RI Seminar
Wojciech Matusik
Associate Professor
MIT/CSAIL

Abstractions for Multi-Material 3D Printing

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Wojciech Matusik is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, where he leads the Computational Fabrication Group.Before coming to MIT, he worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Adobe Systems, and Disney Research Zurich. He studied computer graphics at MIT [...]

VASC Seminar
Michael Tarr
Professor and Department Head
Carnegie Mellon University

CANCELED

Event Location: NSH 1507

VASC Seminar
Christophe De Vleeschouwer
Professor
Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

Computer vision for democratic and personalized access to sport video reports

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Christophe De Vleeschouwer is a Professor at ‘Université catholique de Louvain’ (UCL), and a Research Associate of the Belgian NSF. He received the M. Eng. and the Ph. D. degrees from UCL, in 1995 and 1999 respectively. As a young PhD, he was a senior research engineer with the IMEC Multimedia [...]

VASC Seminar
Joseph Lim
PhD Student
MIT

3D Object Understanding

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Joseph Lim is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is advised by Professor Antonio Torralba. His research interests are in computer vision and machine learning. He has been motivated by the goal of building computer systems that [...]

VASC Seminar
Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
Postdoctoral Researcher
Stanford University

Decoupling Algorithms from the Organization of Computation for High-Performance Image Processing

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jonathan Ragan-Kelley is a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford, where he works with Pat Hanrahan. He recently finished his PhD in computer science at MIT, where he worked with Frédo Durand and Saman Amarasinghe. His work focuses on high-efficiency computer graphics, at the intersection of graphics with systems, architecture, and compilers. He [...]

VASC Seminar
Shiguang Shan
Professor
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Visual Representation and Metrics for Face Classification with Image Sets

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Shiguang Shan is now a visiting scholar with Dr. Alex Hauptmann at CMU. He received Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, in 2004. He then joined ICT, CAS and has been a Professor since 2010. He is now [...]

VASC Seminar
Xinlei Chen
Graduate Research Assistant, PhD
LTI

Learning a Recurrent Visual Representation for Image Caption Generation

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Xinlei Chen is a PhD student in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Abhinav Gupta. He holds an Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University, China. His research focuses on the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing and he is particularly [...]

RI Seminar
Kanna Rajan
Visiting Professor
FEUP, University of Porto

Advancing Autonomous Operations in the Field From Outer to Inner Space

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Kanna is a Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Porto affiliated with the Underwater Systems Technology Lab. Till recently he was the Principal Researcher in Autonomy at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (http://www.mbari.org) a privately funded non-profit Oceanographic institute which he joined in October 2005. Prior to that he [...]

RI Seminar
John Leonard
Professor
MIT/CSAIL

Mapping, Localization, and Self-Driving Vehicles

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: John J. Leonard is Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering and Associate Department Head for Research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research addresses the problems of navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots. [...]