Seminar
University of British Columbia
Extracting and identifying communicative events from multimodal behavior
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy and physics from St. John's College, Maryland, in 1974, a certificate in ethnographic film making in 1976, and an M.A. in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1978. From 1982-1987 he was an NIH pre-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories (Connecticut) investigating "the organization and [...]
Bringing people in the loop: data annotation and real-time visual supervision with Amazon Mechanical Turk
Event Location: NSH 1507
Autonomy and Cooperation for Micro Air Vehicles
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Randal W. Beard received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1993, the M.S. degree in mathematics in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1995, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. [...]
Designing Social Behavior for Humanlike Robots
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Bilge Mutlu is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on designing social behavior for socially interactive systems—particularly, humanlike robots—in an integrated, interdisciplinary process in which he combines knowledge and methods from cognitive, social, computer science, and design, and understanding the cognitive, social, [...]
Beyond Nouns and Verbs: Learning Visually Grounded Stories of Images and Videos using Language and Vision
Event Location: NSH 1507
Imitation Learning for Autonomous Navigation in Complex Natural Terrain
Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: David Silver is a PhD candidate at the Robotics Institute, researching robust mobile robot navigation systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and a M.S. in Robotics from CMU. Previously, he has worked with the TSLAM and Subterranean Robotics groups at CMU, and the UPI program at NREC. He is [...]