Publications

Book Chapters

  1. James J. Little, Jesse Hoey, and Pantelis Elinas, Visual Capabilities in an Interactive Autonomous Robot, In H.I. Christensen and H.-H. Nagel (Eds.):Cognitive Vision Systems, LNCS 3948, pages 295-312, Springer 2006.

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Alex Mihailidis, Pantelis Elinas, Jennifer N. Boger and Jesse Hoey An Intelligent Powered Wheelchair to Enable Mobility of Cognitively Impaired Older Adults: an Anticollision System. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 15, 1, 2007
  2. Pooja Viswanathan, Jennifer Boger, Jesse Hoey, Pantelis Elinas, and Alex Mihailidis The Future of Wheelchairs: Intelligent Collision Avoidance and Navigation Assistance. Geriatrics and Aging, 10(4), pages 253-256, 2007
  3. Robert Sim, Pantelis Elinas and James J. Little, A study of the Rao-Blackwellised particle filter for efficient and accurate vision-based SLAM, International Journal of Computer Vision/International Journal of Robotics Research Special Joint Issue on Vision in Robotics, ,vol 74, no 3, pages 303-318, Kluwer, Sept 2007
  4. Pantelis Elinas and Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Real-time rendering of 3D clouds, Journal for Graphics Tools, July 2001

Refereed Conference Articles

  1. Daniel S. Ferguson and Pantelis Elinas, A Markov decision process model for strategic decision making in sailboat racing, C. Butz and P. Lingras (Eds.): Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 6657, pp. 110-121, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
  2. Pantelis Elinas, Matching Maximally Stable Extremal Regions Using Edge Information and the Chamfer Distance Function, The seventh Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2010), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 2010.
  3. Lochana Perera and Pantelis Elinas, On the observability of indirect filtering in vehicle tracking and localization using a fixed camera, The 13th International Conference on Information Fusion, Edinburgh, UK, 26-29 July 2010.
  4. Pantelis Elinas, Multigoal planning for an autonomous blasthole drill, 19th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, pp. 342-245, Thessaloniki, Greece, Sept. 2009.
  5. Pantelis Elinas and James J. Little, Decision-theoretic task coordination for a visually-guided interactive mobile robot. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego, California, USA, 2007.
  6. Robert Sim, Pantelis Elinas, Matt Griffin, Alex Shyr, and James J. Little , Design and analysis of a framework for real-time vision-based SLAM using Rao-Blackwellised particle filters, Proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robotic Vision (CRV 2006), Quebec City, QC, 2006. Best Robotics Paper Award
  7. Pantelis Elinas, Robert Sim and James J. Little, sigmaSLAM: Stereo Vision SLAM Using the Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filter and a Novel Mixture Proposal Distribution, In Proc. ICRA, May 2006
  8. Robert Sim, Pantelis Elinas, Matt Griffin, and James J. Little, Vision-based SLAM using the Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filter, IJCAI Workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics (RUR), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.
  9. Pantelis Elinas and J. Little, sigmaMCL: Monte-Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots with Stereo Vision, Robotics: Science and Systems, Boston, MA, USA, June 2005.
  10. Pantelis Elinas, Enrique Sucar, Alberto Reyes and Jesse Hoey, A Decision Theoretic Approach for Task Coordination in Social Robots, In the 13th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, September 20-22, 2004 Kurashiki, Okayama Japan.
  11. James J. Little, Jesse Hoey, and Pantelis Elinas, Visual Capabilities in an Interactive Autonomous Robot, In Springer Verlag Proceedings of the Dagstuhl Workshop on Cognitive Vision, 2004.
  12. Pantelis Elinas, Jesse Hoey, Darrel Lahey, Jeff Montgomery, Don Murray, Stephen Se and James J. Little. Waiting with Jose, a vision-based mobile robot. In Proc. ICRA, Washington D.C., May 2002.
  13. P.J. Thomas, P. Sinclair, A. Savchenko, P. Goldman, Pantelis Elinas and T. Pope, Signal Calibration and Stability in an Uncooled Integrated Bolometer Array, 1999 IEEE Aerospace conference, Snowmass at Aspen Colorado, March, 1999.

Workshop Articles

  1. Pantelis Elinas, Yi Li, and Lochana Perera. A new model based on task recognition and monitoring for the development of sensory substitution assistive systems for the visually impaired, NIPS workshop on Machine Learning for Assistive Technologies, Vancouver, BC, Canada, December 2010.
  2. Pantelis Elinas, and J. J. Little, Stereo Vision SLAM: Near real-time learning of 3D point-landmark and 2D occupancy-grid maps using particlefilters, Workshop on Visual SLAM at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007), San Diego, CA, USA, 2007.
  3. Pantelis Elinas, J. Hoey and J. J. Little, Human Oriented Messenger Robot, In Proc. of AAAI Spring Symposium, California, March 2003.
  4. Pantelis Elinas and J. J. Little, A robot control architecture for guiding a vision-based mobile robot. In Proc. of AAAI Spring Symposium in Intelligent Distributed and Embedded Systems, California, March 2002.