Field Robotics Center Seminar
Chris Cunningham
PhD Student
Robotics Institute

Fusion of Visual and Thermal Sensing for Traversability Prediction

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Chris Cunningham is a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute advised by Red Whitaker. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 2012. His current research focuses on terrain classification and slip prediction for planetary robots.Abstract: Loose, granular soil can trap planetary rovers causing costly [...]

VASC Seminar
Min Sun
Postdoc, Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

Large-scale image classification and video highlight retrieval

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Min Sun is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Washington (UW) working with Steve Seitz and Ali Farhadi. Before joining UW, he graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a Ph.D. degree and Stanford University with a M.Sc. degree. His [...]

RI Seminar
Sebastian Scherer
Systems Scientist, RI
Carnegie Mellon

Toward Autonomous Rotorcraft

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sebastian Scherer is a Systems Scientist at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His research focuses on enabling autonomy for unmanned rotorcraft to operate at low altitude in cluttered environments. He and His team have shown the fastest and most tested obstacle avoidance on an Yamaha RMax (2006), [...]

RI Seminar
Christoph Bregler
Professor of Computer Science
NYU

Computer Vision for Movie Making and Infographics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Chris Bregler is a Professor of Computer Science at NYU and is also working with Lucasfilm's Advanced Development Group and with Industrial Light & Magic on new vision based tracking systems. Prior to NYU he was on the faculty at Stanford University and worked for several companies including Hewlett Packard, Interval, [...]

RI Seminar
Michael Abrash
Chief Scientist
Oculus VR

Why Virtual Reality Isn’t the Next Big Platform

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Over the last 30 years, Michael has worked at companies that made graphics hardware, computer-based instrumentation, and rendering software, been the GDI lead for the first couple of versions of Windows NT, worked with John Carmack on Quake, worked on Xbox and Xbox 360, written or co-written at least four software [...]

RI Seminar
Dov Katz
Senior Vision Engineer
Oculus VR

Why Virtual Reality Isn’t the Next Big Platform

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Dov Katz is leading Oculus VR's computer vision R&D. He is passionate about human and computer perception. His research interest include computer vision, machine learning, and autonomous manipulation. At Oculus, he developed a high precision - low latency optical position tracking system. He is currently engaged in several projects that will [...]

VASC Seminar
Yair Movshovitz-Attias
PhD Student, Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon

CANCELED – Understanding Cars: Leveraging Real World Knowledge in Computer Vision

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Yair Movshovitz-Attias is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department, advised by Prof. Yaser Sheikh and Prof. Takeo Kanade. His research interests include object detection, image classification and fine-grained recognition. Yair has an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Hiroaki Inotsume
Graduate Student
Robotics Institute

Study on Wheel Grouser Designs for Improving Traverse Performance of Planetary Rovers

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Hiroaki Inotsume is a M.S. student in the Robotics Institute, advised by Prof. David Wettergreen. His work focuses on analysis of vehicle-terrain interactions for design, motion planning, and control of planetary rovers. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Tohoku University in Japan.Abstract: Because of great successes [...]

VASC Seminar
Hamdi Dibeklioğlu
Postdoctral Researcher
Delft University of Technology

Improving Face Analysis Using Expression Dynamics

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hamdi Dibeklioglu received the B.Sc. degree from Yeditepe University, Istanbul in 2006 and the M.Sc. degree from Bogaziçi University,Istanbul in 2008. In 2013, he completed his PhD research in the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Pattern Recognition & Bioinformatics Group at [...]

VASC Seminar
Hanbyul Joo
PhD Student RI
Carnegie Mellon, RI

MAP Visibility Estimation for Large-Scale Dynamic 3D Reconstruction

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hanbyul Joo is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Prof. Yaser Sheikh. Before joining CMU, he worked as a researcher at ETRI, Korea, and received M.S. and B.S. from KAIST, Korea. He focuses on developing large-scale dynamic reconstruction using about 500 synchronized cameras. He is [...]