VASC Seminar
Ivan Laptev
INRIA Paris

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Andreas Geiger
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Rahul Sukthankar
Scientist / Adjunct Research Professor
Google Research / CMU

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Wieslaw Binienda
Professor and Chair
Civil Engineering Department, University of Akron

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Steve Seitz
University of Washington

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Nima Razavi
Post-Doctoral Researcher
ETH Zurich

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Alper Ayvaci
Postdoctoral Fellow
UCLA

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Matt Mason
Director, Robotics Institute, RI/CS
Carnegie Mellon University

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 [...]