Faculty Events
Carnegie Mellon University
Social Signal Processing: A Computational Approach to Sensing, Reconstructing and Understanding Social Interaction
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 [...]
Speaker: Jia Deng
Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, vision, knowledge, reasoning Host: Abhinav Gupta Admin Contact: Chris Downey cdowney@andrew.cmu.edu
Faculty Candidate: Petter Nilsson
Areas of Interest: Improving design practices and advancing the capabilities of autonomous systems Host: Stephen Smith Admin Contact: Keyla Cook keylac@andrew.cmu.edu
2018 Robotics Institute Faculty Retreat
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!
RI Faculty Social
All Robotics Institute faculty are invited to attend this informal team-building business/social event. Beverages and snacks will be provided.
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 [...]
Fully Autonomous Drones for Wind Power Turbine Inspection
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 [...]
RI Faculty Social All Robotics Institute faculty are invited to attend this informal team-building business/social event
All Robotics Institute faculty are invited to attend this informal team-building business/social event. Our November Robotics Institute Faculty Social will be hosted by Martial Hebert in NSH 4305, from 3:00 to 4:00pm.
Faster, Safer, Smaller: The future of autonomy needs all three
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 [...]