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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Vicente Ordonez-Roman
PhD Student
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language and Perceptual Categorization in Computer Vision

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Vicente Ordonez is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds an MS from Stony Brook University and an engineering degree from the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral in Ecuador. His research interests are at the at the intersection [...]

RI Seminar
Paul Debevec
Chief Visual Officer
USC Institute of Creative Technologies

Advances in Photoreal Digital Humans in Film and in Real-Time

Event Location: CIC DEC RoomBio: Paul Debevec is a Research Professor at the University of Southern California and the Chief Visual Officer at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. From his 1996 P.hD. at UC Berkeley, Debevec’s publications and animations have focused on techniques for photogrammetry, image‐based rendering, high dynamic range imaging, image‐based lighting, appearance measurement, [...]