Field Robotics Center Seminar
Chen “Ken” Friedman
PhD Candidate
University of Maryland, College Park

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Shoji Tominaga
Chiba University, Japan

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Bastian Leibe
Associate Professor
RWTH Aachen University

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 [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Joerg Dittrich
Research Scientist
DLR Institute of Flight Systems

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Derek Hoiem
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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 [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Brian Wilcox
Manager of Space Robotics Technology (Solar System Exploration Directorate)
NASA

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Li Zhang
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Small Image Sensors and Big Visual Data

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Li Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin. His research is in the areas of computer vision and graphics. He received his B.E. in Automation at Tsinghua University, P. R. China, and his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of [...]

RI Seminar
Eric N. Johnson
Lockheed Martin Associate Professor of Avionics Integration
Georgia Institute of Technology

Navigation, Guidance, and Adaptive Control Innovations for Unmanned Aircraft

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Eric N. Johnson (eric.johnson@ae.gatech.edu) is the Lockheed Martin Associate Professor of Avionics Integration, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech. He received a B.S. degree from University of Washington, M.S. degrees from MIT and The George Washington University, and a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, all in Aerospace Engineering. He also [...]

VASC Seminar
Robert T. Collins
Associate Professor
Penn State University

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 [...]