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ICRA 2011: The three papers below will be presented at the 2011 IEEE ICRA in Shanghai, China. (Feb. 10, 2011) Vision-Based Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Tracking coauthored with Chun-Hua Chang, Shao-Chen Wang.  Achieving Undelayed Initialization in Monocular SLAM with Generalized Objects Using Velocity Estimate-based Classification coauthored with Chen-Han Hsiao. Feasibility Grids for Localization and Mapping in Crowded Urban Scenes coauthored with Shao-Wen Yang. RoboCup 2009: We are one of the top 8 teams in the standard platform league! (July 2009) Results: 1. B-Human: University of Bremen, Germany (13 members) 2. Northern Bites: Bowdoin College, USA (7 members) 3. Nao Devils Dortmund: TU Dortmund, Germany (10 members) 4. Austin Villa: The University of Texas at Austin, USA (4 members) 5th~8th Place Teams: -NTU Robot PAL: National Taiwan University (3 members) -CMWrEagle: Carnegie Mellon University, USA & University of Science and Technology of China (7 members) -NUbots: University of Newcastle, Australia (5 members) -Austrian Kangaroos: Vienna University of Technology, Austria (10 members) Videos 20090703_NTU(Blue)vsUPenn (18MB) 20090703_NTU(Red)vsNubots (17MB) 20090704_NTU(Blue)vsNorthernBites (29MB) Team members: Jimmy Yen (middle) and Shao-Chen Wang (left) In the News: Check out our PAL2 robot and hand posture recognition system. (November 2008) Udn, Nov. 19, 2008 Sina, Nov. 19, 2008 National Education Radio [mp3] ARSO'08 paper: Probabilistic Structure from Sound and Probabilistic Sound Source Localization [Video 8.5MB] (August 2008) IROS'08 paper: 3D Active Appearance Model for Aligning Faces in 2D Images [Video  4.3MB] (August 2008) ICAR'07 paper: Hand Posture Recognition Using Adaboost with SIFT for Human Robot Interaction [Video 4.3 MB] (August 2007) In the News: check out our PAL2 robot. (June 2007) Apple Daily, July 1, 2007 The Liberty Times, July 1, 2007 Human Robot Interaction Video [3.7 MB] Check out our PAL3 robots. (March 2007)   Interacting Object Tracking and Abnormal Activity Recognition in Crowded Urban Areas [Video 5 MB] (January 2007) Latest PAL1 Videos (September 2006) Autonomous Control & SLAMMOT [20 MB] 3D model: Royal Palm Boulevard, NTU  [17 MB] 3D model: the BL building, NTU [28 MB] Robotic Security [21 MB] Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance (Day) [14 MB] Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance (Night) [10 MB] Check out our robot, PAL1.      August 2006 in front of the CSIE building Check out the 3D models of the CSIE building and the BL building The front gate of the CSIE building The front gate of the BL building