Probabilistic Techniques for Mobile Robot Navigation
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am a professor for computer science at the University of Freiburg and head of the research lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. My areas of interest lie in artificial intelligence and mobile robots. My research mainly focuses on the development of robust and adaptive techniques for state estimation and control. Over [...]
Abstractions for Multi-Material 3D Printing
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Wojciech Matusik is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, where he leads the Computational Fabrication Group.Before coming to MIT, he worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Adobe Systems, and Disney Research Zurich. He studied computer graphics at MIT [...]
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Bayesian Aggregation of Evidence for Detection and Characterization of Patterns in Multiple Noisy Observations
Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: Effective use of Machine Learning to support extracting maximal information from limited sensor data is one of the important research challenges in robotic sensing. This thesis develops techniques for detecting and characterizing patterns in noisy sensor data. Our Bayesian Aggregation (BA) algorithmic framework can leverage data fusion from multiple low Signal-To-Noise [...]
Computer vision for democratic and personalized access to sport video reports
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Christophe De Vleeschouwer is a Professor at ‘Université catholique de Louvain’ (UCL), and a Research Associate of the Belgian NSF. He received the M. Eng. and the Ph. D. degrees from UCL, in 1995 and 1999 respectively. As a young PhD, he was a senior research engineer with the IMEC Multimedia [...]
Factoring Scenes into 3D Structure an Style
Event Location: GHC 4405Abstract: Given a single image of a scene, humans have few issues answering questions about the 3D structure like “is this facing upwards?” even though mathematically speaking this should be impossible. We have similarly have few issues accounting for this 3D structure in answering viewpoint independent questions like “is this the same [...]
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3D Object Understanding
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Joseph Lim is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is advised by Professor Antonio Torralba. His research interests are in computer vision and machine learning. He has been motivated by the goal of building computer systems that [...]
Vector Map-Based, Non-Markov Localization for Long-Term Deployment of Autonomous Mobile Robots
Event Location: GHC 4405Abstract: As robots become increasingly available and capable, there has been an increased interest in having robots continue to perform autonomously over time despite changes in their environment. This thesis recognizes the wide variations in the applications and constraints of mobile robot localization in human environments, and proposes a number of localization [...]
Evaluation of Decentralized Reactive Swing-Leg Controllers on Powered Robotic Legs
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: We present work to transfer decentralized neuromuscular control strategies of human locomotion to powered segmented robotic legs. State-of-the-art robotic locomotion control approaches, like centralized planning and tracking in fully robotic systems and predefined motion pattern replay in prosthetic systems, do not enable the dynamism and reactiveness of able-bodied humans. Animals largely [...]
A Team Planning Language with Markup for Usage Adaptation
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: As robots become more reliable and user interfaces (UI) become more powerful, human-robot-agent teams are being applied to an increasing number of real world problems. Common areas of interest for these teams include scientific investigation, surveillance, disaster response, and search and rescue. These systems often employ a set of high level [...]