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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Rich Caruana
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research

Do Deep Nets Really Need To Be Deep?

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Rich Caruana is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. Before joining Microsoft, Rich was on the faculty at the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, at UCLA’s Medical School, and at CMU’s Center for Learning and Discovery (CALD). Rich’s Ph.D. is from Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked with Tom Mitchell [...]

VASC Seminar
Hayley Hung
Assistant Professor
Delft University of Technology

Towards context-ready tagging: Solutions and open challenges of implicit tagging in the real world

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hayley Hung is an Assistant Professor and Delft Technology Fellow in the Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics group at TU Delft, The Netherlands, since 2013. Between 2010-2013, she held a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at the Intelligent Systems Lab at the University of Amsterdam. Between 2007-2010, she was a post-doctoral researcher at [...]

VASC Seminar
Xiaoming Liu
Assistant Professor
Michigan State University

Unconstrained 3D Face Reconstruction

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Xiaoming Liu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Michigan State University. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. Before joining MSU in Fall 2012, he was a research scientist at General Electric (GE) Global Research. [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Hiroaki Inotsume
Carnegie Mellon University

Analysis of Angle of Attack for Efficient Slope Ascent by Rovers

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Hiroaki Inotsume is a Masters student in the Robotics Institute advised by David Wettergreen. His research focuses on vehicle-terrain interaction analysis for design, planning, and control of planetary rovers. He holds a B.E. and a M.E. degrees in Aerospace Engineering.Abstract: What direction should a rover drive to efficiently ascend slope of [...]

RI Seminar
Parag Batavia
President
Neya Systems

Neya Systems: How to Bootstrap a Robotics Company in 5 (not-so) Easy Years

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Dr. Parag Batavia is the founder of Neya Systems, LLC, in Wexford PA. He is a 1999 graduate of the CMU Robotics Institute Ph.D. program, and a 2009 graduate of Drexel’s MBA program. At Neya, he is responsible for all areas of company growth, and has taken the company from 1 [...]

VASC Seminar
Chris Sweeney
PhD Candidate
University of California Santa Barbara

Removing Common Assumptions from Large Scale Structure-from-Motion

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Chris Sweeney is currently a PhD candidate in the 4 Eyes Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include multi-view geometry, structure from motion, and augmented reality. His main research interest is in using unorganized photo collections from the internet to create a complete and up-to-date 3D [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Andy Dorsett
Wolfram

Mathematica and WolframAlpha in Education and Research

Event Location: GHC 2109Abstract: During this free seminar, we will explore using Mathematica and WolframAlpha for a wide variety of practical and theoretical applications across a variety of disciplines. Attendees will not only see new features in Mathematica 10 and WolframAlpha, but will also receive examples of this functionality to begin using immediately. No experience [...]

RI Seminar
Gregory S. Chirikjian
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University

Stochastic Models in Robotics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Gregory S. Chirikjian received undergraduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1992. Since 1992, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, where he has been a full professor since 2001. [...]