Student Talks
Simulated Encounters of the Third Kind: Scenario-Based Approach to Designing Guide Robots
Newell-Simon Hall 4305Abstract: Navigating through unfamiliar environments is a challenging task. For people who are blind or have low vision (BLV), navigation can be particularly daunting. Guide robots are a type of service robot that can assist BLV people with navigation tasks. A significant amount of research related to guide robots has focused on technical contributions, while a [...]
Composing Generative and Discriminative Models for Better Generalization
NSH 3305Abstract: Computer Vision is Correspondence, correspondence, correspondence! Inspite of the singular definition of computer vision, we still have two broad categories of approaches in the literature. Generative Models, like Stable Diffusion, learn a correspondence between image and text modality, while learning a mapping from text to image. Discriminative Models, like CLIP, on the other hand [...]