Field Robotics Center Seminar
Sierra Young
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University

From Farm to Takeoff: Ground and Aerial Robots for Biological Systems Analysis

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Abstract: Biological and agricultural environments are dynamic, unstructured, and uncertain, posing challenges for environmental data collection at the necessary spatial and temporal scales to enable meaningful systems analysis. Small unmanned systems, however, can overcome some of these challenges by enabling autonomous or human-assisted image-based and in situ environmental data collection. This talk will present a suite of [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Satyaki Chakraborty – MSR Thesis Talk

NSH 3305

Title: Detecting objects in videos under occlusion   Abstract: While object detection in videos has received a lot of attention in the past few years, most existing methods in this domain do not target detecting objects when they are occluded. However, being able to detect or track an object of interest through occlusion has been [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

MSR Thesis Talk – Junjiao Tian

NSH 4305

Title: Detailed Image Captioning with Hierarchical Attention   Abstract:  Automatic image description is the task of generating a natural sentence which reflects the visual content of an image. A lot of deep learning architectures have been explored in the past few years. While researchers have made great improvement on generating syntactically correct sentences by learning from [...]

PhD Thesis Defense
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Analysis of Spatio-Temporally Varying Features in Optical Coherence Tomographic (OCT) and Ultrasound (US) Image Sequences

GHC 8102

Abstract: Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Ultrasound (US) are non-ionizing and non-invasive imaging modalities that are clinically used to visualize anatomical structures in the body. OCT has been widely adopted in clinical ophthalmology due to its micron-scale resolution to visualize in-vivo structures of the eye. Ultra-High Frequency Ultrasound (UHFUS) captures images of tissue at a [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

MSR Thesis Talk – Karen Orton

GHC 4405

Title:  Inching for Planetary Rovers   Abstract: . Inching, also called push-rolling, is method of moving for vehicles that can change the position of their wheels relative to their body.  Like an inchworm, it is possible to hold some wheels stationary while advancing the others and the body.  In this research a test apparatus capable [...]

Faculty Events

RI Faculty Social

Tazza D'Oro, 3rd floor, Gates and Hillman Centers

All Robotics Institute faculty are invited to attend this informal team-building business/social event. Beverages and snacks will be provided.

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Extern
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Sha (Yisha) Yi – MSR Thesis Talk

NSH 4305

Title: Improving Scalability in Multi-Robot Systems with Abstraction and Specialization   Abstract: Planning and controlling multi-robot systems is challenging due to high dimensionality. When the number of robots increases in the system, the complexity of computation grows exponentially. In this thesis, we examine the scalability problem in planning and control of the multi-robot system. We propose [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

MSR Thesis Talk – Andy (Chieh-En) Tsai

NSH 3305

Title: A Generative Approach for Socially Compliant Navigation   Abstract: Robots navigating in human crowds need to optimize their paths not only for the efficiency of their tasks performance but also for the compliance to social norms. One of the key challenges in this context is due to the lack of suitable metrics for evaluating and [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Shubham Agrawal – MSR Thesis Talk

NSH 4305

Title: 3D Face Geometry Capture Using Monocular Video   Abstract: Accurate reconstruction of facial geometry has been one of the oldest tasks in computer vision. Despite being a long-studied problem, many modern methods fail to reconstruct realistic looking faces or rely on highly constrained environments for capture. High fidelity face reconstructions have so far been [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Tejas Khot – MSR Thesis Talk

NSH 4305

Title: Unsupervised Learning for 3D Reconstruction and Blocks World Representation Abstract: Recovering the dense 3D structure of a scene from its images has been a long-standing goal in computer vision. Recent years have seen attempts of encoding richer priors into the geometry-based pipelines with the introduction of learning based methods. We argue that the form of 3D [...]