VASC Seminar

Haroon Idrees: Visual Analysis of Dense Crowds

Newell Simon Hall 1507

Haroon Idrees Post Doc Associate, Center for Research in Computer Vision, University of Central Florida (UCF) Abstract Automated analysis of dense crowds is a challenging problem with far-reaching applications in crowd safety and management, as well as gauging political significance of protests and demonstrations. In this talk, I will first describe a counting approach which [...]

Special Events

2017 National Robotics Week Celebration

Campus

The Robotics Institute will celebrate the eighth annual National Robotics Week on April 20, 21 & 22 with lectures, project demonstrations, the annual Mobot (mobile robot) races, a reception for RI affiliated people and NREC Industry Day. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN REGISTER HERE If you have any specific questions about the National Robotics Week open [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal

Sankalp Arora: Safe, Efficient Data Gathering in Physical Spaces

NSH 1109

Sankalp Arora Ph.D. Thesis Proposal Abstract: Reliable and efficient acquisition of data from physical spaces will have countless applications in industry, policy and defense. The capability of gaining information at different scales makes Micro-Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) excellent for aforementioned applications. However, reasoning about information gathering at multiple resolution is NP-Hard and the state of the [...]

VASC Seminar
Prof. Jia Deng
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan

Toward Deep Geometric Image Understanding

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Jia Deng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research focus is on computer vision and machine learning, in particular, achieving human-level visual understanding by integrating perception, cognition, and learning. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and his B.Eng. from [...]

PhD Thesis Defense

Seungmoon Song: The Development, Evaluation and Applications of a Neuromechanical Control Model of Human Locomotion

NSH 3305

Seungmoon Song Ph.D. Thesis Defense Abstract: The neural control of human locomotion is not fully understood. As current experimental techniques provide only partial and indirect access to the neural control network, our understanding remains fragmentary with large gaps between detectable neural circuits and measurable behavioral data. Neuromechanical simulation studies can help bridging these gaps. By [...]

PhD Thesis Defense

Juan Pablo Mendoza: Regions of Inaccurate Modeling for Robot Anomaly Detection and Model Correction

GHC 6115

Juan Pablo Mendoza Ph.D. Thesis Defense Abstract: To make intelligent decisions, robots often use models of the stochastic effects of their actions on the world. Unfortunately, in complex environments, it is often infeasible to create models that are accurate in every plausible situation, which can lead to suboptimal performance. This thesis enables robots to reason [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal

Sasanka Nagavalli: Behavior Composition in Human Interaction with Robotic Swarms

GHC 4405

Sasanka Nagavalli Ph.D. Thesis Proposal Abstract: Robotic swarms are multi-robot systems whose global behavior emerges from local interactions between individual robots and spatially proximal neighboring robots. Each robot can be programmed with several local control laws that can be activated depending on an operator's choice of global swarm behavior (e.g. flocking, aggregation, formation control, area [...]

RI Seminar
Selma Šabanović
Associate Professor of Informatics & Cognitive Science
Indiana University

Robots for the social good: Identifying and addressing organizational and societal factors in the design and use of robots

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am an Associate Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where I founded and direct the R-House Human-Robot Interaction Lab. My work combines the social studies of computing, focusing particularly on the design, use, and consequences of socially interactive and assistive robots in different social and cultural [...]

RI Seminar

Selma Sabanovic: Robots for the social good: Identifying and addressing organizational and societal factors in the design and use of robots

NSH 1305

Selma Sabanovic Associate Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington Additional Information Host: Aaron Steinfeld Appointments: Stephanie Matvey Abstract Robots are expected to become ubiquitous in the near future, working alongside and with people in everyday environments to provide various societal benefits. In contrast to this broad ranging social vision for robotics applications, [...]