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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 [...]
Geometry by Deflaring
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Fima Koreban received his BA degree in computer science from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 2001. After that he has served in the R&D unit at IDF. He is currently a M.Sc. candidate in the department of Electrical Engineering, Technion. His research involves optics and computer vision. Abstract: Stray light [...]
Sensorimotor Neuroprosthetics
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Dr. Weber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a faculty member in the Department of Bioengineering and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Dr. Weber received a B.S. (’94) in Biomedical Engineering from the Milwaukee [...]
Visual Computation in the light of Scale
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Stella X. Yu got her Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied robotics at the Robotics Institute and vision science at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. She continued her computer vision research as a postdoc at the UC Berkeley's Department of [...]
Camera and LIDAR Fusion for Mapping in Dark Environments
Event Location: NSH1109Bio: Uland Wong is an RI PhD candidate in Field Robotics advised by Red Whittaker. His research interests are 3D perception, calibrated imaging in dark environments and exploration robotics. His work has resulted in the development and commercialization of miniature borehole LIDAR and actively-illuminated vision sensors for mapping subterranean voids. He received his [...]
Multiagent systems: Putting theory into practice
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Milind Tambe is a Professor of Computer Science at University of Southern California(USC). He received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He leads the TEAMCORE Research Group at USC, with research interests in multi-agent systems. He is a fellow of AAAI and recipient of the [...]
Autonomous Aerobots for Planetary Exploration
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Alberto Elfes has an E.Eng. degree in Electronics Engineering (1975) and an M.Sc. in Computer Science (1980), both from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1989) from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is the author of the Occupancy Grid and Inference Grid frameworks, [...]
A Data-Driven Vision Compiler for Automatic Object Pose Recognition
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: My ultimate goal is to solve the robotics problem: combine vision, perception, planning, and control into one coherent framework to create intelligent and autonomous robots. Since I joined The Robotics Institute, I've been working on such an architecture titled OpenRAVE. My current research focuses on statistical planning using machine learning to [...]