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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Feb 05, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us for a presentation by Dr. Nicolas Wey-Gomez, from CalTech, titled, "Columbus' Other Worlds, Faith, Science, and the Invention of a New Continent."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Feb 12, 2016 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us for a presentation by Prof. George Bekey, from the University of Southern California, titled, "Ethical Issues Associated with Self-Driving Cars."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Feb 19, 2016 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us for a presentation by Dr. William Patzert, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory titled, "Climate Whiplash: From Super Drought to Godzilla El Niño."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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Paul Debevec: Lighting Hollywood's Photoreal Digital Actors
Wed, Feb 24, 2016 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
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Come hear Paul Debevec, Chief Visual Officer of the USC Institute of Creative Technologies, talk about his work as part of Engineers Week!
We will have free CREAM ice cream sandwiches at the event! So come enjoy a night of free ice cream and computer graphics. What can be better than that?
This talk describes how the Light Stage scanning systems and HDRI lighting techniques developed at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies have helped create digital actors in a wide range of recent films.
For more info, check out the Facebook event page.Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC ACM SIGGRAPH
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PhD Defense - Chin-Kai Chang "Autonomous Mobile Robot Localization and Navigation in Urban Environment"
Thu, Feb 25, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
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PhD Defense - Chin-Kai Chang "Autonomous Mobile Robot Localization and Navigation in Urban Environment" 2/25; 3pm HNB RM 15
Date and Location: Thursday, February 25th, 3:00 pm at HNB RM15.
Title: Autonomous Mobile Robot Localization and Navigation in Urban Environment
PhD Candidate: Chin-Kai Chang
Committee: Laurent Itti (chair), Hao Li, Bosco Tjan(outside member)
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) is one of the highly versatile carriers for transportation, surveillance and search and rescue task. For the service type mobile robot that ability to travel through indoor and outdoor environment may encounter complex challenges different than that of street vehicles. The urban pedestrian environment is typically GPS-denied which demands a further integrated approach of perception, estimation, planning and motion control to surmount. In this thesis, we present the design and implementation of Beobot 2.0 - an autonomous mobile robot that operates in unconstrained urban environments. We developed a distributed architecture to satisfy the requirement for computationally intensive algorithms. Furthermore, we propose several biological-inspired visual recognition methodologies for indoor and outdoor navigation. We describe novel vision algorithms base on saliency, gist, image contour and region segment to construct several perception modules such as place recognition, landmark recognition, and road lane detection. To conquer the latencies and update frequencies of each perception module while performing real-time navigation task. We further investigate hierarchical map representation to fuse the quick, yet limited state information while time-consuming but higher discriminating data remains in processing. We validated our system using a ground vehicle that autonomously traversed several times in multiple outdoor routes, each 400m or longer, in a university campus. The routes featured different road types, environmental hazards, moving pedestrians, and service vehicles. In total, the robot logged over 10km of successfully recorded experiments, driving within a median of 1.37m laterally of the center of the road, and localizing within 0.97m (median) longitudinally of its true location along the route.
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 015
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Feb 26, 2016 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us for a presentation by Sandy Marshall, from Project Scientist, titled, "The Importance of STEM Role Models: Bringing Diversity to STEM Fields."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
