Suman Raj Bista

Suman is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Australian Center for Robotics Vision based at the Queensland University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Peter Corke. He is currently working on the navigation and recognition of the humanoid robot Pepper from SoftBank Robotics (formerly Aldebaran Robotics) He completed his Ph.D. in "Indoor Navigation of Mobile Robots based on Visual Memory and Image-Based Visual Servoing" in 2016 with the Lagadic Group, INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France under the supervision of Dr. Francois Chaumette and Dr. Paolo Robuffo Giordano. He also holds a Masters in Computer Vision from the University of Burgundy, France (2013) and a Bachelor in Bachelors in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal (2009). His research interests include Visual Navigation, Visual learning, Robotics Vision, and Optimisation.

Publications

2017

Suman Raj Bista, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, and François Chaumette. Combining line segments and points for appearance-based indoor navigation by image based visual servoing. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2960–2967. September 2017. doi:10.1109/IROS.2017.8206131.
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@inproceedings{BistaIROS2017,
    author = "Bista, Suman Raj and Robuffo Giordano, Paolo and Chaumette, Fran{\c{c}}ois",
    booktitle = "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)",
    title = "Combining line segments and points for appearance-based indoor navigation by image based visual servoing",
    year = "2017",
    pages = "2960-2967",
    doi = "10.1109/IROS.2017.8206131",
    month = "September"
}

2016

Suman Raj Bista, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, and François Chaumette. Appearance-based indoor navigation by IBVS using line segments. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, (RA-L), 1(1):423–430, January 2016. (Also presented in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA 2016)). doi:10.1109/LRA.2016.2521907.
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@article{BistaRAL2016,
    author = "Bista, Suman Raj and Robuffo Giordano, Paolo and Chaumette, Fran{\c{c}}ois",
    journal = "IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, (RA-L)",
    title = "Appearance-Based Indoor Navigation by {IBVS} Using Line Segments",
    year = "2016",
    volume = "1",
    number = "1",
    pages = "423-430",
    doi = "10.1109/LRA.2016.2521907",
    ISSN = "2377-3766",
    month = "January",
    note = "(Also presented in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA 2016))"
}

Suman Raj Bista, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, and François Chaumette. Appearance-based indoor navigation by IBVS using mutual information. In Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, (ICARCV 2016), 1–6. November 2016. (Finalist for the best paper award). doi:10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838760.
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@inproceedings{BistaICARV16,
    author = "Bista, Suman Raj and Robuffo Giordano, Paolo and Chaumette, Fran{\c{c}}ois",
    Title = "Appearance-based Indoor Navigation by {IBVS} using Mutual Information",
    BookTitle = "Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, (ICARCV 2016)",
    Year = "2016",
    pages = "1-6",
    doi = "10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838760",
    Month = "November",
    note = "(Finalist for the best paper award)"
}

Suman Raj Bista. Indoor Navigation of Mobile Robots based on Visual Memory and Image-Based Visual Servoing. PhD thesis, Universite de Rennes 1; Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, 2016. URL: https://syntheses.univ-rennes1.fr/search-theses/notice.html?id=rennes1-ori-wf-1-8829.
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@phdthesis{bista2016indoor,
    author = "Bista, Suman Raj",
    title = "Indoor Navigation of Mobile Robots based on Visual Memory and Image-Based Visual Servoing",
    year = "2016",
    school = "Universite de Rennes 1; Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique",
    URL = "https://syntheses.univ-rennes1.fr/search-theses/notice.html?id=rennes1-ori-wf-1-8829"
}

2013

Suman Raj Bista, István Sárándi, Serkan Dogan, Anatoli Astvatsatourov, Ralph Mösges, and Thomas M Deserno. Automatic conjunctival provocation test combining hough circle transform and self-calibrated color measurements. In Proceedings. SPIE Medical Imaging 2013: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, volume 8670, 8670 – 8670 – 10. February 2013. URL: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2007821, doi:10.1117/12.2007821.
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@inproceedings{BistaSpie2013,
    author = {Bista, Suman Raj and S{\'a}r{\'a}ndi, Istv{\'a}n and Dogan, Serkan and Astvatsatourov, Anatoli and M{\"o}sges, Ralph and Deserno, Thomas M},
    title = "Automatic conjunctival provocation test combining Hough circle transform and self-calibrated color measurements",
    booktitle = "Proceedings. SPIE Medical Imaging 2013: Computer-Aided Diagnosis",
    year = "2013",
    volume = "8670",
    pages = "8670 - 8670 - 10",
    doi = "10.1117/12.2007821",
    Month = "February",
    URL = "https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2007821"
}

Suman Raj Bista, Serkan Dogan, Anatoli Astvatsatourov, Ralph Mösges, and Thomas M. Deserno. Automatic conjunctival provocation test using hough transform of extended canny edge maps. In Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2013, 290–295. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-36480-8_51.
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@inproceedings{BistaBFM2013,
    author = {Bista, Suman Raj and Dogan, Serkan and Astvatsatourov, Anatoli and M{\"o}sges, Ralph and Deserno, Thomas M.},
    title = "Automatic Conjunctival Provocation Test Using Hough Transform of Extended Canny Edge Maps",
    booktitle = {Bildverarbeitung f{\"u}r die Medizin 2013},
    year = "2013",
    pages = "290-295",
    publisher = "Springer Berlin Heidelberg",
    isbn = "978-3-642-36480-8",
    URL = "https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007\%2F978-3-642-36480-8\_51"
}