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2026

August 14 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2027
August 10 - One paper accepted to WACV 2027
August 5 - Zongyao Lyu successfully defended his PhD dissertation, congratulations Dr. Lyu!
May 27 - One paper accepted to CASE 2026
April 68 - Zongyao Lyu received the UTA Dissertation Fellowship!
March 31 - Two papers accepted to ICPR 2026
March 6 - Nick Truong won Best Paper Award at the 2nd Workshop on Event-Based Vision in the Era of Generative AI at WACV 2026!
January 31- One paper accepted to ICRA 2026
January 20 - Prof. Beksi received a grant from Cotton Incorporated to continue developing machine vision tools for high-throughput cotton phenotyping
January 14 - Prof. Beksi will be a keynote speaker at the Texas Regional Robotics Symposium (TEROS) 2026
January 12 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2026

2025

December 24 - One paper accepted to the 2nd Workshop on Event-Based Vision in the Era of Generative AI at WACV 2026
December 4 - Prof. Beksi gave a technical talk on event-based vision to NSWC PCDD
December 2- Lingling Chen successfully defended her master's thesis, congratulations Lingling!
October 30 - Md Ahmed Al Muzaddid successfully defended his PhD dissertation, congratulations Dr. Al Muzaddid!
October 23 - Prof. Beksi was invited to speak at the 2nd Workshop on Event-Based Vision in the Era of Generative AI at WACV 2026
September 16 - Prof. Beksi received a USDA grant to develop a computer vision system for classifying pecan foliar diseases
September 12 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2026
September 9 - Prof. Beksi was awarded an ONR grant to explore event-based sensing for underwater environmental monitoring
August 15 - Pritam Karmokar successfully defended his PhD dissertation, congratulations Dr. Karmokar!
May 21 - Prof. Beksi was elevated to an IEEE Senior Member
May 20 - Prof. Beksi was awarded an AFOSR grant to create noise modeling techniques for event-based sensors
May 15 - One article published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
April 28 - Md Ahmed Al Muzaddid and Pritam Karmokar received the UTA Dissertation Fellowship!
April 14 - Dr. Joe Cloud received the UTA CSE Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award!
April 14 - Jordan James received the UTA CSE John S. Schuchman Outstanding Doctoral Student Award!
April 7- Prof. Beksi was awarded a NEEC grant from NSWCDD to investigate mitigating data distribution shifts in machine learning systems
April 6 - Prof. Beksi will be chairing the "Space Robotics 1" session at ICRA 2025
January 27- Two papers accepted to ICRA 2025
January 23 - Prof. Beksi received a grant from Cotton Incorporated to develop machine vision tools for high-throughput cotton phenotyping
January 22 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2025

2024

November 25 - Prof. Beksi gave a technical talk on event-based vision to NSWCDD
November 20 - Joe Cloud successfully defended his PhD dissertation, congratulations Dr. Cloud!
November 8 - Prof. Beksi received the 2024 Rising Star Research Award from the UTA CSE department!
September 27 - Led by Minh (Jerry) Tram, the RVL is an ARIAC 2024 finalist!
September 11 - One article published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
August 30 - One paper accepted to WACV 2025
August 20 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2025
August 16 - Prof. Beksi received a USDA grant to develop a deep learning framework for in-ground root segmentation
June 24 - One paper accepted to ICPR 2024
June 19 - Prof. Beksi gave a research talk at the Catholic University of America
June 3 - Prof. Beksi will be a 2024 ONR Summer Faculty Fellow at NSWCDD
April 21 - Minh (Jerry) Tram received the UTA CSE John S. Schuchman Outstanding Doctoral Student Award!
April 1 - Nolan Gutierrez was awarded a DoD SMART scholarship!
March 8 - The RVL will present four posters at the 2024 AI in Agriculture and Natural Resources Conference
February 16 - One paper accepted to the Causal-HRI workshop at HRI 2024
January 29 - One paper accepted to ICRA 2024
January 18 - Our AFRL-sponsored 3D computer vision project was featured as a UTA news release!
January 3 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2024

2023

December 20 - Prof. Beksi will serve as a Guest Editor for a Drones special issue on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in UAV Technology
December 15 - Prof. Beksi received Azure credits courtesy of the Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research Program
November 30 - One article published in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
November 28 - Prof. Beksi presented the RVL's latest work to the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
November 21 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
November 15 - The RVL participated in Waves of Innovation 2023 at AT&T Stadium!
November 9 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2024
November 2 - One article published in Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
October 11 - Our agricultural field robotics research was featured as a Customer Spotlight video by Clearpath Robotics!
September 23 - Prof. Beksi received a USDA grant to create computer vision tools for automating high-throughput crop phenotyping
August 30 - In collaboration with krtkl, Prof. Beksi was awarded a Phase II contract by AFRL to develop a 3D vision system for advanced manufacturing
August 25 - Led by Minh (Jerry) Tram, the RVL is an ARIAC 2023 finalist!
August 22 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2024
August 3 - Mohammad Samiul Arshad successfully defended his PhD dissertation, congratulations Dr. Arshad!
July 14 - One paper accepted to ICCV 2023
June 26 - Prof. Beksi and Prof. Kim were awarded a grant from Google to explore causal reinforcement learning
June 21 - One paper accepted to IROS 2023
June 12 - Our work on automating infield plant phenotyping was featured as a Customer Spotlight story by Clearpath Robotics!
June 1 - Prof. Beksi will be a 2023 ONR Summer Faculty Fellow at NSWCDD
May 18 - Prof. Chakravarthy, Prof. Subbarao, and Prof. Beksi received a DoD grant to investigate resilient multi-vehicle networks
April 30 - Prof. Beksi will serve on the Program Committee of ICVS 2023
April 28 - Prof. Gans, Prof. Skinner, and Prof. Beksi will be organizing a workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for Robotics at IROS 2023
March 30 - Minh (Jerry) Tram was awarded a DoD SMART scholarship!
February 21 - We'll be participating in Engineers Week at the Jerry Knight STEM Academy
January 16 - One paper accepted to ICRA 2023
January 13 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2023
January 9 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2023
January 7 - Prof. Beksi gave a talk at the First Workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for Computer Vision at WACV 2023

