Publications

PICO: Reconstructing 3D People In Contact with Objects
A. Cseke*, S. Tripathi*, S. K. Dwivedi, A.S. Lakshmipathy, A. Chatterjee, M. J. Black, D. Tzionas
IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, USA 2025

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Kinematic Motion Retargeting for Contact-Rich Anthropomorphic Manipulations
A.S. Lakshmipathy, J.K. Hodgins, N.S. Pollard
ACM Transactions on Graphics (To Be Presented at SIGGRAPH), Vancouver, Canada 2025

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ContactMPC: Towards Online Adaptive Control for Contact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation
A.S. Lakshmipathy, N.S. Pollard
Robotics: Science and Systems - Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation: Design, Perception and Control, Delft, Netherlands 2024

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Contact Edit: Artist Tools for Intuitive Modeling of Hand-Object Interactions
A. S. Lakshmipathy, N. Feng, Y. X. Lee, M. Mahler, N.S. Pollard
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Presented at SIGGRAPH), Los Angeles, USA 2023

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Contact Transfer: A Direct, User-Driven Method for Human to Robot Transfer of Grasps and Manipulations
A. Lakshmipathy, D. Bauer, C. Bauer, N.S. Pollard
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, USA 2022

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Towards Very Low-Cost Iterative Prototyping for Fully Printable Dexterous Soft Robotic Hands
D. Bauer, C. Bauer, A. Lakshmipathy, R. Shu, N.S. Pollard
IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (ROBOSOFT), Edinburgh, UK 2022

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Fully Printable Low-Cost Dexterous Soft Robotic Manipulators for Agriculture
D. Bauer, C. Bauer, A. Lakshmipathy, N.S. Pollard
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Workshop on AI for Agriculture and Food Systems, Vancouver, Canada 2022

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Contact Tracing: A Low Cost Reconstruction Framework for Surface Contact Interpolation
A. Lakshmipathy, D. Bauer, N.S. Pollard
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic 2021

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Locally-Connected, Irregular Deep Neural Networks for Biomimetic Active Vision in a Simulated Human
M. Nakada*, H. Chen*, A. Lakshmipathy, D. Terzopoulos
IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Milano, Italy 2021

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Deep Learning of Neuromuscular and Visuomotor Control in a Biomimetic Simulated Humanoid
M. Nakada, T. Zhou, H. Chen, A. Lakshmipathy, D. Terzopoulos
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2020

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Biomimetic Eye Modeling & Deep Neuromuscular Oculomotor Control
M. Nakada*, A. Lakshmipathy*, H. Chen, X. Ling, T. Zhou, D. Terzopoulos
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Presented at SIGGRAPH Asia), Brisbane, Australia 2019

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Biomimetic Modeling of the Eye and Deep Neuromuscular Oculomotor Control
A. Lakshmipathy
M.S. Thesis, Computer Science Department, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles 2018

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Workshop Co-Organizer
Handy Moves: Dexterity in Multi-Fingered Hands @ ICRA 2025 [Video Recording]

Tertiary Reviewer
ACM SIGGRAPH (2024,2025)
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2024)
IEEE TVCG (2022)
IEEE ICRA (2023,2024,2025)
IEEE/RSJ IROS (2021,2023,2025)
IEEE 3DV (2024)

Last Updated: 06/05/2025