Publications

A list of my publications, including peer-reviewed conference papers, journal articles, and preprints.

2026

  1. Lightning: Adaptive Illumination Control for Robot Perception
    Yash Turkar, Shekoufeh Sadeghi, and Karthik Dantu
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15900, 2026
    (Under Submission/Review)
    arXiv Website
  2. QAL: A Loss for Recall–Precision Balance in 3D Reconstruction
    Pranay Meshram, Yash Turkar, Kartikeya Singh, Praveen Raj Masilamani, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, and Karthik Dantu
    In IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026
    To appear. Preprint at arXiv:2511.17824
    arXiv Website
  3. Learning Visual Information Utility with PIXER
    Yash Turkar, Timothy Chase Jr, Christo Aluckal, and Karthik Dantu
    In 23rd Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV), 2026
    Accepted. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13151
    arXiv Website
  4. Empir3D: A Framework for Multi-Dimensional Point Cloud Assessment
    Yash Turkar, Pranay Meshram, Christo Aluckal, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, and Karthik Dantu
    In 23rd Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV), 2026
    Accepted. arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.03660
    arXiv Website

2025

  1. Active Illumination Control in Low-Light Environments
    Yash Turkar, Youngjin Kim, and Karthik Dantu
    In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) 2025, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2025
    Preprint arXiv:2506.06394
    arXiv Website
  2. Language-in-the-Loop Culvert Inspection on the Erie Canal
    Yashom Dighe, Yash Turkar, and Karthik Dantu
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.21370, 2025
    (Under Submission/Review)
    arXiv
  3. Autonomous Culvert Inspection on the Erie Canal using Legged Robots
    Kartikeya Singh, Yash Turkar, Youngjin Kim, Matthew Lengel, and Karthik Dantu
    In Workshop on Field Robotics, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025, 2025
    Selected for Spotlight Talk
    Website
  4. TERA: A Simulation Environment for Terrain Excavation Robot Autonomy
    Christo Aluckal, Roopesh Vinodh Kumar Lal, Sean Courtney, Yash Turkar, Yashom Dighe, Youngjin Kim, and 2 more authors
    In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), 2025
    arXiv Website
  5. Excavation Autonomy with Resilient Traversability and Handling
    Yash Turkar, Christo Aluckal, Sugheerth Sreedharan, Yashom Dighe, Youngjin Kim, Jake Gemerek, and 1 more author
    In Workshop on Field Robotics, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025, 2025
    Website

2024

  1. VRF: Vehicle Road-Side Point Cloud Fusion
    Kaleem Nawaz Khan, Ali Khalid, Yash Turkar, Karthik Dantu, and Fawad Ahmad
    In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), 2024
    PDF
  2. Enhancing Archaeological Surveys with In-SAR Imagery and UAV-Based GPR
    Yash Turkar, Shaunak De, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, Luca Mottola, Alessandro Sebastiani, Davide Castelletti, and 1 more author
    In IGARSS 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2024
  3. A View-Planning Approach to 3D Reconstruction
    Yash Turkar, Christo Aluckal, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, Alessandro Sebastiani, and Karthik Dantu
    In International Conference on Extended Reality, 2024

2023

  1. Kinematics-only Differential Flatness Based Trajectory Tracking for Autonomous Racing
    Yashom Dighe, Youngjin Kim, Smit Rajguru, Yash Turkar, Tarunraj Singh, and Karthik Dantu
    In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023

2022

  1. Generative-Network Based Multimedia Super-Resolution for UAV Remote Sensing
    Yash Turkar, Christo Aluckal, Shaunak De, Varsha Turkar, and Yogesh Agarwadkar
    In IGARSS 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2022
    PDF

2019

  1. Dynamic Real-Time Indoor Environment Mapping for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
    Christo Aluckal, BK Mohan, Yash Turkar, Yogesh Agarwadkar, Yashom Dighe, Sunil Surve, and 2 more authors
    In 2019 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication And Control (ICAC3), 2019
  2. Curvelet Based Watermarking of Multispectral Images and Its Effect on Classification Accuracy
    Harshula Tulapurkar, Varsha Turkar, B Krishna Mohan, and Yash Turkar
    In 2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC), 2019