VASC Seminar
Pinar Duygulu-Sahin
Assistant Professor
Bilkent University

Towards leveraging large data for video analysis

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Pinar Duygulu has received her BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from Department of Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1996, 1998 and 2003 respectively. During her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. David Forsyth. After being [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Girish Chowdhary
Assistant Professor
Oklahoma State University

Information Enabled Adaptive Autonomy for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Event Location: 1507Bio: Girish Chowdhary received his PhD and MS degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has postdoctoral research experience at the Georgia Tech UAV Research Facility, and at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also has research experience [...]

VASC Seminar
Yuan Junsong
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Nanyang Technological University

Understanding Human Behaviours using 2D and 3D Sensors

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Junsong Yuan is a Nanyang Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, leading the video analytics program at School of EEE. He obtained his PhD from Northwestern University in Aug. 2009. His research interests include computer vision, video analytics, large-scale visual search and mining, human computer interaction, biomedical image analysis, [...]

RI Seminar
Steve Collins
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University, MechE

Prosthesis and exoskeleton emulators for rapid evaluation of human response to intervention

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steve Collins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is director of the Experimental Biomechatronics Laboratory, organizes the CMU Bipedal Locomotion Seminar, and teaches courses on Design and Biomechatronics. Steve received his B.S. from Cornell in 2002, his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from [...]

VASC Seminar
Vishnu Naresh Boddeti
Post Doc Fellow, RI
Carnegie Mellon

Correlation Filters : Theory and Applications

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Vishnu Naresh Boddeti received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition. He received the best paper award at BTAS [...]

RI Seminar
John Galeotti
Senior Project Scientist
Carnegie Mellon, RI

Biomedical Image Guidance: BIG Ideas for Improving the Tools of Medicine

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: John Galeotti received BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (2001, 2002), and MS and PhD degrees in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University (2005, 2007). He is currently a senior project scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, as well as an adjunct assistant professor with [...]

VASC Seminar
Jia Deng
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan

Advancing visual recognition with big data

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jia Deng is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the EECS department of the University of Michigan, where he will start as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2014. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2012 and his B.Eng. from Tsinghua University, both in computer science. He has been co-organizing the [...]

RI Seminar
Vincent Hayward
Professor
University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France

How the mechanics of the fingertip impact the tactile and gripping function of the hand

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Vincent Hayward (Dr.-Ing., 1981 Univ. de Paris XI) was Postoctoral Fellow then Visiting Assistant Professor (1982) at Purdue University, and joined CNRS, France, as Chargé de Recherches in 1983. In 1987, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University as assistant, associate and then full professor (2006). [...]

RI Seminar
Julie A. Shah
Assistant Professor
MIT

Integrating Robots into Team-Oriented Environments

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Julie Shah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics and leads the Interactive Robotics Group of the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Shah received her SB (2004) and SM (2006)from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and her PhD (2010) in Autonomous Systems from [...]

VASC Seminar
Natasha Kholgade
PhD Student RI
Carnegie Mellon

Automatic Viewpoint Alignment and Deformation of 3D Models to Match Photographs Exactly

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Natasha Kholgade is a fifth year Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research lies at the intersection of computer graphics and computer vision. She is especially interested in extraction, manipulation, and editing of three-dimensional information in images. Prior to attending Carnegie Mellon, she received her B.S. [...]