Small Image Sensors and Big Visual Data
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Li Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin. His research is in the areas of computer vision and graphics. He received his B.E. in Automation at Tsinghua University, P. R. China, and his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of [...]
Navigation, Guidance, and Adaptive Control Innovations for Unmanned Aircraft
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Eric N. Johnson (eric.johnson@ae.gatech.edu) is the Lockheed Martin Associate Professor of Avionics Integration, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech. He received a B.S. degree from University of Washington, M.S. degrees from MIT and The George Washington University, and a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, all in Aerospace Engineering. He also [...]
Multi-frame Data Association with Higher-Order Cost Functions
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Robert T. Collins received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1993. He is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The Pennsylvania State University, where he co-directs the Lab for Perception, Action and Cognition (LPAC). Prior to joining Penn [...]
Advanced Sensing and Imaging Techniques for Automated Quality Inspection of Fruits and Vegetables
Event Location: Newell-Simon Hall 1109Bio: Weilin Wang is a doctoral candidate of the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from China Agricultural University in 2002 and his M.S. degree in Biological Engineering from the University of Georgia in 2010. His current doctoral research is focused [...]
Robots that Need to Mislead: Biologically-inspired Machine Deception
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ronald C. Arkin is Regents' Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He served as STINT visiting Professor at KTH in Stockholm, Sabbatical Chair at the Sony IDL in Tokyo, and the Robotics and AI Group at LAAS/CNRS in Toulouse. Dr. Arkin's research interests [...]
Theory and Practice of Globally Optimal Deformation Estimation
Event Location: GHC 8102Abstract: Nonrigid deformation modeling and estimation from images is a technically challenging task due to its nonlinear, nonconvex and high-dimensional nature. Traditional optimization procedures often rely on good initializations and give locally optimal solutions. On the other hand, learning-based methods that directly model the relationship between deformed images and their parameters either [...]
Less is More: New Visual Perspectives by Capturing Less than Meets the Eye
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: When we snap a photo with a conventional camera, we record all incident light no matter how it got there. In this talk I will discuss a new family of cameras that gives us many more degrees of freedom: these cameras record just a fraction of the light coming from a [...]
Learning nested systems using auxiliary coordinates
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán is an associate professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Merced. He received the degree of "licenciado en informática" (MSc in computer science) from the Technical University of Madrid in 1995 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Sheffield in [...]
Coordination of Multiple Dynamic Programming Policies for Control of Bipedal Walking
Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: Walking is a core task for humanoid robots. Most existing walking controllers fall into one of two categories. One category plans ahead and walks precisely; they can place the feet in desired locations to avoid obstacles but react poorly to unexpected disturbances. The other category is more reactive; they can respond [...]
Creating Robots for Ultra-minimally Invasive Surgery
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Pierre E. Dupont is Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering and holder of the Edward P. Marram Chair at Boston Children’s Hospital. His academic appointments include Visiting Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. His research group develops robotic instrumentation and imaging technology for [...]