Seminar
Putting the Pieces Together: Assembling Puzzles and Shredded Documents
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andrew Gallagher is a Visiting Research Scientist at Cornell University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, beginning in June 2012. Andrew earned the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, advised by Prof. Tsuhan Chen. Before that, Andrew received an M.S. degree from Rochester Institute [...]
Human action recognition: recent progress, open questions and future challenges
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ivan Laptev is a full-time researcher in the WILLOW team at INRIA Paris and Ecole Normale Superieure. He has received his PhD in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 2004 and his Master of Science degree from the same institute in 1997. He has been a research [...]
3D Scene Understanding for Autonomous Vehicles
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Andreas Geiger studied computer science and mathematics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. During his studies he spent 6 months at EPFL (working with Pascal Fua and Vincent Lepetit) and 6 months at MIT (working with Raquel Urtasun and Trevor Darrell). Currently he is a 4th year doctoral candidate [...]
CouchPotato: Learning from Lots of YouTube Video
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Rahul Sukthankar is a scientist at Google Research and an adjunct research professor in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon. He was previously a senior principal researcher at Intel Labs (2003-2011), a senior research scientist at HP/Compaq Labs (2000-2003) and research scientist at Just Research (1997-2000). Rahul received his Ph.D. in Robotics from [...]
Explaining complex physical events using large scale simulations. Case Study: Crash of Polish Air Force One in Smolensk, Russia, on April 10, 2010
Event Location: Hamburg Hall 1000(PLEASE NOTE TIME AND LOCATION)Tea Reception4:30 PM GHC 6115Bio: Dr. Wieslaw K. Binienda, F. ASCE. currently serves as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Akron. He received his Master of Science degree from the Warsaw Polytechnic and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University [...]
A Trillion Photos
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steve Seitz is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He also directs an imaging group at Google's Seattle office. He received his B.A. in computer science and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 and his Ph.D. in computer sciences [...]
Scalable Object Detection using Latent Hough Transform
Bio: Nima Razavi is currently a post-doctoral researcher in Luc van Gool’s lab at ETH Zurich where he finished his PhD in 2012. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and a B.Sc. in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology. His research interests are in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Neuroscience [...]
Occlusion Detection and Its Role in Object Discovery in Video
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Alper Ayvaci received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in August, 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefano Soatto. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the same institute. His general research interests are in computer vision and applications of geometry and machine learning in [...]