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, human-robot interaction, 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-related projects.

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

News

I will be a 2023 ONR Summer Faculty Fellow at NSWCDD
Nick Gans, Katie Skinner, and I will be organizing a workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for Robotics at IROS 2023
I will serve on the Program Committee of ICVS 2023
I'll serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2023
I will serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2023
I've been invited to give a talk at the First Workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for Computer Vision at WACV 2023
I will be working with krtkl to create a neuromorphic stereo vision system for the U.S. Space Force as part of the Orbital Prime program

I will be a 2022 ONR Summer Faculty Fellow at NSWCDD

I have received a generous donation of tools from Stanley Black & Decker

I will serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2022

In collaboration with krtkl, we have been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to develop a 3D vision system for advanced manufacturing

I have joined the Standard for Measuring Robot Agility (IEEE P2940) working group

Our work on thermal image super-resolution was an ICVS 2021 Best Conference Paper Award finalist

Our work on probabilistic movement primitive control by control barrier functions was a CASE 2021 Best Conference Paper Award finalist

I have graciously received a set of Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kits through the NVIDIA Grant Program

I will be chairing the session "Stereo Vision Applications" at ICRA 2021

I'll serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2021

Our work on generating dense and colored 3D point cloud objects has been featured as a TACC-enabled science story

I will be a Faculty Chair for the IROS 2020 tutorial Space Robotics for In-Situ Resource Utilization: Needs, Challenges, and Approaches

I have been awarded an NSF REU Supplement

Dr. Animesh Chakravarthy and I have received a UTA Research Enhancement Program grant to explore vision-based collision avoidance for UAVs

I have received an NSF CRII Award to investigate topological methods for robotic perception

I've accepted an invitation to be an Associate Editor for UR 2020

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Publications

Intuitive Robot Integration via Virtual Reality Workspaces

M.Q. Tram, J.M. Cloud and W.J. Beksi
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
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
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
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
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, W.J. Beksi and A. Chakravarthy
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
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 • Citation • Code

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
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
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
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
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
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2020
Paper • Citation • Webpage

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 • Citation