3D Scene Understanding for Autonomous Vehicles
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Andreas Geiger studied computer science and mathematics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. During his studies he spent 6 months at EPFL (working with Pascal Fua and Vincent Lepetit) and 6 months at MIT (working with Raquel Urtasun and Trevor Darrell). Currently he is a 4th year doctoral candidate [...]
CouchPotato: Learning from Lots of YouTube Video
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Rahul Sukthankar is a scientist at Google Research and an adjunct research professor in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon. He was previously a senior principal researcher at Intel Labs (2003-2011), a senior research scientist at HP/Compaq Labs (2000-2003) and research scientist at Just Research (1997-2000). Rahul received his Ph.D. in Robotics from [...]
Formulation and Calibration of Fast, Accurate Vehicle Motion Models
Event Location: NSH 3002Abstract: High performance wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) require fast, accurate motion models for planning and control. This thesis addresses two challenges to producing these models: the tradeoff between fidelity and speed in model formulation, and the need for laborious calibration procedures. To address the first challenge, I propose the formulation of “enhanced” [...]
Explaining complex physical events using large scale simulations. Case Study: Crash of Polish Air Force One in Smolensk, Russia, on April 10, 2010
Event Location: Hamburg Hall 1000(PLEASE NOTE TIME AND LOCATION)Tea Reception4:30 PM GHC 6115Bio: Dr. Wieslaw K. Binienda, F. ASCE. currently serves as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Akron. He received his Master of Science degree from the Warsaw Polytechnic and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University [...]
A Trillion Photos
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steve Seitz is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He also directs an imaging group at Google's Seattle office. He received his B.A. in computer science and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 and his Ph.D. in computer sciences [...]
Coherent Scene Understanding with 3D Geometric Reasoning
Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: Going beyond object detection and semantic segmentation, coherent scene understanding simultaneously considers multiple potential objects and surfaces in the image and reasons over them in a 3D geometric context to derive a coherent interpretation of the scene behind the image, during which many visual ambiguities can be resolved. To achieve this [...]
Multi-agent Pickup and Delivery Planning with Transfers
Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: Many logistics problems require mobile agents to retrieve and deliver a set of items. For example, postal services and couriers retrieve and deliver letters and packages, while taxis pick up and drop off passengers. These problems are instances of the Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP), in which a set of mobile [...]
Object Instance Discovery from Scenes of Daily Living
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: This thesis tackles the problem of automatically discovering objects from a collection of images from the Activities of Daily Living (ADL) environment. We contribute, 1) a framework for discovering object instances under severe clutter, occlusion, changes of view point, heterogeneity of object appearance and imperfect segmentation; 2) a data-driven approach for [...]