VASC Seminar
Sergey Tulyakov
PhD Student
University of Trento, Italy

Head Pose Estimation and Facial Expression Recognition under a Wide Range of Head Poses

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Sergey Tulyakov is a PhD student advised by Prof. Nicu Sebe at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Trento, Italy. His research interest includes 2D and 3D computer vision with particular emphasis on real-time analysis of human faces. He received his MS and BS in computer science from [...]

RI Seminar
Joelle Pineau
Associate Professor of Computer Science
McGill University

Learning Socially Adaptive Navigation Strategies: Lessons from the SmartWheeler Project

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Joelle Pineau is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science at McGill University, co-director of the Reasoning and Learning Lab, and member of the Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM). Before joining McGill in 2004, she received a B.A.Sc. (1998) in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and an MSc [...]

RI Seminar
Wolfram Burgard
Professor
University of Freiburg

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Wolfram Burgard
Professor
University of Freiburg

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Wojciech Matusik
Associate Professor
MIT/CSAIL

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Michael Tarr
Professor and Department Head
Carnegie Mellon University

CANCELED

Event Location: NSH 1507

PhD Thesis Proposal
Prateek Tandon
Carnegie Mellon University

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Christophe De Vleeschouwer
Professor
Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

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 [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal
David Ford Fouhey
Carnegie Mellon University

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Joseph Lim
PhD Student
MIT

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 [...]