[Colloquium] Seltzer/MS Presentation/Jun 3, 2013

[Margaret Jaffey]

This is an announcement of Nicholas Seltzer's MS Presentation.

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Date:  Monday, June 3, 2013

Time:  4:30 PM

Place:  Ryerson 276

M.S. Candidate:  Nicholas Seltzer

M.S. Paper Title: Granular Rigid Body Pose Detection on a Budget

Abstract:
This paper is about structuring an object recognition task for finely
controlling computational costs. The motivating problem comes from 3D
scans with many identical objects, from which the pose of the objects
must be recovered as accurately as possible with a given computational
budget. This paper presents a method for detecting such objects which
allows control over the amount of computation performed. Using a
smaller computational budget results in worse quality results. We also
explore different allocations of computation given a particular
budget. Given a particular computational budget, different allocations
of computation result in different quality results. Devoting
computation to the edges of the object results in a tighter fit, at
the expense of a narrower basin of attraction. We can achieve the same
tightness of fit with roughly half as much computation by focusing on
the edges of the object.

Nicholas's advisor is Prof. Gordon Kindlmann

Login to the Computer Science Department website for details:
 https://www.cs.uchicago.edu/phd/ms_announcements#nseltzer

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