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Latest Research
View all publications →Gaze on the Prize: Shaping Visual Attention with Return-Guided Contrastive Learning
Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Dechen Gao, Kai Fukazawa, Iman Soltani
arXiv preprintpreprint2025
RAMAC: Multimodal Risk-Aware Offline Reinforcement Learning and the Role of Behavior Regularization
Kai Fukazawa, Kunal Mundada, Iman Soltani
arXiv preprintpreprint2025
Look, focus, act: Efficient and robust robot learning via human gaze and foveated vision transformers
Ian Chuang, Jinyu Zou, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, Iman Soltani
arXiv preprintpreprint2025
VITA: Vision-to-Action Flow Matching Policy
Dechen Gao, Boqi Zhao, Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Hanchu Zhou, Hang Wang, Zhe Zhao, Junshan Zhang, Iman Soltani
arXiv preprintpreprint2025
Predicting Retinal Inflammation in Uveitis using OCT-Based Machine Learning
Parisa Emami-Naeini, Amin Ghafourian, Mohammad Mehdi Johari Moghadam, Fateme Montazeri, Iman Soltani
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Sciencejournal2025
Design and simulation of vehicle motion tracking system using a Youla controller output observation system
Rongfei Li, Francis F Assadian, Iman Soltani
Measurement and Controljournal2025
IN-RIL: Interleaved Reinforcement and Imitation Learning for Policy Fine-Tuning
Dechen Gao, Hang Wang, Hanchu Zhou, Nejib Ammar, Shatadal Mishra, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Iman Soltani, Junshan Zhang
arXiv preprintpreprint2025
Automating Infrastructure Surveying: A Framework for Geometric Measurements and Compliance Assessment Using Point Cloud Data
Amin Ghafourian, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, Tyler Beer, Kin Yen, Iman Soltani
arXiv preprintpreprint2025
Krysalis Hand: A Lightweight, High-Payload, 18-DoF Anthropomorphic End-Effector for Robotic Learning and Dexterous Manipulation
A Basheer, J Chang, Y Chen, D Kim, I Soltani
arXiv preprintpreprint2025
User-Centered Insights into Assistive Navigation Technologies for Individuals with Visual Impairment
I Soltani, J Schofield, M Madani, D Kish, P Emami-Naeini
arXiv preprintpreprint2025
Infrared Vision Systems for Emergency Vehicle Driver Assistance in Low-Visibility Conditions
M-Mahdi Naddaf-Sh, Andrew Lee, Kin Yen, Eemon Amini, Iman Soltani
IEEE Accessjournal2025
Design and Implementation of a Dual Uncrewed Surface Vessel Platform for Bathymetry Research under High-flow Conditions
D Kumar, A Ghorbanpour, K Yen, I Soltani
arXivpreprint2025
Active vision might be all you need: Exploring active vision in bimanual robotic manipulation
I Chuang, A Lee, D Gao, I Soltani
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)conference2025
Targeted collapse regularized autoencoder for anomaly detection: black hole at the center
A Ghafourian, H Shui, D Upadhyay, R Gupta, D Filev, I Soltani
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systemsjournal2024
Cardreamer: Open-source learning platform for world model based autonomous driving
D Gao, S Cai, H Zhou, H Wang, I Soltani, J Zhang
IEEE Internet of Things Journaljournal2024
MarineFormer: A Transformer-based Navigation Policy Model for Collision Avoidance in Marine Environment
E Kazemi, I Soltani
arXiv e-printspreprint2024
InterACT: Inter-dependency Aware Action Chunking with Hierarchical Attention Transformers for Bimanual Manipulation
A Lee, I Chuang, LY Chen, I Soltani
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)conference2024
Performance of Automated Machine Learning in Predicting Outcomes of Pneumatic Retinopexy
A Nisanova, A Yavary, J Deaner, FS Ali, P Gogte, R Kaplan, KC Chen
Ophthalmology Science 4 (5), 100470journal2024
Assessing the impact of driver compliance on traffic flow and safety in work zones amid varied mixed autonomy scenarios
IS Ehsan Kazemi
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 27journal2024
Hierarchical end-to-end autonomous navigation through few-shot waypoint detection
A Ghafourian, Z CuiZhu, D Shi, I Chuang, F Charette, R Sachdeva
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 9 (4), 3211-3218journal2024
Deep Bayesian-Assisted Keypoint Detection for Pose Estimation in Assembly Automation
IS Debo Shi, Alireza Rahimpour, Amin Ghafourian, Mohammad Mahdi Naddaf
Sensors 23 (13)journal2023
One-Shot Learning of Visual Path Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles
Z CuiZhu, F Charette, A Ghafourian, D Shi, M Cui, A Krishnamachar
Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving (ML4AD)conference2023
Anomaly detection with domain adaptation
Z Yang, I Soltani, E Darve
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognitionconference2023
Memory-augmented generative adversarial networks for anomaly detection
Z Yang, T Zhang, IS Bozchalooi, E Darve
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 33 (6), 2324-2334journal2021
Regularized cycle consistent generative adversarial network for anomaly detection
Z Yang, I Soltani Bozchalooi, E Darve
ECAI 2020, 1618-1625conference2020
Active scanning probes: A versatile toolkit for fast imaging and emerging nanofabrication
IW Rangelow, T Ivanov, A Ahmad, M Kaestner, C Lenk, IS Bozchalooi, F Xia, K Youcef-Toumi, M Holz, A Reum
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 35 (6), 06G101journal2017
Induced vibration contact detection for minimizing cantilever tip-sample interaction forces in jumping mode atomic force microscopy
F Xia, I Soltani Bozchalooi, K Youcef-Toumi
2017 American Control Conference (ACC)conference2017
Design and control of multi-actuated atomic force microscope for large-range and high-speed imaging
I Soltani Bozchalooi, A Careaga Houck, JM AlGhamdi, K Youcef-Toumi
Ultramicroscopy 160, 213-224journal2016
A study on the effectiveness of proportional-integral-derivative control in multi-actuated atomic force microscopy
I Soltani Bozchalooi, AC Houck, K Youcef-Toumi
2015 American Control Conference (ACC)conference2015
Estimator based multi-eigenmode control of cantilevers in multifrequency Atomic Force Microscopy
A Schuh, I Soltani Bozchalooi, IW Rangelow, K Youcef-Toumi
American Control Conference (ACC)conference2015
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