Seminar
Active Learning of Embedded Region-based Trajectories
Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 3002Abstract: The use of robots in industry, domestic applications, and even space exploration is no longer the realm of science fiction. As robots become commonplace tools in diverse applications, though, human operators must be able to instruct the robots in how they are to complete the tasks assigned to them. [...]
Towards Robots that Move and Interact Like Humans
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Katsu Yamane joined Disney Research, Pittsburgh as a Senior Research Scientist in October 2008. His research interests are in humanoid robot control, human motion analysis and simulation, and character animation synthesis. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Tokyo in 1997, 1999 and 2002 respectively. Before moving [...]
Perception on an Offroad Robot: Shallow and Deep Learning Architectures
Event Location: 1507 NSHBio: I am a second year Robograd (PhD student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University). My research focus is to make pretty pictures (Computer Graphics) and to make sense out of ugly pictures (Computer Vision). More technically, I am interested in understanding how light interacts with media like smoke,dust, fog, ocean [...]
Self-Reflection and Self-Fabrication in robotic systems
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Hod Lipson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He directs the Computational Synthesis group, which focuses on novel ways for automatic design, fabrication and adaptation of virtual and physical machines. He has led work in areas such [...]
University of British Columbia
Extracting and identifying communicative events from multimodal behavior
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy and physics from St. John's College, Maryland, in 1974, a certificate in ethnographic film making in 1976, and an M.A. in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1978. From 1982-1987 he was an NIH pre-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories (Connecticut) investigating "the organization and [...]