Seminar
Motion Planning with Dynamic Models
Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Emmanuel G. Collins, Jr. received the Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University in 1987. He worked for seven years in the Controls Technology Group at Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Florida A&M University – Florida State University College [...]
Three ways HRI teaches us about ourselves
Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Brian Scassellati is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. Using computational modeling and socially interactive robots, his research evaluates models of how infants acquire social skills and assists in the diagnosis and quantification of disorders of social development (such as autism). Dr. Scassellati received his Ph.D. [...]
Use of Active Appearance Models for Analysis and Synthesis of Naturally Occurring Behavior
Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Jeffrey Cohn is Professor of Psychology, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, director of the Affect Analysis Group at the University of Pittsburgh, and Adjunct Faculty at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and completed his Clinical [...]
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 [...]