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Chad Jenkins
Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceContact Information
Box 1910Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Email: cjenkins at cs.brown.edu
Personal home page: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~cjenkins/
Research Areas
| Computer Vision |
| Machine Learning |
| Robotics |
| Computational Neuroscience |
| Artificial Intelligence |
| Computer Graphics |
Research Topics or Projects
Courses Taught
| CSCI1480 | Building Intelligent Robots | |
| CSCI1340 | Innovating Game Development |
Research Interests
Chad Jenkins is primarily interested in the development of methods for autonomous control and perception through leveraging human performance from the real world. His work furthers the idea that robot control and computational perception are better learned from human demonstration rather than explicit computer programming.
Prof. Jenkins’ work strives to address three basic questions. First, how can we capture data from the world that is representative of human performance? Second, how can machine learning and data analysis be used to extract dynamical structure from performance data? Lastly, how can we utilize learned dynamics for building autonomous robot controllers and perception mechanisms?
His previous efforts were mostly geared towards humanoid robotics with respect to learning primitive behaviors for robot control through imitation. More generally, he addresses perception, control, and learning issues at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, computer animation, machine learning and interactive systems.
Selected Publications
Peters, R. A., and Jenkins, O. C. Uncovering Manifold Structures in Robonaut's Sensory-Data State Space. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids 2005) (Tsukuba, Japan, Dec 2005). [ pdf ]
Jenkins, O. C., and Matarić, M. J. Performance-Derived Behavior Vocabularies: Data-driven Acqusition of Skills from Motion. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics 1, 2 (Jun 2004), 237-288. [ pdf ]
Jenkins, O. C., and Matarić, M. J. A Spatio-temporal Extension to Isomap Nonlinear Dimension Reduction. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2004) (Banff, Alberta, Canada, Jul 2004), pp. 441-448. [ pdf ]
Miller, N., Jenkins, O. C., Kallmann, M., and Matarić, M. J. Motion Capture from Inertial Sensing for Untethered Humanoid Teleoperation. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2004) (Nov 2004). [ pdf ]
Chu, C.-W., Jenkins, O. C., and Matarić, M. J. Markerless Kinematic Model and Motion Capture from Volume Sequences. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2003) (Madison, Wisconsin, USA, Jun 2003), pp. 475-482. [ pdf ]
Jenkins, O. C., and Matarić, M. J. Deriving Action and Behavior Primitives from Human Motion Data. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002) (Lausanne, Switzerland, Oct 2002), pp. 2551-2556. [ pdf ]
All publications by Chad Jenkins
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