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GRASP Lab Seminar 2003-2004
The GRASP Seminar features investigators from different universities and research institutions presenting their work to the Lab. Seminar talks normally occur each Friday at 11:00 in Levine Hall 307. Additional talks may occur occasionally at other times, as noted in the schedule.
September 12, "The Human ID Gait Challenge Problem," Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, 1:00 PM, Levine Hall 307.
September 19, "Towards efficient computational methods for simulation, and optimization of systems governed by partial differential equations," George Biros, University of Pennsylvania, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
September 26, "Sound, Mixtures, and Learning: LabROSA Overview," Dan Ellis, Columbia University, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
October 10, "Cell Talk," Bud Mishra, NYU, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
October 17, "Statistics of the Geometry of Object Populations," Stephen Pizer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
October 24, "The CISE Reorganization and New Funding Opportunities," Mitra Basu, National Science Foundation, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
October 31, "Development of a Virtual Road Simulator for Motorcyles," Makoto Hasegawa, Honda Motors, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
November 7, "Distributed Multi-robot Exploration and Mapping," Dieter Fox, University of Washington, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
November 21, "Modeling and Inference of Dynamic Visual Processes.," Stefano Soatto, UCLA, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
December 5, "Solving Mobile Robot Tasks without Localization and Mapping," Steve LaValle, University of Illinios, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 315.
December 12, "Analysis of Positioning Uncertainty in Reconfigurable Networks of Heterogeneous Mobile Robots," Stergios Roumeliotis, University of Minnesota, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
December 12, "Surface Shape from Discrete Point Clouds," Gerda Kamberova, Hofstra University, NY, 2:00 PM, Levine Hall 315.
January 16, TBA, Lydia Kavraki, Rice University, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
January 23, "Predictive State Representations (A new class of models for discrete-time controlled dynamical systems)," Satinder Singh, University of Michigan, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
January 30, "Networked Robotics: From Multi-Robot Systems to Wireless Sensor Networks," Gaurav Sukhatme, University of Southern California, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
February 6, "Recognizing and Reconstructing Objects When the Lighting Changes," David Jacobs, University of Maryland, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
February 13, "Estimation of Pulse, Blood Flow Rate, and Vessel Location from Thermal Video," Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
February 17 (Tuesday), "Bayesian Approaches to Image Segmentation," Daniel Cremers, University of California, 3:00 PM, Levine Hall 307.
February 20, "Using Probabilistic Regression and Classification Models for End-to-End Learning of Robotic Tasks," Greg Grudic, University of Colorado, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
February 27, "Reality-Based Modeling of Tool-tissue Interaction for Robot-Assisted Surgery," Jaydev Desai, Drexel University, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
March 5, "Generalized Principal Component Analysis GPCA," Rene Vidal, John Hopkins University, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
March 5, "Mechatronics Design and Development Projects of Mobile Machines," Low Kin Huat, Nanyang Technological University, 1:00 PM, Levine Hall 612.
March 19, "Passivity Based Control of Bipedal Locomotion," Mark Spong, University of Illinois, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
April 2, "Optimal Coordination on Roadmaps," Robert Ghrist, University of Illinois, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
April 9, "Monitoring Human Activity using Computer Vision," Larry Davis, University of Maryland, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
April 13 (Tuesday), "Multiagent Repeated Games and Convergence to Nash Equilibria," Jeff Shamma, University of California- Los Angeles, 3:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
April 16, "Visual 3D Modeling using Cameras and Camera Networks," Marc Pollefeys, University of North Carolina, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
April 23, "Constrained attitude control, distributed space systems, and state-dependent dynamic graphs," Mehran Mesbahi, University of Washington, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
April 23, "Vision-based Control for Field Robots," Peter Corke, CSIRO, 1:00 PM, Levine Hall 307.
April 30, "Learning a Rare Event Detection Cascade by Direct Feature Selection," James Rehg, Georgia Institute of Technology, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
June 24 (Thursday), "Video-based Analysis of Dynamic Visual Processes," Gianfranco Doretto, UCLA Computer Science Department, 1:45 PM, Levine Hall 307.
June 25, "Visual Topological Navigation using Omnidirectional Images," Toon Goedeme, PSI-VISICS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
July 7 (Wednesday), "Non-central Cameras, Their Models, and Stereo Geometries," Tomas Pajdla, Czech Technical University, Prague, 2:00 PM, Levine Hall 307.
July 8 (Thursday), "Linear Video Alignment," Rodrigo Carceroni, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, 2:00 PM, Levine Hall 307.
July 21 (Wednesday), "Detecting wiry objects in images," Owen Carmichael, Carnegie-Mellon University, 10:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
August 6, "Observability Analysis in Switched Linear Systems," Mohamed Babaali, GRASP Lab, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
