RI Seminar
Greg Mori
Professor
School of Computer Science, Simon Fraser University

Deep Structured Models for Human Activity Recognition

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Abstract: Visual recognition involves reasoning about structured relations at multiple levels of detail.  For example, human behaviour analysis requires a comprehensive labeling covering individual low-level actions to pair-wise interactions through to high-level events.  Scene understanding can benefit from considering labels and their inter-relations.  In this talk I will present recent work by our group building [...]

Faculty Candidate
Berk Calli
PostDoctoral Associate
GRAB Lab , Yale University

Faculty Candidate Talk: Closing the Loop with Vision Feedback and Compliance in Robotic Manipulation

Gates 6115

Areas of Interest: Grasping and Manipulation   Abstract Robotic manipulation is a key functional requirement that is largely missing from the current state of the art regarding robots in unstructured environments. While models of manipulation phenomenon give us invaluable insights on various principles, many parameters (e.g. surface geometry, friction coefficients, contact locations) are difficult to [...]

Special Events

HEBI Robotics Modular Robotics Workshop

Newell-Simon Hall 3305

Interested in learning how HEBI's modular robotics platform can dramatically reduce the time required to build custom robots? Want to learn more about the robotic system developed by one of Pittsburgh's exciting robotics start-ups? Take advantage of the opportunity to get hands-on time with HEBI's X-Series platform and instruction from HEBI engineers. At the workshop [...]

VASC Seminar
Shubham Tulsiani
PhD Candidate
UC, Berkeley

Learning Single-view 3D Reconstruction of Objects and Scenes

GHC 6501

Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the task of inferring 3D structure underlying an image, in particular focusing on two questions - a) how we can plausibly obtain supervisory signal for this task, and b) what forms of representation should we pursue. I will first show that we can leverage image-based supervision to learn [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Soft-Matter Robotic Materials

GHC 8102

Abstract: Soft machines and electronics are key components for emerging applications in wearable biomonitoring, human-machine interaction, and soft robotics. In contrast to conventional machines and electronics, soft-matter technologies provide a method for replicating these traditionally rigid devices using intrinsically soft materials that exhibit properties similar to soft biological tissue. This provides a path forward for [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Systems Scientist
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

From Robust Real-time SLAM to Safe Collision Avoidance

Newell Simon Hall 1507

Abstract State estimation plays a critical role in a robotic system. The problem is to know where the robot is and how it is oriented. This is very often a building block in the navigation system, which modules in charge of higher level tasks are relied on. Challenges are to carry out state estimation in [...]

Faculty Candidate
Changliu Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University

Faculty Candidate Talk: Designing Robot Behavior in Human-Robot Interactions

Newell-Simon Hall 3305

Areas of Interest: Industrial Collaborative Robot, Autonomous Driving, Non-Convex Optimization, Distributed Conflict Resolution   Abstract Human-robot interactions (HRI) have been recognized to be a key element of future robots in many application domains such as manufacturing, transportation, service and entertainment, which entail huge social and economic impacts. Technically, it is challenging to design the behavior [...]

Faculty Events

Robotics Institute Faculty Dinner

Pittsburgh Golf Club 5280 Northumberland Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

The RI voting faculty dinner will be held on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the Pittsburgh Golf Club. The tentative time frame is from 4:30 to 9:00pm.

RI Seminar
David Breen
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, Drexel University

Level Set Models for Computer Graphics

1305 Newell Simon Hall

ABSTRACT A level set model is a deformable implicit model that has a regularly-sampled representation.  It is defined as an iso-contour, i.e. a level set, of some implicit function f.  The contour is deformed by solving a partial differential equation on a sampling of f, an image in 2D and a volume dataset in 3D.  [...]

Faculty Candidate
Wenzhen Yuan
PhD candidate
Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Faculty Candidate Talk: Making sense of the physical world with high-resolution tactile sensing

Gates 6115

Areas of Interest: Robotic Tactile Sensing, Robotic Perception   Abstract: With the rapid progress in robotics, people expect robots to be able to accomplish a wide variety of tasks in the real world, such as working in factories, performing household chores, and caring for elderly. However, it is still very difficult for robots to act [...]