Monica N. Nicolescu

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2000-2024
Publications (10 Years): 37

Top Topics

Biologically Inspired

Object Recognition

Temporal Patterns

Top Venues

Publications

Shuvo Kumar Paul, Ovi Paul, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu
ROS-Pose: Simplified object detection and planar pose estimation for rapid robotics application development. Softw. Impacts 19 (2024)
Ayesh Meepaganithage, Suman Rath, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, Shamik Sengupta
Image Forgery Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks. ISDFS (2024)
Parvaneh Aliniya, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, George Bebis
Supervised Pectoral Muscle Removal in Mammography Images. AIME (2) (2024)
Parvaneh Aliniya, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, George Bebis
Improved Loss Function for Mass Segmentation in Mammography Images Using Density and Mass Size. J. Imaging 10 (1) (2024)
Ayesh Meepaganithage, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
Hostile Vessel Behavior Prediction using LSTMs. ICMVA (2024)
Melanie Schmidt-Wolf, Tyler Becker, Denielle Oliva, Monica N. Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer
Through the Clutter: Exploring the Impact of Complex Environments on the Legibility of Robot Motion. CoRR (2024)
Ayesh Meepaganithage, Suman Rath, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, Shamik Sengupta
Feature Selection Using the Advanced Shapley Value. CCWC (2024)
Pourya Hoseini, Shuvo Kumar Paul, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
Next Best View Planning in a Single Glance: An Approach to Improve Object Recognition. SN Comput. Sci. 4 (1) (2023)
Shuvo Kumar Paul, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
Integrating User Gaze with Verbal Instruction to Reliably Estimate Robotic Task Parameters in a Human-Robot Collaborative Environment. ICMVA (2023)
Mayamin Hamid Raha, Md. Abu Sayed, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, Sushil J. Louis
Maritime Dynamic Resource Allocation and Risk Minimization Using Visual Analytics and Elitist Multi-Objective Optimization. ICINCO (1) (2023)
Tyler Becker, Song Jiang, David Feil-Seifer, Monica N. Nicolescu
Single Robot Multitasking Through Dynamic Resource Allocation. Humanoids (2023)
Parvaneh Aliniya, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, George Bebis
Hybrid Region and Pixel-Level Adaptive Loss for Mass Segmentation on Whole Mammography Images. ISVC (1) (2023)
Shuvo Kumar Paul, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration through a Multi-Module Interaction Framework with Sensor Fusion: Object Recognition, Verbal Communication, User of Interest Detection, Gesture and Gaze Recognition. Sensors 23 (13) (2023)
Shuvo Kumar Paul, Pourya Hoseini, Arjun Vettath Gopinath, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
Simultaneous Integration of Multimodal Interfaces for Generating Structured and Reliable Robotic Task Configurations. ICMVA (2022)
Pourya Hoseini, Shuvo Kumar Paul, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
A one-shot next best view system for active object recognition. Appl. Intell. 52 (5) (2022)
Logan Carlson, Dalton Navalta, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, Gail Woodward
Early Classification of Intent for Maritime Domains Using Multinomial Hidden Markov Models. Frontiers Artif. Intell. 4 (2021)
Pourya Hoseini, Shuvo Kumar Paul, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
A Surface and Appearance-based Next Best View System for Active Object Recognition. VISIGRAPP (5: VISAPP) (2021)
Shuvo Kumar Paul, Muhammed Tawfiq Chowdhury, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
Object Detection and Pose Estimation from RGB and Depth Data for Real-time, Adaptive Robotic Grasping. CoRR (2021)
Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Scott Forer, Logan Yliniemi, Monica N. Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer
Socially Aware Navigation: A Non-linear Multi-objective Optimization Approach. ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst. 11 (2) (2021)
Andrew H. Palmer, Chris Peterson, Janelle Blankenburg, David Feil-Seifer, Monica N. Nicolescu
Simple Camera-to-2D-LiDAR Calibration Method for General Use. ISVC (2) (2020)
Shuvo Kumar Paul, Pourya Hoseini, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
Performance Analysis of Keypoint Detectors and Binary Descriptors Under Varying Degrees of Photometric and Geometric Transformations. CoRR (2020)
