Field Robotics Center Seminar
Ioannis Pitas
Professor
Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Multiple Drone Vision and Cinematography

3305 Newell-Simon Hall

Abstract: The aim of drone cinematography is to develop innovative intelligent single- and multiple-drone platforms for media production to cover outdoor events (e.g., sports) that are typically distributed over large expanses, ranging, for example, from a stadium to an entire city.  The drone or drone team, to be managed by the production director and his/her [...]

RI Seminar
Chung-Wei Lin
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), National Taiwan University (NTU)

Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Intelligent Vehicles: Intersection Management, Security-Aware Design, and Automotive Design Automation

Newell-Simon Hall 4305

Abstract: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), autonomous functions, and connected applications bring a revolution to automotive systems and software. In this talk, several research topics in the domain of automotive systems and software will be introduced: (1) graph-based modeling, scheduling, and verification for intersection management, (2) security-aware design and analysis considering timing, game theory, and [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Open-world Object Detection and Tracking

NSH 3002

Abstract: Computer vision today excels at recognition in narrow slices of the real world. Our systems seem to accurately detect cats, cars, or chairs, but largely ignore the vast diversity of objects in the world that are absent from our training datasets. Perception in the open world, however, requires detecting and tracking any object, regardless [...]

PhD Thesis Defense
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Personalized and weakly supervised learning for Parkinson’s disease symptom detection

GHC 8102

Abstract: Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects approximately one million Americans. Medications exist to manage the symptoms, but doctors must periodically adjust dosage level and frequency as a patient's disease progresses. These adjustments are typically based on observations made during short clinic visits, which provide an incomplete picture of a patient's daily [...]

VASC Seminar
Shih-En Wei
Research Scientist
Facebook Reality Labs

VR facial animation via multiview image translation

GHC 6501

Abstract:  A key promise of Virtual Reality (VR) is the possibility of remote social interaction that is more immersive than any prior telecommunication media. However, existing social VR experiences are mediated by inauthentic digital representations of the user (i.e., stylized avatars). These stylized representations have limited the adoption of social VR applications in precisely those [...]

VASC Seminar
Stephen Lombardi
Research Scientist
Facebook Reality Labs

Neural Volumes: Learning Dynamic Renderable Volumes from Images

GHC 6501

Abstract:   Modeling and rendering of dynamic scenes is challenging, as natural scenes often contain complex phenomena such as thin structures, evolving topology, translucency, scattering, occlusion, and biological motion. Mesh-based reconstruction and tracking often fail in these cases, and other approaches (e.g., light field video) typically rely on constrained viewing conditions, which limit interactivity. We [...]

Special Events

RI40: Past, Present, and Future

Gates-Hillman Center 4401

Please plan to join us on Friday, October 25, 2019 as we celebrate 40 years of people, robots, and innovation! 40 years ago Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute opened its doors with the dream of ushering in a new age of thinking robots. During the ensuing decades, we have experienced many research successes in intelligent [...]

Seminar
H. Harry Asada
Ford Professor of Engineering; Director, d'Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RI40 Seminar: From Direct-Drive to SuperLimb Bionics

1305 Newell Simon Hall

In 1980-81 the first Direct-Drive robot was developed at the CMU Robotics Institute. After almost 40 years, Direct-Drive has a renewed interest in the leg robotics community. Robotic legs powered by direct-drive or low gear-reduction motors can better interact with the ground and absorb impacts. In this seminar I will talk about robot design in [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Tom Scherlis & Advaith Sethuraman
Undergraduate Students
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Tartan AUV: A Dive into Carnegie Mellon’s RoboSub Team

NSH 4305

Abstract: Founded last year, Tartan AUV is Carnegie Mellon’s undergraduate underwater robotics team which competes annually in the RoboSub competition. RoboSub teams must design, build, and test autonomous underwater vehicles that compete each August to complete tasks related to underwater navigation, object detection and manipulation, and acoustic beacon localization. In this talk we will provide [...]