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. [...]

VASC Seminar
Jia Xu
PhD Candidate
University of Wisconsin

Visual Parsing with Weak Supervision

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jia Xu is a PhD candidate of the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Prof. Vikas Singh, Prof. Jerry Zhu, and Prof. Chuck Dyer. He was a visiting student at University of Toronto in Summer 2014 and at TTI-Chicago during Summer 2013, both working with Prof. Raquel [...]

RI Seminar
Gregory S. Chirikjian
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University

CANCELEDStochastic Models in Robotics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Gregory S. Chirikjian received undergraduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1992. Since 1992, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, where he has been a full professor since 2001. [...]

VASC Seminar
Andrew Fitzgibbon
Principal Research
Microsoft Research

CANCELED 3D Vision in a Changing World

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Andrew Fitzgibbon is a principal researcher in the computer vision group at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He is best known for his work on 3D vision, having been a core contributor to the Emmy-award-winning 3D camera tracker "boujou" (www.boujou.com) and Kinect for Xbox 360, but his interests are broad, spanning computer vision, [...]

VASC Seminar
Larry Zitnick
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research, Redmond

Commonsense, Vision and Language

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: C. Lawrence Zitnick is a senior researcher in the Interactive Visual Media group at Microsoft Research, and is an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington. He is interested in a broad range of topics related to object recognition, the semantic interpretation of visual scenes, and methods for gathering commonsense [...]

RI Seminar
Jan Peters
Professor
Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

Motor Skill Learning: From Simple Skills to Table Tennis and Manipulation

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jan Peters is a full professor (W3) for Intelligent Autonomous Systems at the Computer Science Department of the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and at the same time a senior research scientist and group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, where he heads the interdepartmental Robot Learning Group. Jan Peters has [...]

VASC Seminar
Alex Berg
Assistant Professor
UNC Chapel Hill

Toward BIGVISION

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Alex Berg's research concerns computational visual recognition. He has worked on general object recognition in images, action recognition in video, human pose identification in images, image parsing, face recognition, image search, and machine learning for computer and human vision. He co-organizes the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, and organized the [...]

RI Seminar
Michael Tarr
Professor and Head, Psychology
Carnegie Mellon

I would kill for a pigeon

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Michael J. Tarr is the Head of the Department of Psychology in Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Chair of Carnegie Mellon's BrainHub Steering Committee. He studies the neural, cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying visual perception and cognition. He is particularly interested in object and [...]

VASC Seminar
Damien Teney
Postdoctral Researcher
Carnegie Mellon, RI

Segmenting smoke, trees and waterfalls – Spatiotemporal filters and distance learning to segment dynamic textures in videos of natural scenes

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Damien Teney recently joined Carnegie Mellon University as a post-doctoral researcher with a fellowship of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation. His research interests are at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. He is currently working with Martial Hebert, focusing on visual scene understanding and semantic segmentation. He previously worked [...]

RI Seminar
Michael Wagner
Senior NREC Commercialization Specialist, RI
NREC

Developing Trust in Autonomous Robots

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am a Senior Commercialization Specialist at the NREC and the CEO of Edge Case Research, a company I co-founded to help make autonomous vehicles and other complex software-based systems safer and more reliable. I have sixteen years of experience developing advanced robotic systems for industry, the Department of Defense, and [...]