VASC Seminar
Fereshteh Sadeghi
PhD Candidate
Computer Science, University of Washington

Acquiring and Transferring Generalizable Vision-based Robot Skills

GHC 6501

Abstract:  In recent years, there have been great advances in policy learning for goal-oriented agents. However, there are still major challenges brought by real-world constraints for teaching highly generalizable and versatile robot policies in a cost efficient and safe manner. In this talk, I will argue that instead of aiming to teach large motion repertoires [...]

VASC Seminar
Yong Jae Lee
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department, University of California, Davis

Learning to localize and anonymize objects with indirect supervision

GHC 6501

Abstract: Computer vision has made great strides for problems that can be learned with direct supervision, in which the goal can be precisely defined (e.g., drawing a box that tightly-fits an object). However, direct supervision is often not only costly, but also challenging to obtain when the goal is more ambiguous. In this talk, I [...]

RI Seminar
Bertram F. Malle
Professor
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences and Humanity-Centered Robotics Initiative , Brown University

What People See in a Robot: A New Look at Human-Like Appearance

Newell-Simon Hall 3305

Abstract: A long-standing question in HRI is what effects a robot’s human-like appearance has on various psychological responses.  A substantial literature has demonstrated such effects on liking, trust, ascribed intelligence, and so on.  Much of this work has relied on a construct of uni-dimensional low to high human-likeness. I introduce evidence for an alternative view according to which [...]

RI Seminar
Claire J. Tomlin
Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Safe Learning in Robotics

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Abstract: A great deal of research in recent years has focused on robot learning.  In many applications, guarantees that specifications are satisfied throughout the learning process are paramount. For the safety specification, we present a controller synthesis technique based on the computation of reachable sets, using optimal control and game theory.  In the first part [...]

RI Seminar
Hanumant Singh
Professor
Mechanical & industrial Engineering, Northeastern University

Bipolar Robotics – From the Arctic to the Antarctic with a stop for Fisheries in the middle latitudes.

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Abstract: The Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland remain some of the least explored parts of the planet. This talk looks at efforts over the last decade to explore areas under-ice which have traditionally been difficult to access. The focus of the talk will be on the robots, the role of communications over low bandwidth acoustic links, [...]

VASC Seminar
Philipp Krähenbühl
Professor
Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Austin

Video Compression for Recognition & Video Recognition for Compression

GHC 6501

Abstract: Training robust deep video representations has proven to be much more challenging than learning deep image representations. One reason is: videos are huge and highly redundant. The 'true' and interesting signal often drowns in too much irrelevant data. In the first part of the talk, I will show how to train a deep network [...]

RI Seminar
Associate Professor
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Learning Robot Manipulation Skills through Experience and Generalization

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Abstract: In the future, robots could be used to take care of the elderly, perform household chores, and assist in hazardous situations. However, such applications require robots to manipulate objects in unstructured and everyday environments. Hence, in order to perform a wide range of tasks, robots will need to learn manipulation skills that generalize between [...]