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ROBERTO MANDUCHI
Baskin Engineering - UC Santa Cruz
I am an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. My research focuses on
assistive technology for the visually impaired. Specifically,
I am exploring the use of
mobile computer vision and wearable sensors to provide a blind person with increased spatial awareness.

I hold a "Dottorato di ricerca" in Electrical Engineering from the Universita' di Padova, Italy. Prior to joining UCSC in 2001, I worked at Apple, Inc. and at NASA JPL. I currently collaborate with SKERI (San Francisco), FBK (Trento, Italy), and CICATA-IPN (Queretaro, Mexico).

Please visit the sites of the UCSC Vision Lab and of the UCSC Assistive Technology Lab for information about my research group and our projects.
Computer Engineering
UCSC Computer Vision Lab
UCSC Assistive Technology Lab

PUBLICATIONS (by subject)

asst. tech.
___ color/texture___ vision for robotics___ signal/video proc.___ stereo/3D___ other___ all

J. Coughlan, R. Manduchi, "Functional Assessment of a Camera Phone-based Wayfinding System Operated by Blind and Visually Impaired Users", International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Based Assistive Technologies: Methods and Systems for People with Disabilities, 18(3):379-97, 2009. [pdf,BibTex]

R. Manduchi, J. Coughlan, V. Ivanchenko, "Search Strategies of Visually Impaired Persons using a Camera Phone Wayfinding System", 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), Linz, Austria, July 2008. [pdf,BibTex]

K.-Y. Chan, R. Manduchi, J. Coughlan, "Accessible Spaces: Navigating through a Marked Environment with a Camera Phone", demonstration at the Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS'07), October 2007, Tempe, AZ. [pdf,BibTex]

J. Coughlan, R. Manduchi, "Color Targets: Fiducials to Help Visually Impaired People Find Their Way by Camera Phone", Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing, Special Issue on Image and Video Processing for Disability, 2007. [pdf,BibTex]

X. Shi, R. Manduchi, "On the Bayes Fusion of Visual Features", Image and Vision Computing, 25:1748-58, 2007. [pdf,BibTex]

R. Manduchi, "Learning Outdoor Color Classification", IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell., 28(11), November 2006, 1713-23. [pdf,BibTex]

J. Coughlan, R. Manduchi, H. Shen, "Cell Phone-based Wayfinding for the Visually Impaired", 1st International Workshop on Mobile Vision, Graz, Austria, May 2006. [pdf,BibTex]

X. Shi and R. Manduchi, "On Rotational Invariance for Texture Recognition", 4th International Workshop on Texture Analysis and Synthesis, Beijing, China, October 2005. [pdf,BibTex]

J. Coughlan, R. Manduchi, M. Mutsuzaki, H. Shen, "Rapid and Robust Algorithms for Detecting Colour Targets", 10th Congress of the Colour Association, AIC, Granada, Spain, May 2005. [pdf,BibTex]

R. Manduchi, A. Castano, A. Talukder, L. Matthies, "Obstacle Detection and Terrain Classification for Autonomous Off-Road Navigation", Autonomous Robots, 18, 81-102, 2005. [pdf,BibTex]

X. Shi and R. Manduchi, "Invariant Operators, Small Samples, and the Bias-Variance Dilemma", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington DC, June 2004. [pdf,BibTex]

A. Charaniya, R. Manduchi, S. Lodha, "Supervised Parametric Classification of Aerial LiDAR Data", IEEE Workshop on Real Time 3D Sensor and Their Use, Washington DC, June 2004. [pdf,BibTex]

R. Manduchi, "Fusing Segmentation and Classification from Multiple Features", Joint IAPR International Workshop on Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition and on Statistical Pattern Recognition, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2004. [pdf,BibTex]

R. Manduchi, "Learning Outdoor Color Classification from Just One Training Image", European Conference on Computer Vision, Prague, May 2004. [pdf,BibTex]

X. Shi, R. Manduchi, "A Study on Bayes Feature Fusion for Image Classification", IEEE Workshop on Statistical Analysis in Computer Vision, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2003. [pdf,BibTex]

R. Castano, R. Manduchi, J. Fox, "Classification Experiments on Real-World Textures", Workshop on Empirical Evaluation in Computer Vision, Kauai, HI, December 2001. [pdf,BibTex]

V. Gor, R. Castano, R. Manduchi, R. C. Anderson, and E. Mjolsness, "Autonomous Rock Detection for Mars Terrain", in Proceedings of AIAA Space 2001, Albuquerque, August 2000. [pdf,BibTex]

J. Macedo, R. Manduchi, L. Matthies, "Ladar-based Discrimination of Grass from Obstacles for Autonomous Navigation", in Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER'00), Waikiki Beach, December 2000. [pdf,BibTex]

M.S. Gillmore, R. Castano, T. Mann, R.C. Anderson, E.D. Mjolsness, R. Manduchi, and R.S. Saunders, "Strategies for Autonomous Rovers at Mars", Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, 105(E12), 2000, 29223-37. [pdf,BibTex]

P. Bellutta, R. Manduchi, L. Matthies, K. Owens, A. Rankin, "Terrain Perception for DEMO III", in Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000, Dearborn, MI, October 2000, 326-332. [pdf,BibTex]

R. Manduchi, "Mixture Models and the Segmentation of Multimodal Textures", in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 2000, 98-104. [pdf,BibTex]

R. Manduchi, J. Portilla, "Independent Component Analysis of Textures", in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Kerkyra, September 1999, 1054-1060. [pdf,BibTex]

R. Manduchi, "Bayesian Fusion of Color and Texture Segmentations", in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Kerkyra, September 1999, 956-962. [pdf,BibTex]