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Faculty Events
RI Faculty Business Meeting
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Seminar
Shuran Song
Robotics and Embodied AI Lab, Stanford University
Learning Meets Gravity: Robots that Learn to Embrace Dynamics from Data
Abstract: Despite the incredible capabilities (speed and repeatability) of our hardware today, many robot manipulators are deliberately programmed to avoid dynamics – moving slow enough so they can adhere to quasi-static assumptions of the world. In contrast, people frequently (and subconsciously) make use of dynamic phenomena to manipulate everyday objects – from unfurling blankets, to [...]
1 event,
VASC Seminar
Yong Jae Lee
Department of Computer Sciences , University of Wisconsin-Madison
Large Multimodal (Vision-Language) Models for Image Generation and Understanding
Abstract: Large Language Models and Large Vision Models, also known as Foundation Models, have led to unprecedented advances in language understanding, visual understanding, and AI. In particular, many computer vision problems including image classification, object detection, and image generation have benefited from the capabilities of such models trained on internet-scale text and visual data. In [...]
2 events,
Faculty Events
RI Faculty Business Meeting
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Seminar
Fei Miao
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Connecticut
Learning and Control for Safety, Efficiency, and Resiliency of Embodied AI
Abstract: The rapid evolution of ubiquitous sensing, communication, and computation technologies has revolutionized of cyber-physical systems (CPS) across virous domains like robotics, smart grids, aerospace, and smart cities. Integrating learning into dynamic systems control presents significant Embodied AI opportunities. However, current decision-making frameworks lack comprehensive understanding of the tridirectional relationship among communication, learning and control, [...]
2 events,
PhD Thesis Defense
Generalizable Dexterity with Reinforcement Learning
Abstract: Dexterity, the ability to perform complex interactions with the physical world, is at the core of robotics. However, existing research in robot manipulation has been focused on tasks that involve limited dexterity, such as pick-and-place. The motor skills of the robots are often quasi-static, have a predefined or limited sequence of contact events, and [...]
VASC Seminar
Mohamed Elhoseiny
Computer Science, KAUST
Imaginative Vision Language Models: Towards human-level imaginative AI skills transforming species discovery, content creation, self-driving cars, and emotional health
Abstract: Most existing AI learning methods can be categorized into supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised methods. These approaches rely on defining empirical risks or losses on the provided labeled and/or unlabeled data. Beyond extracting learning signals from labeled/unlabeled training data, we will reflect in this talk on a class of methods that can learn beyond the vocabulary [...]
1 event,
VASC Seminar
Kenneth Marino
Google DeepMind
World Knowledge in the Time of Large Models
Abstract: This talk will discuss the massive shift that has come about in the vision and ML community as a result of the large pre-trained language and language and vision models such as Flamingo, GPT-4, and other models. We begin by looking at the work on knowledge-based systems in CV and robotics before the large model [...]
2 events,
RI Seminar
Marc Deisenroth
University College London
Data-Efficient Learning for Robotics and Reinforcement Learning
Abstract: Data efficiency, i.e., learning from small datasets, is of practical importance in many real-world applications and decision-making systems. Data efficiency can be achieved in multiple ways, such as probabilistic modeling, where models and predictions are equipped with meaningful uncertainty estimates, transfer learning, or the incorporation of valuable prior knowledge. In this talk, I will [...]
Faculty Events
RI Faculty Business Meeting
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
1 event,
VASC Seminar
Shunsuke Saito
Meta Reality Labs Research
Digital Human Modeling with Light
Abstract: Leveraging light in various ways, we can observe and model physical phenomena or states which may not be possible to observe otherwise. In this talk, I will introduce our recent exploration on digital human modeling with different types of light. First, I will present our recent work on the modeling of relightable human heads, […]