<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><b>When</b>: Monday, August 19th from <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">3:00pm - 4:00pm CT</b></div><div class="gmail_default"><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Where</b>: Talk will be given <b><font color="#0000ff">live, in-person</font></b> at<br> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue<br> 4th Floor, <b><u><font color="#000000">Room 431</font></u></b></div><div><br><b>Virtually</b>: via <a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/92331286511?pwd=SHcVZzcV7veJX8xkMN505hWA1tqxGE.1" target="_blank"><b>Zoom</b></a> <br></div><div> </div><div><b>Who: </b> Jiading Fang, TTIC</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(11,118,159);padding:0in 0in 1pt"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Title</b><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">: Embodied Spatial Intelligence: from implicit scene modeling to spatial reasoning</span><br></p><div><b>Abstract</b>: Humans live in a 3D space, and so do all other animals. A defining characteristic that sets us apart is our ability to deploy intention into spatially organized plans. Our actions are not merely reactive, but may be executed in long-horizon over spatial or temporal dimension. We assign semantics into the 3D world, and understand them in a hierarchical way that could be communicated with natural language. <br></div><div>Robots today need the same capability to be able to interact with and serve us in the same 3D world we live in. While they may have powerful motors and unbreakable steel bodies, challenges exist for them to understand the world as we do with their perception systems: 1) the ability to accurately and robustly perceive the complicated 3D world; and 2) the ability to reason over the spatial concepts they observe. This thesis attempts to build solutions towards addressing these two challenges.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thesis Committee: </font></b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Matthew R. Walter (Thesis Advisor), Gregory Shakhnarovich, </font>Adrien Gaidon, Mac Schwager</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 6:49 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><b>When</b>: Monday, August 19th from <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">3:00pm - 4:00pm CT</b></div><div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Where</b>: Talk will be given <b><font color="#0000ff">live, in-person</font></b> at<br> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue<br> 4th Floor, <b><u><font color="#000000">Room 431</font></u></b></div><div><br><b>Virtually</b>: via <a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/92331286511?pwd=SHcVZzcV7veJX8xkMN505hWA1tqxGE.1" target="_blank"><b>Zoom</b></a> <br></div><div> </div><div><b>Who: </b> <span>Jiading</span> Fang, TTIC</div><div><br></div></div><div><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(11,118,159);padding:0in 0in 1pt"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Title</b><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">: Embodied Spatial Intelligence: from implicit scene modeling to spatial reasoning</span><br></p><div><b>Abstract</b>: Humans live in a 3D space, and so do all other animals. A defining characteristic that sets us apart is our ability to deploy intention into spatially organized plans. Our actions are not merely reactive, but may be executed in long-horizon over spatial or temporal dimension. We assign semantics into the 3D world, and understand them in a hierarchical way that could be communicated with natural language. <br></div><div>Robots today need the same capability to be able to interact with and serve us in the same 3D world we live in. While they may have powerful motors and unbreakable steel bodies, challenges exist for them to understand the world as we do with their perception systems: 1) the ability to accurately and robustly perceive the complicated 3D world; and 2) the ability to reason over the spatial concepts they observe. This thesis attempts to build solutions towards addressing these two challenges.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thesis Committee: </font></b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Matthew R. Walter (Thesis Advisor), Gregory Shakhnarovich, </font>Adrien Gaidon, Mac Schwager</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 10:17 AM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><b>When</b>: Monday, August 19th from <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">3:00pm - 4:00pm CT</b></div><div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Where</b>: Talk will be given <b><font color="#0000ff">live, in-person</font></b> at<br> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue<br> 4th Floor, <b><u><font color="#000000">Room 431</font></u></b></div><div><br><b>Virtually</b>: via <a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/92331286511?pwd=SHcVZzcV7veJX8xkMN505hWA1tqxGE.1" target="_blank"><b>Zoom</b></a> <br></div><div> </div><b>Who: </b> Jiading Fang, TTIC<br> <br></div><div><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(11,118,159);padding:0in 0in 1pt"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></b></p><div><b>Title</b>: Embodied Spatial Intelligence: from implicit scene modeling to spatial reasoning</div><div><br></div><div><b>Abstract</b>: Humans live in a 3D space, and so do all other animals. A defining characteristic that sets us apart is our ability to deploy intention into spatially organized plans. Our actions are not merely reactive, but may be executed in long-horizon over spatial or temporal dimension. We assign semantics into the 3D world, and understand them in a hierarchical way that could be communicated with natural language. </div><div>Robots today need the same capability to be able to interact with and serve us in the same 3D world we live in. While they may have powerful motors and unbreakable steel bodies, challenges exist for them to understand the world as we do with their perception systems: 1) the ability to accurately and robustly perceive the complicated 3D world; and 2) the ability to reason over the spatial concepts they observe. This thesis attempts to build solutions towards addressing these two challenges.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span>Thesis</span> Committee: </font></b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Matthew R. Walter (Thesis Advisor), Gregory Shakhnarovich, </font>Adrien Gaidon, Mac Schwager</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">:00 pm</span></b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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