CANCELED Optimizing Algorithms at the Level of Geometry
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Keenan Crane is a new Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department at CMU. He recently finished an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University. He received a B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006, and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology [...]
Design in context: bringing the physical world into CAD tools
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ryan Schmidt is a Research Scientist and head of the Design & Fabrication Group at Autodesk Research in Toronto, Canada. He is the creator of several novel 3D design tools, including Meshmixer, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011. At Autodesk he has evolved Meshmixer into one of the standard tools [...]
Low-Cost Fine Particulate Monitors and their Applications
Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: Air quality has long been a major health concern for citizens around the world, and increased levels of exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has been definitively linked to serious health effects such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory illness, and increased mortality. PM2.5 is one of six attainment criteria pollutants used by [...]
Active Illumination for the Real World
Event Location: GHC 4405Abstract: Active illumination systems use a controllable light source and a light sensor to measure properties of a scene. For such a system to work reliably it must be able to handle the effects of global light transport, bright ambient light, defocus and scene motion. The goal of this thesis is to [...]
Recovery of Function in Major Spinal Cord Injury Using Epidural Stimulation
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Joel Burdick received his undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering and chemistry from Duke University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He has been with the department of Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology since May 1988, where he has been the recipient of the [...]
CANCELEDThe Depth of Our Understanding: Vision, Language, and Humor
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: C. Lawrence Zitnick is a principal researcher in the Interactive Visual Media group at Microsoft Research, and is an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington. He is interested in a broad range of topics related to visual object recognition. His current interests include object detection, semantically interpreting visual scenes, [...]
Rich Representations for Parsing Visual Scenes
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Greg is an Assistant Professor at TTI-Chicago, a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute located on the University of Chicago campus, where he works on computer vision and machine learning. He also holds a part-time faculty appointment at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. Prior to coming to TTI-Chicago, [...]
Organ-Mounted Robots for Minimally Invasive Beating-Heart Surgery
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: In the push to improve patient outcomes in cardiac interventions, minimally invasive beating-heart surgery is a major field of surgical research. However, interventions on a soft tissue organ under continuous motion through remote incisions pose a significant challenge. Endoscopic approaches eliminate the associated morbidity of median sternotomy, but they require either [...]