Can we make our world accessible?
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Chieko Asakawa is an IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for Accessibility Research and Technology at IBM Research. Her contributions to Web accessibility include IBM Home Page Reader, one of the first voice browsers for the visually impaired, the aDesigner tool for accessibility evaluation, ai-browser for multimedia content accessibility, and then [...]
Towards leveraging large data for video analysis
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Pinar Duygulu has received her BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from Department of Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1996, 1998 and 2003 respectively. During her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. David Forsyth. After being [...]
Characteristic Prosody and Meaning in Speech Synthesis
Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: A new trainable model and method for generating prosody for speech synthesis is proposed, in which a relationship between pragmatics, intonational phonology, and performance is made explicit in a language-neutral manner. The literature of pragmatics and intonation is broad, but produces only coarse descriptions and few actionable models (Steedman; Pierrehumbert and [...]
Information Enabled Adaptive Autonomy for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Event Location: 1507Bio: Girish Chowdhary received his PhD and MS degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has postdoctoral research experience at the Georgia Tech UAV Research Facility, and at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also has research experience [...]
Understanding Human Behaviours using 2D and 3D Sensors
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Junsong Yuan is a Nanyang Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, leading the video analytics program at School of EEE. He obtained his PhD from Northwestern University in Aug. 2009. His research interests include computer vision, video analytics, large-scale visual search and mining, human computer interaction, biomedical image analysis, [...]
Prosthesis and exoskeleton emulators for rapid evaluation of human response to intervention
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steve Collins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is director of the Experimental Biomechatronics Laboratory, organizes the CMU Bipedal Locomotion Seminar, and teaches courses on Design and Biomechatronics. Steve received his B.S. from Cornell in 2002, his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from [...]
Correlation Filters : Theory and Applications
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Vishnu Naresh Boddeti received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition. He received the best paper award at BTAS [...]
Biomedical Image Guidance: BIG Ideas for Improving the Tools of Medicine
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: John Galeotti received BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (2001, 2002), and MS and PhD degrees in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University (2005, 2007). He is currently a senior project scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, as well as an adjunct assistant professor with [...]
Advancing visual recognition with big data
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jia Deng is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the EECS department of the University of Michigan, where he will start as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2014. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2012 and his B.Eng. from Tsinghua University, both in computer science. He has been co-organizing the [...]
How the mechanics of the fingertip impact the tactile and gripping function of the hand
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Vincent Hayward (Dr.-Ing., 1981 Univ. de Paris XI) was Postoctoral Fellow then Visiting Assistant Professor (1982) at Purdue University, and joined CNRS, France, as Chargé de Recherches in 1983. In 1987, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University as assistant, associate and then full professor (2006). [...]