Publications

2025

  1. Kyatham, Hitesh, Shahriar Negahdaripour, Michael Xu, Xiaomin Lin, Miao Yu, and Yiannis Aloimonos. "Performance Assessment of Feature Detection Methods for 2-D FS Sonar Imagery." In OCEANS 2024-Halifax, pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2024.

  2. Negahdaripour, Shahriar, Hitesh Kyatham, Michael Xu, Xiaomin Lin, Yiannis Aloimonos, and Miao Yu. "GoPro Modeling and Application in Opti-Acoustic Stereo Imaging." In OCEANS 2024-Halifax, pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2024.

  3. Joshi, Kaustubh, Tianchen Liu, Alan Williams, Matthew Gray, Xiaomin Lin, and Nikhil Chopra. "3d water quality mapping using invariant extended kalman filtering for underwater robot localization."    2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop on Autonomous Robotic Systems in Aquaculture

  4. Lin, Xiaomin, Vivek Mange, Arjun Suresh, Bernhard Neuberger, Aadi Palnitkar, Brendan Campbell, Alan Williams et al. "Odyssee: Oyster detection yielded by sensor systems on edge electronics."   In proceeding of 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  5. Wu, Jiayi, Xiaomin Lin, Shahriar Negahdaripour, Cornelia Fermüller, and Yiannis Aloimonos. "Marvis: Motion & geometry aware real and virtual image segmentation." In 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 2778-2785. IEEE, 2024.

  6. Wang, C.-Y., Nandhan Appiya Dilipkumar Peethambari, G., Shen, Y.-T., Chen, W.-Y., Sharan Senthil Kumar, S., Long, A., Williams, A., Magnusson, G., Pattillo, A., Webster, D., Gray, M., Yu, M., & Tao, Y. (2024). ShellCollect: A framework for smart precision shellfish harvesting using data collection path planning. IEEE Access, 12, 177829–177843. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3505849

  7. Jiayi Wu, Tianfu Wang, Md Abu Bakr Siddique, Md Jahidul Islam, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Christopher A Metzler,  Single-Step Latent Diffusion for Underwater Image Restoration, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), in press

  8. Chen, W.; Wang, C.-Y.; Joshi, K.; Williams, A.; Hevaganinge, A.; Lin, X.; Kumar, S.S.S.; Pattillo, A.; Yu, M.; Chopra, N.; et al. A Kinodynamic Model for Dubins-Based Trajectory Planning in Precision Oyster Harvesting. Sensors 2025, 25, 4650. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25154650  

  9. Xu, M.A., N. Karapetyan, K. Rahasekaran, A. Williams, D.A. Pattillo, P. Tokekar, B. Hudson, Y. Tao, D. Webster, M. Gray, M. Yu. (2025). Machine Learning-Based Classification of On-Bottom Oyster Farms Using a Mechanical Scanning Sonar. IEEE Sensors Journal ( Volume: 25, Issue: 12, 15 June 2025) Pp: 22068 - 22079. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2025.3563788

  10. Campbell, B., A. Williams, K. Baxevani, A. Campbell, R. Dhoke, R.E. Hudock, X. Lin, V. Mange, B. Neuberger, A. Suresh, A. Vera, A. Trembanis, H.G. Tanner, E. Hale. (2025). Is AI currently capable of identifying wild oysters? A comparison of human annotators against the AI model, ODYSSEE. Front. Robot. AI, 05 June 2025, Sec. Field Robotics, Volume 12 - 2025. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2025.1587033

2024

  1. Wang, C-Y, G Nandhan A.D.P, Y-T Shen, W-Y. Chen, S.S.S. Kumar, A. Long, A. Williams, G. Magnusson, D.A. Pattillo, D. Webster, M. Gray, M. Yu, and Y. Tao (2024). ShellCollect: A Framework for Smart Precision Shellfish Harvesting Using Data Collection Path Planning. IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3505849 

  2. Lin, X., N. Karapetyan, K. Joshi, T, Liu, N. Chopra, M. Yu, P. Tokekar, Y. Aloimonos. UIVNAV: Underwater Information-driven Vision-based Navigation via Imitation Learning. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Yokohama, Japan, 2024, pp. 5250-5256, doi: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611203.

