dolan, Alessandro Farinelli, Archie C. Chapman, Bernadine Dias, George Kantor
Flood Disaster Mitigation: A Real-World Challenge Problem for Multi-agent Unmanned Surface Vehicles. AAMAS Workshops (2011)
Stephen Tully, George Kantor, Marco A. Zenati, Howie Choset
Shape estimation for image-guided surgery with a highly articulated snake robot. IROS (2011)
Yu Fu, Stephen Tully, George Kantor, Howie Choset
Monte Carlo Localization using 3D texture maps. IROS (2011)
Jacqueline Libby, George Kantor
Deployment of a point and line feature localization system for an outdoor agriculture vehicle. ICRA (2011)
Stephen Tully, George Kantor, Howie Choset
A Single-Step Maximum A Posteriori Update for Bearing-Only SLAM. AAAI (2010)
Mishari Alarfaj, George Kantor
Centrifugal force compensation of a two-wheeled balancing robot. ICARCV (2010)
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis
Hybrid control for navigation of shape-accelerated underactuated balancing systems. CDC (2010)
Nathaniel Fairfield, George Kantor, Dominic Jonak, David Wettergreen
Autonomous Exploration and Mapping of Flooded Sinkholes. Int. J. Robotics Res. 29 (6) (2010)
Nathaniel Fairfield, David Wettergreen, George Kantor
Segmented SLAM in three-dimensional environments. J. Field Robotics 27 (1) (2010)
Sanjiv Singh, Marcel Bergerman, Jillian Cannons, Benjamin Grocholsky, Bradley Hamner, Germán Holguín, Larry Hull, Vincent Jones, George Kantor, Harvey Koselka, Guiqin Li, James Owen, Johnny Park, Wenfan Shi, James Teza
Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops: Year 1 results and lessons learned. Intell. Serv. Robotics 3 (4) (2010)
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis
Human-robot physical interaction with dynamically stable mobile robots. HRI (2009)
Stephen Tully, George Kantor, Howie Choset
Leap-Frog Path Design for Multi-Robot Cooperative Localization. FSR (2009)
Umashankar Nagarajan, Anish Mampetta, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis
State transition, balancing, station keeping, and yaw control for a dynamically stable single spherical wheel mobile robot. ICRA (2009)
Felix Werner, Frédéric Maire, Joaquin Sitte, Howie Choset, Stephen Tully, George Kantor
Topological SLAM using neighbourhood information of places. IROS (2009)
Stephen Tully, George Kantor, Howie Choset, Felix Werner
A multi-hypothesis topological SLAM approach for loop closing on edge-ordered graphs. IROS (2009)
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis
Trajectory planning and control of an underactuated dynamically stable single spherical wheeled mobile robot. ICRA (2009)
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis
Human-robot physical interaction with dynamically stable mobile robots. HRI (2009)
Stephen Tully, Hyungpil Moon, George Kantor, Howie Choset
Iterated filters for bearing-only SLAM. ICRA (2008)
George Kantor, Nathaniel Fairfield, Dominic Jonak, David Wettergreen
Experiments in Navigation and Mapping with a Hovering AUV. FSR (2007)
Nathaniel Fairfield, George Kantor, David Wettergreen
Real-Time SLAM with Octree Evidence Grids for Exploration in Underwater Tunnels. J. Field Robotics 24 (1-2) (2007)
Stephen Tully, Hyungpil Moon, Deryck Morales, George Kantor, Howie Choset
Hybrid localization using the hierarchical atlas. IROS (2007)
Nathaniel Fairfield, George Kantor, David Wettergreen
Towards Particle Filter SLAM with Three Dimensional Evidence Grids in a Flooded Subterranean Environment. ICRA (2006)
Joseph Djugash, Sanjiv Singh, George Kantor, Wei Zhang
Range-only SLAM for Robots Operating Cooperatively with Sensor Networks. ICRA (2006)
Tom Lauwers, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis
A Dynamically Stable Single-wheeled Mobile Robot with Inverse Mouse-ball Drive. ICRA (2006)
Brad Lisien, Deryck Morales, David Silver, George Kantor, Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Howie Choset
The hierarchical atlas. IEEE Trans. Robotics 21 (3) (2005)
Tom Lauwers, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis
One Is Enough!. ISRR (2005)
Albert Costa, George Kantor, Howie Choset
Bearing-only Landmark Initialization with Unknown Data Association. ICRA (2004)
Wei Zhang, George Kantor, Sanjiv Singh
Integrated wireless sensor/actuator networks in an agricultural application. SenSys (2004)
George Kantor, Alfred A. Rizzi
Feedback Control of Underactuated Systems via Sequential Composition: Visually Guided Control of a Unicycle. ISRR (2003)
Derek Kurth, George Kantor, Sanjiv Singh
Experimental results in range-only localization with radio. IROS (2003)
Sarjoun Skaff, George Kantor, David Maiwand, Alfred A. Rizzi
Inertial navigation and visual line following for a dynamical hexapod robot. IROS (2003)
Brad Lisien, Deryck Morales, David Silver, George Kantor, Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Howie Choset
Hierarchical simultaneous localization and mapping. IROS (2003)
George Kantor, Sanjiv Singh, Ronald A. Peterson, Daniela Rus, Aveek K. Das, Vijay Kumar, Guilherme A. S. Pereira, John R. Spletzer
Distributed Search and Rescue with Robot and Sensor Teams. FSR (2003)
Sanjiv Singh, George Kantor, Dennis Strelow
Recent Results in Extensions to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. ISER (2002)
George Kantor, Sanjiv Singh
Preliminary Results in Range-Only Localization and Mapping. ICRA (2002)
George Kantor, Vikram Manikonda, Andrew Newman, Dimitris P. Tsakiris
Robotics for High School Students in a University Enviroment. Comput. Sci. Educ. 7 (2) (1996)

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