Mohamad Qadri

I am a second year PhD student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I work with Michael Kaess in the the Robotics Perception Lab . I work on statistical methods for state estimation. I am interested in developing algorithms for efficient and robust inference at the intersection of linear algebra and probabilistic graphical models.

I completed my Masters in Robotics at CMU working with George Kantor on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in agricultural environments. Prior to that, I worked with Simon Lucey and Laszlo Jeni on monocular 3D reconstruction. In my undergrad, I majored in Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland - College Park.

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We present a technique for dense 3D reconstruction of objects using an imaging sonar. We represent the geometry as a neural implicit function.

This paper presents a novel application of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) to train a model to produce noise-free sonar images.

We go beyond traditional parallelism of the A* algorithm and introduce RA* (Runahead A*) which performs speculative parallelism of A*.

We present an Augmented Lagrangian-based incremental constrained optimizer that views matrix operations as message passing over the Bayes tree.

RACOD is an algorithm/hardware co-design for mobile robot path planning. It consists of two main components: CODAcc, a hardware accelerator for collision detection; and RASExp, an algorithm extension for runahead path exploration.

We develop a computer vision method to size and track the growth rates of apple fruitlets. Fruitlets are sized using a combination of deep learning algorithms and are associated across days using a novel Attentional Graph Neural Network approach.

In this paper, we use semantics and environmental priors to construct accurate 3D maps of agricultural environments.

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