Seminar
Sketching Reality: Converting 2D sketches to 3D realistic models
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sing Bing Kang received his Ph.D. in robotics from CMU in 1994. He is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Corporation and adjunct faculty member of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. His interests are image-based modeling as well as image and video enhancement. Sing Bing has co-edited two books in [...]
Unsupervised Detection of Regions of Interest Using Iterative Link Analysis
Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Gunhee Kim is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department advised by Takeo Kanade at CMU. He received his master's degree under the supervision of Martial Hebert in 2008 from CMU's Robotics Institute. His research interests are computer vision, machine learning, data mining, and biomedical imaging. Abstract: This is a [...]
Webcam Clip Art: Appearance and Illuminant Transfer from Time-lapse Sequences
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jean-Francois Lalonde received his B.E. in Computer Engineering with honors from Laval University, Canada, in 2004. He then went to Carnegie Mellon University to pursue his M.S. in Robotics under Martial Hebert, which he received in 2006. Since then, he has been pursuing a Ph. D. in Robotics under Alexei A. [...]
Biomimetic Millirobots
Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Ronald Fearing is a professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Univ. of California, Berkeley, which he joined in Jan. 1988. He was Vice-Chair for Undergraduate Matters from 2000-2006. His current research interests are in micro robotics, including flying and crawling micro-robots, parallel nanograsping (gecko [...]
Corridor View: Making Indoor Life Easier with Large Image Database
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hongwen Henry Kang is currently a PhD student in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon, co-advised by Takeo Kanade and Martial Hebert, he also works closely with Alexei A. Efros. His research interests are in the intersection of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Computer Graphics, with specific interest in [...]
Characterization and Control of a Hopping Robot with Omni-Orientational Mobility for Rough Terrain
Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Bryan is a Masters student in the Robotics Institute. He is conducting his thesis research at the National Robotics Engineering Center under the guidance of Dr. Dimi Apostolopoulos and plans to graduate in December 2009. His interests include mobile robot system design, design of mechanisms for controllability, and control for unique [...]
Does Touch Perform Fourier Analysis? – A Frequency-Domain Analysis of Haptic Gratings
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Hong Z. Tan is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering with courtesy appointments in mechanical engineering and psychological sciences at Purdue University. Her research of haptic human-machine interfaces focuses on haptic perception and its implications for engineering applications. She received her Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao [...]
Modeling Facial Images with Patches
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Simon Prince was an undergraduate at UCL where he studied Psychology. His doctoral work was at the University of Oxford, in the Department of Experimental Psychology where he investigated human stereo vision using psychophysics. He subsequently worked in the Laboratory of Physiology in Oxford for two years as a post-doc with [...]