Jonathan Kelly
Assistant Professor
Leads the STARS lab on robot perception, sensor calibration and state estimation.
Jonathan Kelly's lab at Toronto works on robot perception & SLAM. 44 papers since 2023, 12 at top venues, mostly RA-L and T-RO. 4 PhD students and 4 master's students. 67 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 11/ year
- at T1 venues
- 27%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 4
- alumni listed
- 67
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 14 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 10 papers2025 · T1 5
- 7 papers2024 · T1 2
- 13 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: RA-L, T-RO, ICRA, Autonomous Robots, IROS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- calibration3 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM2 papers
- toronto institute0 papers
- aerospace studies0 papers
- toronto0 papers
Paper list
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202614 papers
- IJRR (T1)A Certifably Correct Algorithm for Generalized Robot-World and Hand-Eye Calibration (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LA Photorealistic Dataset and Vision-Based Algorithm for Anomaly Detection During Proximity Operations in Lunar Orbit (opens in a new tab)
- MFIA Sliding Window Filter on the Galilean Group for Consistent Aided Inertial Navigation with Unknown Measurement Delays (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop on Geometric-Aware Representations in RoboticsContact Modes Are Strata: What Geometric Structure Buys in Discrete-Continuous Planning (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LDirect Informed Sampling on Riemannian Manifolds via Loewner Order Lower Bounds
- Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Workshop on Diffusion for Robot LearningExploring the Intrinsic Geometry of Diffusion Models with Constrained Inverse Kinematics (opens in a new tab)
- WACVFlowCLAS: Enhancing Normalizing Flow-Based Anomaly Segmentation Via Contrastive Learning (opens in a new tab)
- WAFRGeometry-Aware Sampling-Based Motion Planning on Riemannian Manifolds (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsGreedy Heuristics for Sampling-Based Motion Planning in High-Dimensional State Spaces
- MFILost in Time? Continuous Symmetry and Identifiability in Aided Inertial Navigation with Unknown Measurement Delays (opens in a new tab)
- Computer Vision -- ECCVREALM: An RGB- and Event-Aligned Latent Manifold for Cross-Modal Perception (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsRisk-averse traversal of graphs with stochastic and correlated edge costs for safe global planetary mobility (opens in a new tab)
202510 papers
- ICRA (T1)Automated Planning Domain Inference for Task and Motion Planning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Efficient Imitation Without Demonstrations via Value-Penalized Auxiliary Control from Examples (opens in a new tab)
- WACVFaVoR: Features via Voxel Rendering for Camera Relocalization (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics \& Automation MagazineGalilean Symmetry in Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Generative Graphical Inverse Kinematics (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Thermal Infrared in Robotics (TIRO) WorkshopLearning Cross-Spectral Point Features with Task-Oriented Training (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Multimodal and Force-Matched Imitation Learning with a See-Through Visuotactile Sensor (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Stable Object Placement Planning from Contact Point Robustness (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftStructured Pneumatic Fingerpads for Actively Tunable Grip Friction (opens in a new tab)
- Computer Vision -- ECCVWatch Your Steps: Local Image and Scene Editing by Text Instructions (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) Workshop on Mastering Robot Manipulation in a World of Abundant DataFast Reinforcement Learning without Rewards or Demonstrations via Auxiliary Task Examples (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop From Geometry to General Autonomy of Robotic SystemsMaking Space for Time: The Special Galilean Group and Its Application to Some Robotics Problems (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)PhotoBot: Reference-Guided Interactive Photography via Natural Language (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) Workshop on Human-Large Language Model Interaction: The Dawn of a New Era or the End of it All?Reference-Guided Robotic Photography Through Natural Language Interaction
- Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace ConferenceSafe Mission-Level Path Planning for Exploration of Lunar Shadowed Regions by a Solar-Powered Rover (opens in a new tab)
- i-SAIRASThe Importance of Adaptive Decision-Making for Autonomous Long-Range Planetary Surface Mobility (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Working Backwards: Learning to Place by Picking (opens in a new tab)
202313 papers
- CRVaUToLights: A Robust Multi-Camera Traffic Light Detection and Tracking System (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LCIDGIKc: Distance-Geometric Inverse Kinematics for Continuum Robots (opens in a new tab)
- CRVContrastive Learning for Self-Supervised Pre-Training of Point Cloud Segmentation Networks With Image Data (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Workshop on Symmetries in Robot LearningEuclidean Equivariant Models for Generative Graphical Inverse Kinematics (opens in a new tab)
- AIMExtrinsic Calibration of 2D Millimetre-Wavelength Radar Pairs Using Ego-Velocity Estimates (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LLearning from Guided Play: Improving Exploration for Adversarial Imitation Learning with Simple Auxiliary Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- Intelligent Autonomous SystemsLearning Sequential Latent Variable Models from Multimodal Time Series Data (opens in a new tab)
- CRVLiving in a Material World: Learning Material Properties from Full-Waveform Flash Lidar Data for Semantic Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- Acta AstronauticaRecovery Policies for Safe Exploration of Lunar Permanently Shadowed Regions by a Solar-Powered Rover (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)Reference-guided Controllable Inpainting of Neural Radiance Fields (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Spatiotemporal Calibration of 3D Millimetre-Wavelength Radar-Camera Pairs (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)SPIn-NeRF: Multiview Segmentation and Perceptual Inpainting with Neural Radiance Fields (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went67 listed
Apply to TorontoFall 2027
Computer Science MSc/PhD
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