I am currently a PhD student in Computer Science department at Rutgers associated with the Pracsys group and the Robot Learning group. I am primarily interested in problems related to perception in robotics.

You can also check out my personal webpage and my Github profile.

Publications

  1. Chaitanya Mitash, Kostas Bekris and Abdeslam Boularias, “A Self-supervised Learning System for Object Detection using Physics Simulation and Multi-view Pose Estimation”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017.
  2. Chaitanya Mitash, Abdeslam Boularias and Kostas Bekris, “Improving 6D Pose Estimation of Objects in Clutter via Physics-aware Monte Carlo Tree Search”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.
  3. Chaitanya Mitash, Abdeslam Boularias and Kostas Bekris, “Robust 6D Object Pose Estimation with Stochastic Congruent Sets”, In Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2018.
  4. Chaitanya Mitash, Abdeslam Boularias and Kostas Bekris, “Physics-based Scene-level Reasoning for Object Pose Estimation in Clutter”, International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2019.
  5. Jean-Philippe Mercier, Chaitanya Mitash, Philipe Giguere, Abdeslam Boularias and Kostas Bekris, “Learning Object Localization and 6D Object Pose Estimation from Simulation and Weakly Labeled Real Images”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019.
  6. Rahul Shome, Wei N. Tang, Changkyu Song, Chaitanya Mitash, Chris Kourtev, Jingjin Yu, Abdeslam Boularias, and Kostas Bekris, “Towards Robust Product Packing with a Minimalistic End-Effector”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019.
  7. Chaitanya Mitash, Bowen Wen, Kostas Bekris, and Abdeslam Boularias, “Scene-level Pose Estimation for Multiple Instances of Densely Packed Objects “, In Proceedings of Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2019.
  8. Malihe Alikhani, Baber Khalid, Rahul Shome, Chaitanya Mitash, Kostas Bekris, Matthew Stone, “That and There: Judging the Intent of Pointing Actions with Robotic Arms”, In Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020.
  9. Bowen Wen, Chaitanya Mitash, Sruthi Soorian, Andrew Kimmel, Avishai Sintov and Kostas Bekris, “Robust, Occlusion-aware Pose Estimation for Objects Grasped by Adaptive Hands”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020.
  10. Rui Wang, Chaitanya Mitash, Shiyang Lu, Daniel Boehm, Kostas E. Bekris , “Safe and Effective Picking Paths in Clutter given Discrete Distributions of Object Poses”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
  11. Bowen Wen, Chaitanya Mitash, Baozhang Ren and Kostas Bekris, “se(3)-TrackNet: Data-driven 6D Pose Tracking by Calibrating Image Residuals in Synthetic Domains”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
  12. Chaitanya Mitash, Rahul Shome, Bowen Wen, Abdeslam Boularias, Kostas Bekris, “Task-driven Perception and Manipulation for Constrained Placement of Unknown Objects”, In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) & IROS, 2020.

Contact Info

Department of Computer Science
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
110 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA

Phone: (703) 772 6747
Email: cm1074@cs.rutgers.edu