RI Seminar
Andy Ruina
Mechanical Engineering, Cornell

Gliders, bicycles and walking robots

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andy Ruina is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University where he has been, but for various leaves, since the afternoon of Monday August 25, 1980. He teaches various basic mechanics and math classes. His early research was on rock friction and sliding instability, with the aim of increasing understanding [...]

VASC Seminar
(Talk 1) Gunhee Kim (Talk 2) Bin Zhao
CMU

(Talk 1) Web Image Prediction Using Multivariate Point Processes (Talk 2) Towards Massive Multi-Way Classification: Structured Sparse Output Coding

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: (Talk 1) Gunhee Kim is a PhD student advised by Prof. 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 Prof. Martial Hebert in Robotics Institute, CMU, and worked as a visiting researcher at [...]

RI Seminar
Damion Shelton
CTO, threeRivers 3D Inc.

Bootstrapping a startup: 3D scanning for fun and profit (?)

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Damion Shelton is CTO of threeRivers 3D, a Pittsburgh-based 3D imaging company which he co-founded in 2007 after receiving a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. At threeRivers 3D he is responsible for the software and embedded systems development for threeRivers 3D’s off-the-shelf and custom line of 3D scanners. His [...]

VASC Seminar
(Talk 1) Kris Kitani (Talk 2) Abhinav Shrivastava (Talk 3) David Fouhey
CMU

(Talk 1) Activity Forecasting (Talk 2) Constrained Semi-Supervised Learning using Attributes and Comparative Attributes (Talk 3) People Watching: Human Actions as a Cue for Single View Geometry

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: (Talk 1) Kris Kitani is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Robotics Institute. He specializes in the area of vision-based human activity analysis. (Talk 2) Abhinav Shrivastava is a PhD student in Robotics Institute (CMU) working with Alyosha Efros, Abhinav Gupta and Martial Hebert. Before joining PhD, he finished his Masters [...]

VASC Seminar
Debadeepta Dey
PhD Student
CMU

(Special VASC Seminar) ConSeqOpt: A Data Driven Approach to Control Library Optimization

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Debadeepta Dey is a 3rd year Phd student in The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University advised by Prof J. Andrew Bagnell. From 2007-2010 he was research staff in Prof. Sanjiv Singh's group at the Field Robotics Center. He has worked on vision-based sense-and-avoid for UAVs, automated drilling for mining, robotics in [...]

VASC Seminar
Pétia Georgieva
Assistant Professor
University of Aveiro, Portugal

Particle Filter Framework for Localization of Dynamic EEG Sources (Joint VASC-CBI Seminar)

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Petia Georgieva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro, Portugal and the Head of Signal Processing Lab of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Telematics of Aveiro (IEETA). She is a visiting faculty in the framework of the program CMU-Portugal faculty exchange. Her [...]

RI Seminar
Rodney Brooks
Chairman and CTO
Rethink Robotics, Inc.

A New Class of Industrial Robot

Event Location: UC McConomyBio: Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at MIT. He is a robotics entrepreneur and Founder, Chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics). He is also a Founder, former Board Member (1990 - 2011) and former CTO (1990 - 2008) of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). Dr. Brooks [...]

VASC Seminar
Laszlo Jeni
CMU / Univ. of Pittsburgh

Facial Expression Analysis based on 3D Deformable Models

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Laszlo Attila Jeni is a research scientist at the Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. The main body of his work concentrates on machine learning for affective behavior analysis and its applications, including 3D deformable face registration, facial expression analysis and human-machine interaction. At present most of his research [...]

RI Seminar
Irfan Essa
Georgia Tech
School of Interactive Computing
GVU and RIM @ GT Centers

Video Analysis and Enhancement: Video Stabilization and Rolling Shutter Removal on YouTube

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Irfan Essa is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing (iC) of the College of Computing (CoC), and Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is also the Director of Off-Campus Initiatives for the College of [...]

VASC Seminar
Ashutosh Saxena
Assitant Professor
Cornell University

How should a robot perceive the world?

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ashutosh Saxena is an assistant professor in computer science department at Cornell University. His research interests include machine learning and robotics perception, especially in the domain of personal robots. He received his MS in 2006 and Ph.D. in 2009 from Stanford University, and his B.Tech. in 2004 from Indian Institute of [...]