Seminar
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 [...]
Special Joint RI/VASC Seminar
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Shoji TOMINAGA is a professor at Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University. His research interests include color imaging, illuminant estimation, multispectral image analysis, and color image rendering. He is an editorial board member of Color Research and Application, an associate editor of the Journal of Electronic Imaging, an executive [...]
Next Steps in Dynamic Visual Scene Understanding
Event Location: GHC 4405Bio: Bastian Leibe is an associate professor for Computer Vision at RWTH Aachen University. He holds an M.Sc. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology (1999), a Diploma degree from the University of Stuttgart (2001) and a PhD from ETH Zurich (2004), all three in Computer Science. His research interests are in Computer [...]
Unmanned Aircraft Research at the DLR Institute of Flight Systems – Current Research and Future Challenges
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Joerg Dittrich is a research scientist and a department head at DLR Braunschweig. DLR is the primary German government funded research organization in the field of aerospace engineering as well as the German space agency, employing around 7000 people across multiple sites in Germany. During his first years at DLR he [...]
Strategies for General Recognition
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Derek Hoiem is an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and completed a Beckman Postgraduate Fellowship in 2008. Derek's research in visual scene understanding and object recognition has been recognized with an ACM [...]
ATHLETE – A Space Robot for Large Payloads
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Brian Wilcox is the manager of Space Robotics Technology in the Solar System Exploration Directorate and is the Principal Investigator for ATHLETE – the All-Terrain, Hex-Limbed, Extra-Terrestrial Explorer. He was the supervisor of the JPL Robotic Vehicles Group for over 20 years, during which the group was responsible for planetary rover [...]