Michael Kaess
Professor
Studies SLAM and robot perception, including sensor fusion for underwater and aerial mapping.
Michael Kaess's lab at CMU works on robot perception & SLAM and autonomous vehicles & drones. 33 papers since 2023, 2 at top venues, mostly RA-L and RSS. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 6%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 10 papers2025 · T1 0
- 14 papers2024 · T1 2
- 6 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: RA-L, RSS, SIGGRAPH
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Robot perception & SLAM10 papers
- Autonomous vehicles & drones1 paper
- sensor fusion1 paper
- underwater1 paper
- aerial0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20263 papers
- AEROCalibrating IMU Pitch Misalignment in the Field to Reduce Wheel-Inertial Odometry Elevation Drift
- Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRACOSMO-Bench: A Benchmark for Collaborative SLAM Optimization
- Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRAFORM: Fixed-Lag Odometry with Reparative Mapping utilizing Rotating LiDAR Sensors
202510 papers
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROSA Comprehensive Evaluation of Lidar Odometry Techniques
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROSAcoustic Neural 3D Reconstruction Under Pose Drift
- SLAM HandbookAdvanced State Variable Representations
- SLAM HandbookFactor Graphs for SLAM
- RA-LNormalFlow: Fast, Robust, and Accurate Contact-based Object 6DoF Pose Tracking with Vision-based Tactile Sensors
- SLAM HandbookRadar SLAM
- Proc. Conf. on Robot Learning, CoRLSelf-supervised Perception for Tactile Skin Covered Dexterous Hand
- Proc. Conf. on Robot Learning, CoRLTactile Beyond Pixels: Multisensory Touch Representations for Robot Manipulation
- Reinforcement Learning Journal, RLJYour Learned Constraint is Secretly a Backward Reachable Tube
- IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMIZ-Splat: Z-Axis Gaussian Splatting for Camera-Sonar Fusion
202414 papers
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROSA Slices Perspective for Incremental Nonparametric Inference in High Dimensional State Spaces
- SIGGRAPH (T1)AONeuS: A Neural Rendering Framework for Acoustic-Optical Sensor Fusion
- Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRAAsynchronous Distributed Smoothing and Mapping via On-Manifold Consensus ADMM
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROSBEVRender: Vision-based Cross-view Vehicle Registration in Off-road GNSS-denied Environment
- Intl. J. of Robotics Research, IJRRGroup-k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique of k-uniform hypergraphs for robust multi-robot map merging
- JOEHoloOcean: A Full-Featured Marine Robotics Simulator for Perception and Autonomy
- RSS (T1)iMESA: Incremental Distributed Optimization for Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
- Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRALearning Covariances for Estimation with Constrained Bilevel Optimization
- Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRAMulti-Radar Inertial Odometry for 3D State Estimation using mmWave Imaging Radar
- AAAS Science RoboticsNeural feels with neural fields: Visuo-tactile perception for in-hand manipulation
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROSon Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, (Abu Dhabi, UAE), Oct
- RA-LRobust Preintegrated Wheel Odometry for Off-road Autonomous Ground Vehicles
20236 papers
- IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMIASH: A Modern Framework for Parallel Spatial Hashing in 3D Perception
- Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRAConditional GANs for Sonar Image Filtering with Applications to Underwater Occupancy Mapping
- Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRAEfficient Bundle Adjustment for Coplanar Points and Lines
- Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRANeural Implicit Surface Reconstruction using Imaging Sonar
- Proc. Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCVNeural Radiance Field with LiDAR Maps
- Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRAon Robotics and Automation, ICRA, (London, UK), May 2023, pp
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Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
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- English
- TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo (F-1/J-1 non-native speakers)
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- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
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