Seminar
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Using Lidar and Monoscopic Camera for Bridge Reconstruction
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Sebastian Dingler is a visiting master's student form the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He is currently working with the Aerial Robotic Infrastructure Analyst (ARIA) and is advised by Sebastian Scherer. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Computer Engineering from the University of Applied Science Esslingen, Germany in [...]
The joint image variety
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Matthew Trager is a second year PhD student at Inria/ENS Paris. In 2014 he received a master's in applied mathematics (Degree in Mathematics, Machine Learning and Computer Vision "MVA") from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Previously, he received a master's in pure mathematics from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. His research [...]
My Adventured with Bayes: In search of optimal solutions in machine learning, computer vision and beyond
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Aleix M. Martinez is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU), where he is the founder and director of the Computational Biology and Cognitive Science Lab. He is also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and to the Center for Cognitive [...]
Versatility in Robotic Manipulation: the Long Road to Everywhere
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Matei Ciocarlie is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and affiliate assistant professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. His main interest is in reliable robotic manipulation in unstructured, human environments, focusing on areas such as novel hand designs and control, autonomous and Human-in-the-Loop mobile manipulation, shared autonomy, teleoperation, and assistive [...]
OpenDR: An Approximate Differentiable Renderer
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Matthew Loper is a research engineer at Industrial Light and Magic, and a PhD candidate at the University of Tuebingen. He received his ScM from Brown University in 2008. His current research interests include differentiable rendering and statistical body shape modeling.Abstract: Inverse graphics attempts to take sensor data and infer 3D [...]
Context-sensitive Dynamic Ordinal Regression for Human Facial Behaviour Analysis
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ognjen Rudovic received a PhD from Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK, in 2014, an MSc degree in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence from Computer Vision Centre (CVC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2008, and BSc in Automatic Control Theory from Electrical Engineering Dept., University Of Belgrade, Serbia, in 2007. He is [...]