VASC Seminar
Rene Vidal
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Sparse and Low-Rank Subspace Clustering

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Professor Vidal received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. He has been on the faculty of the Center for Imaging Science, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University since 2004, where he currently is an Associate Professor. His research interest [...]

VASC Seminar
Wongun Choi
Ph.D candidate
University of Michigan

Understanding Complex Human Behaviors in Videos

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Wongun Choi received his BS degree in Electrical Engieering in the Seoul National University in 2008 and MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2011. Currently, he is working toward his Ph.D degree at the Computer Vision Lab in the University of Michigan, [...]

RI Seminar
Michael Gazarik
NASA

NASA & Robotics: investing in America’s Future

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Michael Gazarik serves as Associate Administrator of the Space Technology Mission Directorate. As Associate Administrator, he manages and executes the Space Technology programs, focusing on infusion into the Agency’s exploration and science mission needs, proving the capabilities needed by the greater aerospace community, and developing the Nation’s innovation economy. Prior [...]

VASC Seminar
Aswin Sankaranarayanan
Assistant Professor, ECE, CMU

Breaking the resolution limits of sensors: Compressive sensing of high-dimensional visual signals

Event Location: TBABio: Aswin Sankaranarayanan is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. His research interests lie in the areas of computer vision, signal processing, and image and video acquisition. Prof. Sankaranarayanan received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2003 and MSc [...]

RI Seminar
Dan Stilwell
ECE Department, Virginia Tech

Think global, act local: challenges for autonomy in a tropical riverine system

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Dan Stilwell is a Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1999, the MS from Virginia Tech in 1993, and the BS from the University of Massachusetts in 1991. His [...]

VASC Seminar
David Crandall
Assistant Professor
Indiana University

Studying the world by mining photo-sharing websites

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: David Crandall is an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. He received the Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University (2008) and the M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer science and engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (2001). He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at [...]

RI Seminar
Gregory D. Hager
Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integr
Johns Hopkins University

Computational Modelling and Enhancement of Human Skill: Toward Effective Human-Machine Collaborative Systems

Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Gregory D. Hager is a Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology. His research interests include time-series analysis of image data, image-guided robotics, medical applications of image analysis and robotics, [...]

VASC Seminar
Noah Snavely
Assistant Professor
Cornell University

Calibrating the World’s Photos with a Massive 3D Database

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Noah Snavely is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, where he has been on the faculty since 2009. He received a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in [...]