VASC Seminar
Dhruv Batra, Pyry Matikainen, Ed Hsiao
TTI-C and CMU

Talk #1: The M-Best Mode Problem: Extracting Diverse M-Best Solutions from Graphical Models Talk #2 (CVPR Practice Talk): Model Recommendation for Action Recognition Talk #3 (CVPR Practice Talk): Occlusion Reasoning for Object Detection under Arbitrary Viewpoint

Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: **Pizza Lunch will be served at 1:00pm** Talk #1 (starting at 12:00pm) The M-Best Mode Problem: Extracting Diverse M-Best Solutions from Graphical Models Dhruv Batra, Research Assistant Professor TTI-C Abstract: A large number of problems in computer vision, computational biology and robotics can formulated as the search for the most probable [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal
Lingzhi Luo
Carnegie Mellon University

Distributed Algorithms for Constrained Multi-robot Dynamic Task Assignment with Formal Performance Guarantees

Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: The task assignment problem is one of the fundamental combinatorial optimization problems. It has been extensively studied in operation research, management science, computer science and robotics. In multi-robot systems (MRS), there are various applications of task assignment, such as environmental monitoring, search and rescue, disaster response, extraterrestrial exploration, sensing data collection [...]

RI Seminar
Katsu Yamane
University of Tokyo

Inheriting and Evolving the Infrastructure for Systems and Devices of Humanoid and Home Assistance

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Masayuki Inaba is a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. He received B.S of Mechanical Engineering in 1981, M.S and Dr. Degrees of Information Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1983 and 1986 respectively. He was appointed as a lecturer in [...]

VASC Seminar
Andreas Wendel

Visual Outdoor Perception for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andreas Wendel received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Telematics (computer science and electrical engineering) from Graz University of Technology in 2007 and 2009, respectively. His studies were focused on computer vision and cognitive signal processing and he finished with highest distinction. Currently he is the head of the Aerial Vision [...]

PhD Thesis Defense
Umashankar Nagarajan
Carnegie Mellon University

Fast and Graceful Balancing Mobile Robots

Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: Personal mobile robots will soon be operating and closely interacting with us in human environments. Balancing mobile robots can be effective personal robots as they can be tall enough for eye-level interaction and narrow enough to navigate cluttered environments, and they also have the dynamic capabilities to move with speed and [...]