Faculty Candidate: Recovering a Functional and Three Dimensional Understanding of Images
Areas of Interest: 3D Vision Abstract: What does it mean to understand an image? One common answer in computer vision has been that understanding means naming things: this part of the image corresponds to a refrigerator and that to a person, for instance. While important, the ability to name is not enough: humans can effortlessly [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
AI Will Help Feed A Growing Planet
Video will be via Facebook Live on the CMU Facebook page. After the event has passed, the video will be here. By the year 2040, there will be more people on the planet than food to feed them. Researchers want to change that: a sustainable solution to the emerging world food crisis is sprouting in [...]
Special Talk: Building Robots For Long-Term Autonomy, And Keeping Them Autonomous
Abstract: We seek the ultimate goal of having self-sufficient autonomous service mobile robots working in human environments, performing tasks accurately and robustly. Successfully deploying such robots requires simultaneously addressing challenges in a number of subproblems spanning the complete perception-cognition-actuation stack. In this talk, I shall present our recent research along two broad themes: algorithms for [...]
Faculty Candidate: Katie Bouman
Areas of Interest: Computational imaging, computational photography, computer vision, image and video processing, inverse problems, machine learning Host: Srinivasa Narasimhan Admin Contact: jessb@andrew.cmu.edu
Faculty Candidate: Toward Semi-Autonomous Surgical Tasks using Continuum Robots: Modeling, Calibration, and Intelligent Assistance
Abstract: Continuum robots for surgical applications can support complex surgical tasks within deep confined spaces of the body. Such surgical paradigms often present surgeons with sensory and surgical scene interpretation challenges that diminish situational awareness. These robots can reach deep into the body, while in some scenarios, using them in a semi-automated mode of operation [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
Harnessing Task Mechanics for Robotic Pushing and Grasping
Abstract: A high-fidelity and tractable mechanics model of physical interaction is essential for autonomous robotic manipulation in complex and uncertain environments. This thesis studies several aspects of harnessing task mechanics for robotic pushing and grasping operations: mechanics model learning, pose and model uncertainty reduction, and planning and control synthesis in the minimal coordinate space. We [...]
Robotics-Inspired Implantable Passive Mechanisms to Surgically Re-Engineer the Human Body
Abstract: Tendon-transfer surgeries are performed for a variety of conditions such as stroke, palsies, trauma, and congenital defects. The surgery involves re-routing a tendon from a nonfunctioning muscle to a functioning muscle to partially restore lost function. However, a fundamental aspect of the current surgery, namely the suture that attaches the tendon(s) to the muscles, [...]
Faculty Candidate Talk: Computational Design for the Next Manufacturing Revolution
Areas of interest: Computational design for manufacturing Abstract: Over the next few decades, we are going to transition to a new economy where highly complex, customizable products are manufactured on demand by flexible robotic systems. In many fields, this shift has already begun. 3D printers are revolutionizing production of metal parts in the aerospace, automotive, [...]