Who am I? I am a PhD candidate who currently resides in the Vision Lab at UCLA. My research interests include category recognition, object class localization, and robotics. In the past, I've built large underwater robots and participated in the DARPA Grand Challenge with the Golem Group. You can reach me via e-mail by placing bfulkers before an @ sign, followed by cs.ucla.edu.

Software - GCMex

GCMex is a MATLAB wrapper around Olga Veksler's GCoptimization toolbox (Version 2.3). Our wrapper is pre-compiled for most architectures and simple to use. More details here

Software - Blocks - Now Available

Blocks provides a matlab framework for experiments which can be described with block diagrams. It also contains an implementation of our ECCV 2008 and our ICCV 2009 papers. It requires VLFeat and libsvm-mat. This implementation also includes a baseline bag of features categorizer. More details may be found at the project site.

Software - VLFeat - New Version Available

The newest version of VLFeat now includes an implementation of the fast dense SIFT descriptors and fast Agglomerative Information Bottleneck (AIB) described in our ECCV 2008 paper. More details may be found at the project site.

Software - Patch-Based Texture Edges - MATLAB

I've implemented the texture edge detection method described in:

Patch-based Texture Edges and Segmentation, Lior Wolf, Xiaolei Huang, Ian Martin, and Dimitris Metaxas, Proc. of the 9th European Conf. on Computer vision, 2006.

Download the function here.

Publications

Class Segmentation and Object Localization with Superpixel Neighborhoods, B. Fulkerson, A. Vedaldi, and S. Soatto. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009. Poster

Localizing Objects With Smart Dictionaries, B. Fulkerson, A. Vedaldi, and S. Soatto. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008.

Soil Sensor Technology: Life within a Pixel, M. Allen, R. Vargas, E. Graham, W. Swenson, M. Hamilton, M. Taggart, T. Harmon, A. Rat'Ko, P. Rundel, B. Fulkerson, and D. Estrin, BioScience, Vol. 57, No. 10, November 2007

Sensor Internet Share and Search: Enabling Collaboration of Citizen Scientists, S. Reddy, G. Chen, B. Fulkerson, S.J. Kim, U. Park, N. Yau, J. Cho, M. Hansen, and J. Heidemann, IPSN DSI '07 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

A Scalable Architecture for Multi Agent Vision Based Robot Scavenging, K. Wnuk, B. Fulkerson, and J. Sudol, Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 06) Workshop on Robotics, Boston, MA, 2006.

Autonomous off road driving in the DARPA Grand Challenge, E. Jones, B. Fulkerson, E. Frazzoli, D. Kumar, R. Walters, J. Radford, and R. Mason. In Proceedings of the IEE/ION Position, Location, and Navigation Symposium, April 2006

The Golem Group / UCLA autonomous ground vehicle in the DARPA Grand Challenge, R. Mason, J. Radford, D. Kumar, R. Walters, B. Fulkerson, E. Jones, D. Caldwell, J. Meltzer, Y. Alon, A. Shashua, H. Hattori, N. Takeda, E. Frazzoli, and S. Soatto. Journal of Field Robotics, Special Issue on the DARPA Grand Challenge 2005.