Drew Scheffer

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Research

I'm broadly interested in robotics, computer vision, deep learning, and image processing. At the moment, I'm particularly interested in active perception in embodied AI.

I'm currently working as a researcher in the Intelligent Robotics and Autonomy Lab (IRAL) under Prof. Vasileios Tzoumas. Right now, we're developing and testing stable controllers for a drone with additional degrees of freedom for each propellor.

I'm also a summer research assistant in the FROG Lab at UofM under professor Katie Skinner. I'm developing an underwater shipwreck detection pipeline using side-scan sonar imagery and other bathymetric data.

Our team presents various diffusion-based underwater image restoration methods that are used to dehaze and color-correct underwater images such that they are conducive to above-water SLAM and scene reconstruction pipelines.

Our group extends upon previous work by adapting an existing Unseen Object Instance Segmentation (UOIS) model so that it can perform segmentation on RGB-only images.

This work presents a simplified optical musical recognition system. Our system takes images of sheet music as input and outputs both an image of the annotated sheet music and a MIDI file for easy parsing

A Selection of Cool Projects

Software lead for an on-campus drone project team. Responsible for designing and implementing a completely autonomous software stack for a quadrotor using ROS integrated with the PX4 flight controller. Managed the development and integration of path planning, localization, and computer vision algorithms.

An IOS app with the ability to localize a user in a room, and create a custom AR map to the nearest exit of the building. MHacks hackathon winner.

C++ SDL chess engine! A work in progress. Uses bitmaps structure to store the game board and an alpha-beta pruning search algorithm.

Game Development

Collaborative 7-week game design project where you and a friend are underwater explorers on a mission to find the treasure, navigate through treacherous currents, encounter dangerous creatures, and use your teamwork skills to keep your submarine safe and strike gold!

A video game prototype by where you play as a pixelated puffin who’s hungry for FISH. However, like in life, you’re not in complete control…

Video game design project that implements the Legend of Zelda's first dungeon in addition to a custom level!

Based on this template.