2022

November 21 - One paper accepted to the DNOW workshop at WACV 2023
October 10 - One paper accepted to WACV 2023
September 30 - Md Ahmed Al Muzaddid won Best Poster Award at TACCSTER 2022!
September 15 - Led by Prof. Su, Prof. Beksi is part of a USDA-ARS research apprenticeship program grant
September 29 - Adly Noore and Md Ahmed Al Muzaddid gave platform and lightning talks, respectively, at TACCSTER 2022
August 26 - One paper accepted to the First Workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for Mixed Reality at ISMAR 2022
August 26 - Two posters accepted to TACCSTER 2022
August 9 - Prof. Beksi will be working with krtkl to create a neuromorphic stereo vision system (Phase I) for the U.S. Space Force Orbital Prime program
July 28 - One article published in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
July 11 - Led by Minh (Jerry) Tram, the RVL is an ARIAC 2022 finalist!
July 7 - One article published in Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
June 1 - Prof. Beksi will be a 2022 ONR Summer Faculty Fellow at NSWCDD
May 8 - Our work on infield high-throughput cotton phenotyping was accepted to the ICRA 2022 Workshop on Agricultural Robotics and Automation
April 29 - Our lab poster was presented at TEROS 2022
April 28 - One paper accepted to the ICRA 2022 Workshop on Safe and Reliable Robot Autonomy under Uncertainty
April 22 - We released an integrated driver for Universal Robots robotic arms and Robotiq 2F grippers
April 9 - One paper accepted to the ICRA 2022 Workshop on Intelligent Control Methods and Machine Learning Algorithms for Human-Robot Interaction and Assistive Robotics
April 6 - We'll be giving robotics demos at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas
March 26 - Prof. Beksi will be chairing the "RGB-D Perception I" session at ICRA 2022
March 10 - Prof. Beksi received a generous donation of tools from Stanley Black & Decker
February 22 - We'll be participating in Engineers Week at the Jerry Knight STEM Academy
February 7 - One article published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI
January 31 - One paper accepted to ICRA 2022
January 10 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2022

2021

November 5 - In collaboration with krtkl, Prof. Beksi was awarded a Phase I contract by AFRL to develop a 3D vision system for advanced manufacturing
October 6 - Prof. Beksi joined the Standard for Measuring Robot Agility (IEEE P2940) working group
September 23 - Our work on thermal image super-resolution was a Best Conference Paper Award finalist at ICVS 2021!
September 3 - One poster accepted to TACCSTER 2021
July 22 - One paper accepted to ICVS 2021
July 13 - Led by Minh (Jerry) Tram, the RVL is an ARIAC 2021 finalist!
July 3 - UTARI/RVL work on probabilistic movement primitive control by control barrier functions was a Best Conference Paper Award finalist at CASE 2021!
June 18 - One paper accepted to MECC 2021
June 2 - Prof. Beksi received a set of Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kits through the NVIDIA Grant Program
June 1 - Two papers accepted to CASE 2021
April 18 - One paper accepted to ICUAS 2021
April 13 - One paper accepted to the PBVS workshop at CVPR 2021
April 5 - Congratulations to Joe Cloud on winning the prestigious Tau Beta Pi Fellowship!
March 15 - Nolan Gutierrez and Quan Nguyen reached the final phase of the Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge!
February 28 - One paper accepted to ICRA 2021
January 25 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2021
January 19 - Our work on generating dense and colored 3D point cloud objects has been featured as a TACC-enabled science story

2020

October 2 - One paper accepted to 3DV 2020
August 28 - One poster accepted to TACCSTER 2020
August 15 - Led by Zongyao Lyu, the RVL is a finalist in the Probabilistic Object Detection Challenge!
August 12 - One paper accepted to the Beyond mAP: Reassessing the Evaluation of Object Detectors workshop at ECCV 2020
April 10 - One paper accepted to the PBVS workshop at CVPR 2020
April 2 - Prof. Beksi and Prof. Chakravarthy received a UTA Research Enhancement Program grant to explore vision-based collision avoidance for UAVs
March 17 - Prof. Beksi received an NSF CRII Award to investigate topological methods for robotic perception
March 13 - Nolan Gutierrez reached the final phase of the Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge!
February 15 - Congratulations to Aditya Rajguru on winning the Best Presentation Award at ICMRE 2020!

2019

December 13 - Prof. Beksi will serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2020
August 20 - One poster accepted to TACCSTER 2019
December 5 - One paper accepted to ICMRE 2020
May 15 - One article published in Image and Vision Computing