Seminar
3-D Stereo Vision SLAM for Autonomous Mapping and Navigation (live demonstration)
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Pearse received the B.S. in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 and the M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 1994. Pearse Ffrench is a project manager and senior technical staff member at Vision Robotics. He has been developing 3-D stereo vision SLAM [...]
Collective motion and decision-making in animal groups
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Dr. Iain Couzin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Associated Faculty in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University since 2007. Before joining the faculty at Princeton he was Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, and Junior [...]
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 [...]