Publications
Publications
Ekta U Samani and Ashis G Banerjee.THOR2: Topological Analysis for 3D Shape and Color-Based Human-Inspired Object Recognition in Unseen Environments, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 7(4), 2400539, 2025. [Link]
Vamsi K Jonnalagadda, Chaitanya K Mullapudi, Saniya Patwardhan, Ekta U. Samani, and Ashis G. Banerjee. Extremum-Seeking Active Object Recognition in Clutter Using Topological Descriptors. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop on Mobile Manipulation and Embodied Intelligence, 2024. [Pre-print]
Ekta U Samani and Ashis G Banerjee. Persistent Homology Meets Object Unity: Object Recognition in Clutter. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 40: 886-902, 2023. (Video accepted for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023). [Paper][Code]
Ekta U Samani and Ashis G Banerjee. Human-Inspired Topological Representations for Visual Object Recognition in Unseen Environments. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Workshop on Robotic Perception and Mapping: Frontier Vision and Learning Techniques, 2023. [Pre-print]
Ekta U Samani, Feng Tao, Harshavardhan R Dasari, Sihao Ding, and Ashis G Banerjee. F2BEV: Bird's Eye View Generation from Surround-View Fisheye Camera Images for Automated Driving. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 9367-9374, 2023. (Also presented at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop on Omnidirectional Computer Vision, 2023) [Paper][Code]
Ekta U Samani, Xingjian Yang, and Ashis G Banerjee. Vision-based Object Recognition in Indoor Environments using Topologically Persistent Features. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(4):7509-7516, 2021 [Paper][Code]
Adriana W Agnes Blom-Schieber, Wei Guo, Ekta Samani, and Ashis G Banerjee. Improved Tow-End Detection for Fiber Placement Inspection Using Machine Learning. In American Society for Composites 36th Technical Conference on Composite Materials, pp. 1117-1134, 2021 [Paper][Code]
Behnoosh Parsa, Ekta U Samani, Rose Hendrix, Cameron Devine, Shashi M Singh, Santosh Devasia, and Ashis G Banerjee. Toward Ergonomic Risk Prediction via Segmentation of Indoor Object Manipulation Actions using Spatiotemporal Convolutional Networks. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 4(4):3153–3160, 2019 [Paper][Code]
Ekta U Samani, Wei Guo, and Ashis G Banerjee. Deep Learning-based Semantic Segmentation of Microscale Objects. In International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), 2019 [Paper][Code]
Keshav Rajasekaran, Ekta U Samani, Manasa Bollavaram, John Stewart, and Ashis G Banerjee. An Accurate Perception Method for Low Contrast Bright Field Microscopy in Heterogeneous Microenvironments. Applied Sciences, 7(12):1327, 2017 [Paper]
Keshav Rajasekaran, Ekta U Samani, John Stewart, and Ashis G Banerjee. Imaging-guided Collision-free Transport of Multiple Optically Trapped Beads. In International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), pp. 1–6, 2017 [Paper]
Ekta U Samani, Vikas Gupta, and Shanmuganathan Raman. Flash/No-flash Image Fusion Using Dictionary Learning. In Fifth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), pp. 1–4, 2015 [Paper]