Khiem Vuong

I'm a graduate student (MS in Robotics) at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. I'm advised by Prof. Srinivasa Narasimhan (supported by NSF) as part of the Imaging Group at CMU.

I received my B.S. in Computer Science from University of Minnesota Twin Cities where I worked with Prof. Stergios Roumeliotis and Prof. Hyun Soo Park. I also spent an amazing summer at Enfusion Systems as a software engineering intern during my sophomore year.

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Research/Publications

I'm interested in computer vision, robotics, and machine learning. Most of my research is about 3D perception and visual scene understanding in general. Representative paper(s) are highlighted.

Deep Multi-view Depth Estimation with Predicted Uncertainty
Tong Ke, Tien Do, Khiem Vuong, Kourosh Sartipi, and Stergios I. Roumeliotis
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
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Estimating dense depth and its uncertainty from a sequence of images by leveraging a dense optical flow network to triangulate initial depth maps and refine them through an iterative refinement module.

Surface Normal Estimation of Tilted Images via Spatial Rectifier
Tien Do, Khiem Vuong, Stergios I. Roumeliotis, and Hyun Soo Park
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020

(Spotlight Presentation)

[pdf] [website] [video] [code]

Surface normal estimation of tilted images by leveraging a spatial rectifier that is learned to transform the surface normal distribution of a tilted image to the rectified one that matches the gravity-aligned training data distribution.

Deep Depth Estimation from Visual-Inertial SLAM
Kourosh Sartipi, Tien Do, Tong Ke, Khiem Vuong, and Stergios I. Roumeliotis
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System (IROS), 2020
[pdf] [code]

Dense depth estimation from sparse depth points (computed from a Visual-Inertial SLAM system) and RGB images of indoor scenes.

Work Experience

	Research Assistant Oct. 2021 - Present Illumination and Imaging Laboratory (ILIM), Imaging Group Advisor: Prof. Srinivasa Narasimhan
	Research Assistant Sep. 2019 - Jun. 2021 Multiple Autonomous Robotic Systems Laboratory (MARS) Advisor: Prof. Stergios I. Roumeliotis & Prof. Hyun Soo Park
	Software Engineering Intern Jun. 2019 - Aug. 2019 Enfusion Systems Team: Backend services, Portfolio Management Systems (PMS)
	Research Assistant Jun. 2018 - May 2019 GroupLens Research Advisor: Prof. Lana Yarosh

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