CMU VASC Seminar

Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute

VASC Seminar Series

Time: Monday 3:30-4:40pm
(cookies at 3:20pm)
Place: *1507* Newell Simon Hall

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Webcast of Seminars (sponsored by NREC)

Spring 2008 VASC Seminar Schedule

Date Speaker Title Host
(for appointments)
1/14/08 Alex Berg
Yahoo! Research
UC Berkeley
Cool tricks in SVMs Srinivas Narasimhan
2/11/08 Sam Hasinoff
Toronto
Variable-Aperture Photography Srinivas Narasimhan
2/28/08, 10am, NSH 3305
Faculty Candidate Talk
Silvio Savarese
UIUC, Beckman Institute
Visual recognition and reconstruction in the three-dimensional world Martial Hebert
3/3/2008 Amit Agrawal
MERL
Coding and Modulation in Cameras: Computational Photography beyond Photo Manipulations Srinivas Narasimhan
3/10/2008
1:30pm, NSH 1507
Yan Ke
CMU, RI
PhD Defense: Volumetric Features for Video Event Detection Internal
3/21/2008
RI Seminar
Donald Geman
John Hopkins University
Stationary Features and Cat Detection Fernando de la Torre
3/24/08 Sameer Agarwal
U. Washington
Toward a Perceptual Space of Reflectance Srinivas Narasimhan
3/25/08 Bruce Maxwell
Tandent
A Bi-Illuminant Dichromatic Reflection Model for Understanding Images
Special VASC Seminar from Tandent
Srinivas Narasimhan
3/31/08 Hernan Badino
J.W.Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt
Free Space computation using Stochastic Occupancy Grids and Dynamic Programming Fernando de la Torre
04/01/08 Gabriel Taubin
Brown University
Recent Contributions to 3D Photography Martial Hebert
4/03/08 Saad Ali
U. Central Florida
Visual Analysis of Crowded Scenes Yaser Sheikh
4/7/08 Jim McCann
CMU
Real-Time Gradient-Domain Painting Internal
4/14/08 Yaser Yacoob

Image Segmentation using Meta-texture Saliency Fernando De La Torre
4/21/08 Katsuhisa Ogawa
Canon
Canon CMOS sensor's Past, Present and Future Takeo Kanade
4/24/08 Li Zhang
Wisconsin, Madison
Computer Vision Under Programmable Lighting: From 3D Reconstruction to Object Recognition Srinivas Narasimhan
5/07/08
10am, NSH 3305
Yaser Sheikh
RI
Faculty Candidate Talk Srinivas Narasimhan
5/09/08 Peter Tu and Xiaoming Liu
GE Research
Discriminative Image Alignment Fernando De La Torre
5/12/08 Tomasz Malisiewicz

Recognition by Association via Learning Per-exemplar Distances Internal
5/19/08 Onur C. Hamsici

TBD Fernando De La Torre
5/26/08 James Hays?

TBD Internal

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