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CIS Seminar: “Embodied perception in-the-wild”
September 8, 2020 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Computer vision is undergoing a period of rapid progress, rekindling the relationship between perception, action, and cognition. Such connections may be best practically explored in the context of autonomous robots. In this talk, I will discuss perceptual understanding tasks motivated by embodied robots “in-the-wild”, focusing on the illustrative case of autonomous vehicles. I will argue that many challenges that surface are not well-explored in contemporary computer vision. These include streaming computation with bounded resources, generalization via spatiotemporal grouping, online behavioral forecasting, and self-aware processing that can recognize anomalous out-of-sample data. I will conclude with a description of open challenges for embodied perception in-the-wild.
Deva Ramanan
Associate professor, Robotics Institute at Carnegie- Mellon University
Deva Ramanan is an associate professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie-
Mellon University and the director of the CMU Argo AI Center for Autonomous Vehicle
Research. His research interests span computer vision and machine learning, with
a focus on visual recognition. He was awarded the David Marr Prize in 2009, the
PASCAL VOC Lifetime Achievement Prize in 2010, an NSF Career Award in 2010, the
UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in 2011, the IEEE
PAMI Young Researcher Award in 2012, was named one of Popular Science's Brilliant
10 researchers in 2012, was named a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow in
2013, and won the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2018 for fundamental contributions in
computer vision. His work is supported by NSF, ONR, DARPA, as well as industrial
collaborations with Intel, Google, and Microsoft.
He served at the program chair of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
(CVPR) 2018. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer
Vision (IJCV) and is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis
and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). He regularly serves as a senior program committee
member for CVPR, the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), and the
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). He also regularly serves on NSF panels
for computer vision and machine learning.