VASC Seminar
Robert Pless
Professor
Washington University

Brighter, Faster, Cheaper: Finding or Creating Light Fields for Visual Computing

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Robert Pless is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, where he founded and directs the Media and Machines Lab. His research focus are big-data and geometric approaches to Visual Computing, with applications to social justice and environmental measurement. Dr. Pless has a Bachelors Degree [...]

RI Seminar
Thomas Howard
Assistant Professor
University of Rochester

Learning Models for Robot Decision Making

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Thomas Howard is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science. He is also a member of the Institute for Data Science and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Previously he held appointments as a research scientist and [...]

VASC Seminar
Genevieve Patterson
Computer Vision PhD Student
Brown University

Collective Insight: Crowd-driven Image Understanding

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Genevieve is a PhD Candidate in Computer Vision at Brown University. Her work on crowd-driven visual classification was recently awarded runner-up for Best Paper at the AAAI Conference on Human Computation (HCOMP). She built and maintains the SUN Attribute dataset, a widely used resource for scene understanding. Genevieve received her master's [...]

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M. Ani Hsieh
Associate Professor
Drexel University

Exploiting the Environment to Improve Autonomy: Robots in Geophysical Flows

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: M. Ani Hsieh is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Department at Drexel University. She received a B.S. in Engineering and B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College in 1999 and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. Her current work focuses on developing [...]

VASC Seminar
David Fouhey
Ph.D. Student at the Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Towards A Physical and Human-Centric Understanding of Images

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: David Fouhey is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, where he is advised by Abhinav Gupta and Martial Hebert. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning with a particular focus on scene understanding. David's work has been supported by both NSF and [...]

RI Seminar
Neville Hogan
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Paradox of Human Performance

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Neville Hogan is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Director of the Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a co-founder of Interactive Motion Technologies, Inc., and a board member of Advanced Mechanical Technologies, Inc. Born in Dublin, [...]

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Gita Reese Sukthankar
Associate Professor
University of Central Florida

Data-driven Social Informatics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Gita Sukthankar is an Associate Professor and Charles N. Millican Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, and an affiliate faculty member at UCF’s Institute for Simulation and Training. She received her Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon and an A.B. [...]