Janelle Blankenburg, Mariya Zagainova, S. Michael Simmons, Gabrielle Talavera, Monica N. Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer
Human-Robot Collaboration and Dialogue for Fault Recovery on Hierarchical Tasks. ICSR (2020)
Touqeer Ahmad, George Bebis, Monica N. Nicolescu, Ara Nefian, Terry Fong
Horizon line detection using supervised learning and edge cues. Comput. Vis. Image Underst. 191 (2020)
Logan Carlson, Dalton Navalta, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, Gail Woodward
Multinomial HMMs for Intent Recognition in Maritime Domains. AAMAS (2019)
Pourya Hoseini, Janelle Blankenburg, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer
Active Eye-in-Hand Data Management to Improve the Robotic Object Detection Performance. Comput. 8 (4) (2019)
Bashira Akter Anima, Janelle Blankenburg, Mariya Zagainova, S. Pourya Hoseini A., Muhammed Tawfiq Chowdhury, David Feil-Seifer, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu
Collaborative Human-Robot Hierarchical Task Execution with an Activation Spreading Architecture. ICSR (2019)
Seyed Pourya Hoseini Alinodehi, Janelle Blankenburg, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer
An Active Robotic Vision System with a Pair of Moving and Stationary Cameras. ISVC (2) (2019)
Monica N. Nicolescu, Natalie Arnold, Janelle Blankenburg, David Feil-Seifer, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Mircea Nicolescu, Andrew H. Palmer, Thor Monteverde
Learning of Complex-Structured Tasks from Verbal Instruction. Humanoids (2019)
Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Scott Forer, Logan Michael Yliniemi, Monica N. Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer
Socially-Aware Navigation: A Non-linear Multi-Objective Optimization Approach. CoRR (2019)
S. Pourya Hoseini A., Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
Active Object Detection Through Dynamic Incorporation of Dempster-Shafer Fusion for Robotic Applications. ICVISP (2018)
S. Pourya Hoseini A., Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
Handling Ambiguous Object Recognition Situations in a Robotic Environment via Dynamic Information Fusion. CogSIMA (2018)
Scott Forer, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Logan Michael Yliniemi, Monica N. Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer
Socially-Aware Navigation Using Non-Linear Multi-Objective Optimization. IROS (2018)
Banafsheh Rekabdar, Luke Fraser, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu
A real-time spike-timing classifier of spatio-temporal patterns. Neurocomputing 311 (2018)
Janelle Blankenburg, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Seyed Pourya Hoseini Alinodehi, Luke Fraser, David Feil-Seifer, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu
A distributed control architecture for collaborative multi-robot task allocation. Humanoids (2017)
Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, Sushil J. Louis
Using patterns of firing neurons in spiking neural networks for learning and early recognition of spatio-temporal patterns. Neural Comput. Appl. 28 (5) (2017)
Luke Fraser, Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer, George Bebis
A compact task representation for hierarchical robot control. Humanoids (2016)
Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, Mohammad Taghi Saffar, Richard Kelley
A Scale and Translation Invariant Approach for Early Classification of Spatio-Temporal Patterns Using Spiking Neural Networks. Neural Process. Lett. 43 (2) (2016)
Mohammad Taghi Saffar, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, Banafsheh Rekabdar
Intent Understanding Using an Activation Spreading Architecture. Robotics 4 (3) (2015)
Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica N. Nicolescu, Richard Kelley, Mircea Nicolescu
An Unsupervised Approach to Learning and Early Detection of Spatio-Temporal Patterns Using Spiking Neural Networks. J. Intell. Robotic Syst. 80 (Supplement-1) (2015)
Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu
An Unsupervised Learning Approach for Classifying Sequence Data for Human Robotic Interaction Using Spiking Neural Network. HRI (Extended Abstracts) (2015)
Mohammad Taghi Saffar, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, Daniel Bigelow, Christopher A. Ballinger, Sushil J. Louis
Intent Recognition in a Simulated Maritime Multi-agent Domain. MOD (2015)
Touqeer Ahmad, George Bebis, Monica N. Nicolescu, Ara V. Nefian, Terry Fong
