MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

MSR Thesis Talk: Jiaqi Geng

NSH 4305

Title: Dense Human Pose Estimation From WiFi Abstract: Advances in computer vision and machine learning techniques have led to significant development in 2D and 3D human pose estimation from RGB cameras, LiDAR, and radars. However, human pose estimation from images is adversely affected by occlusion and lighting, which are common in many scenarios of interest. [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

MSR Thesis Talk: Jianchun Chen

NSH 4305

Title: An efficient approach for sequential shape human performance capture from monocular video Abstract: Human performance capture from RGB videos in unconstrained environments has become very popular for applications to generate virtual avatars or digital actors. Modern approaches rely on neural network algorithms to estimate geometry directly from images, resulting in a coarse representation of [...]

PhD Speaking Qualifier
PhD Student
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Thermal Management Considerations For Lunar Polar Micro-Rovers

GHC 9115

Meeting ID: 940 0396 4889 Passcode: 906118 Abstract:  This research addresses the significant and unprecedented challenge of thermal regulation for lunar polar micro-rovers.  These are distinct from priors by way of very small size, mass, and power, but particularly for the extremes of ambient environment in which they must operate. On the lunar poles, rovers experience temperatures [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

MSR Thesis Talk: Zhihao Zhang

NSH 4305

Title: Efficient Methods for Model Performance Inference Abstract: A key challenge in neural architecture search (NAS) is quickly inferring the predictive performance of a broad spectrum of neural networks to discover statistically accurate and computationally efficient ones. We refer to this task as model performance inference (MPI). The current practice for efficient MPI is gradient-based methods [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

MSR Thesis Talk: Chufan Gao

NSH A507

Title: Addressing Time-series Signal Quality in Healthcare Data Abstract: Healthcare data time-series signal quality assessment (SQA) plays a vital role in the accuracy and reliability of machine learning algorithms to analyze health metrics. However, these signals are often corrupted with different kinds of noises and artifacts, including Baseline Wander, Muscle Artifacts, Powerline Interference, and Equipment Failure. This [...]

PhD Thesis Defense
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Object Pose Estimation without Direct Supervision

NSH 4305

Abstract: Currently, robot manipulation is a special purpose tool, restricted to isolated environments with a fixed set of objects. In order to make robot manipulation more general, robots need to be able to perceive and interact with a large number of objects in cluttered scenes. Traditionally, object pose has been used as a representation to [...]

VASC Seminar
Boyi Li
Research Scientist
NVIDIA Research and Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley

Multimodal Modeling: Learning Beyond Visual Knowledge

Newell-Simon Hall 3305

Abstract:  The computer vision community has embraced the success of learning specialist models by training with a fixed set of predetermined object categories, such as ImageNet or COCO. However, learning only from visual knowledge might hinder the flexibility and generality of visual models, which requires additional labeled data to specify any other visual concept and [...]