Interferometric light transmission probing with coded mutual intensity
Zoom Link Abstract: We introduce a new interferometric imaging methodology that we term interferometry with coded mutual intensity, which allows selectively imaging photon paths based on attributes such as their length and endpoints. At the core of our methodology is a new technical result that shows that manipulating the spatial coherence properties of the light [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
Josh Jaekel – MSR Thesis Talk
Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/97161117200?pwd=QlpkS0hFOFVLRDlKVlFqby9JbWZTUT09 Title: Towards Robust Multi-Camera Visual Inertial Odometry Abstract: Visual inertial odometry (VIO) has become an increasingly popular method of obtaining a state estimate on board smaller robots like micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). While VIO has demonstrated impressive results in certain environments, there is still work to be done in improving the robustness of [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
John Mai – MSR Thesis Talk
Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/7518832261 Title: System Design, Modelling, and Control for an Off-Road Autonomous Ground Vehicle Abstract: Autonomy in passenger road vehicles has long been a goal for many research groups and companies, and there has been a significant amount of focus on achieving this endeavour. A lesser focused upon area is the task of precise autonomous [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/5523238059 Title: Robust Instance Tracking via Uncertainty Flow Abstract: Current state-of-the-art trackers often fail due to distractors and large object appearance changes. In this work, we explore the use of dense optical flow to improve tracking robustness. Our main insight is that, because flow estimation can also have errors, we need [...]
The Topology of Learning
Zoom Virtual Meeting: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/92178295543?pwd=L2dwZU5SbDY5NzZZNzZ4ZmFUclRqQT09 Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have revolutionized computer vision. We now have DNNs that achieve top results in many computer vision problems, including object recognition, facial expression analysis, and semantic segmentation, to name but a few. Unfortunately, the rise in performance has come with a cost. DNNs have become so [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
Sarthak Ahuja – MSR Thesis Talk
Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/8978517404 Title: Visual Assessment for Non-Disruptive Object Extraction Abstract: Robots operating in human environments need to perform a variety of dexterous manipulation tasks on object arrangements that have complex physical support relationships, e.g. procuring utensils from a large pile of dishes, grabbing a bottle from a stuffed fridge, or fetching a book from a loaded [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
Eric Dexheimer – MSR Thesis Talk
Location: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/98262481359?pwd=dnN4UERmQlF6dVVROTQ1czYrU215UT09 Title: Efficient Multiresolution Scrolling Grid for MAV Obstacle Avoidance Abstract: In this talk, we propose the use of an efficient, structured multiresolution representation for robot mapping and planning. We focus on expanding the sensor range of dense local grids for memory-constrained platforms. While multiresolution data structures have been proposed previously, we avoid processing [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
Tanmay Agarwal – MSR Thesis Talk
Zoom link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/3388909661 Title: On-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Learning to Drive in Urban Settings Abstract: Traditional autonomous vehicle pipelines that follow a modular approach have been very successful in the past both in academia and industry, which has led to autonomy deployed on road. Though this approach provides ease of interpretation, its generalizability to unseen [...]
Jay Patrikar – MSR Thesis Talk
Zoom link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/93391276533?pwd=RTM4NTc0cTJETmRudGcwenNCSVgzdz09 Title: Wind-Field Estimation and Curvature Continuous Path Planning for Low Altitude Urban Aerial Mobility Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in dense urban areas need the ability to generate wind-aware collision-free, smooth, dynamically feasible trajectories between two locations. The complex and high-rise structure of the modern urban landscape affects the wind flow [...]
Benjamin Freed – MSR Thesis Talk
Where?:https://cmu.zoom.us/j/96355036481?pwd=OCtBeWZpMnZsZzFlRkJWc2dkZW5qUT09 Title: Discrete Communication Learning via Backpropagation for Distributed Computing on Bandwidth-Limited Communication Networks Abstract: Efficient inter-agent communication is an important requirement for both cooperative multi-agent robotics tasks, as well as distributed computing. In both of these domains, the rate at which information can be transferred between robots or computing nodes is often [...]