RI Seminar
Michael Wagner
Senior NREC Commercialization Specialist, RI
NREC

Developing Trust in Autonomous Robots

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am a Senior Commercialization Specialist at the NREC and the CEO of Edge Case Research, a company I co-founded to help make autonomous vehicles and other complex software-based systems safer and more reliable. I have sixteen years of experience developing advanced robotic systems for industry, the Department of Defense, and [...]

VASC Seminar
Vicente Ordonez-Roman
PhD Student
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language and Perceptual Categorization in Computer Vision

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Vicente Ordonez is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds an MS from Stony Brook University and an engineering degree from the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral in Ecuador. His research interests are at the at the intersection [...]

RI Seminar
Paul Debevec
Chief Visual Officer
USC Institute of Creative Technologies

Advances in Photoreal Digital Humans in Film and in Real-Time

Event Location: CIC DEC RoomBio: Paul Debevec is a Research Professor at the University of Southern California and the Chief Visual Officer at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. From his 1996 P.hD. at UC Berkeley, Debevec’s publications and animations have focused on techniques for photogrammetry, image‐based rendering, high dynamic range imaging, image‐based lighting, appearance measurement, [...]

VASC Seminar
Bharath Hariharan
PhD Student
UC Berkeley

Detection, segmentation and fine-grained localization

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: I am a fifth year graduate student with Prof. Jitendra Malik in the Vision group at University of California Berkeley. I did my undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. My interests are in Computer Vision and Machine learning. I am funded by a Microsoft Research Fellowship.Abstract: Object recognition in [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal
Ji Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University

Online Lidar and Vision based Ego-motion Estimation and Mapping

Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: In many real-world applications, motion estimation and mapping must be conducted online and in real-time. The real-time motion estimates are important for controlling and maneuvering autonomous vehicles, and the maps generated online are critical for obstacle avoidance and path planning. Further, the final map can be used as a representation of [...]

VASC Seminar
Olga Russakovsky
PhD Student
Stanford University

Designing and Overcoming Challenges in Large-Scale Object Detection

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Olga Russakovsky (http://ai.stanford.edu/~olga) is a PhD student at Stanford University advised by Professor Fei-Fei Li. Her main research interests are in large-scale object detection and recognition. For the past two years she has been the lead organizer of the international ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge which has been featured in [...]

RI Seminar
Mark Cutkosky
Professor
Stanford University

Bio-Inspired Dynamic Surface Grasping

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Mark R. Cutkosky is the Fletcher Jones Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He joined Stanford in 1985, after working in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and as a design engineer at ALCOA, in Pittsburgh, PA. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie [...]