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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Yang Wu
Assistant Professor
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

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 [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal
Greydon Foil
Carnegie Mellon University

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, [...]

PhD Thesis Defense
Anca D. Dragan
Carnegie Mellon University

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 [...]

PhD Thesis Defense
Natasha Kholgade Banerjee
Carnegie Mellon University

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 [...]