Vaishak Belle

Ph. D. (Aachen, 2012), M. Sc. (Aachen, 2008), M. Sc. (Trento, 2008)

My current research interests are in the areas of knowledge representation and cognitive robotics.

Update: I have moved. I am now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. My new homepage is here.


Theses

On the Projection Problem in Active Knowledge Bases with Incomplete Information. Ph. D. thesis, 2012.

Detection and Recognition of Human Faces using Random Forests for a Mobile Robot. M. Sc. thesis, 2008.

Papers

Multi-Agent Only-Knowing; with Gerhard Lakemeyer. In Knowing, Reasoning, and Acting: Essays in Honour of Hector J. Levesque, 2011. College Publications.

A Semantical Account of Progression in the Presence of Uncertainty; with Gerhard Lakemeyer. In Proc. of AAAI, 2011.

On Progression and Query Evaluation in First-Order Knowledge Bases with Function Symbols; with Gerhard Lakemeyer. In Proc. of IJCAI, 2011.

Reasoning about Imperfect Information Games in the Epistemic Situation Calculus; with Gerhard Lakemeyer. In Proc. of AAAI, 2010.

Multi-Agent Only-Knowing Revisited; with Gerhard Lakemeyer. In Proc. of KR, 2010.

Randomized Trees for Real-Time One-Step Face Detection and Recognition; with Thomas Deselaers and Stefan Schiffer. In Proc. of ICPR, 2008.