Seminar
Recognition Technology for Aging in Place
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Marjorie Skubic received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, where she specialized in distributed telerobotics and robot programming by demonstration. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia with a joint appointment in Computer Science. Dr. Skubic has [...]
3-D Stereo Vision SLAM for Autonomous Mapping and Navigation (live demonstration)
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Pearse received the B.S. in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 and the M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 1994. Pearse Ffrench is a project manager and senior technical staff member at Vision Robotics. He has been developing 3-D stereo vision SLAM [...]
Collective motion and decision-making in animal groups
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Dr. Iain Couzin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Associated Faculty in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University since 2007. Before joining the faculty at Princeton he was Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, and Junior [...]
Inferring Object Attributes
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Derek Hoiem is a new assistant professor at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Derek researches object recognition, segmentation, 3d reconstruction from images, and other aspects of computer vision that are related to scene understanding. He recently (2007) graduated from the Robotics Institute under the tutelage of Alyosha Efros and Martial [...]