MSR Speaking Qualifier
Carnegie Mellon University
Yaadhav Raaj MSR Thesis Talk
Title: Exploiting Uncertainty in Triangulation Light Curtains for Object Tracking and Depth Estimation Abstract: Active sensing through the use of Adaptive Depth Sensors is a nascent field, with potential in areas such as Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). One such class of sensor is the Triangulation Light Curtain, which was developed in the Illumination and Imaging [...]
MSR Thesis Talk: Zhipeng Bao
Title: Introducing Generative Models to Facilitate Multi-Task Visual Learning Abstract: Motivated by multi-task learning of shared feature representations, this talk considers a novel problem of learning a shared generative model that can facilitate multi-task learning. We present two systems to utilize generative modeling for other visual tasks. The first system focuses on learning a generative [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
MSR Thesis Talk: Shanshan Jessy Xie
Title: GPU based perception via search for object pose estimation with RGB data Abstract: Known object pose estimation is essential for a robot to interact with the real world. It is the first and fundamental task if the robot wants to manipulate the object. This problem is particularly challenging when the environment is complicated [...]
MSR Thesis Talk – Mosam Dabhi
Title: Multi-view NRSfM: Affordable setup for high-fidelity 3D reconstruction Abstract: Triangulating a point in 3D space should only require two corresponding camera projections. However in practice, expensive multi-view setups -- involving tens sometimes hundreds of cameras -- are required to obtain the high fidelity 3D reconstructions necessary for many modern applications. In this talk, we argue [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
MSR Thesis Talk: Manan Shah
ZOOM Link: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cmu.zoom.us/j/93845075967?pwd%3DbndGc3NvaUVDVFFTTDZvektrNWJqdz09&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1623592142330000&usg=AOvVaw1xfNPT5c59CQGKzR2bw5sO ID: 93845075967 Passcode: 159459 Title: 3D SLAM for Powered Lower Limb Prosthesis Abstract: During locomotion, humans use visual feedback to adjust their leg movement when navigating the environment. This natural behavior is lost, however, for lower-limb amputees, as current control strategies of prosthetic legs do not typically consider environment perception. With [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
MSR Thesis Talk: Dennis Melamed
Title: Learnable Spatio-Temporal Map Embeddings for Deep Inertial Localization Abstract: Pedestrian localization systems often fuse inertial odometry with map information via hand-defined methods to reduce odometry drift, but such methods are sensitive to noise and struggle to generalize across odometry sources. To address the robustness problem in map utilization, we propose a system that forms a [...]
MSR Thesis Talk: Kshitij Goel
Title: Rapid Subsurface Exploration with Multiple Aerial Robots Abstract: This thesis develops a robotic exploration framework that allows for rapid and communication-efficient mapping of unknown environments with a team of aerial robots. Aerial robots can provide rapid and agile mobility in diverse environments where ground mobility is either severely constrained or impossible. However, high-speed flight [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
MSR Thesis Talk: Albert Ye
Title: BusEdge: Efficient Live Video Analytics for Transit Buses via Edge Computing Abstract: Many vehicles like transit buses are now routinely fitted with cameras. These live visual data are invaluable to achieve real-time traffic monitoring, but it is intractable to handle such a gigantic amount of data either locally or in the cloud due to [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
MSR Thesis Talk: Yunze Man
Title: Multi-Echo 3D Object Detection Abstract: LiDAR sensors can be used to obtain a wide range of measurement signals other than a simple 3D point cloud, and those signals can be leveraged to improve perception tasks like 3D object detection. A single laser pulse can be partially reflected by multiple objects along its path, resulting [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
Krishna Uppala – MSR Thesis Talk
Title: Exemplar free video retrieval. Abstract: Video retrieval of activities has a wide range of applications. In the traditional mode of operation, a collection of example videos describing the activities are given and the retrieval technique identifies other samples in a dataset that semantically match the examples provided. However, retrieval using a collection of example [...]