Seminar
Object Recognition from Active Detection to Accurate Pose Estimation
Event Location: 200 Smith HallBio: Menglong Zhu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research focus is 2D and 3D object recognition and pose estimation. He is also interested in semantic localization, text recognition, and action recognition. He obtained his Master’s degree in [...]
Walk, Bound, Gallop, Climb
Event Location: Rashid Auditorium, 4401 Gates Hillman CenterBio: Marc Raibert is CTO and founder of Boston Dynamics, a company that develops some of the world’s most advanced dynamic robots, such as BigDog, Atlas, Cheetah, SandFlea and the AlphaDog. These robots are inspired by the remarkable ability of animals to move with agility, mobility, speed and [...]
Consumer Robotics: Story and Lessons
Event Location: Rashid Auditorium, 4401 Gates and Hillman CentersBio: As an engineer and researcher with experience in building diverse robotic systems — from consumer products to off-road autonomous vehicles and bomb-disposal robots — Boris is making it his life’s work to create products that people would not expect to be possible. He earned a B.S., [...]
Video Forensics: Extracting and Analyzing Information from Video about Human Rights, Conflict, and Disaster
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jay Aronson is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Carnegie Mellon University. His research and teaching focus is on the interactions of science, technology, law, and human rights in a variety of contexts. He is currently engaged in a long-term study of the ethical, political, and social dimensions of [...]
Fusion of Visual and Thermal Sensing for Traversability Prediction
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Chris Cunningham is a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute advised by Red Whitaker. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 2012. His current research focuses on terrain classification and slip prediction for planetary robots.Abstract: Loose, granular soil can trap planetary rovers causing costly [...]
Large-scale image classification and video highlight retrieval
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Min Sun is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Washington (UW) working with Steve Seitz and Ali Farhadi. Before joining UW, he graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a Ph.D. degree and Stanford University with a M.Sc. degree. His [...]
Toward Autonomous Rotorcraft
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sebastian Scherer is a Systems Scientist at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His research focuses on enabling autonomy for unmanned rotorcraft to operate at low altitude in cluttered environments. He and His team have shown the fastest and most tested obstacle avoidance on an Yamaha RMax (2006), [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]