RI Seminar
Steven M. LaValle
University of Illinois

Manipulating Wild Bodies Using Gentle Guidance

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steven M. LaValle is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1995. From 1995-1997 he was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. [...]

VASC Seminar
Erik Learned-Miller
Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Adaptive Image Similarity: The Sharpening Match

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Erik G. Learned-Miller (previously Erik G. Miller) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he joined the faculty in 2004. His research focusses on computer vision and machine learning. He spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, in [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Stephen Nuske
Field Robotics Center

Automated Estimation of Grapevine Yield and Canopy Size for Precision Vineyard Management

Event Location: GHC2109Bio: Stephen is a Project Scientist at the Robotics Institute and was a PostDoc at the RI from 2008-2010. Prior to arriving at the RI he completed his PhD in Australia conducting the research jointly at the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation and the University of Queensland. He has worked on a [...]

RI Seminar
Raffaello D’Andrea
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Benjamin Sapp
PhD Student
University of Pennsylvania

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Ian Davis
Rockstar New England

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. [...]

VASC Seminar
Mikel Rodriguez
Researcher
MITRE

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Matt Swanson
SpeakerText

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Michalis Raptis
Postdoctoral Researcher
Disney Research Pittsburgh

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 [...]