RI Seminar
Steering Human Insight for Large-Scale Visual Learning
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Kristen Grauman is a Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research in computer vision and machine learning focuses on visual search and object recognition. Before joining UT-Austin in 2007, she received her Ph.D. in the EECS [...]
Sparse Matrix Factorization, Mesh Modification, and Real-Time FEM Simulation
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: James F. O'Brien is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary area of interest is Computer Animation, with an emphasis on generating realistic motion using physically based simulation and motion capture techniques. He has authored numerous papers on these topics. In addition [...]
Generating Representations for Action Recognition From Coarsely Labeled and Synthetic Data
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: Action recognition techniques rely heavily on well chosen features, such as trajectory-based motion descriptors, to make the most of relatively scarce video training data. Typically these features must be hand-selected because the very paucity of suitably annotated data that makes the selection of features critical also restricts the degree to which [...]
Visual Intelligence from Video and 3D Sensor Analytics
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Harpreet S. Sawhney is the Technical Director of Vision & Learning Technologies at SRI-Sarnoff in Princeton, NJ. Harpreet received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (Computer Vision) in 1992 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His areas of interest are Object/Event Recognition, Motion Video Analysis, 3D Modeling, Immersive Telepresence, Video Enhancement and [...]
Cognition-enabled Everyday Manipulation
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Michael Beetz is a professor for Computer Science at the Department of Informatics of the Technische Universität Muenchen and heads the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group. He is vice coordinator of the German national cluster of excellence CoTeSys (Cognition for Technical Systems) where he is also co-coordinator of the research area “Knowledge [...]
Leveraging Structure to Efficiently Make Good Decisions in an Uncertain World
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Emma Brunskill is an an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She was previously a NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at MIT on a NSF Graduate Fellowship and her masters in Neuroscience at [...]
Evolving the OpenGL Graphics Pipeline in Pursuit of Real-Time, Film-Quality Rendering
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Kayvon Fatahalian is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on the design of programming abstractions and efficient parallel systems for computer-intensive applications such as interactive computer graphics.Abstract: In the past fifteen years the capabilities of real-time graphics systems have increased rapidly as [...]
AI and Economics: The Dynamic Duo
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ariel Procaccia is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include the (pairwise) intersections of AI, social choice, and game theory. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was subsequently a postdoc at Microsoft and Harvard. [...]
Towards true autonomous mobility services in cities – A European view through INRIA experience
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Fawzi Nashashibi, 45 years, is a senior researcher and the Program Manager of IMARA research Team at INRIA since January 2011. He has been senior researcher in the robotics centre of the École des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech) since 1994 and is an R&D engineer and a project [...]
How Prototyping Practices Affect Design Results
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steven is an Assistant Professor at the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where he researches human-computer interaction, creative problem-solving, prototyping practices, and crowdsourcing methods. He is recipient of Stanford's Postdoctoral Research Award and co-recipient of a Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Grant. He received an MS and PhD in Human-Centered [...]