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CANCELED Optimizing Algorithms at the Level of Geometry
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Keenan Crane is a new Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department at CMU. He recently finished an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University. He received a B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006, and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology [...]
Design in context: bringing the physical world into CAD tools
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ryan Schmidt is a Research Scientist and head of the Design & Fabrication Group at Autodesk Research in Toronto, Canada. He is the creator of several novel 3D design tools, including Meshmixer, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011. At Autodesk he has evolved Meshmixer into one of the standard tools [...]
Recovery of Function in Major Spinal Cord Injury Using Epidural Stimulation
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Joel Burdick received his undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering and chemistry from Duke University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He has been with the department of Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology since May 1988, where he has been the recipient of the [...]
CANCELEDThe Depth of Our Understanding: Vision, Language, and Humor
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: C. Lawrence Zitnick is a principal researcher in the Interactive Visual Media group at Microsoft Research, and is an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington. He is interested in a broad range of topics related to visual object recognition. His current interests include object detection, semantically interpreting visual scenes, [...]
Rich Representations for Parsing Visual Scenes
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Greg is an Assistant Professor at TTI-Chicago, a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute located on the University of Chicago campus, where he works on computer vision and machine learning. He also holds a part-time faculty appointment at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. Prior to coming to TTI-Chicago, [...]
Computational Design, Fabrication and Control for Personalized Robotic Devices
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining CMU, I was a Research Scientist working for Disney Research Zurich. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia. My doctoral dissertation, which won the Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Annual [...]
Semantic Component Analysis
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: We propose a novel formulation for component analysis that allows for rich instance-level constraints that encourage semantic interpretability of the learned components. Even with simple features and intuitive spatial consistency priors, our method produces accurate, semantically-meaningful image segmentations both with and without supervision.
Webly supervised learning of convolutional networks
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: I am a PhD student at Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, from fall 2012. I am working with Prof. Abhinav Gupta on joint learning with language and vision and life-long learning. I am also working with Prof. Tom Mitchell in CMU. Recently, I just finished my internship in MSR with [...]