Seminar
Learning Local Image Descriptors for Recognition, Scene Labeling and Grouping
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Xiaofeng Ren is a research scientist at Intel Labs and an affiliate assistant professor at the University of Washington. His research interests are broadly in the areas of computer vision and its applications, including image features, grouping and segmentation, object recognition, and video analysis. His current focus is on understanding and [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
Cognitive factors in neural prosthetic control
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steven Chase is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his BS in Applied Physics from Caltech in ‘97, his MS in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in ‘99, and his PhD [...]
An Egocentric Paradigm for Understanding Daily Activities
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Alireza Fathi is a PhD candidate at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, graduating in Spring 2013. He has received his bachelors degree from Sharif University of Technology in Iran in 2006, and his MSc degree from Simon Fraser University in Canada in 2008. His main research areas are computer [...]
Understanding the 3D World from Images
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Silvio Savarese is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After earning his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2005, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005 - 2008 as a Beckman Institute Fellow. He [...]
Modeling Social Reasoning through Recursive, Decision-Theoretic Planning
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: David Pynadath is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. His research has focused on developing an artificial intelligence framework that can model, simulate, and analyze social interaction, with special emphasis on the methods by which agents, both human and software, form and [...]
Visual Topometric Localization
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Hernan Badino received his PhD degree from the J. W. Goethe Frankfurt University, in 2008. Dr. Badino has worked on vision based environment perception for driver assistance systems during his PhD at Daimler AG, in Stuttgart, Germany. He joined the Robotics Institute in 2009 as a post doctoral researcher where he [...]
Gliders, bicycles and walking robots
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andy Ruina is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University where he has been, but for various leaves, since the afternoon of Monday August 25, 1980. He teaches various basic mechanics and math classes. His early research was on rock friction and sliding instability, with the aim of increasing understanding [...]
(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 [...]