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VASC Seminar
Arthur Szlam
Facebook AI Research
Language and Interaction in Minecraft
Abstract: I will discuss a research program aimed at building a Minecraft assistant, in order to facilitate the study of agents that can complete tasks specified by dialogue, and eventually, to learn from dialogue interactions. I will describe the tools and platform we have built allowing players to interact with the agents and to record those interactions, and […]
1 event,
PhD Speaking Qualifier
Scaling Up Deep Learning with Model and Algorithm Awareness
Abstract: In recent years, the pace of innovations in the fields of deep learning has accelerated. To cope with the sheer computational complexity of training large ML models on large datasets, researchers in the systems and ML communities have created software systems that parallelize training algorithms over multiple CPUs or GPUs (multi-device parallelism), or even [...]
2 events,
RI Seminar
Seth Hutchinson
School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Design, Modeling and Control of a Robot Bat: From Bio-inspiration to Engineering Solutions
Abstract: In this talk, I will describe our recent work building a biologically-inspired bat robot. Bats have a complex skeletal morphology, with both ball-and-socket and revolute joints that interconnect the bones and muscles to create a musculoskeletal system with over 40 degrees of freedom, some of which are passive. Replicating this biological system in a [...]
1 event,
VASC Seminar
Minh Hoai Nguyen
Stony Brook University
Attentive Human Action Recognition
Abstract: Enabling computers to recognize human actions in video has the potential to revolutionize many areas that benefit society such as clinical diagnosis, human-computer interaction, and social robotics. Human action recognition, however, is tremendously challenging for computers due to the subtlety of human actions and the complexity of video data. Critical to the success of [...]
2 events,
PhD Thesis Defense
Underwater Localization and Mapping with Imaging Sonar
Abstract: Acoustic imaging sonars have been used for a variety of tasks intended to increase the autonomous capabilities of underwater vehicles. Among the most critical tasks of any autonomous vehicle are localization and mapping, which are the focus of this work. The difficulties presented by the imaging sonar sensor have led many previous attempts at [...]
RI Seminar
Pieter Abbeel
Director, Berkeley Robot Learning Lab & Co-Director, Berkeley Artificial Intelligence (BAIR) Lab, UC Berkeley
Deep Learning for Robotics
Abstract: Programming robots remains notoriously difficult. Equipping robots with the ability to learn would by-pass the need for what otherwise often ends up being time-consuming task specific programming. This talk will describe recent progress in deep reinforcement learning (robots learning through their own trial and error), in apprenticeship learning (robots learning from observing people), and [...]
1 event,
VASC Seminar
Xiaodong Yang
QCraft
Temporal Modeling and Data Synthesis for Visual Understanding
Abstract: In this talk, I will present two recent pieces of work on leveraging temporal information and synthetic data to enhance video and image understanding. In the first part, I will introduce a progressive learning framework, Spatio-TEmporalProgressive (STEP), for action detection in videos. STEP is able to more effectively make use of longer temporal information, [...]
1 event,
Field Robotics Center Seminar
Ioannis Pitas
Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Multiple Drone Vision and Cinematography
Abstract: The aim of drone cinematography is to develop innovative intelligent single- and multiple-drone platforms for media production to cover outdoor events (e.g., sports) that are typically distributed over large expanses, ranging, for example, from a stadium to an entire city. The drone or drone team, to be managed by the production director and his/her [...]
1 event,
RI Seminar
Chung-Wei Lin
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), National Taiwan University (NTU)
Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Intelligent Vehicles: Intersection Management, Security-Aware Design, and Automotive Design Automation
Abstract: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), autonomous functions, and connected applications bring a revolution to automotive systems and software. In this talk, several research topics in the domain of automotive systems and software will be introduced: (1) graph-based modeling, scheduling, and verification for intersection management, (2) security-aware design and analysis considering timing, game theory, and [...]
2 events,
PhD Thesis Proposal
Open-world Object Detection and Tracking
Abstract: Computer vision today excels at recognition in narrow slices of the real world. Our systems seem to accurately detect cats, cars, or chairs, but largely ignore the vast diversity of objects in the world that are absent from our training datasets. Perception in the open world, however, requires detecting and tracking any object, regardless [...]
3 events,
PhD Thesis Defense
Personalized and weakly supervised learning for Parkinson’s disease symptom detection
Abstract: Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects approximately one million Americans. Medications exist to manage the symptoms, but doctors must periodically adjust dosage level and frequency as a patient's disease progresses. These adjustments are typically based on observations made during short clinic visits, which provide an incomplete picture of a patient's daily […]
VASC Seminar
Shih-En Wei
Facebook Reality Labs
VR facial animation via multiview image translation
Abstract: A key promise of Virtual Reality (VR) is the possibility of remote social interaction that is more immersive than any prior telecommunication media. However, existing social VR experiences are mediated by inauthentic digital representations of the user (i.e., stylized avatars). These stylized representations have limited the adoption of social VR applications in precisely those […]
VASC Seminar
Stephen Lombardi
Facebook Reality Labs
Neural Volumes: Learning Dynamic Renderable Volumes from Images
Abstract: Modeling and rendering of dynamic scenes is challenging, as natural scenes often contain complex phenomena such as thin structures, evolving topology, translucency, scattering, occlusion, and biological motion. Mesh-based reconstruction and tracking often fail in these cases, and other approaches (e.g., light field video) typically rely on constrained viewing conditions, which limit interactivity. We […]
2 events,
Special Events
RI40: Past, Present, and Future
RI40: Past, Present, and Future
Please plan to join us on Friday, October 25, 2019 as we celebrate 40 years of people, robots, and innovation! 40 years ago Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute opened its doors with the dream of ushering in a new age of thinking robots. During the ensuing decades, we have experienced many research successes in intelligent […]
Seminar
H. Harry Asada
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RI40 Seminar: From Direct-Drive to SuperLimb Bionics
In 1980-81 the first Direct-Drive robot was developed at the CMU Robotics Institute. After almost 40 years, Direct-Drive has a renewed interest in the leg robotics community. Robotic legs powered by direct-drive or low gear-reduction motors can better interact with the ground and absorb impacts. In this seminar I will talk about robot design in […]
2 events,
Field Robotics Center Seminar
Tom Scherlis & Advaith Sethuraman
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Tartan AUV: A Dive into Carnegie Mellon’s RoboSub Team
Abstract: Founded last year, Tartan AUV is Carnegie Mellon’s undergraduate underwater robotics team which competes annually in the RoboSub competition. RoboSub teams must design, build, and test autonomous underwater vehicles that compete each August to complete tasks related to underwater navigation, object detection and manipulation, and acoustic beacon localization. In this talk we will provide […]
RI Seminar
Rebecca Taylor
Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
DNA and gammaPNA in programmable nanomaterials for sensing, robotics and manufacturing
Abstract: When programmable nanomaterials are used in conjunction with rapid microfabrication techniques like two photon polymerization, it becomes possible to rapidly prototype microstructures with nanoscale components. In this research presentation I introduce DNA nanotechnology using a commonly used simple nanotube motif, and I will illustrate how nucleic acid nanotubes can be used in sensing, robotics […]
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