I am currently a Ph.D. candidate advised by Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos and Dr. Cornelia Fermüller in the Perception & Robotics Group, at the University of Maryland, College Park. PRG is associated with the University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Science Studies (UMIACS).
Research Interest:My work is focused on developing novel Perception for marine robotics. My work lies at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence and computational imaging.
Please feel free to contact Xiaomin via xlin01 at umd dot edu or LinkedIn.
Teaching Experience:ENEE350: Computer Organization (Spring 2021)
CMSC 426: Computer Vision (Fall2020)
ENEE350: Computer Organization (Spring 2020)
ENEE303(H): Analog and Digital Electronics (Fall 2019)
ENEE408I: Capstone Design Project: Autonomous Control of Interacting Robots (Fall 2019)
ENEE350: Computer Organization (Spring 2019)
ENEE408I: Capstone Design Project: Autonomous Control of Interacting Robots (Fall 2018)
ENEE380: Electromagnetic Theory (Fall 2018)
Jiayi Wu, Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland. MARVIS: Motion & Geometry Aware Real and Virtual Image Segmentation. Submitted to IROS 2024.
Yianni Karabatis, Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland. Detecting Olives with Synthetic or Real Data? Olive the Above. Published in IROS 2023, Detroit.
Krithika Govindaraj, Now in Niatic Inc. Master Thesis: Object segmentation in Cluttered Environment, 2019.
Nitesh Jha, Now in Caterpillar Inc. OysterSim: Underwater Simulation for Enhancing Oyster Reef Monitoring. Published in OCEANS 2022, Hampton Roads (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Mayank Joshi, Now in Qualcomm Inc. OysterSim: Underwater Simulation for Enhancing Oyster Reef Monitoring. Published in OCEANS 2022, Hampton Roads (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Cheng Liu, Now in Kicks Robotics Inc. SeaDroneSim: Simulation of Aerial Images for Detection of Objects Above Water. Published in IEEE/CVF WACF (pp. 216-223).
Akshaj Gaur, Undergrad at the University of Maryland. Whale Detection Enhancement through Synthetic Satellite Images. Published in OCEANS 2023, Gulf Coast(2023).
Aadi Palnitka, Undergrad at the University of Maryland. ChatSim: Underwater Simulation with Natural Language Prompting. Published in OCEANS 2023, Gulf Coast(2023).
Rashmi Kapu, Master’s student at the University of Maryland. ChatSim: Underwater Simulation with Natural Language Prompting. Published in OCEANS 2023, Gulf Coast(2023).
News!03/15/2024: We Submitted MARVIS: Motion & Geometry Aware Real and Virtual Image Segmentation to IROS 2024.
01/29/2024: Our paper UIVNAV: Underwater Information-driven Vision-based Navigation via Imitation Learning is accepted to ICRA 2024, Japan. Thanks to all my collaborators!
10/05/2023: Our poster Agrifood Detection Enhancement with Synthetic Data is presented in Workshop on Robotics in Agriculture IROS 2023, Detroit, Michigan. Thanks to my collaborators!
10/01/2023: Our paper Detecting Olives with Synthetic or Real Data? Olive the Above is presented in IROS 2023, Detroit. Thanks to my collaborators!
10/01/2023: Our paper Detecting Olives with Synthetic or Real Data? Olive the Above is presented in IROS 2023, Detroit. Thanks to my collaborators!
09/24/2023: We presented two papersWhale Detection Enhancement through Synthetic Satellite Images and ChatSim: Underwater Simulation with Natural Language Prompting in OCEANS 2023, Gulf Coast.
02/26/2023: We presented our Simulation Based Oyster Detection at Aquaculture America 2023, New Orleans, Louisiana USA
1/16/2023: Our paper Oysternet: Enhanced oyster detection using simulation is accepted by ICRA 2023. Thanks to my collaborators!
11/15/202: Our paper SeaDroneSim: Simulation of Aerial Images for Detection of Objects Above Water is accepted by WACV 2023. Thanks to my collaborators!
Publications
MARVIS: Motion & Geometry Aware Real and Virtual Image Segmentation
Jiayi Wu, Xiaomin Lin, Shahriar Negahdaripour, Cornelia Fermuller,Yiannis Aloimonos
Submitted to 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE.
Media: [Paper Openaccess] [Github]
UIVNAV: Underwater Information-driven Vision-based Navigation via Imitation Learning
Xiaomin Lin, Nare Karapetyan, Kaustubh Joshi, Tianchen Liu, Nikhil Chopra, Miao Yu, Pratap Tokekar, Yiannis Aloimonos
In Proceedings of 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Media: [Paper Openaccess]
Detecting Olives with Synthetic or Real Data? Olive the Above
Yianni Karabatis, Xiaomin Lin, Nitin J. Sanket, Michail G. Lagoudakis, Yiannis Aloimonos
2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 4242-4249). IEEE.
Media: [Paper Openaccess]
Agrifood Detection Enhancement with Synthetic Data
Yianni Karabatis, Xiaomin Lin, Miao Yu, Yiannis Aloimonos, John Reid
Robotics in Agriculture Workshop in IROS 2023, Detroit, Michigan USA
Media: [Poster]
Whale Detection Enhancement through Synthetic Satellite Images
Akshaj Gaur, Cheng Liu, Xiaomin Lin, Nare Karapetyan, Yiannis Aloimonos
OCEANS 2023-MTS/IEEE US Gulf Coast (pp. 1-7). IEEE
Media: [Paper Openaccess]
ChatSim: Underwater Simulation with Natural Language Prompting
Aadi Palnitkar, Rashmi Kapu, Xiaomin Lin, Cheng Liu, Nare Karapetyan, Yiannis Aloimonos
OCEANS 2023-MTS/IEEE US Gulf Coast (pp. 1-7). IEEE
Media: [Paper Openaccess]
Simulation Based Oyster Detection
Xiaomin Lin, Allen Pattillo, Yiannis Aloimonos
Aquaculture America 2023, New Orleans, Louisiana USA
Media: [Abstract]
Oysternet: Enhanced oyster detection using simulation
Xiaomin Lin, Nitin J Sanket, Nare Karapetyan, Yiannis Aloimonos
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 5170-5176). IEEE
Media: [Demo Video]
SeaDroneSim: Simulation of Aerial Images for Detection of Objects Above Water
Xiaomin Lin, Cheng Liu, Allen Pattillo, Miao Yu, Yiannis Aloimonous
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
Media: [Demo Video] [Poster]
OysterSim: Underwater Simulation for Enhancing Oyster Reef Monitoring
Xiaomin Lin, Nitesh Jha, Mayank Joshi, Nare Karapetyan, Yiannis Aloimonos, Miao Yu
OCEANS 2022, Hampton Roads, VA, USA, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/OCEANS47191.2022.9977233.
Media: [Demo Video]
Following instructions by imagining and reaching visual goals
John Kanu, Eadom Dessalene, Xiaomin Lin, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos
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Media: [Paper]