Field Robotics Center Seminar

“Ensuring Safe Human-Robot Co-Existence by Reachability Analysis”

NSH 1507

Matthias Althoff Technische Universität München Abstract Modern manufacturing companies are expected to quickly and efficiently adapt to production changes, and robotics has long been known as the candidate solution for the required flexibility. To improve such flexibility, future working environments will be populated by both humans and robot manipulators, sharing the same workspace. This scenario [...]

VASC Seminar

Towards scaling video understanding

Newell Simon Hall 1507

Serena Yeung Ph.D. Student, Stanford University Abstract The quantity of video data is vast, yet our capabilities for visual recognition and understanding in videos lags significantly behind that for images. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges of scale in labeling, modeling, and inference behind this gap. I will then present three works addressing [...]

Seminar

Chris Urmson: Perspectives on Self-Driving Cars – Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture in Robotics

Rashid Auditorium - 4401 Gates and Hillman Centers

SPEAKER: Chris Urmson, CEO & co-founder Aurora Title: Perspectives on Self-Driving Cars Abstract: Self-driving vehicles will save millions of lives, make cities more liveable, save resources, and transform transportation to be more accessible and enjoyable for everyone. Despite a decade of rapid advancement in the state-of-the-art, perception of the technology still lands somewhere between solved [...]

VASC Seminar
Haroon Idrees haroon@cs.ucf.edu
Post Doc Associate
Center for Research in Computer Vision, University of Central Florida (UCF)

Visual Analysis of Dense Crowds

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Haroon Idrees is a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is interested in machine vision and learning, with focus on crowd analysis, action recognition, multi-camera and airborne surveillance, as well as deep learning and multimedia content [...]

VASC Seminar

Haroon Idrees: Visual Analysis of Dense Crowds

Newell Simon Hall 1507

Haroon Idrees Post Doc Associate, Center for Research in Computer Vision, University of Central Florida (UCF) Abstract Automated analysis of dense crowds is a challenging problem with far-reaching applications in crowd safety and management, as well as gauging political significance of protests and demonstrations. In this talk, I will first describe a counting approach which [...]

VASC Seminar
Prof. Jia Deng
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan

Toward Deep Geometric Image Understanding

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Jia Deng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research focus is on computer vision and machine learning, in particular, achieving human-level visual understanding by integrating perception, cognition, and learning. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and his B.Eng. from [...]

RI Seminar
Selma Šabanović
Associate Professor of Informatics & Cognitive Science
Indiana University

Robots for the social good: Identifying and addressing organizational and societal factors in the design and use of robots

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am an Associate Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where I founded and direct the R-House Human-Robot Interaction Lab. My work combines the social studies of computing, focusing particularly on the design, use, and consequences of socially interactive and assistive robots in different social and cultural [...]

RI Seminar

Selma Sabanovic: Robots for the social good: Identifying and addressing organizational and societal factors in the design and use of robots

NSH 1305

Selma Sabanovic Associate Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington Additional Information Host: Aaron Steinfeld Appointments: Stephanie Matvey Abstract Robots are expected to become ubiquitous in the near future, working alongside and with people in everyday environments to provide various societal benefits. In contrast to this broad ranging social vision for robotics applications, [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
David Butterworth

A Fast & Efficient Mission Planner for Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicles in Large, High-resolution Maps of Cluttered Environments

NSH 1507

Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles have many potential applications, such as monitoring crops and inspecting infrastructure. The potential benefits are greater if the UAV is semi- or fully-autonomous, requiring only occasional human oversight or none at all. This would allow the above use cases to be performed at lower cost, during any time of day, or [...]