Field Robotics Center Seminar
Erik Nelson
Carnegie Mellon University

Environment Model Compression for Autonomous Exploration

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Erik Nelson is an M.S. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Dr. Nathan Michael. He received a B.S. in materials engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 2013. His research interests lie at the intersection of robotic mapping, perception, and exploration.Abstract: This talk will focus [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Joerg Dittrich
Research Scientist
DLR Braunschweig, Germany

Flight Testing of an Unmanned Aircraft System – A Research Perspective

Event Location: GCH 2109Bio: Joerg Dittrich is a research scientist and a department head at DLR Braunschweig. DLR is the primary German government funded research organization in the field of aerospace engineering as well as the German space agency, employing around 7000 people across multiple sites in Germany. During his first years at DLR he [...]

VASC Seminar
Jakob Engel
PhD Student
Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Direct SLAM and 3D Reconstruction in real-time

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jakob Engel received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science in 2009 and his Master degree in December 2011 at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). He received the SIEMENS Award for the best Master's Thesis 2012 for his work on Autonomous Camera-Based Navigation of a Quadrocopter. Since September 2012 he is [...]

VASC Seminar
Cordelia Schmid
INRIA Research Director
INRIA

Weakly supervised learning from images and videos

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Cordelia Schmid holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe and a Doctorate, also in Computer Science, from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG). Her doctoral thesis on "Local Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval" received the best thesis award from INPG in 1996. She [...]

VASC Seminar
Jean Ponce
Professor
Departement Informatique, Ecole Normale Superieure

Weakly Supervised Video Understanding

Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: This talk addresses the problem of understanding the visual content of videos using a weak form of supervision such as the textual information available in television or film scripts. I will discuss two instances of this problem, the joint localization and identification of movie characters and their actions, and the assignment [...]

VASC Seminar
Sofien Bouaziz
PhD Student
Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Digital Humans

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Sofien Bouaziz is a PhD student in the Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He received an MSc degree in Computer Science from EPFL in 2009 and completed his master thesis at the Imaging Group of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, where he developed computer vision [...]

VASC Seminar
Yael Moses
Associate Professor
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel

Photo Sequencing v.s. Feature Matching in CrowdCam Images

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Prof. Yael Moses, from the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya Israel, received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Weizmann Institute, Israel. Her early work concentrated on theoretical aspects of object recognition. Recently, she has been focusing on various aspects of multi-camera systems and [...]

VASC Seminar
Yang Wu
Assistant Professor
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

Collaborative Representation for Person Re-identification

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Yang Wu received a BS degree and a Ph.D degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2004 and 2010, respectively. From Sep. 2007 to Dec. 2008, he was a visiting student in the GRASP lab at University of Pennsylvania. From 2011 to 2014, he was a program specific researcher at the Academic [...]