Seminar
Multi-frame Data Association with Higher-Order Cost Functions
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Robert T. Collins received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1993. He is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The Pennsylvania State University, where he co-directs the Lab for Perception, Action and Cognition (LPAC). Prior to joining Penn [...]
Advanced Sensing and Imaging Techniques for Automated Quality Inspection of Fruits and Vegetables
Event Location: Newell-Simon Hall 1109Bio: Weilin Wang is a doctoral candidate of the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from China Agricultural University in 2002 and his M.S. degree in Biological Engineering from the University of Georgia in 2010. His current doctoral research is focused [...]
Robots that Need to Mislead: Biologically-inspired Machine Deception
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ronald C. Arkin is Regents' Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He served as STINT visiting Professor at KTH in Stockholm, Sabbatical Chair at the Sony IDL in Tokyo, and the Robotics and AI Group at LAAS/CNRS in Toulouse. Dr. Arkin's research interests [...]
Less is More: New Visual Perspectives by Capturing Less than Meets the Eye
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: When we snap a photo with a conventional camera, we record all incident light no matter how it got there. In this talk I will discuss a new family of cameras that gives us many more degrees of freedom: these cameras record just a fraction of the light coming from a [...]
Learning nested systems using auxiliary coordinates
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán is an associate professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Merced. He received the degree of "licenciado en informática" (MSc in computer science) from the Technical University of Madrid in 1995 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Sheffield in [...]
Creating Robots for Ultra-minimally Invasive Surgery
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Pierre E. Dupont is Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering and holder of the Edward P. Marram Chair at Boston Children’s Hospital. His academic appointments include Visiting Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. His research group develops robotic instrumentation and imaging technology for [...]
Planetary Robotic Exploration: Mobility and Autonomy
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Issa Nesnas is a principal member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the supervisor of the Robotic Mobility group. He is leading research in extreme terrain mobility and microgravity mobility projects, in collaboration with university partners. Prior to that, he led a multi-center project for developing reusable [...]
CMDragons’13: RoboCup Small-Size Robot Soccer Team
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: The CMDragons research team is advised by Manuela Veloso, Herbert A. Simon Professor in CSD and courtesy in RI. The other members of the team are Joydeep Biswas (team leader, RI PhD student), Juan Pablo Mendoza (RI PhD student), Danny Zhu (CSD PhD student), Benjamin Choi (CSD junior), and Alex Etling [...]
Estimation and Tracking of Local Road Geometry for Assisting Reliable Urban Driving
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Dr. Young-Woo Seo is currently a post-doctoral fellow, working with GM-CMU Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab (AD-CRL) and the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. During his post-doctoral period, he has been working on developing robust perception algorithms for reliable autonomous driving. His tasks involve in developing computer vision algorithm for understanding [...]
Learning from biology : actuation, structure and control of the MIT cheetah robot
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sangbae Kim has served as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT since 2009. As the director of the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory, Sangbae has been developing bio-inspired robotic design processes. His design approaches focus on the design principles from complex biological systems from understanding the difference between biological and engineering [...]