Seminar
Towards Robots that Move and Interact Like Humans
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Katsu Yamane joined Disney Research, Pittsburgh as a Senior Research Scientist in October 2008. His research interests are in humanoid robot control, human motion analysis and simulation, and character animation synthesis. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Tokyo in 1997, 1999 and 2002 respectively. Before moving [...]
Perception on an Offroad Robot: Shallow and Deep Learning Architectures
Event Location: 1507 NSHBio: I am a second year Robograd (PhD student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University). My research focus is to make pretty pictures (Computer Graphics) and to make sense out of ugly pictures (Computer Vision). More technically, I am interested in understanding how light interacts with media like smoke,dust, fog, ocean [...]
Self-Reflection and Self-Fabrication in robotic systems
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Hod Lipson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He directs the Computational Synthesis group, which focuses on novel ways for automatic design, fabrication and adaptation of virtual and physical machines. He has led work in areas such [...]
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. [...]