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DeepVO: A Deep Learning approach for Monocular Visual Odometry Permalink
Vikram Mohanty, Shubh Agrawal, Shaswat Datta, Arna Ghosh, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Debashish Chakravarty (2016). "DeepVO: A Deep Learning approach for Monocular Visual Odometry."
arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06069
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Building a Word Segmenter for Sanskrit Overnight Permalink
Vikas Reddy, Amrith Krishna, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Prateek Gupta, Vineeth M R, Pawan Goyal. (2018). "Building a Word Segmenter for Sanskrit Overnight."
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)
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Free as in Free Word Order: An Energy Based Model for Word Segmentation and Morphological Tagging in Sanskrit Permalink
Amrith Krishna, Bishal Santra, Sasi Prasanth Bandaru, Gaurav Sahu, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Pavankumar Satuluri, Pawan Goyal (2018). "Free as in Free Word Order: An Energy Based Model for Word Segmentation and Morphological Tagging in Sanskrit."
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018)
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Poetry to Prose Conversion in Sanskrit as a Linearisation Task: A Case for Low-Resource Languages Permalink
Amrith Krishna, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Bishal Santra, Aishik Chakraborty, Pavankumar Satuluri, Pawan Goyal (2019). "Poetry to Prose Conversion in Sanskrit as a Linearisation Task: A Case for Low-Resource Languages."
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019)
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Risk-Aware Planning and Assignment for Ground Vehicles using Uncertain Perception from Aerial Vehicles Permalink
Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Maymoonah Toubeh, Lifeng Zhou, Pratap Tokekar (2020). "Risk-Aware Planning and Assignment for Ground Vehicles using Uncertain Perception from Aerial Vehicles."
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020)
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Risk-Aware Path Planning for Ground Vehicles using Occluded Aerial Images Permalink
Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Pratap Tokekar (2022). "Risk-Aware Path Planning for Ground Vehicles using Occluded Aerial Images."
ICRA 2022 Workshop on Robotic Perception and Mapping: Emerging Techniques
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Semantic Navigation for Assistive Robots: Identifying, Mapping, and Navigating to Door Signs in Indoor Environments Permalink
Shivani Nanda, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Guangyao Shi, Jingxi Chen, Pratap Tokekar (2022). "Semantic Navigation for Assistive Robots: Identifying, Mapping, and Navigating to Door Signs in Indoor Environments."
IROS 2022 Workshop on Social and Cognitive Interactions for Assistive Robotics
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Graph Neural Networks for Decentralized Multi-Robot Target Tracking Permalink
Lifeng Zhou*, Vishnu Dutt Sharma*, Qingbiao Li, Amanda Prorok, Alejandro Ribeiro, Pratap Tokekar, Vijay Kumar (2022). "Graph Neural Networks for Decentralized Multi-Robot Target Tracking."
IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2022)
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Interpretable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Green Security Games with Real-Time Information Permalink
Vishnu Dutt Sharma, John P. Dickerson, Pratap Tokekar (2022). "Interpretable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Green Security Games with Real-Time Information."
arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04987
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FLIP-TD: Free Lunch Inpainting on Top-Down Images for Robotic Tasks Permalink
Anukriti Singh*, Vishnu Dutt Sharma*, Pratap Tokekar (2023). "FLIP-TD: Free Lunch Inpainting on Top-Down Images for Robotic Tasks."
ICRA 2023 Workshop on Pretraining for Robotics (PT4R)
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D2CoPlan: A Differentiable Decentralized Planner for Multi-Robot Coverage Permalink
Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Lifeng Zhou, Pratap Tokekar (2023). "D2CoPlan: A Differentiable Decentralized Planner for Multi-Robot Coverage."
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)
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ProxMaP: Proximal Occupancy Map Prediction for Efficient Indoor Robot Navigation Permalink
Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Jingxi Chen, Pratap Tokekar (2023). "ProxMaP: Proximal Occupancy Map Prediction for Efficient Indoor Robot Navigation."
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023)
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Earlier version: "Occupancy Map Prediction for Improved Indoor Robot Navigation" (with A. Shrivastava), ICRA 2022 Workshop on Robotic Perception and Mapping: Emerging Techniques
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Pred-NBV: Prediction-guided Next-Best-View for 3D Object Reconstruction Permalink
Harnaik Dhami*, Vishnu Dutt Sharma*, Pratap Tokekar (2023). "Pred-NBV: Prediction-guided Next-Best-View for 3D Object Reconstruction."
