CIS Colloquium, Mar 16, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Analysis of Motion Blur with a Flutter Shutter Camera for Non- Linear Motion Jingyi Yu, University of Delaware Image blurs confound many computer vision problems. The recently proposed Coded Photography aims to solve the problem by reversibly encoding information about the scene in a single […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Mar 15, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Barton Hall Room 108A Registration and Recognition for Robotics Kurt Konolige, Willow Garage / Stanford University Robotic manipulation around the home and office requires perception of the environment and objects within it. In this talk, I highlight the key roles played by visual registration. The first role […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Mar 04, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Towards the Next Generation of Mobile Recommender Systems Hui Xiong, Rutgers University Recommender systems aim to identify content of interest from overloaded information by exploiting the opinions of a community of users. Developing personalized recommender systems in mobile and pervasive environments is more challenging than […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Jan 26, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Activity Recognition and 3D Lower Limb Tracking with an Instrumented Walker Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo Wheeled walkers are popular mobility aids used by older adults to improve balance control. There is a need to automatically recognize the activities performed by walker users to better […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Nov 16, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Tech Center 111 Autonomous Web-scale Information Extraction Doug Downey, Northwestern University Search engines are extremely useful tools for answering simple questions. However, for more complex questions — e.g., “which nanotechnology companies are hiring on the West Coast?” — existing search engines are less effective, because the answers […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Nov 03, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman Hall 447 Data Mining in Real-world Applications Mathaeus Dejori, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton NJ Siemens is a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, employing more than 400,000 people world-wide and operating in industry, energy and healthcare sectors – driving innovation in key areas such as […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Oct 26, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, TECH Center Room 111 Towards predicting molecular cause of disease from amino acid substitutions Predrag Radivojac, Ph.D., Indiana University Advances in high-throughput genotyping and next generation sequencing have generated vast amounts of human genetic variation data. Single nucleotide substitutions within protein coding regions are of particular importance […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Oct 19, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Barton Hall Room 108A Supervised and Semi-Supervised Image Alignment Xiaoming Liu, Ph.D., General Electric Global Research The first part of the talk will give an overview of the various intelligence video projects being developed at the Visualization and Computer Vision Lab of GE Global Research. The second […]
Read More »Oct 05, 2010, 05:30PM – 07:00PM, TECH Center Room 111 Computer Architecture and Storage Hierarchy Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer, Temple University, Institute for Computational Molecular Science Computer Architecture and Storage Hierarchy is the second in a series of lectures presented by Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer, Associate Director of the Institute for Computational Molecular Science and Research and […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Oct 01, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman Hall 447 Mathematical Models for Image Classification Tong Zhang, Rutgers University I will describe a framework for image classification, where each image is represented as a distribution over local descriptors. The talk discusses two essential components that involve novel mathematical models: nonlinear function approximation using geometric […]
Read More »Sep 28, 2010, 05:30PM – 07:00PM, TECH Center Room 111 Introduction to High-Performance Computing (HPC) Computer Architecture and Storage Hierarchy Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer, Temple University, Institute for Computational Molecular Science Introduction to High-Performance Computing is the first in a series of lectures presented by Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer, Associate Director of the Institute for Computational Molecular […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Sep 28, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, TECH Center Room 111 Structured Prediction Cascades Ben Taskar, University of Pennsylvania Structured prediction tasks pose a fundamental bias-computation trade-off: The need for complex models to increase predictive power on the one hand and the limited computational resources for inference in the exponentiallysized output spaces on the […]
