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Events for February 02, 2009
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Final Deadline for Transfer Admission - Part II Application
Mon, Feb 02, 2009
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
February 2, 2009 is the deadline for admission and scholarship consideration for transfer students. Engineering applicants must submit the USC Part II Undergraduate Application for Admission on or before February 2nd. Visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/transfer/ to access the application.
Audiences: Prospective Undergraduate Transfer Students
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Final Deadline for Supplemental Transfer Application
Mon, Feb 02, 2009
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
February 2, 2009 is the deadline to complete the Viterbi Supplemental Transfer Application. Transfer applicants are strongly encouraged to submit the Supplemental Application along with the USC Part II Undergraduate Application for Admission.Visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/transfer/ to access the Viterbi Supplemental Transfer Application and the USC Part II Undergraduate Application for Admission.
Audiences: Prospective Undergraduate Transfer Students
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Safety Management For Aviation Maintenance - Feb.2-6, 2009
Mon, Feb 02, 2009
Aviation Safety and Security Program
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
MAINT 09-2
For more information and to register for Aviation Safety and Security Program courses, please visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/aviation.Audiences: Registered Audiences Only
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Meet USC
Mon, Feb 02, 2009
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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BME 533 Seminar Series
Mon, Feb 02, 2009 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Andrew MacKay, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, USC: "Genetically engineered switched and drug carriers: behavior, architecture, and anti-tumor activity"
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Predicting Human Body Shape Under Clothing
Mon, Feb 02, 2009 @ 03:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Michael J. Black, Brown University
Host: Prof. Gerard MedioniAbstract:
We propose a method to estimate the detailed 3D shape of a person from images of that person wearing clothing. The approach exploits a model of human body shapes that is learned from a database of over 2000 range scans. We show that the parameters of this shape model can be recovered independently of body pose. We further propose a generalization of the visual hull to account for the fact that observed silhouettes of clothed people do not provide a tight bound on the true 3D shape. With clothed subjects, different poses provide different constraints on the possible underlying 3D body shape. We consequently combine constraints across pose to more accurately estimate 3D body shape in the presence of occluding clothing. Finally we use the recovered 3D shape to estimate the gender of subjects and then employ gender-specific body models to refine our shape estimates. Results on a novel database of thousands of images of clothed and ``naked'' subjects, as well as sequences from the HumanEva dataset, suggest the method may be accurate enough for biometric shape analysis in video.This is joint work with Alexandru Balan. Project page: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~alb/scapeClothing/Related ECCV paper: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~black/Papers/balanECCV08.pdfBiography:
Michael Black received his B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia (1985), his M.S. from Stanford (1989), and his Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University in 1992. He has been a visiting researcher at the NASA Ames Research Center and an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. In 1993 Prof. Black joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he managed the Image Understanding area and later founded the Digital Video Analysis group. In 2000, Prof. Black joined the faculty of Brown University where he is a Professor of Computer Science. At CVPR'91 he received the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper Award for his work with P. Anandan on robust optical flow estimation. His work also received Honorable Mention for the Marr Prize in 1999 (with David Fleet) and 2005 (with Stefan Roth). Prof. Black's research interests in machine vision include optical flow estimation, human motion analysis and probabilistic models of the visual world. In computational neuroscience his work focuses on probabilistic models of the neural code, the neural control of movement and the development of neural interface systems that directly connect brains and machines to restore lost function to people with central motor system injury.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Colloquia
