Seminar
(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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
2012 Robotics Activities at JPL
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Richard Volpe is Manager of the Mobility and Robotic Systems Section of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. The section is a team of over 90 robotics engineers doing research and spaceflight implementation of robotic systems for Roving, Digging, Ballooning, Drilling, and other modes of in-situ planetary exploration. In [...]