Seminar
Factor Graphs, Bayes Trees, and Preconditioning for SLAM and SFM
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Frank Dellaert is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing at Georgia Tech. His research is in the areas of Robotics and Computer vision. He is particularly interested in graphical model techniques to solve large-scale problems in mapping and 3D reconstruction. Abstract: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping [...]
Motion Planning for Physical Systems
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Lydia E. Kavraki is the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University. Kavraki received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Her research contributions are in the area of robotics (robot motion planning, hybrid systems, formal methods in robotics, assembly planning, micromanipulation, and flexible [...]
Visual Category Discovery in Images and Videos
Event Location: GHC 4405Bio: Yong Jae Lee is PhD candidate in the ECE Department at the University of Texas at Austin working under the supervision of Kristen Grauman. His main research interests are computer vision and machine learning. Specifically, he is interested in object recognition and discovery, scene understanding, and activity recognition. His thesis focuses [...]
CANCELED 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. [...]
POSTPONED
Event Location: GHC2109
Visual Representation and Correlation Measurement
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Dr. Lei Wu is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Dept. of Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh. He received Ph.D. in Dept. of Electronic Engineering and Information Science and B.S. degree in Special Class for Gifted Young (SCGY) from University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include [...]
Autonomous Inspection and the Benefit of Adaptivity
Event Location: NSH3305Bio: Geoffrey A. Hollinger is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory and Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is currently interested in adaptive sensing and distributed coordination for robots operating with limited communication. He has also worked on multi-robot search at Carnegie Mellon University, [...]
Animating Robots and Characters with Human Motion Capture Data
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Katsu Yamane received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Tokyo in 2002. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research, Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining Disney, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and [...]