2023

  1. Xiaomin Lin*, Nare Karapetyan*, Kaustubh Joshi, Tianchen Liu, Nikhil Chopra, Miao Yu, Pratap Tokekar and Ioannis Aloimonous; UIVNav: Underwater Information-driven Vision-based Navigation via Imitation Learning; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (ICRA), 2024 [*equal contributors]

  2. X. Lin, A. Gaur, C. Liu, C. Singh, N. Karapetyan, and Y. Aloimonos, “Simulating Aerial and Satellite Images for Detection of Maritime Objects”, submitted to 2023 RA-M, Special Issue of Marine Robotics, IEEE, 2023

  3. Xiaomin Lin, Akshaj Gaur, Cheng Liu, Chahat Deep Singh, Nare Karapetyan, Miao Yu, Yiannis Aloimonos, “SeaDroneSim2:Enhancing Detection of Maritime and Marine Objects with Synthetic Images,” submitted to the IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2023

  4. Michael Xu, Nare Karapetyan, Keshav Rajasekaran, Alan Williams, Allen Patillo, Matthew Gray, Pratap Tokekar, Miao Yu, "Sonar-Based Seabed Classification of Oyster Farms", submitted to the IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2023

  5. L. Zhao, H. Kim, and M. Yu, “Structural Luneburg lens for broadband ultralong subwavelength focusing,” Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 182, p.109561, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2022.109561  

  6. L. Zhao, C. Bi, and M. Yu, “Structural lens for broadband triple focusing and three-beam splitting of flexural waves,” International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 240, 107907, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2022.107907  

2022

  1. K. Chakrabarti, N. Gupta and N. Chopra, "On Preconditioning of Decentralized Gradient-Descent When Solving a System of Linear Equations," in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 811-822, June 2022, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCNS.2022.3165089  

  2. Hyun-Tae Kim and Miao Yu, "On-Fiber Multiparameter Sensor Based on Guided-Wave Surface Plasmon Resonances," J. Lightwave Technol. 40, 2157-2165 (2022) https://opg.optica.org/jlt/abstract.cfm?uri=jlt-40-7-2157  

  3. L. Zhao, C. Bi, and M. Yu, “Designing flexural wave gradient index lens based on the Rays Inserting Method,” Results in Physics, 40, 105897, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2022.105897  

  4. Liuxian Zhao, Timothy Horiuchi, and Miao Yu , "Acoustic waveguide based on cascaded Luneburg lens", JASA Express Letters 2, 024002 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0009386

  5. M Evanusa, S Shrestha, V Patil, C Fermüller, M Girvan, Y Aloimonos, Deep-Readout Random Recurrent Neural Networks for Real-World Temporal Data, SN Computer Science 3 (3), 1-12, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-022-01118-9  

  6. L Burner, NJ Sanket, C Fermüller, Y Aloimonos, Fast monocular distance estimation from time to contact, arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.07530, 2022. https://www.catalyzex.com/paper/arxiv:2203.07530

2021

  1. Liuxian Zhao, Timothy Horiuchi, and Miao Yu, "Broadband ultra-long acoustic jet based on double-foci Luneburg lens", JASA Express Letters 1,114001 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006817 This paper was chosen for the cover for the November 2021 issue of JASA Express Letters. https://asa.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1121/10.0006817

  2. Liuxian Zhao, Timothy Horiuchi, and Miao Yu, "Broadband acoustic collimation and focusing using reduced aberration acoustic Luneburg lens", Journal of Applied Physics 130, 214901 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0064571. This paper was selected to be promoted as Editor’s Pick. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0064571  

  3. Engle, C.R., J. van Senten, M. Parker, D. Webster, and C. Clark. 2021. Economic trade-offs and risk between traditional bottom and container culture of oysters on Maryland farms. Aquaculture Economics & Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/13657305.2021.1938295.

  4. Kim, H.T. & M. Yu."On-fiber multiparameter sensor based on guided-wave surface plasmon resonances," in Journal of Lightwave Technology, doi: 10.1109/JLT.2021.3130148. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9625708

  5. Sadrfaridpour, B., Aloimonos, Y., Yu, M., Tao, Y., & Webster, D. (2021). Detecting and Counting Oysters. arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.09758. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.09758.pdf