Performing state-of-the-art research in sensory intelligence for the machines of the future
Purdue University College of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Performing state-of-the-art research in sensory intelligence for the machines of the future
Purdue University College of Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Purdue Robot Vision & Languages Lab was founded by Professor Avinash Kak and is associated with the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Purdue University. The lab carries out state-of-the-art research in sensory intelligence for the machines of the future. On the vision side, this laboratory has made pioneering contributions in 3D object recognition, face recognition in the wild, vision-guided navigation for indoor mobile robots, task and assembly planning, detecting rarely occurring objects in satellite images, among others. More recent advances by us in the vision area have focused on Satellite Computer Vision for the purpose of scene reconstruction --- especially on the multi-view reconstruction of 3D structures on the ground using multi-date satellite images. And, on the Languages side, this laboratory has done pioneering work in the analysis of text data in the software context. Our 2011 publication "Retrieval from Software Libraries for Bug Localization: A Comparative Study of Generic and Composite Text Models" was recognized in 2021 as the "most cited publications during the preceding decade" by the International Mining Software Repositories (MSR) conference. (MSR started out as an IEEE International Conference, but now is run independently with sponsorship from various societies.) To commemorate this event, we were asked to write a retrospective that was published in 2021 ACM SIGSOFT as a paper titled "Retrieval from Software Libraries for Bug Localization -- A Retrospective". Over the years we have continued to contribute to such applications of text analysis, with the more recent work driven by advances in deep learning.