VASC Seminar
Douglas Summers-Stay
Computer Science Researcher
Army Research Laboratory

Visual Filters for Scene Classification

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Douglas Summers-Stay is a robot vision researcher for the Army Research Laboratory. He is finishing up his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, working with Yiannis Aloimonos. He recently published Machinamenta, an examination of creative machines before the invention of computers.Abstract: "Visual filters" is an approach to the [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Ana Paiva
Professor
Technical University of Lisbon

Empathy in Virtual Agents and Robots

Event Location: 3305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Professor Ana Paiva is a research group leader at INESC-ID and an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. She is well known in the area of Virtual Agents, Artificial Intelligence Applied to Education and Affective Computing. After her PhD in the UK (University of Lancaster), she [...]

VASC Seminar
Svetlana Lazebnik
Assitant Professor
UIUC

Understanding Scenes With Superpixels and Object Detectors

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Svetlana Lazebnik received her Ph.D. in 2006 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2007 to 2012, she was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of January 2012, she has moved back to UIUC as an assistant professor. She is [...]

RI Seminar
Dieter Fox
Associate Professor
University of Washington

Grounding Natural Language in Robot Control Systems

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dieter Fox is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he heads the UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab. From 2009 to 2011, he was also Director of the Intel Research Labs Seattle. He currently serves as the academic PI of [...]

VASC Seminar
Roger Cicala
Lens Rentals

Capturing Light: The History of Imaging

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Roger Cicala received his M. D. in 1986. He spent 12 years (not all in a row) as Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee. In the interim he practiced medicine, worked in pharmaceutical research, and for the Drug Enforcement Agency. In 2005 he left medicine to make a [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Heather Jones
PhD Student
Field Robotics Center, Robotics Institute, CMU

Complementary Flyover and Rover Sensing for Modeling of Planetary Features

Event Location: GHC2109Bio: Heather Jones is a PhD student at the Robotics Institute. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, she earned bachelors degrees in engineering and computer science from Swarthmore College and worked for nearly three years at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Abstract: This talk presents complementary flyover and surface exploration for reconnaissance of planetary point [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Andrew Chambers
Masters Student
Field Robotics Center, Robotics Institute, CMU

State Estimation from Visual-Inertial Data in Unstructured Environments

Event Location: GHC2109Bio: Andrew Chambers is a Masters student at the Robotics Institute, advised by Sanjiv Singh. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Before coming to the RI, he worked as an electrical engineer at iRobot in Boston, MA, where he designed hardware for the bomb disposal robots.Abstract: [...]

VASC Seminar
Jon Barron
PhD Student

Shape, Albedo, and Illumination from Shading

Bio: Jon Barron is 4th year PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, supervised by Jitendra Malik. He is currently a visiting student with MIT's vision group. His research concerns intrinsic images, shape reconstruction, and biomedical imaging. Abstract: Traditional methods for recovering scene properties such as shape, albedo, or illumination rely on multiple observations of the same [...]

RI Seminar
Henry Schneiderman
PittPatt

The Journey from Algorithm to Product

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Henry Schneiderman co-founded and served as CEO of Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt), a face recognition technology company spun off from Carnegie Mellon in 2004 and acquired by Google in 2011. At Google, he is involved in a variety of computer vision related products and services. In particular, he has helped [...]

RI Seminar
Ruzena Bajcsy
Professor
University of California Berkeley

Active Perception and What Comes After

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy (“buy chee”) was appointed Director of CITRIS and professor of EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley on November 1, 2001. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) between December 1, 1998 and September 1, 2001. [...]