Field Robotics Center Seminar
Joerg Dittrich
Research Scientist
DLR Braunschweig, Germany

Flight Testing of an Unmanned Aircraft System – A Research Perspective

Event Location: GCH 2109Bio: Joerg Dittrich is a research scientist and a department head at DLR Braunschweig. DLR is the primary German government funded research organization in the field of aerospace engineering as well as the German space agency, employing around 7000 people across multiple sites in Germany. During his first years at DLR he [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal
Tomas Simon
Carnegie Mellon University

Forecasting Human Motion in Social Situations

Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: The goal of this thesis is to further our understanding of nonverbal communication by developing methods and representations to quantify and predict human body motion during social interactions. We design a data collection protocol and capture system to obtain 3D body pose and facial annotations for groups of interacting people engaged [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal
Yin Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University

Modeling Closed-Loop Adaptive Systems

Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are a powerful class of assistive devices that may one day restore movement ability to paralyzed individuals. These devices act by creating a direct mapping between recorded neural activity and the movement of an external actuator, like a computer cursor or a robotic arm, bypassing defective neural transmission [...]

VASC Seminar
Jakob Engel
PhD Student
Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Direct SLAM and 3D Reconstruction in real-time

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jakob Engel received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science in 2009 and his Master degree in December 2011 at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). He received the SIEMENS Award for the best Master's Thesis 2012 for his work on Autonomous Camera-Based Navigation of a Quadrocopter. Since September 2012 he is [...]

VASC Seminar
Cordelia Schmid
INRIA Research Director
INRIA

Weakly supervised learning from images and videos

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Cordelia Schmid holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe and a Doctorate, also in Computer Science, from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG). Her doctoral thesis on "Local Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval" received the best thesis award from INPG in 1996. She [...]

VASC Seminar
Jean Ponce
Professor
Departement Informatique, Ecole Normale Superieure

Weakly Supervised Video Understanding

Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: This talk addresses the problem of understanding the visual content of videos using a weak form of supervision such as the textual information available in television or film scripts. I will discuss two instances of this problem, the joint localization and identification of movie characters and their actions, and the assignment [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal
Michael C. Koval
Carnegie Mellon University

Robust Manipulation via Contact Sensing

Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: Humans effortlessly manipulate objects in cluttered and uncertain environments. In contrast, most robotic manipulators are limited to carefully engineered environments, e.g. factories, to circumvent the difficulty of manipulation under uncertainty. Contact sensors can provide robots with with the feedback vital to addressing this limitation. However, there are three principal challenges to [...]

VASC Seminar
Sofien Bouaziz
PhD Student
Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Digital Humans

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Sofien Bouaziz is a PhD student in the Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He received an MSc degree in Computer Science from EPFL in 2009 and completed his master thesis at the Imaging Group of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, where he developed computer vision [...]

VASC Seminar
Yael Moses
Associate Professor
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel

Photo Sequencing v.s. Feature Matching in CrowdCam Images

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Prof. Yael Moses, from the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya Israel, received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Weizmann Institute, Israel. Her early work concentrated on theoretical aspects of object recognition. Recently, she has been focusing on various aspects of multi-camera systems and [...]