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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 [...]
State of the Institute
Event Location: NHS 1305Bio: Matt Mason is best known for his accomplishments in manipulation, including constructing a ship in a bottle, juggling three clubs or four balls, and the ability to snap his fingers with either hand. His work in other areas includes construction of a manned surface vehicle which autonomously reconfigured to an unmanned [...]
Understanding Events and Tags in Media-rich Messages
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Lexing Xie is Senior Lecturer in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. She was with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York from 2005 to 2010, and adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University 2007-2009. She received B.S. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and M.S. and [...]
Landing the Lunar X Prize: Rovers and Rockets from CMU to the Moon
Event Location: GHC 4307Bio: William “Red” Whittaker is the Fredkin University Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He has developed dozens of robots, breaking new ground in autonomous vehicles, field robotics, space exploration, mining and agriculture. Whittaker developed the robots that cleaned up the Three-Mile Island nuclear accident. His ground vehicles have driven [...]
Lessons Learned Bootstrapping a Robotic Vehicle Company
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Mel is a founder and the CEO of Autonomous Solutions, Inc. Prior to founding ASI in 2000, he held a position managing robotics development programs for John Deere, the US Departments of Defense and Energy, and NASA Space Shuttle Payloads at Utah State University. ASI has worked over the last 12 [...]