Seminar
William Swartout
Director of Technology Institute for Creative Technologies and Research Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Southern California

What Have We Learned From Virtual Humans?

Event Location: Rashid Auditorium - Gates and Hillman Centers 4401. Open to the public.Bio: William Swartout is Director of Technology for USC's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) and a research professor of computer science at USC. His particular research interests include virtual humans, explanation and text generation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, intelligent computer based education, [...]

RI Seminar
Pyry Matikainen
Carnegie Mellon University

Generating Representations for Action Recognition From Coarsely Labeled and Synthetic Data

Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: Action recognition techniques rely heavily on well chosen features, such as trajectory-based motion descriptors, to make the most of relatively scarce video training data. Typically these features must be hand-selected because the very paucity of suitably annotated data that makes the selection of features critical also restricts the degree to which [...]

VASC Seminar
Olivier Duchenne
PhD Student
ENS

A Graph-Matching Kernel for Object Categorization

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Olivier Duchenne received the M.S. degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in École Normale Supérieure (ENS), in Paris in 2008. He then joined as a phD candidate the research team, WILLOW in the same university under the supervision of professor Jean Ponce. He received the best student paper, honorable mention, [...]

RI Seminar
Dr. Harpreet S. Sawhney
Technical Director, Vision & Learning Technologies
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ

Visual Intelligence from Video and 3D Sensor Analytics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Harpreet S. Sawhney is the Technical Director of Vision & Learning Technologies at SRI-Sarnoff in Princeton, NJ. Harpreet received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (Computer Vision) in 1992 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His areas of interest are Object/Event Recognition, Motion Video Analysis, 3D Modeling, Immersive Telepresence, Video Enhancement and [...]

RI Seminar
Michael Beetz
Professor
Technische Universität München

Cognition-enabled Everyday Manipulation

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Michael Beetz is a professor for Computer Science at the Department of Informatics of the Technische Universität Muenchen and heads the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group. He is vice coordinator of the German national cluster of excellence CoTeSys (Cognition for Technical Systems) where he is also co-coordinator of the research area “Knowledge [...]

RI Seminar
Emma Brunskill
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University

Leveraging Structure to Efficiently Make Good Decisions in an Uncertain World

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Emma Brunskill is an an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She was previously a NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at MIT on a NSF Graduate Fellowship and her masters in Neuroscience at [...]