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Fall 2000

 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Host

September 22

Gradient-Based Learning for Detection, Segmentation, and Recognition

Yann LeCun

Image Processing Research Department
Speech and Image Processing Services Research Lab
AT&T Labs - Research

Martial Hebert

September 29

Tensegrity Structures in Deployable Structures and Flight Simulation Technology

Cornel Sultan

Tensegra, Inc.
  (formerly Molecular Geodesics, Inc.)

Irving J. Oppenheim

October 6

EASYLIVING: An Architecture and Technologies For Intelligent Environments

Barry Brumitt

EasyLiving Project
Microsoft Corporation

Chuck Thorpe

November 3

Stochastic Tracking of Human Motion
NOTE SPECIAL PLACE: Wean 7500

Michael Black

Computer Science Department
Brown University

Jianbo Shi

 

Spring 2000

 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Host

January 14

Visual surveillance of human activity

Larry Davis

University of Maryland
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Steve Seitz

January 21

Off Week: Academic semester not yet begun

January 28

Active User Interfaces

Charles Baur

Robotic Systems Institute
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Lausanne, Switzerland

Chuck Thorpe

Terry Fong

Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

(speaker)

February 4

Off Week

February 11

Reconstruction from Omnidirectional Imagery

Camillo Taylor

Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

Sanjiv Singh

February 18

A report on interactive robots for the public

Illah R. Nourbakhsh

Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

(speaker)

February 25

Turning Technology into Companies: An Insider's Perspective on Internet Incubators and Getting Funded

Shumeet Baluja

E-Companies, LLC

Jeff Schneider

March 3

Off Week

March 10

Human Amplifying Machines

Francois Pin

Robotics and Process Systems
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Chuck Thorpe

March 17

Autonomous Underwater Robotic Vehicle Research at Stanford

Steve Rock

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Stanford University

Reid Simmons

March 24

Joint seminar with Mechanical Engineering:
Sensor Based Planning for Coverage and Serpentine Robotic Tasks
NOTE SPECIAL PLACE AND TIME: 125 Scaife Hall, Refreshments 3:00 pm, Talk 3:30 pm

Howie Choset

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

(speaker)

March 31

MEMS State-Of-The-Art Applications and the Future Direction in Autonomous Distributed MEMS
NOTE SPECIAL PLACE: 1000 Hamburg Hall

Hiroyuki Fujita

Institute of Industrial Science
University of Tokyo

Takeo Kanade

April 7

Robotic Mapping of Extreme Environments

Scott Thayer

Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon Unversity

(speaker)

April 14

The 15th Gate: The Mobot Awards Ceremony and Wrap-Up
NOTE SPECIAL PLACE AND TIME: 7500 Wean Hall, Refreshments 2:45 pm, Talk 3:00 pm

Illah Nourbakhsh, et al.

Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

(speaker)

April 21

Omnidirectional Vision in Immersive Environments

Kostas Daniilidis

Grasp Laboratory
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

Bob Collins

April 28

Off Week

May 5

Marsupial Robots

Robin Murphy

Perceptual Robotics Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of South Florida

Tucker Balch

 

Fall 1999

 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Host

September 10
1999

Virtualized Reality: Digitizing a 3D Time-Varying Real Event As Is and in Real Time

Takeo Kanade

Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

(speaker)

September 17
1999

Manipulation of Soil for Automated Earthmoving

Sanjiv Singh

Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

(speaker)

September 24
1999

An Introduction to Active Learning

David Cohn

Just Research

Andrew Moore

October 1
1999

Advances in the Robotic Search for Antarctic Meteorites

Dimi Apostolopoulos

Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

(speaker)

October 8
1999

A Bayesian Approach to Computer Vision and Super-Resolution

Peter Cheeseman

NASA Ames Research Center

Sanjiv Singh

October 15
1999

Intelligent Robotics - Some Experimental Case Studies

Raymond Jarvis

Intelligent Robotics Research Centre
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Monash University

Alan Lipton

October 22
1999

Variable Resolution Discretization in Optimal Control

Remi Munos

Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

(speaker)

October 29
1999

Applications of Optical Flow to Surveillance and Enhancement

Lambert Wixson

Sarnoff Corporation
Vision Technologies Laboratory

Alan Lipton

November 5
1999

The Use of Geometrical and Physical Models in Quantitative Medical Image Analysis
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: Refreshments 2:45 pm, Talk 3:00 pm

James S. Duncan

Department of Diagnostic Radiology
Department of Electrical Engineering
Image Processing and Analysis Group
Yale University

Yanxi Liu

November 12
1999

Off Week: Faculty retreat

November 15
1999
(Monday)

Image-Based Modeling, Rendering, and Lighting in "Fiat Lux"
NOTE SPECIAL PLACE, DAY, AND TIME: 100 Porter Hall, Refreshments 4:15 pm, Talk 4:30 pm

Paul E. Debevec

Computer Science
UC Berkeley

Steve Seitz

November 19
1999

Joint seminar with Mechanical Engineering:
Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Fluid Systems with Applications to Turbomachinery
NOTE SPECIAL PLACE AND TIME: Scaife Hall 125, Refreshments 2:45 pm, Talk 3:15 pm

Richard M. Murray

United Technologies Research Center

Howie Choset

November 26
1999

Off Week: Thanksgiving break

December 3
1999

Recognizing Pictorial Structures
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: Refreshments 4:15 pm, Talk 4:30 pm

Daniel Huttenlocher

Computer Science Department
Cornell University

Robert Collins

December 10
1999

Modeling from Reality
NOTE SPECIAL PLACE: 4623 Wean Hall

Katsushi Ikeuchi

Institute for Social Science
University of Tokyo

Takeo Kanade

November 10

Human Power Amplification Technology: An Example of Human-Machine Interaction via the Transfer of Power and Information Signals

Homayoon Kazerooni

Human Engineering Laboratory
Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

Jianbo Shi

November 17

no seminar: off week

November 24

Off Week: Thanksgiving


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