VASC Seminar
Dhruv Batra
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech

Hedging Against Uncertainty via Multiple Diverse Predictions

Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Dhruv Batra is an Assistant Professor at the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he leads the VT Machine Learning & Perception group. He is a member of the Virginia Center for Autonomous Systems (VaCAS) and the VT Discovery Analytic Center (DAC). Prior to joining VT, [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Gideon Avigad
Program Leader
Vineland Research and Innovation Centre

Set-Based Design and Evolution

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Dr. Gideon Avigad has recently joined Vineland Research and Innovation Centre as Program Leader - Robotics & Automation. He has been a tenure at the Mechanical Engineering Department, Braude College of Engineering, Israel where he taught control and mechatronics related courses and led many robotics R&D projects. In the last two [...]

RI Seminar
Peter Robinson
Professor of Computer Technology
University of Cambridge

Computing with emotions

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Peter Robinson is Professor of Computer Technology in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, where he leads the Rainbow Research Group working on computer graphics and interaction. His research concerns problems at the boundary between people and computers. This involves investigating new technologies to enhance communication between computers and [...]

VASC Seminar
Mohit Gupta
Research Scientist
Columbia University

Towards Next Generation 3D Cameras

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Mohit Gupta will start as an assistant professor in the CS department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in January ’16. He is currently a research scientist in the CAVE lab at Columbia University. He received a B.Tech. in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2003, an M.S. from [...]

VASC Seminar
Simon Korman
PhD Student
Tel-Aviv University

Inverting RANSAC: Global Model Detection via Inlier Rate Estimation

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Simon Korman is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv university, where he is advised by Professor Shai Avidan. Simon holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an M.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of [...]

RI Seminar
Gabe Sibley
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado

Mobile Robot Perception for Long-term Autonomy

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Gabe Sibley is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Before joining CU, Gabe was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at George Washington University and Director of the Autonomous Robotics & Perception Lab. Previously, Gabe was a Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford, and [...]

VASC Seminar
Phillip Isola
PhD Student
MIT

From learning visual relationships to perceptual and cognitive organization

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Phillip Isola is a PhD student in Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT, under the supervision of Ted Adelson. He studies a mix of human and computer vision.Abstract: No pixel is an island. It is connected to the rest of the visual visual by a web of similarities, associations, and other [...]

VASC Seminar
Ajay Divakaran
Program Director
SRI International

Comprehensive Human State Modeling and Its Applications

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ajay Divakaran, Ph.D., is a Program Director and leads the Vision and Multi-Sensor group in SRI International’s Vision and Learning Laboratory. Divakaran is currently the principal investigator for a number of SRI research projects. His work includes multimodal modeling and analysis of affective, cognitive, and physiological aspects of human behavior, interactive [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Sankalp Arora
Carnegie Mellon University

Enabling High Speed Autonomous Flights

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Sankalp Arora is a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute advised by Sebastian Scherer. He received his B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Delhi in India in 2010. His current research focuses on exploration senor and path planning for aerial vehicles. He was research staff at FRC [...]