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RESEARCH LAB OVERVIEW

Machine Vision

and Perception Lab

Dr. Xiaobai Liu · Professor

San Diego State University

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Lab Members

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Xiaobai Liu

Professor

90+

publications in CVPR, MM, JASA etc.

SPONSORS

NSF · ONR

Realhand Inc. · Livenex Inc.

Doctoral Students

Xixin Zhang

Shuai Chen

Rong Li

Master’s Students

Blake Dowling

Adith Kadam Ramesh

Sahitya Kotla

Yang Lin

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Project 1/3: Embodied AI

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Vision — Building the foundation for robotic manipulation

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Cooking Robots

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Generalist Robots

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Project 2/3: Whistle Extraction

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Deep Whistle

Li et al. · 2020

Patch-based residual architecture

SAM-Whistle

Zhang et al. · 2025

Segmentation-driven extraction

Precision–recall comparison

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Project 3/3: Homelessness Survey

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01 Detection & geospatial mapping

02 Field verification

Manuscript planned for submission to Scientific Reports

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THANKS

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XIAOBAI.LIU@SDSU.EDU