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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Collaborative Representation for Person Re-identification
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Yang Wu received a BS degree and a Ph.D degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2004 and 2010, respectively. From Sep. 2007 to Dec. 2008, he was a visiting student in the GRASP lab at University of Pennsylvania. From 2011 to 2014, he was a program specific researcher at the Academic [...]
Efficiently Sampling from Underlying Physical Models
Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: Robots today have the capability to collect terabytes of data about their environment and travel kilometers in a single day, yet they are still constrained by one fundamental resource: time. Time limits the number of samples a robot can collect, sites it can analyze, and data it can return for review, [...]
Legible Robot Motion Planning
Event Location: GHC 8102Abstract: The goal of this thesis is to enable robots to produce motion that is suitable for human-robot collaboration and co-existence. Most motion in robotics is purely functional: industrial robots move to package parts, vacuuming robots move to suck dust, and personal robots move to clean up a dirty table. This type of [...]
3D Manipulation of Objects in Photographs
Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: This thesis describes a system that allows users to to perform full three-dimensional manipulations to objects in photographs. Cameras and photo-editing tools have contributed to the explosion in creative content by democratizing the process of creating visual realizations of users' imaginations. However, shooting photographs using a camera is constrained by real-world [...]
Articulated 3D SLAM
Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: Consider a robot arm with a hand-mounted sensor. In order to interact with and understand the world, the robot must be able to reconstruct it using its sensor by moving its joints to scan the scene. If the robot's kinematics are known with absolute certainty, the problem is the simple 3D mapping problem. [...]