VASC Seminar
Dhruv Batra, Pyry Matikainen, Ed Hsiao
TTI-C and CMU

Talk #1: The M-Best Mode Problem: Extracting Diverse M-Best Solutions from Graphical Models Talk #2 (CVPR Practice Talk): Model Recommendation for Action Recognition Talk #3 (CVPR Practice Talk): Occlusion Reasoning for Object Detection under Arbitrary Viewpoint

Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: **Pizza Lunch will be served at 1:00pm** Talk #1 (starting at 12:00pm) The M-Best Mode Problem: Extracting Diverse M-Best Solutions from Graphical Models Dhruv Batra, Research Assistant Professor TTI-C Abstract: A large number of problems in computer vision, computational biology and robotics can formulated as the search for the most probable [...]

RI Seminar
Katsu Yamane
University of Tokyo

Inheriting and Evolving the Infrastructure for Systems and Devices of Humanoid and Home Assistance

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Masayuki Inaba is a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. He received B.S of Mechanical Engineering in 1981, M.S and Dr. Degrees of Information Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1983 and 1986 respectively. He was appointed as a lecturer in [...]

VASC Seminar
Andreas Wendel

Visual Outdoor Perception for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andreas Wendel received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Telematics (computer science and electrical engineering) from Graz University of Technology in 2007 and 2009, respectively. His studies were focused on computer vision and cognitive signal processing and he finished with highest distinction. Currently he is the head of the Aerial Vision [...]

VASC Seminar
Xiaofeng Ren
Intel Labs / University of Washington

Learning Local Image Descriptors for Recognition, Scene Labeling and Grouping

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Xiaofeng Ren is a research scientist at Intel Labs and an affiliate assistant professor at the University of Washington. His research interests are broadly in the areas of computer vision and its applications, including image features, grouping and segmentation, object recognition, and video analysis. His current focus is on understanding and [...]

RI Seminar
Steven Chase
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Department of Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Cognitive factors in neural prosthetic control

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steven Chase is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his BS in Applied Physics from Caltech in ‘97, his MS in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in ‘99, and his PhD [...]