VASC Seminar
Robert Tamburo
Project Scientist, RI
RI

Programmable Automotive Headlights

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Robert Tamburo is currently a project scientist at the Robotics Institute in the Illumination and Imaging laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. Afterwards, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and [...]

VASC Seminar
Varun Ramakrishna
PhD Student, RI
Carnegie Mellon

Pose Machines: Articulated Pose Estimation via Inference Machines

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Varun Ramakrishna is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute, advised by Prof. Yaser Sheikh and Prof. Takeo Kanade. His research interests include structured prediction problems in computer vision with a focus on understanding human posture and motion from monocular images and image sequences. Varun was previously a master's student in [...]

VASC Seminar
David Fouhey
PhD Student RI
RI, Carnegie Mellon

Unfolding an Indoor Origami World

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: David Fouhey is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Abhinav Gupta and Martial Hebert. He holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Middlebury College. His research addresses a variety of scene understanding tasks in computer vision, with a particular interest in inferring [...]

VASC Seminar
Michael Zillich
Vienna University of Technology

Vision for cognitive robotics and some open meta problems

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Michael Zillich received his diploma in Mechatronics from Johannes Kepler University Linz in 1998 and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Vienna University of Technology in 2007. Michael Zillich is (co)-author of over 80 publications and served on the program committees of a number of international conferences and as reviewer for [...]

VASC Seminar
Anand Rangarajan
Associate Professor
University of Florida

Wave function representations in shape matching and indexing

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Anand Rangarajan has worked in shape analysis for over twenty years. After receiving the Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1991, he worked at Yale University in both the radiology and computer science departments until the advent of the new millennium. Since then, he has been in the computer [...]

VASC Seminar
Jia Li
Research Scientist
Yahoo! Research

Large Scale Visual Recognition in Real-World Images

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jia Li is a research scientist at Yahoo! Research. She leads the Visual Computing and Learning Group. Her research interests are computer vision, machine learningļ¼Œsocial network analysis and multimedia analysis. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. She is the leader of the OPTIMOL team, [...]

VASC Seminar
Ross Girshick
Researcher
Microsoft Research, Redmond

Object Detection: from Structured Models to Deep ConvNets and Back Again

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ross Girshick is a Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. He completed his Ph.D. in computer vision at The University of Chicago under the supervision of Pedro Felzenszwalb in 2012. Following his Ph.D., he spent two wonderful years as a postdoctoral fellow working with Jitendra Malik and Trevor Darrell at [...]

VASC Seminar
Jonghyun Choi
PhD Candidate
University of Maryland

Improving visual category recognition by diversity and commonality

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jonghyun Choi is a PhD candidate in the Computer Vision Lab at the University of Maryland, working with Prof. Larry Davis. He received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, Seoul Korea in 2003 and 2008 respectively. He has worked as an intern [...]

VASC Seminar
Sergey Tulyakov
PhD Student
University of Trento, Italy

Head Pose Estimation and Facial Expression Recognition under a Wide Range of Head Poses

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Sergey Tulyakov is a PhD student advised by Prof. Nicu Sebe at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Trento, Italy. His research interest includes 2D and 3D computer vision with particular emphasis on real-time analysis of human faces. He received his MS and BS in computer science from [...]

VASC Seminar
Wolfram Burgard
Professor
University of Freiburg

Probabilistic Techniques for Mobile Robot Navigation

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am a professor for computer science at the University of Freiburg and head of the research lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. My areas of interest lie in artificial intelligence and mobile robots. My research mainly focuses on the development of robust and adaptive techniques for state estimation and control. Over [...]