[Colloquium] 5/8 TTIC Colloquium: Dieter Fox; University of Washington

[Mary Marre via Colloquium]

When:     Monday, May 8th at 11:00 a.m.

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526

Who:       Dieter Fox; University of Washington


Title:       Toward Robots that Understand People and Their Environments

Abstract: To interact and collaborate with people in a natural way, robots
must be able to recognize objects in their environments, accurately track
the
​motion
 of humans, and estimate their goals and intentions.  The last years have
seen dramatic improvements in robotic capabilities to model, detect, and
track non-rigid objects
​​
such as human bodies, hands, and their own manipulators.  These recent
developments can serve as the basis for providing robots with an
unprecedented understanding of their environment and the people therein. I
will use examples from our research on
​
modeling, detecting, and tracking
​in 3D scenes
to highlight
​some of ​
these advances and discuss open problems that still need to be addressed. I
will also use these examples to highlight the pros and cons of model-based
approaches and deep learning techniques for solving perception problems in
robotics.


Bio: Dieter Fox is a Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer
Science &
Engineering at the University of Washington, where he heads the UW Robotics
 and
State Estimation Lab. From 2009 to 2011, he was also Director of the Intel
Research Labs Seattle. Dieter obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn
,
Germany.  His research is in robotics and artificial intelligence, with a
focus
on state estimation and perception applied to problems such as mapping,
object detection and tracking, manipulation, and activity recognition. He
has published more than 180 technical papers and is the co-author of the
textbook “Probabilistic Robotics.” He is a Fellow of the IEEE and
the AAAI, and he received several best paper awards at major robotics, AI,
and
computer vision conferences. He was an editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Robotics, program co-chair of the 2008 AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, and program chair of the 2013 Robotics: Science and Systems
conference.

Host: Matthew Walter <mwalter at ttic.edu>



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Mary C. Marre
Administrative Assistant
*Toyota Technological Institute*
*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*
*Room 504*
*Chicago, IL  60637*
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*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
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