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Discriminative Object Categorization with External Semantic Knowledge
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Sung Ju Hwang is a postdoctoral research associate at Disney Research Pittsburgh, working under the supervision of Dr. Leonid Sigal. He received a B.S. degree in computer science and engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, and a M.A. degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, in 2008 [...]
PLUME-CHASERS: Designing Fast Robot Teams Underwater
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Professor Franz S. Hover is the Finmeccanica Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Hover earned the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University, and the S.M. and Sc.D. degrees from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program in [...]
Nonlinear Geometric Control for Highly Dynamic Legged Locomotion and Aerial Manipulation
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Koushil Sreenath is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a courtesy Assistant Professor of Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interest lies at the intersection of highly dynamic robotics and applied nonlinear control. His work on dynamic legged locomotion on the bipedal robot MABEL was featured on The [...]
Computational Behavior Analysis for Use in Assessing, Understanding, and Treating Clinical Depression and Related Disorders
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Dr Roland Goecke is an Associate Professor in Information Technology & Engineering at the Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Engineering, University of Canberra, Australia. He leads the Vision and Sensing Group and is Deputy Director of the Human-Centered Computing Research Laboratory. He received his Masters degree in Computer Science from [...]
Robo-preneurship: Challenges and Opportunities
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: It is the first company of its kind that is making Robots for all four operational domains of Land, Air, Water and Space. This Includes Robotic Boats, mini drones, bomb disposal robots and Space robots. Bomb disposal robot developed by Omnipresent was displayed by DRDO at the Def Expo 12 (India’s [...]
Coherent Object Detection with 3D Geometric Reasoning
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Advised by Dr. Takeo Kanade, Jiyan Pan is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His major research interest includes computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His thesis research focuses on coherent scene understanding with 3D geometric reasoning. The goal is to develop a reasoning framework [...]
Unifying Nuclear Norm and Bilinear Factorization Approaches for Low-rank Matrix Decomposition
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ricardo S. Cabral is working on a joint PhD program between Carnegie Mellon and IST-Lisbon. He received his Master's degree in ECE at IST-Lisbon and a research grant from the Portuguese Science Foundation, in 2009, for work in correspondence methods for structure from motion. He received an outstanding academic achievement award [...]
Understanding Pictures of Rooms and Inserting Objects into them
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: D.A. Forsyth is professor of Computer Science in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds BS and MS degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a DPhil from Balliol College, Oxford. He is currently editor in chief of IEEE TPAMI.Abstract: Vision is special, because it can be used to predict [...]
Compensating for Motion During Direct Global Separation
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Supreeth Achar is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is advised by Dr Srinivasa Narasimhan. His research interests include physics based methods for computer vision and projector-camera systems. Abstract: Separating the direct and global components of radiance can aid shape recovery algorithms and can provide [...]
Data-Driven 3D Primitives for Single Image Understanding
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: David Fouhey is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute, where he is supervised by Abhinav Gupta and Martial Hebert. He holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Middlebury College. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning and he is particularly interested in single-view scene understanding problems [...]