Patricio Vela

Full Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Joined

July 2019

Names

Patricio Vela

Patricio A. Vela

Emails

****@ece.gatech.edu (Confirmed)

****@gatech.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

2023 – Present

Associate Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

2011 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Allen Tannenbaum

2003 – 2005

PhD Advisor

Joel Burdick

1999 – 2003

Expertise

Control

Present

Robotics

Present

manipulation

2017 – Present

navigation

2016 – Present

SLAM

2015 – Present

Publications

$\textit{RwR}$: A Reason-while-Retrieve framework for Reasoning on Scene Graphs with LLMs
Yiye Chen, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Nicholas Alexander Gyde, Yanan Jian, Jack Saunders, Patricio Vela, Benjamin E Lundell
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Steppability-informed Quadrupedal Contact Planning through Deep Visual Search Heuristics
Max T Asselmeier, Patricio Vela, Ye Zhao
- ICRA 2024 Off-road Autonomy Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Planning with Sequence Models through Iterative Energy Minimization
Hongyi Chen, Yilun Du, Yiye Chen, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Patricio A. Vela
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- ICLR 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Good Line Cutting: Towards Accurate Pose Tracking of Line-Assisted VO/VSLAM
Yipu Zhao, Patricio A. Vela
- 2018 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- ECCV (2) 2018
- Readers: Everyone
A Stochastic Approach to Diffeomorphic Point Set Registration with Landmark Constraints.
Ivan Kolesov, Jehoon Lee, Gregory Sharp, Patricio A. Vela, Allen R. Tannenbaum
- 2016 (modified: 10 Nov 2022)
- IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.2016
- Readers: Everyone
Good features to track for visual SLAM
Guangcong Zhang, Patricio A. Vela
- 2015 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- CVPR 2015
- Readers: Everyone
Non-rigid object localization and segmentation using eigenspace representation
Omar Arif, Patricio A. Vela
- 2009 (modified: 10 Nov 2022)
- ICCV 2009
- Readers: Everyone
Kernel map compression using generalized radial basis functions
Omar Arif, Patricio A. Vela
- 2009 (modified: 10 Nov 2022)
- ICCV 2009
- Readers: Everyone
Geometric Observers for Dynamically Evolving Curves.
Marc Niethammer, Patricio A. Vela, Allen R. Tannenbaum
- 2008 (modified: 10 Nov 2022)
- IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.2008
- Readers: Everyone
On the Evolution of Vector Distance Functions of Closed Curves.
Marc Niethammer, Patricio A. Vela, Allen R. Tannenbaum
- 2005 (modified: 09 Nov 2022)
- International Journal of Computer Vision2005
- Readers: Everyone

Patricio Vela

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