VASC Seminar
Visual Outdoor Perception for Micro Aerial Vehicles
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andreas Wendel received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Telematics (computer science and electrical engineering) from Graz University of Technology in 2007 and 2009, respectively. His studies were focused on computer vision and cognitive signal processing and he finished with highest distinction. Currently he is the head of the Aerial Vision [...]
Learning Local Image Descriptors for Recognition, Scene Labeling and Grouping
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Xiaofeng Ren is a research scientist at Intel Labs and an affiliate assistant professor at the University of Washington. His research interests are broadly in the areas of computer vision and its applications, including image features, grouping and segmentation, object recognition, and video analysis. His current focus is on understanding and [...]
An Egocentric Paradigm for Understanding Daily Activities
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Alireza Fathi is a PhD candidate at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, graduating in Spring 2013. He has received his bachelors degree from Sharif University of Technology in Iran in 2006, and his MSc degree from Simon Fraser University in Canada in 2008. His main research areas are computer [...]
Understanding the 3D World from Images
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Silvio Savarese is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After earning his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2005, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005 - 2008 as a Beckman Institute Fellow. He [...]
Visual Topometric Localization
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Hernan Badino received his PhD degree from the J. W. Goethe Frankfurt University, in 2008. Dr. Badino has worked on vision based environment perception for driver assistance systems during his PhD at Daimler AG, in Stuttgart, Germany. He joined the Robotics Institute in 2009 as a post doctoral researcher where he [...]
(Talk 1) Web Image Prediction Using Multivariate Point Processes (Talk 2) Towards Massive Multi-Way Classification: Structured Sparse Output Coding
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: (Talk 1) Gunhee Kim is a PhD student advised by Prof. Eric P. Xing at Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to starting PhD study in 2009, he earned a master’s degree under supervision of Prof. Martial Hebert in Robotics Institute, CMU, and worked as a visiting researcher at [...]