Fusion of edge-less and edge-based approaches for horizon line detection. IISA (2015)
Mohammad Taghi Saffar, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, Banafsheh Rekabdar
Context-based intent understanding using an Activation Spreading architecture. IROS (2015)
Touqeer Ahmad, George Bebis, Monica N. Nicolescu, Ara V. Nefian, Terry Fong
An Edge-Less Approach to Horizon Line Detection. ICMLA (2015)
Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, Richard Kelley
Scale and translation invariant learning of spatio-temporal patterns using longest common subsequences and spiking neural networks. IJCNN (2015)
Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, Richard Kelley
A biologically inspired approach to learning spatio-temporal patterns. ICDL-EPIROB (2015)
Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica N. Nicolescu, Richard Kelley, Mircea Nicolescu
Unsupervised Learning of Spatio-temporal Patterns Using Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity. AGI (2014)
Amol Ambardekar, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, Monica N. Nicolescu
Vehicle classification framework: a comparative study. EURASIP J. Image Video Process. 2014 (2014)
Abbas Roayaei Ardakany, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
Improving Gender Classification Using an Extended Set of Local Binary Patterns. Int. J. Multim. Data Eng. Manag. 5 (3) (2014)
Bradford A. Towle, Monica N. Nicolescu
An auction behavior-based robotic architecture for service robotics. Intell. Serv. Robotics 7 (3) (2014)
Liesl Wigand, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu
A Developmental Approach to Concept Learning. ICINCO (2) (2013)
Amol Ambardekar, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, Monica N. Nicolescu
Visual traffic surveillance framework: classification to event detection. J. Electronic Imaging 22 (4) (2013)
Abbas Roayaei Ardakany, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
An Extended Local Binary Pattern for Gender Classification. ISM (2013)
Bradford A. Towle, Monica N. Nicolescu
Incorporating a reusable human robot interface with an Auction Behavior-Based Robotic Architecture. CTS (2013)
Siming Liu, Sushil J. Louis, Monica N. Nicolescu
Using CIGAR for finding effective group behaviors in RTS game. CIG (2013)
Siming Liu, Sushil J. Louis, Monica N. Nicolescu
Comparing heuristic search methods for finding effective group behaviors in RTS game. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2013)
Bradford A. Towle, Monica N. Nicolescu
Real-world implementation of an Auction Behavior-Based Robotic Architecture (ABBRA). TePRA (2012)
Richard Kelley, Liesl Wigand, Brian Hamilton, Katie Browne, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu
Deep networks for predicting human intent with respect to objects. HRI (2012)
Richard Kelley, Alireza Tavakkoli, Christopher King, Amol Ambardekar, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu
Context-Based Bayesian Intent Recognition. IEEE Trans. Auton. Ment. Dev. 4 (3) (2012)
Pericle Salvini, Monica N. Nicolescu, Hiroshi Ishiguro
Benefits of Human-Robot Interaction [TC Spotlight]. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 18 (4) (2011)
Richard Kelley, Christopher King, Amol Ambardekar, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, Alireza Tavakkoli
Integrating Context into Intent Recognition Systems. ICINCO (2) (2010)
Amol Ambardekar, Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
A Developmental Framework for Visual Learning in Robotics. IPCV (2010)
Richard Kelley, Enrique Schaerer, Micaela Gomez, Monica N. Nicolescu
Liability in Robotics: An International Perspective on Robots as Animals. Adv. Robotics 24 (13) (2010)
Adrienne Breland, Karen Schlauch, Monica N. Nicolescu, Frederick C. Harris Jr.
)-mer based sequence comparisons. BCB (2010)
Bradford A. Towle, Monica N. Nicolescu, Sergiu Dascalu
Towards Integrating Role Playing Game Constructs in Real-Time Strategy Games. SEDE (2010)
Bradford A. Towle, Monica N. Nicolescu
Fusing multiple sensors through behaviors with the distributed architecture. MFI (2010)
Mukesh C. Motwani, Nishith Tirpankar, Rakhi C. Motwani, Monica N. Nicolescu, Frederick C. Harris Jr.
Towards Benchmarking of Video Motion Tracking Algorithms. ICSAP (2010)
Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, Monica N. Nicolescu
Non-parametric statistical background modeling for efficient foreground region detection. Mach. Vis. Appl. 20 (6) (2009)
Richard Kelley, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu
