Seminar
Robustness by Necessity: Zero-Downtime Demos, Competitions, and Live Performances
Event Location: NSH3305Bio: Raffaello D'Andrea is professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He also is technical co-founder and chief technical advisor for Kiva Systems, a company that develops adaptive and self-configuring warehouse automation systems using hundreds of networked, mobile robots. He was the faculty advisor and [...]
Efficient Human Pose Estimation with Data-Dependent Cliques
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ben Sapp is Ph.D. candidate in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Ben Taskar. His work uses machine learning to tackle computer vision problems, with a focus on graphical models to solve human pose estimation in single 2-D images or video - specifically, studying how to [...]
From Robograd to Rockstar™: Lessons in Transforming from a Naive Academic to a Stressed Out Entrepreneur (& Why You’d Have To Be Insane to Do It)
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: In 1996, Dr. Davis earned his PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon and set out to work on AI and virtual characters in video games. After working at Activision from 1996 to 1999 as Technical Director, Dr. Davis founded Mad Doc Software, and independent game developer for PCs and gaming consoles. [...]
Data-Driven Crowd Analysis in Videos
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Mikel Rodriguez is a researcher at MITRE. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the INRIA Willow team at the Département d'Informatique of Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Mikel completed his PhD in Computer Science at UCF in 2010. His research focuses mainly on video interpretation which includes tracking, visual motion [...]
Lessons Learned in Starting a Tech Company in Silicon Valley
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Matt Swanson graduated with a M.S. from the Robotics Institute in May 2010. Immediately after graduating, Matt founded SpeakerText with two cofounders. SpeakerText uses crowdsourced labor to create transcripts for online videos which enables video publishers to get their content indexed in search engines. Over the course of one year, Matt [...]
Human Action Analysis-Understanding the spatio-temporal structure.
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Michalis Raptis is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Disney Research, Pittsburgh. He received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 2008 and 2011 respectively. In 2006, he obtained the diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University [...]
Design of Dynamic Multi-Modal Legged Locomotors
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jonathan Clark received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University and his MS and PhD. from Stanford University where he worked on the design of dynamic multi-legged running systems, including the Sprawl family of robots. From 2004-2007 he worked as an IC Postdoctoral Fellow on climbing robots at the [...]
Visual Recognition with Humans in the Loop
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Serge Belongie received the B.S. degree (with honor) in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1995 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at U.C. Berkeley in 1997 and 2000, respectively. While at Berkeley, his research was supported by a National Science [...]
Distributed Algorithms for Multi-robot Localization
Event Location: NSH1507Bio: Alberto Speranzon received a "Laurea" degree in Computer Engineering from University of Padova, Italy, in November 2000. In May 2006 he received a Ph.D. in Automatic Control from the School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Between May 2006 and October 2006 he was post-doc at the same institute. [...]