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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Ryad Benosman
Professor
University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris

Neuromorphic Event-based time oriented vision and Computation

GHC 6501

Abstract: There has been significant research over the past two decades in developing new systems for spiking neural computation. The impact of neuromorphic concepts on recent developments in optical sensing, display and artificial vision is presented. State-of-the-art image sensors suffer from severe limitations imposed by their very principle of operation. These sensors acquire the visual [...]

RI Seminar
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Goesele
Professor
Graphics, Capture and Massively Parallel Computing , Technische Universität Darmstadt

“Does it look right? – Why capture and reconstruction quality really matter.”

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Special RI Seminar Please Note Different Day and Time Abstract:  At first sight, 3D reconstruction can be considered a solved problem. The principles are well understood and we can reconstruct a wide range of objects and scenes using active as well as passive reconstruction approached. However, most of these reconstructions are not convincing when really [...]

RI Seminar
Frank Dellaert
Technical Project Lead at Building 8
Facebook

Factor Graphs and Automatic Differentiation for Flexible Inference in Robotics and Vision

1305 Newell Simon Hall

PLEASE NOTE: THIS SEMINAR WILL NOT BE RECORDED Abstract: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and Structure from Motion (SFM) are important and closely related problems in robotics and vision. I will review how SLAM, SFM and other problems in robotics and vision can be posed in terms of factor graphs, which provide a graphical language [...]