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023)
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Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Workshop on Robot Representations For Scene Understanding, Reasoning and Planning, 2023
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Workshop on Inference and Decision Making for Autonomous Vehicles, 2023
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Enhanced Robot Planning and Perception Through Environment Prediction Permalink
Vishnu Dutt Sharma (2024). "Enhanced Robot Planning and Perception Through Environment Prediction."
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park
Pre-Trained Masked Image Model for Mobile Robot Navigation Permalink
Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Anukriti Singh, Pratap Tokekar (2024). "Pre-Trained Masked Image Model for Mobile Robot Navigation."
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024)
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MAP-NBV: Multi-agent Prediction-guided Next-Best-View Planning for Active 3D Object Reconstruction Permalink
Harnaik Dhami*, Vishnu Dutt Sharma*, Pratap Tokekar (2024). "MAP-NBV: Multi-agent Prediction-guided Next-Best-View Planning for Active 3D Object Reconstruction."
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)
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LAVA: Long-horizon Visual Action based Food Acquisition Permalink
Amisha Bhaskar, Rui Liu, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Guangyao Shi, Pratap Tokekar (2024). "LAVA: Long-horizon Visual Action based Food Acquisition."
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)
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Improving Zero-Shot ObjectNav with Generative Communication Permalink
Vishnu Sashank Dorbala*, Vishnu Dutt Sharma*, Pratap Tokekar, Dinesh Manocha (2025). "Improving Zero-Shot ObjectNav with Generative Communication."
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025)
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Hybrid Classical/RL Local Planner for Ground Robot Navigation Permalink
Vishnu Dutt Sharma*, Jeongran Lee*, Matthew Andrews, Ilija Hadžić (2025). "Hybrid Classical/RL Local Planner for Ground Robot Navigation."
Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC 2025)
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Design of a Smooth Dynamic Digital Twin for Industrial Object Tracking Permalink
Jeongran Lee, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Lou Salaun, Matthew Andrews (2025). "Design of a Smooth Dynamic Digital Twin for Industrial Object Tracking."
IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and Applications (MetaCom 2025)
GATSBI: An Online GTSP-Based Algorithm for Targeted Surface Bridge Inspection and Defect Detection Permalink
Harnaik Dhami, Charith Reddy, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Troi Williams, Pratap Tokekar (2026). "GATSBI: An Online GTSP-Based Algorithm for Targeted Surface Bridge Inspection and Defect Detection."
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 62, pp. 17119-17128
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Future Factories With 6G: Agentic AI and Cyber–Physical Digital Twins Permalink
Haiyuan Li, Hari Madhukumar, Nicholas Methley, Xuewen Chen, Yulei Wu, Juan Parra-Ullauri, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Jeongran Lee, Arndt Ryo Koblitz, Matthew Andrews, Sige Liu, Yansha Deng, Oluwatayo Y. Kolawole, Andrea Tassi, Dimitra Simeonidou (2026). "Future Factories With 6G: Agentic AI and Cyber–Physical Digital Twins."
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 17990-18006
Robot Local Planner Selection Permalink
D. Andrews, Jeongran Lee, Vishnu Dutt Sharma. "Robot Local Planner Selection." Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy.
European Patent EP 4524678 B1, granted 13 May 2026
Chinese Patent Application CN 119620744 A, published 14 Mar 2025 (pending)
US Patent Application Publication US 2025/0093876 A1, published 20 Mar 2025
SCOUT: Semantic scene COverage via Uncertainty-guided Traversal Permalink
Junyu Mao, Sara Ayoubi, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Ilija Hadžić, Matthew Andrews (2026). "SCOUT: Semantic scene COverage via Uncertainty-guided Traversal."
ICRA 2026 Workshop on Uncertainty in Open World Robotics
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Better Capture for Better Reconstruction: Understanding Capture Effects in 3D Gaussian Splatting
Hyojoon Park, Jeongran Lee, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Aafiya Hussain, Atefeh Mohajeri Moghaddam, Zhiyi Wang, Matthew Andrews (2027). "Better Capture for Better Reconstruction: Understanding Capture Effects in 3D Gaussian Splatting."
Accepted at the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2027)
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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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