ROBERTO MANDUCHI
	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.

PUBLICATIONS (by subject)

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

X. Lu and R. Manduchi, "Detection and Localization of Curbs and Stairways Using Stereo Vision", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '05), Barcelona, April 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]

L. Matthies, C. Bergh, A. Castano, J. Macedo, R. Manduchi, "Obstacle Detection in Foliage with Ladar and Radar", 11th International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), Siena, Italy, October 2003. [pdf,BibTex]

R. Turchetto, R. Manduchi, "Visual Curb Localization for Autonomous Navigation", IEEE/RSJ IROS'03, Las Vegas, October 2003. [pdf,BibTex]

A. Talukder, R. Manduchi, R. Castano, K. Owens, L. Matthies, A. Castano, R. Hogg , "Autonomous Terrain Characterization and Modeling for Dynamic Control of Unmanned Vehicles", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Lausanne, Switzerland,2002. [pdf,BibTex]

A. Talukder, R. Manduchi, A. Rankin, L. Matthies, "Fast and Reliable Obstacle Detection and Segmentation for Cross-Country Navigation", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2002, Versailles, France, 2002. [pdf,BibTex]

R. Manduchi, L. Matthies, F. Pollara, "From Cross-Country Autonomous Navigation to Intelligent Deep Space Communications: Visual Sensor Processing at JPL", in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, 2001, 472-477. [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]