Seminar
Creating a Real-Time Conversation Manager with multiple time scales
Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: My research concerns human communication and collaboration, and their application to agents, and interfaces, especially those using gesture, social behavior, speech, and natural language. Most recently my work has focused on collaboration and dialogue with humanoid robots about simple hosting tasks, and with on-screen agents for health behavior change. Abstract: My [...]
How should we build robots for the future of surgery?
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Catherine Mohr is the Director of Medical Research at Intuitive Surgical, a high technology surgical robotics company that makes the da Vinci surgical robot. In this role she develops new robotic surgical procedures, and evaluates technologies to improve outcomes with surgical robots. In addition, she is a Consulting Assistant Professor [...]
Visual Mapping of Rivers, Vineyards and Orchards
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Stephen Nuske is a project scientist in the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He originally joined CMU as a PostDoc in 2008 after completing his PhD at the University of Queensland and the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia.Abstract: Maps can store and convey many valuable attributes, [...]
Velocity-Space Approaches for Multi-agent Motion Planning and Crowd Simulations
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dinesh Manocha is currently the Phi Delta Theta/Mason Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has co-authored than 330 papers in the leading conferences and journals on computer graphics, robotics, and scientific computing. He has also served program chair for many conferences and [...]
Gaussian Smoothing for Nonconvex Optimization with Applications to Computer Vision
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hossein Mobahi is a postdoctoral research associate in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in Dec 2012. He has worked on several topics in computer vision and machine learning, including image alignment, image segmentation, 3D [...]
Spacecraft Attitude Estimation: From Fundamentals to New Filtering Techniques
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Dr. John Christian is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at West Virginia University (WVU). He is an expert in spacecraft navigation and space systems. Prior to joining WVU, Dr. Christian was an aerospace engineer in the GNC Autonomous Flight Systems Branch at the NASA Johnson [...]
Designing Learning Interactions for Robots
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andrea L. Thomaz is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She directs the Socially Intelligent Machines lab, which is affiliated with the Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM) Center and with the Graphics Visualization and Usability (GVU) Center. She earned a B.S. in Electrical and Computer [...]
Understanding a Social Scene from Social Cameras
Event Location: TBABio: Hyun Soo Park is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. Yaser Sheikh. He is interested in computer vision, graphics, and robotics. The main focus of his research is developing a computational basis for social scene understanding. He received his bachelor’s degree from POSTECH, [...]
Compressive Light Field Displays
Event Location: TBABio: Gordon Wetzstein is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MIT Media Lab. His research interests include light field and high dynamic range displays, projector-camera systems, computational optics, computational photography, computer vision, computer graphics, and augmented reality. Gordon received a Diplom in Media System Science with Honors from the Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2006 and [...]
Towards Holistic Scene Understanding: Hybrid Semantic Segmentation & Articulated Object Modeling
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Roozbeh Mottaghi is a PhD candidate in the department of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles working with Alan Yuille. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering Science (Electrical & Computer Engineering) from Simon Fraser [...]