Kevin Lai

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/kevinlai
kevinlai [at] cs.washington.edu
Graduate Students
Computer Science and Engineering
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering (UW CSE). I completed my B.Sc. (Computer Science) at the University of British Columbia. My advisor is Professor Dieter Fox.

My research interests are in object recognition, natural scene understanding, and using machine learning techniques to solve robot perception problems. I investigate the detection and recognition of objects in indoor household environments. We are working with data collected using Microsoft Kinect style RGB-D cameras, which can simultaneously collect aligned RGB and depth images at high framerates. I collaborate closely with the Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing.

Projects


Publications

2012

Detection-based Object Labeling in 3D Scenes Detection-based Object Labeling in 3D Scenes
Kevin Lai, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012. Full Paper (PDF)

2011

A Scalable Tree-based Approach for Joint Object and Pose Recognition A Scalable Tree-based Approach for Joint Object and Pose Recognition
Kevin Lai, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011. Full Paper (PDF)
Object Recognition with Hierarchical Kernel Descriptors
Liefeng Bo, Kevin Lai, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , 2011. Full Paper (PDF)
A Large-Scale Hierarchical Multi-View RGB-D Object Dataset A Large-Scale Hierarchical Multi-View RGB-D Object Dataset
Kevin Lai, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011. Full Paper (PDF)
Sparse Distance Learning for Object Recognition Combining RGB and Depth Information Sparse Distance Learning for Object Recognition Combining RGB and Depth Information
Kevin Lai, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011. Full Paper (PDF)
    Best Vision Paper Award

2010

Object Detection in 3D Point Clouds Using Web Data and Domain Adaptation Object Detection in 3D Point Clouds Using Web Data and Domain Adaptation
Kevin Lai and Dieter Fox
International Journal of Robotics Research, 2010. Journal Article (PDF)

2009

3D Laser Scan Classification Using Web Data and Domain Adaptation 3D Laser Scan Classification Using Web Data and Domain Adaptation
Kevin Lai and Dieter Fox
Robotics: Science and Systems, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)