VASC Seminar
Ajay Mishra
Research Scientist
Intelligent Automation, Inc.

A Fixation-based Segmentation Framework to Extract Simple Objects from a Scene

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ajay Mishra is currently working as a Research Scientist at Intelligent Automation Inc, Rockville, Maryland. Prior to this, he was a post-doc/Visiting Researcher working with Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park since 2007. He obtained his PhD (2011) and B.Tech (2003) degrees, [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Michael Furlong
PhD Student
Field Robotics Center, Robotics Institute, CMU

Simulating global motion detection in Macaque visual cortex and it’s application to optical flow

Event Location: GHC2109Bio: Michael Furlong is a Ph.D candidate in the Field Robotics Center working on science autonomy.Abstract: Pattern cells in area V5/MT represent an intriguing step in the visual hierarchy, whereby neurons become sensitive to global motion, rather than simply to the motion of constituent components, cells in the primary visual cortex (V1). A [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Michael Milford
Lecturer
Queensland University of Technology

RatSLAM: Using Models of Rodent Hippocampus for Robot Navigation

Event Location: GHC2109Bio: I hold a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Queensland, awarded in 2006 and 2002 respectively. I recently joined the Queensland University of Technology as Lecturer, having previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT and before that for three years as a Research [...]

VASC Seminar
Devi Parikh
Research Assistant Professor
TTIC

Advancing Computer Vision by Leveraging Humans

Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: Historically, humans have played a limited role in advancing the challenging problem of computer vision: either by designing algorithms in their capacity as researchers or by acting as ground-truth generating minions. This seems rather counter-productive since we often aim to replicate human performance (e.g. in semantic image understanding) and are faced [...]

VASC Seminar
Feng Zhou
Ph.D. Student
CMU

Talk 1: Factorized Graph Matching Talk 2: Generalized Time Warping for Multi-modal Alignment of Human Motion

Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: Talk #1 Graph matching plays a central role in solving correspondence problems in computer vision. Graph matching problems that incorporate pair-wise constraints can be cast as a quadratic assignment problem (QAP). Unfortunately, QAP is NP-hard and many algorithms have been proposed to solve different relaxations. This paper presents factorized graph matching [...]

VASC Seminar
Dhruv Batra, Pyry Matikainen, Ed Hsiao
TTI-C and CMU

Talk #1: The M-Best Mode Problem: Extracting Diverse M-Best Solutions from Graphical Models Talk #2 (CVPR Practice Talk): Model Recommendation for Action Recognition Talk #3 (CVPR Practice Talk): Occlusion Reasoning for Object Detection under Arbitrary Viewpoint

Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: **Pizza Lunch will be served at 1:00pm** Talk #1 (starting at 12:00pm) The M-Best Mode Problem: Extracting Diverse M-Best Solutions from Graphical Models Dhruv Batra, Research Assistant Professor TTI-C Abstract: A large number of problems in computer vision, computational biology and robotics can formulated as the search for the most probable [...]

RI Seminar
Katsu Yamane
University of Tokyo

Inheriting and Evolving the Infrastructure for Systems and Devices of Humanoid and Home Assistance

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Masayuki Inaba is a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. He received B.S of Mechanical Engineering in 1981, M.S and Dr. Degrees of Information Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1983 and 1986 respectively. He was appointed as a lecturer in [...]

VASC Seminar
Andreas Wendel

Visual Outdoor Perception for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andreas Wendel received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Telematics (computer science and electrical engineering) from Graz University of Technology in 2007 and 2009, respectively. His studies were focused on computer vision and cognitive signal processing and he finished with highest distinction. Currently he is the head of the Aerial Vision [...]