Faculty Candidate
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Social Signal Processing: A Computational Approach to Sensing, Reconstructing and Understanding Social Interaction

Newell-Simon Hall 3305

Abstract: Humans convey their thoughts, emotions, and intentions through a concert of social displays: voice, facial expressions, hand gestures, and body posture. Despite advances in machine perception technology, machines are unable to discern the subtle and momentary nuances that carry so much of the information and context of human communication. The encoding of conveyed information [...]

Special Talk
Jia Deng
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Speaker: Jia Deng

GHC 4405

Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, vision, knowledge, reasoning Host: Abhinav Gupta Admin Contact: Chris Downey cdowney@andrew.cmu.edu

Faculty Candidate
Petter Nilsson
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Aaron Ames group, CalTech

Faculty Candidate: Petter Nilsson

GHC 6115

Areas of Interest: Improving design practices and advancing the capabilities of autonomous systems Host: Stephen Smith Admin Contact: Keyla Cook keylac@andrew.cmu.edu

Faculty Events

2018 Robotics Institute Faculty Retreat

Bedford Springs Resort 2138 US-220 BUS, Bedford, PA, United States

Private Event: By Invitation Only   The 2018 two-day RI faculty retreat will be held at the Omni Bedford Springs Resort, Monday-Tuesday, June 11-12. More information to follow as we get closer to the date. Thank you!

Faculty Events

RI Faculty Social

Tazza D'Oro, 3rd floor, Gates and Hillman Centers

All Robotics Institute faculty are invited to attend this informal team-building business/social event. Beverages and snacks will be provided.

Faculty Candidate
Assistant Research Professor
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Multimodal Computational Behavior Understanding

Emotions influence our lives. Observational methods of measuring affective behavior have yielded critical insights, but a persistent barrier to their wide application is that they are labor-intensive to learn and to use. An automated system that can quantify and synthesize human affective behavior in real-world environments would be a transformational tool for research and for [...]

Special Talk
Dr. Yan Ke
founder and CTO of
Colbotics

Fully Autonomous Drones for Wind Power Turbine Inspection

3305 Newell-Simon Hall

Abstract: The wind energy industry is growing rapidly. In the U.S. alone, the wind industry invested more than $11 billion in new plants in 2017 and added more than 7,000 megawatts of new capacity, representing 25% of all electric capacity added. One of the biggest challenges to growth remains the high costs of constructing wind [...]

Faculty Candidate
Systems Scientist
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Faster, Safer, Smaller: The future of autonomy needs all three

Gates-Hillman Center 8102

Abstract In this talk I will start with state estimation as my PhD work. Very often, state estimation plays a crucial role in a robotic system serving as a building block for autonomy. Challenges are to carry out state estimation in 6-DOF, in real-time at high frequencies, with high precision, robust to aggressive motion and [...]