Seminar
Recognizing objects using model-based statistics
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Deva Ramanan is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. He received his B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Delaware in 2000, graduating summa cum laude. [...]
Multi-Granularity Steering for Human Actions: Motion, Pose and Intention
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Katerina Fragkiadaki is a Ph.D. student in Computer and Information Science in the University of Pennsylvania. She received her diplomat in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. She works on tracking, segmentation and pose estimation of people under close interactions, for understanding their actions and intentions. She also [...]
Graphical Methods for Mapping Underground Environments
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: James Lee is a Masters student at the Robotics Institute developing algorithms to map subterranean spaces. He received his Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2011.Abstract: Robots are the perfect matches for the dull, dangerous, and dirty job of mining. Recent advances in robotics have enabled [...]
Visual Material Recognition
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ko Nishino is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Drexel University. He received a B.E. and an M.E. in Information and Communication Engineering in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and a PhD in Computer Science in 2002, all from The University of Tokyo. Before joining Drexel University in [...]
Slip Control on Extreme Slopes for a Rover with Plowing Capability
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Daniel is a Masters student at the Robotics Institute working on controlled rover descent of lunar craters. He has a Bachelors degree in Mechatronics Engineering.Abstract: Recent efforts in planetary robotic exploration aim toward craters, skylights, and other depressions with challenging terrain conditions. The access to such places requires traversing on extreme [...]
Mission Planning and Execution for the Unmanned Rotorcraft ARTIS
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Florian Adolf is a research scientist at the DLR Institute of Flight Systems in Braunschweig, Germany, where he is the group lead for mission planning and execution systems at the department of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. He joined DLR in 2005 to research automated guidance and decision making systems for use on [...]
Dense non-rigid motion capture from monocular video
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ravi Garv is a final year PhD student at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, at Queen Mary University of London, working under the supervision of Dr. Lourdes Agapito, who holds an ERC Starting Grant. His work focuses on dense reconstruction of non-rigid surfaces and dynamic scenes. Mr. Garv [...]
Jointly Aligning and Segmenting Multiple Web Photo Streams for the Inference of Collective Photo Storylines
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Gunhee Kim is a PhD candidate advised by Eric P. Xing at Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to starting PhD study in 2009, he earned a master’s degree under supervision of Martial Hebert in Robotics Institute, CMU. He also worked as a visiting student in Antonio Torralba's group [...]
Figure-Ground Segmentation and Pooling for Visual Scene Analysis
Bio: Cristian Sminchisescu is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, at Lund University. He has obtained a doctorate in computer science and applied mathematics with specialization in imagining, vision and robotics at INRIA, France, under an Eiffel excellence doctoral fellowship, and has done postdoctoral research in the Artificial intelligence Laboratory at [...]
Obstacle Avoidance and Targeted Flight for Rotary Wing MAVs in GPS-Denied Environments
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Chen (pronounced “Ken”) is a PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on SLAM for micro aerial vehicles. Previously, he worked as an engineer for the Israel CFD center and in Helicopter Simulations at the Aerospace Engineering Department at Technion, Israel. He received his BS and [...]