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. [...]

RI Seminar
Hadas Kress-Gazit
Assistant Professor
Cornell University

High-level verifiable robotics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Hadas Kress-Gazit is an Assistant Professor at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and has been at Cornell since 2009. Her research focuses on formal methods for robotics and automation [...]

VASC Seminar
Hyun Oh Song
PhD Candidate
UC Berkeley

Object detection with parsimony

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hyun Oh Song is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He is a recipient of five year Ph.D. fellowship from Samsung Lee Kun Hee Scholarship Foundation. His research interest lies at the intersection between computer vision, machine learning and optimization with an application focus in large scale object [...]

RI Seminar
Zexiang Li
Professor
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

From Geometry to Startups—The Rise of a New Robotics Industry in China

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Zexiang Li attended the South-Central University in 1978, received his BS (with honor) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983, his MS degree in EECS in 1985, MA in mathematics and PhD in EECS in 1989, all from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked at [...]

VASC Seminar
Ishan Misra
Masters Student, RI
Carnegie Mellon

Data-driven Exemplar Model Selection

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ishan Misra is a Masters student at the Robotics Institute and is advised by Prof. Martial Hebert. He works in computer vision, specifically on object recognition and semi-supervised learning.Abstract: We consider the problem of discovering discriminative exemplars suitable for object detection. Due to the diversity in appearance in real world objects, [...]

VASC Seminar
Yuxiong Wang
PhD Student RI
Carnegie Mellon

Model Recommendation for Object Detection

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Yuxiong Wang is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Prof. Martial Hebert. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning and he is particularly interested in object recognition problems. Abstract: In this work, we explore an approach to generating detectors [...]

VASC Seminar
Adriana Kovashka
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin

Interactive Image Search with Attributes

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Adriana Kovashka is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. Her advisor is Professor Kristen Grauman. Adriana received her B.A. in Computer Science and Media Studies from Pomona College, CA, in May 2008. Her research interests primarily lie in computer vision, with [...]

RI Seminar
Bilge Mutlu
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin

Human-Centered Methods for Designing Robotic Products

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Bilge Mutlu is an assistant professor of computer science, psychology, and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute in 2009. His background combines training in interaction design, human-computer interaction, and robotics with industry experience in product design and development. [...]

VASC Seminar
Varun Ramakrishna
PhD Student RI
Carnegie Mellon

PoseMachines: Articulated Human Pose Estimation via Inference Machines

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Varun Ramakrishna is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute, advised by Prof. Yaser Sheikh and Prof. Takeo Kanade. His research interests include structured prediction problems in computer vision with a focus on understanding human posture and motion from monocular images and image sequences. Varun was previously a master's student in [...]