VASC Seminar
Yong Jae Lee
PhD Student
UT Austin

Visual Category Discovery in Images and Videos

Event Location: GHC 4405Bio: Yong Jae Lee is PhD candidate in the ECE Department at the University of Texas at Austin working under the supervision of Kristen Grauman. His main research interests are computer vision and machine learning. Specifically, he is interested in object recognition and discovery, scene understanding, and activity recognition. His thesis focuses [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal
Stéphane Ross
Carnegie Mellon University

No-Regret Methods for Learning Sequential Predictions

Event Location: GHC 8102Abstract: Sequential prediction problems arise commonly in many areas of robotics and information processing. For instance, in robot navigation tasks, autonomous robots rely on the ability to make a sequence of actions, given a sequence of observations revealed to them over time, in order to reach the desired goal location. Similarly, complex [...]

RI Seminar
Ian Lane Davis
Rockstar Games New England

CANCELED From Robograd to Rockstar™: Lessons in Transforming from a Naive Academic to a Stressed Out Entrepreneur (& Why You’d Have To Be Insane to Do It)

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: In 1996, Dr. Davis earned his PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon and set out to work on AI and virtual characters in video games. After working at Activision from 1996 to 1999 as Technical Director, Dr. Davis founded Mad Doc Software, and independent game developer for PCs and gaming consoles. [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal
Seungil Huh
Carnegie Mellon University

Cellular Event Detection in Time-lapse Live Cell Microscopy Images

Event Location: NSH 3002Abstract: Computer vision analysis of live cells in time-lapse microscopy images enables long-term continuous monitoring of a large number of intact cells with minimal human intervention, which has not been feasible by existing image processing methods with cellular staining images. Of critical importance in time-lapse microscopy image analysis is to understand the [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
George Kantor
Field Robotics Center

POSTPONED

Event Location: GHC2109

VASC Seminar
Lei Wu
Postdoc
University of Pittsburgh

Visual Representation and Correlation Measurement

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Dr. Lei Wu is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Dept. of Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh. He received Ph.D. in Dept. of Electronic Engineering and Information Science and B.S. degree in Special Class for Gifted Young (SCGY) from University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Geoff Hollinger
University of Southern California

Autonomous Inspection and the Benefit of Adaptivity

Event Location: NSH3305Bio: Geoffrey A. Hollinger is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory and Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is currently interested in adaptive sensing and distributed coordination for robots operating with limited communication. He has also worked on multi-robot search at Carnegie Mellon University, [...]

RI Seminar
Katsu Yamane
Senior Research Scientist
Disney Research, Pittsburgh

Animating Robots and Characters with Human Motion Capture Data

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Katsu Yamane received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Tokyo in 2002. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research, Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining Disney, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and [...]