Grammar-based robot control. AAMAS (2) (2009)
Junxian Wang, George Bebis, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, Ronald Miller
Improving target detection by coupling it with tracking. Mach. Vis. Appl. 20 (4) (2009)
Enrique Schaerer, Richard Kelley, Monica N. Nicolescu
Robots as animals: A framework for liability and responsibility in human-robot interactions. RO-MAN (2009)
Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, Monica N. Nicolescu
Efficient background modeling through incremental Support Vector Data Description. ICPR (2008)
Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, Monica N. Nicolescu
A Support Vector Data Description Approach for Background Modeling in Videos with Quasi-Stationary Backgrounds. Int. J. Artif. Intell. Tools 17 (4) (2008)
Richard Kelley, Christopher King, Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, George Bebis
An Architecture for Understanding Intent Using a Novel Hidden Markov Formulation. Int. J. Humanoid Robotics 5 (2) (2008)
Alireza Tavakkoli, Richard Kelley, Christopher King, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, George Bebis
A Visual Tracking Framework for Intent Recognition in Videos. ISVC (1) (2008)
Richard Kelley, Alireza Tavakkoli, Christopher King, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis
Understanding human intentions via hidden markov models in autonomous mobile robots. HRI (2008)
Christopher King, Xavier Palathingal, Monica N. Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu
A Control Architecture for Long-Term Autonomy of Robotic Assistants. ISVC (1) (2007)
Monica N. Nicolescu, Ryan E. Leigh, Adam Olenderski, Sushil J. Louis, Sergiu Dascalu, Chris Miles, Juan C. Quiroz, Ryan Aleson
A Training Simulation System with Realistic Autonomous Ship Control. Comput. Intell. 23 (4) (2007)
Alireza Tavakkoli, Richard Kelley, Christopher King, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu, George Bebis
A Vision-Based Architecture for Intent Recognition. ISVC (2) (2007)
Jorge Usabiaga, George Bebis, Ali Erol, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica N. Nicolescu
Recognizing Simple Human Actions Using 3D Head Movement. Comput. Intell. 23 (4) (2007)
Sara Nasser, Gregory Vert, Monica N. Nicolescu, Alison Murray
Multiple Sequence Alignment using Fuzzy Logic. CIBCB (2007)
Anil Shankar, Juan C. Quiroz, Sergiu M. Dascalu, Sushil J. Louis, Monica N. Nicolescu
Sycophant: An API for Research in Context-Aware User Interfaces. ICSEA (2007)
Monica N. Nicolescu, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Adam Olenderski
Learning Behavior Fusion Estimation from Demonstration. RO-MAN (2006)
Adam Olenderski, Monica N. Nicolescu, Sushil J. Louis
A Behavior-Based Architecture for Realistic Autonomous Ship Control. CIG (2006)
Michael P. Capps, Joseph Liu, Edward B. Resnick, Monica N. Nicolescu
Specification and Design of a High Risk Surveillance Vehicle. Software Engineering Research and Practice (2005)
Ryan E. Leigh, Tony Morelli, Sushil J. Louis, Monica N. Nicolescu, Chris Miles
Finding attack strategies for predator swarms using genetic algorithms. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2005)
Adam Olenderski, Monica N. Nicolescu, Sushil J. Louis
Robot learning by demonstration using forward models of schema-based behaviors. ICINCO (2005)
Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric
Linking Perception and Action in a Control Architecture for Human-Robot Domains. HICSS (2003)
Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric
Natural methods for robot task learning: instructive demonstrations, generalization and practice. AAMAS (2003)
Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric
A hierarchical architecture for behavior-based robots. AAMAS (2002)
Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric
Learning and interacting in human-robot domains. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part A 31 (5) (2001)
Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric
Experience-based representation construction: learning from human and robot teachers. IROS (2001)
Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric
Experience-based learning of task representations from human-robot interaction. CIRA (2001)
Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric
Deriving and Using Abstract Representation in Behavior-Based Systems. AAAI/IAAI (2000)
Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric
Learning Cooperation from Human-Robot Interaction. DARS (2000)