Integrating Robots into Team-Oriented Environments
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Julie Shah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics and leads the Interactive Robotics Group of the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Shah received her SB (2004) and SM (2006)from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and her PhD (2010) in Autonomous Systems from [...]
Automatic Viewpoint Alignment and Deformation of 3D Models to Match Photographs Exactly
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Natasha Kholgade is a fifth year Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research lies at the intersection of computer graphics and computer vision. She is especially interested in extraction, manipulation, and editing of three-dimensional information in images. Prior to attending Carnegie Mellon, she received her B.S. [...]
High-level verifiable robotics
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Hadas Kress-Gazit is an Assistant Professor at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and has been at Cornell since 2009. Her research focuses on formal methods for robotics and automation [...]
Object detection with parsimony
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hyun Oh Song is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He is a recipient of five year Ph.D. fellowship from Samsung Lee Kun Hee Scholarship Foundation. His research interest lies at the intersection between computer vision, machine learning and optimization with an application focus in large scale object [...]
From Geometry to Startups—The Rise of a New Robotics Industry in China
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Zexiang Li attended the South-Central University in 1978, received his BS (with honor) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983, his MS degree in EECS in 1985, MA in mathematics and PhD in EECS in 1989, all from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked at [...]
Data-driven Exemplar Model Selection
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ishan Misra is a Masters student at the Robotics Institute and is advised by Prof. Martial Hebert. He works in computer vision, specifically on object recognition and semi-supervised learning.Abstract: We consider the problem of discovering discriminative exemplars suitable for object detection. Due to the diversity in appearance in real world objects, [...]
Model Recommendation for Object Detection
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Yuxiong Wang is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Prof. Martial Hebert. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning and he is particularly interested in object recognition problems. Abstract: In this work, we explore an approach to generating detectors [...]
Interactive Image Search with Attributes
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Adriana Kovashka is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. Her advisor is Professor Kristen Grauman. Adriana received her B.A. in Computer Science and Media Studies from Pomona College, CA, in May 2008. Her research interests primarily lie in computer vision, with [...]
Human-Centered Methods for Designing Robotic Products
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Bilge Mutlu is an assistant professor of computer science, psychology, and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute in 2009. His background combines training in interaction design, human-computer interaction, and robotics with industry experience in product design and development. [...]