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Unifying Nuclear Norm and Bilinear Factorization Approaches for Low-rank Matrix Decomposition
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ricardo S. Cabral is working on a joint PhD program between Carnegie Mellon and IST-Lisbon. He received his Master's degree in ECE at IST-Lisbon and a research grant from the Portuguese Science Foundation, in 2009, for work in correspondence methods for structure from motion. He received an outstanding academic achievement award [...]
Understanding Pictures of Rooms and Inserting Objects into them
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: D.A. Forsyth is professor of Computer Science in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds BS and MS degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a DPhil from Balliol College, Oxford. He is currently editor in chief of IEEE TPAMI.Abstract: Vision is special, because it can be used to predict [...]
Compensating for Motion During Direct Global Separation
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Supreeth Achar is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is advised by Dr Srinivasa Narasimhan. His research interests include physics based methods for computer vision and projector-camera systems. Abstract: Separating the direct and global components of radiance can aid shape recovery algorithms and can provide [...]
Data-Driven 3D Primitives for Single Image Understanding
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: David Fouhey is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute, where he is supervised by Abhinav Gupta and Martial Hebert. He holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Middlebury College. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning and he is particularly interested in single-view scene understanding problems [...]
Development of farming robot to practice environmentally friendly agriculture
Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Junya received Bachelor's degree (1993), master's degree (1995) and Doctor’s degree (2004) in electrical engineering from Hosei University in Japan. In 1996, he started to work for Faculty of Regional Environment Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and undertook a study of the automation and robotization of agriculture machinery. In 2006, he [...]
Computing Motions for Medical and Assistive Robots
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Dr. Ron Alterovitz is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He leads the Computational Robotics Research Group which investigates new algorithms to enable robots to safely and autonomously complete novel tasks in clinical and home environments. Prior to joining UNC-Chapel Hill in [...]
Facial Action Unit Event Detection by Cascade of Tasks
Bio: Xiaoyu Ding is a visiting scholar in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He works with Fernando De la Torre and Jeffrey F. Cohn. His research interests include practical aspects of computer vision and machine learning. In particular, he is working on facial expression analysis in videos.Abstract: Automatic facial Action Unit (AU) detection from video [...]
Predicting Primary Gaze Behavior using Social Saliency Fields
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hyun Soo Park is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. Yaser Sheikh. The main focus of his research is developing a computational basis for social scene understanding. He received his bachelor’s degree from POSTECH, Korea in 2007, and master’s degree from Carnegie [...]
Application of Optimal Foraging Theory to Science Autonomy
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Michael Furlong is a Ph.D. Student in the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon. He works on the Life in the Atacama Desert project.Abstract: Science Autonomy is an exciting application of Active Learning but it comes with constraints that only appear when the learning agent is embodied. In the case of [...]
Distilling Natural Laws from Experimental Data, from cognitive robotics to computational biology
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Hod Lipson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He directs the Creative Machines Lab, which focuses on novel ways for automatic design, fabrication and adaptation of virtual and physical machines. He has led work in areas such [...]