VASC Seminar
Gunhee Kim
Postdoctral Researcher
Disney Research Pittsburgh

Joint Summarization of Large-scale Collections of Web Images and Videos for Storyline Reconstruction

Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Gunhee Kim is a postdoctoral researcher at Disney Research Pittsburgh. Prior to that, he received a Ph.D. degree at Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2013, advised by Eric P. Xing. He earned a master’s degree under supervision of Martial Hebert in Robotics Institute, CMU in 2008. He [...]

VASC Seminar
Gunhee Kim
Postdoctral Researcher
Disney Research Pittsburgh

Reconstructing Storyline Graphs for Image Recommendation from Web Community Photos

Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Gunhee Kim is a postdoctoral researcher at Disney Research Pittsburgh. Prior to that, he received a Ph.D. degree at Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2013, advised by Eric P. Xing. He earned a master’s degree under supervision of Martial Hebert in Robotics Institute, CMU in 2008. He [...]

VASC Seminar
A. Enis Çetin
Professor of Electronics Engineering
Bilkent University

Video Based Wildfire Detection in an Active Learning Framework

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: A. Enis Cetin studied Electrical Engineering at the Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi (METU). After getting his B.Sc. degree, he got his M.S.E and Ph.D. degrees in Systems Engineering from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Between 1987-1989, he was Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering [...]

VASC Seminar
Xiaogang Wang
Assistant Professor
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Joint Deep Learning for Human Detection and Identification across Camera Views

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Xiaogang Wang received his Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Science from the Special Class of Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001, M. Phil. degree in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004, and PhD degree in Computer Science [...]

VASC Seminar
Carlos Busso
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas

Multimodal Analysis, Recognition and Synthesis of Expressive Human Behaviors

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Carlos Busso is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He received his B.S (2000) and M.S (2003) degrees with high honors in electrical engineering from University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, and his Ph.D (2008) in electrical engineering from University of Southern [...]

VASC Seminar
Neil Johnson
Professor
University of Miami

Learning the hard way: From children and parents to ultrafast machines

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Neil Johnson heads up a new inter-disciplinary research group in Complexity at the University of Miami looking at collective behavior and emergent properties in a wide range of real-world Complex Systems: from physical, biological and medical domains through to social and financial domains. He is also a Professor of Physics. He [...]

VASC Seminar
Robert Tamburo
Project Scientist, RI
RI

Programmable Automotive Headlights

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Robert Tamburo is currently a project scientist at the Robotics Institute in the Illumination and Imaging laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. Afterwards, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and [...]

VASC Seminar
Varun Ramakrishna
PhD Student, RI
Carnegie Mellon

Pose Machines: Articulated 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 [...]

VASC Seminar
David Fouhey
PhD Student RI
RI, Carnegie Mellon

Unfolding an Indoor Origami World

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Katsushi Ikeuchi
Professor
The University of Tokyo

From Shape-from-shading through e-Heritage

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Katsushi Ikeuchi is a Professor at the University of Tokyo. He received a Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1978. After working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AI Lab for two years, Electrotechnical Lab, Japan for five years, and Carnegie Mellon University for ten [...]