Seminar
Daniel H. Wilson
New York Times Bestselling Author and Roboticist

Sci-fi Destroys the Future, Science Builds It

Event Location: Rashid Auditorium, 4401 Gates and Hillman CentersBio: Daniel H. Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of the techno-thriller Robopocalypse, as well as titles such as How to Survive a Robot Uprising, A Boy and His Bot, and Amped. Wilson earned a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has published [...]

VASC Seminar
Larry Davis
Professor
University of Maryland

A tasting menu of research on visual recognition at UMD

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Larry S. Davis received his B.A. from Colgate University in 1970 and his M. S. and Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 1974 and 1976 respectively. From 1977-1981 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas, Austin. He [...]

RI Seminar
Ayanna Howard
Motorola Foundation Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chair, Robotics PhD Program
Georgia Tech

Robots in Play: Human-Robot Interaction Schemes for Pediatric Therapy

Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Ayanna Howard is the Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her B.S. from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1999. [...]

VASC Seminar
Rob Fergus
Assistant Professor
New York University

Visualizing Convolutional Neural Networks

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Rob Fergus is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He received a Masters in Electrical Engineering with Prof. Pietro Perona at Caltech, before completing a PhD with Prof. Andrew Zisserman at the University of Oxford in 2005. Before coming to NYU, [...]

VASC Seminar
Christoph Lampert
Assistant Professor
IST Austria

Attribute-based classification and the dream of life-long learning for scene understanding

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Christoph Lampert received the PhD degree in mathematics from the University of Bonn in 2003. Since 2010 he is an assistant professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), where he heads a research group for computer vision and machine learning. Dr Lampert's research won several international and [...]

RI Seminar
Deva Ramanan
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of California at Irvine

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. [...]

VASC Seminar
Katerina Fragkiadaki
PhD Candidate
University of Pennsylvania

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 [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
James Lee
MS Candidate
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Ko Nishino
Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Drexel University

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 [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Daniel Loret de Mola Lemus
Masters Student
Carnegie Mellon University

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 [...]