RI Seminar
Christoph Bregler
Professor of Computer Science
NYU

Computer Vision for Movie Making and Infographics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Chris Bregler is a Professor of Computer Science at NYU and is also working with Lucasfilm's Advanced Development Group and with Industrial Light & Magic on new vision based tracking systems. Prior to NYU he was on the faculty at Stanford University and worked for several companies including Hewlett Packard, Interval, [...]

RI Seminar
Michael Abrash
Chief Scientist
Oculus VR

Why Virtual Reality Isn’t the Next Big Platform

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Over the last 30 years, Michael has worked at companies that made graphics hardware, computer-based instrumentation, and rendering software, been the GDI lead for the first couple of versions of Windows NT, worked with John Carmack on Quake, worked on Xbox and Xbox 360, written or co-written at least four software [...]

RI Seminar
Dov Katz
Senior Vision Engineer
Oculus VR

Why Virtual Reality Isn’t the Next Big Platform

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Dov Katz is leading Oculus VR's computer vision R&D. He is passionate about human and computer perception. His research interest include computer vision, machine learning, and autonomous manipulation. At Oculus, he developed a high precision - low latency optical position tracking system. He is currently engaged in several projects that will [...]

VASC Seminar
Yair Movshovitz-Attias
PhD Student, Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon

CANCELED – Understanding Cars: Leveraging Real World Knowledge in Computer Vision

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Yair Movshovitz-Attias is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department, advised by Prof. Yaser Sheikh and Prof. Takeo Kanade. His research interests include object detection, image classification and fine-grained recognition. Yair has an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Hiroaki Inotsume
Graduate Student
Robotics Institute

Study on Wheel Grouser Designs for Improving Traverse Performance of Planetary Rovers

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Hiroaki Inotsume is a M.S. student in the Robotics Institute, advised by Prof. David Wettergreen. His work focuses on analysis of vehicle-terrain interactions for design, motion planning, and control of planetary rovers. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Tohoku University in Japan.Abstract: Because of great successes [...]

VASC Seminar
Hamdi Dibeklioğlu
Postdoctral Researcher
Delft University of Technology

Improving Face Analysis Using Expression Dynamics

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hamdi Dibeklioglu received the B.Sc. degree from Yeditepe University, Istanbul in 2006 and the M.Sc. degree from Bogaziçi University,Istanbul in 2008. In 2013, he completed his PhD research in the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Pattern Recognition & Bioinformatics Group at [...]

VASC Seminar
Hanbyul Joo
PhD Student RI
Carnegie Mellon, RI

MAP Visibility Estimation for Large-Scale Dynamic 3D Reconstruction

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hanbyul Joo is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Prof. Yaser Sheikh. Before joining CMU, he worked as a researcher at ETRI, Korea, and received M.S. and B.S. from KAIST, Korea. He focuses on developing large-scale dynamic reconstruction using about 500 synchronized cameras. He is [...]

VASC Seminar
David Fouhey
PhD Student RI
Carnegie Mellon, RI

Predicting Object Dynamics in Scenes

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: David Fouhey is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Abhinav Gupta and Martial Hebert. He holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Middlebury College. His research addresses a variety of scene understanding tasks in computer vision, with a particular interest in inferring [...]

VASC Seminar
Martial Hebert
Professor, RI
Carnegie Mellon, RI

Trinocular Geometry Revisited

Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: This is a joint work with J. Ponce. When do the visual rays associated with triplets of point correspondences converge, that is, intersect in a common point? Classical models of trinocular geometry based on the fundamental matrices and trifocal tensor associated with the corresponding cameras only provide partial answers to this [...]

VASC Seminar
Martial Hebert
Professor, RI
Carnegie Mellon, RI

Predicting Failures of Vision Systems

Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: This is a joint work with P. Zhang, J. Wang, A Farhadi, and D. Parikh. Computer vision systems today fail frequently. They also fail abruptly without warning or explanation. Alleviating the former has been the primary focus of the community. In this work, we hope to draw the community’s attention to [...]