Robotics Institute: Seminar Schedule, Spring 2004

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Seminar Calendar

Information on the speaker can be viewed by clicking on the title of the seminar.

The abstract and the presentation, when available, are also accessible by clicking on the title of the seminar.

The schedule, titles, and abstracts from earlier in this semester can be found in the archives.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Host
January 14	Autonomous Vehicle Development at GDRS
	Brad Stuart	GDRS	Alonzo Kelly
January 21	Agricultural Robots and Food Traceability Based on Robotic Agriculture
	Naoshi Kondo	SI Seiko Co., Ltd	Tony Stentz
January 28	QRIO: Sony's Humanoid Robot Special Location: NSH 3305
	Ken Orii, Todd Kozuki, John DeCuir	Sony Entertainment Robot America	Manuela Veloso
February 4	An Overview of Recent CMU Research on Model-Based Face Processing
	Simon Baker	Carnegie Mellon University	Simon Baker
February 11	Get a Life: How AI in Video Games Makes Characters Come Alive
	Ian Davis	Mad Doc Software	Al Kelly & Sanjiv Singh
February 18	The Sonic Flashlight and Related Projects
	George Stetten	Carnegie Mellon University	George Stetten
February 25	A Year on Mars: Driving the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit at Gusev Crater
	Chris Leger	JPL	Martial Hebert
March 4	Mid Semester Break

March 11	Spring Break

March 18	Real-time Estimation of Camera Motion and Other Endeavors in Structure from Motion
	David Nister	University of Kentucky	Yanxi Liu
March 25	Learning in Artificial Sensorimotor Systems
	Daniel Lee	University of Pennsylvania	Manuela Veloso and Brett Browning
April 1	Multimodal Signal Processing with Application to Neuroprostheses and Biometrics
	Richard Reilly	University College Dublin	Jeffrey Cohn
April 8	Signal-Theoretic Representations of Visual Appearance
	Ravi Ramamoorthi	Columbia University	Srinivasa G Narasimhan
April 15	*The 15th Gate: Mobot Wrap-Up and Awards Ceremony*

April 22	Scaling Issues in Robotics: Strength, Range, and Communication Limits on Big and Small Robots
	Mel Siegel	Carnegie Mellon University	Mel Siegel
April 29	Shared Control of Assembly Tasks by Robots and Humans
	Sanjiv Singh	Carnegie Mellon University	Sanjiv Singh
May 6	Biomechanics of Human Walking: Lessons from Biology, Applications to Robotics
	Art Kuo	University of Michigan	Jon Hurst
May 13	Field Investigations with Astrobiology Rovers
	David Wettergreen	Carnegie Mellon University	David Wettergreen

General Information

Seminars are held every Friday in 1305 Newell-Simon Hall, unless otherwise noted on the calendar or abstract. Seminars begin at 3:30pm, and refreshments are served starting at 3:15pm. Feel free to arrive early to get the first shot at the cookies and talk to your colleagues; please try not to leave during a seminar in deference to the speaker.

If you would like to arrange a meeting with a speaker, please contact the speaker if they are from CMU, or their host, listed on the calendar, if they are from outside of the University.

Previous Seminars

Abstracts from earlier this semester, as well as Seminar calendars and abstracts back to the Fall of 1993 can be found in the Robotics Institute Seminar Archive.

Seminar Committee

For technical issues and final scheduling commitments, as well as opinions or suggestions on speakers and seminar topics, please contact Alonzo Kelly.by e-mail at alonzo@ri.cmu.edu, or by phone at (412) 683-2550.

Alonzo Kelly, chair
David Choi, speaker relations & electronic publicity
Seth Koterba, real-world publicity

alonzo@ri.cmu.edu
dyc@andrew.cmu.edu
skoterba@andrew.cmu.edu

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This page is maintained by David Choi.