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William J. Beksi

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. I'm also the founder and director of the Robotic Vision Laboratory. My research focuses on robot perception, robot learning, and autonomous systems. I am interested in developing algorithms that enable machines to learn from their interactions with the physical world and autonomously acquire skills necessary to execute complex tasks over time.

Prospective students: If you are a current student at UT Arlington then please fill out this form. Otherwise, please apply directly to the PhD program and mention my name in your application. I am actively recruiting undergraduate/graduate students, who are U.S. citizens, to work on DoD and USDA projects.

Email: william.beksi at uta.edu
Office: Engineering Research Building 523, 500 UTA Blvd, Arlington, TX 76019

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Secrets of Edge-Informed Contrast Maximization for Event-Based Vision

P.P. Karmokar, Q.H. Nguyen, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025
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CitDet: A Benchmark Dataset for Citrus Fruit Detection

J.A. James, H.K. Manching, M.R. Mattia, K.D. Bowman, A.M. Hulse-Kemp, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024
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Semi-Supervised Variational Adversarial Active Learning via Learning to Rank and Agreement-Based Pseudo Labeling

Z. Lyu and W.J. Beksi
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2024
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Few-Shot Fruit Segmentation via Transfer Learning

J.A. James, H.K. Manching, A.M. Hulse-Kemp, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
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NTrack: A Multiple-Object Tracker and Dataset for Infield Cotton Boll Counting

M.A.A Muzaddid and W.J. Beksi
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2023
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LIST: Learning Implicitly from Spatial Transformers for Single-View 3D Reconstruction

M.S. Arshad and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
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IPVNet: Learning Implicit Point-Voxel Features for Open-Surface 3D Reconstruction

M.S. Arshad and W.J. Beksi
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2023
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Lunar Excavator Mission Operations using Dynamic Movement Primitives

J.M. Cloud, M.Q. Tram, W.J. Beksi, and M.A. DuPuis
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
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Intuitive Robot Integration via Virtual Reality Workspaces

M.Q. Tram, J.M. Cloud, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
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MetaMax: Improved Open-Set Deep Neural Networks via Weibull Calibration

Z. Lyu, N.B. Gutierrez, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops, 2023
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Single Image Super-Resolution via a Dual Interactive Implicit Neural Network

Q.H. Nguyen and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023
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Rule-Based Safe Probabilistic Movement Primitive Control via Control Barrier Functions

M. Davoodi, A. Iqbal, J.M. Cloud, W.J. Beksi, and N.R. Gans
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022
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Automated Reconstruction of 3D Open Surfaces from Sparse Point Clouds

M.S. Arshad and W.J. Beksi
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) Workshops, 2022
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Vision-Based Guidance for Tracking Multiple Dynamic Objects

K. Dhal, P. Karmokar, A. Chakravarthy, and W.J. Beksi
Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022
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Safe Robot Trajectory Control using Probabilistic Movement Primitives and Control Barrier Functions

M. Davoodi, A. Iqbal, J.M. Cloud, W.J. Beksi, and N.R. Gans
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
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Variable Rate Compression for Raw 3D Point Clouds

M.A.A Muzaddid and W.J. Beksi
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
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Thermal Image Super-Resolution Using Second-Order Channel Attention with Varying Receptive Fields

N.B. Gutierrez and W.J. Beksi
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), 2021
Best Conference Paper Award Finalist  •   Paper  •   Preprint  •   Source Code  •   Citation

Safe Human-Robot Coetaneousness Through Model Predictive Control Barrier Functions and Motion Distributions

M. Davoodi, J.M. Cloud, A. Iqbal, W.J. Beksi, and N.R. Gans
Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference (MECC), 2021
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An Uncertainty Estimation Framework for Probabilistic Object Detection

Z. Lyu, N.B. Gutierrez, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2021
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Probabilistic Movement Primitive Control via Control Barrier Functions

M. Davoodi, A. Iqbal, J.M. Cloud, W.J. Beksi, and N.R. Gans
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2021
Best Conference Paper Award Finalist  •   Paper  •   Citation

Vision-Based Guidance for Tracking Dynamic Objects

P. Karmokar, K. Dhal, W.J. Beksi, and A. Chakravarthy
International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2021
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Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge - PBVS 2021

R.E. Rivadeneira, A.D. Sappa, B.X. Vintimilla, S. Nathan, P. Kansal, A. Mehri, P.B. Ardakani, A. Dalal, A. Akula, D. Sharma, S. Pandey, B. Kumar, J. Yao, R. Wu, K. Feng, N. Li, Y. Zhao, H. Patel, V. Chudasama, K. Prajapati, A. Sarvaiya, K.P. Upla, K. Raja, R. Ramachandra, C. Busch, F. Almasri, T. Vandamme, O. Debeir, N.B. Gutierrez, Q.H. Nguyen, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2021
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Learning the Next Best View for 3D Point Clouds via Topological Features

C. Collander, W.J. Beksi, and M. Huber
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
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A Progressive Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Generating Dense and Colored 3D Point Clouds

M.S. Arshad and W.J. Beksi
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2020
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Probabilistic Object Detection via Deep Ensembles

Z. Lyu, N. Gutierrez, A. Rajguru, and W.J. Beksi
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2020
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Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge - PBVS 2020

R.E. Rivadeneira, A.D. Sappa, B.X. Vintimilla, L. Guo, J. Hou, A. Merhi, P. Behjati, A.H. Patel, V. Chudasama, K. Prajapati, K.P. Upla, R. Ramachandra, K. Raja, C. Busch, F. Almasri, O. Debeir, S. Nathan, P. Kansal, N. Gutierrez, B. Mojra, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2020
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Camera-Based Adaptive Trajectory Guidance via Neural Networks

A. Rajguru, C. Collander, and W.J. Beksi
International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE), 2020
Best Presentation Award  •   Paper  •   Preprint  •   Citation

A Topology-Based Descriptor for 3D Point Cloud Modeling: Theory and Experiments

W.J. Beksi and N. Papanikolopoulos
Image and Vision Computing, 2019
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