VASC Seminar
Vision based Micro Intelligent Vehicles
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Dr. Ming YANG graduated from Tsinghua University in China. After two-year post-doc experiences in INRIA, he is currently a full professor in the department of Automation in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and director of Research Institute of Intelligent Vehicles Technology. He has been working in the area of intelligent vehicles for [...]
Articulated People Detection and Pose Estimation
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: I received M.Sc. in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2010, and joined the group of Bernt Schiele at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics as a PhD student. The focus of my work is mainly on human pose estimation and articulated people detection, while recently I have been [...]
Joint Summarization of Large-scale Collections of Web Images and Videos for Storyline Reconstruction
Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Gunhee Kim is a postdoctoral researcher at Disney Research Pittsburgh. Prior to that, he received a Ph.D. degree at Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2013, advised by Eric P. Xing. He earned a master’s degree under supervision of Martial Hebert in Robotics Institute, CMU in 2008. He [...]
Reconstructing Storyline Graphs for Image Recommendation from Web Community Photos
Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Gunhee Kim is a postdoctoral researcher at Disney Research Pittsburgh. Prior to that, he received a Ph.D. degree at Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2013, advised by Eric P. Xing. He earned a master’s degree under supervision of Martial Hebert in Robotics Institute, CMU in 2008. He [...]
Video Based Wildfire Detection in an Active Learning Framework
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: A. Enis Cetin studied Electrical Engineering at the Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi (METU). After getting his B.Sc. degree, he got his M.S.E and Ph.D. degrees in Systems Engineering from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Between 1987-1989, he was Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering [...]
Joint Deep Learning for Human Detection and Identification across Camera Views
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Xiaogang Wang received his Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Science from the Special Class of Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001, M. Phil. degree in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004, and PhD degree in Computer Science [...]
Multimodal Analysis, Recognition and Synthesis of Expressive Human Behaviors
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Carlos Busso is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He received his B.S (2000) and M.S (2003) degrees with high honors in electrical engineering from University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, and his Ph.D (2008) in electrical engineering from University of Southern [...]
Learning the hard way: From children and parents to ultrafast machines
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Neil Johnson heads up a new inter-disciplinary research group in Complexity at the University of Miami looking at collective behavior and emergent properties in a wide range of real-world Complex Systems: from physical, biological and medical domains through to social and financial domains. He is also a Professor of Physics. He [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]