Read More »Sep 14, 2010, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, Shusterman Hall Keynote Lecture on High Performance Computing Dr. Shawn Brown, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Timothy O’Rourke, Vice President, Computer and Financial Services & CIO and Axel Kohlmeyer, Associate Director Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Research Associate Professor, and TeraGrid Campus Representative, cordially invite you to learn […]
Read More »CIS Distinguished Lecture Series Apr 21, 2010 Vipin Kumar Mining Climate and Ecosystem Data: Opportunities, Challenges, and Some Early Successes Location and time: TBA
Read More »CIS Colloquium Apr 16, 2010 Afrand Agah with James Fabrey Wachman 447 11:00AM – 12:00PM
Read More »CIS Colloquium Apr 14, 2010 Eduardo Fernandez Wachman 447 11:00AM – 12:00PM
Read More »CIS Distinguished Lecture Series Apr 02, 2010 Raymond J. Mooney Bottom-up Search and Transfer Learning in Markov Logic Location and time: TBA
Read More »CIS Distinguished Lecture Series Mar 17, 2010 David Clark The Internets We Did Not Build Location and time: TBA
Read More »CIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Mar 03, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, TECH Center 111 Revolution Through Competition Carl Landwehr, National Science Foundation and University of Maryland From Brunelleschi’s 1419 design for the dome of the Florence cathedral to the Ansari X-prize for space flight, competitions and prizes have long been used to stimulate scientific and technological […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Feb 24, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Object and Place Recognition: Appearance vs Geometry Kostas Daniilidis, University of Pennsylvania A common approach for recognizing scenes is comparing constellations and histograms of appearance features. These image matching measures are limited with respect to illumination and pose variations. a weakness mitigated by the abundance […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Feb 17, 2010, 01:30PM – 02:30PM, Wachman 447 Provenance and Scientific Workflows Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania We live in a world where data, information, and knowledge can be quickly and easily created, and the justification for its existence as quickly and easily forgotten. Nowhere is this more problematic than in e-Science, where […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Feb 03, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Connected Coverage of Wireless Networks in Theoretical and Practical Settings Dong Xuan, Ohio State University Coverage and connectivity are two key properties of wireless networks; particularly wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Deploying sensor nodes to simultaneously achieve coverage and connectivity (connected coverage) requirements is a fundamental […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Jan 27, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Exploiting the Latent Structures of 3D Geometry and Appearance Ko Nishino, Drexel University Images contain much more information than seen at first glance. Whether it is apparent to the naked eyes or not, they encode the intrinsic structures, i.e., the inherent variabilities, of the physical […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Jan 25, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Virtually Inclusive: Trends in Digital Accessibility Kel Smith, Anikto, Inc. A 2007 class-action lawsuit against Target Corp opened up legal and technical discussions around web accessibility. For technologists, this brings to light issues surrounding Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and its applicability to multiple […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Jan 10, 2010, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Feature Selection in Large Data Sets Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania When building predictive models using large data sets such as arise in biology and in text mining, one often needs to select a small number of the millions of candidate features. This talk describes […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium Dec 09, 2009 Qun Li Wachman 447 11:00AM – 12:00PM
Read More »CIS Distinguished Lecture Series Dec 03, 2009 Mary Lou Soffa Path-Based Fault Correlations TECH Center 111 11:00AM – 12:00PM
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Dec 02, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 SPIRAL and Beyond: Automatic Derivation and Optimization of DSP Algorithms and More Jeremy Johnson, Drexel University The SPIRAL system (www.spiral.net) is a tool for automatically deriving, implementing and optimizing digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms, in particular fast transform algorithms such as the fast Fourier transform […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Nov 23, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Design and Analysis of QoS on Fault-tolerant Large-scale Networking Systems Naixue (Neal) Xiong, Georgia State University Failure detection (FD) is an important issue for supporting dependability in distributed healthcare systems to guarantee continuous, safe, secure, and dependable operation, and often is an important performance bottleneck […]
Read More »CIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Nov 18, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Cloud Computing: Virtual Clusters, Security and Geospatial Applications Kai Hwang, University of Southern California Gartner Report has ranked virtualization and cloud computing as the top two technologies in 2009. In this talk, Dr. Hwang will assess the role of virtualization technology in protecting […]
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