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Events for March 31, 2011
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ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!Thu, Mar 31, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
DEADLINE: April 2nd, 1PM
E-Board Applications are now out for the 2011-2012 school year!
We hope you have enjoyed being a part of ASBME this past year, and if you would like to help improve it even more next year, we highly encourage you to run for a position by filling out this application: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/usc.edu/viewform?formkey=dHRrTnR0Z01xOC0zdnpuek5VUmZXR1E6MQ
The current E-board has put together a list of E-Board position responsibilities (on our website: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/), so that you can determine which one(s) fit you best.
The application is due Saturday, April 2nd by 1pm. We greatly look forward to the opportunity to have you be a part of next year's ASBME E-Board team, and we will be sending out election logistics in one week after applications have closed.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Photography for Aircraft Accident Investigation (PHOTO)
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This specialized course in accident investigation is designed to assist the investigator to improve photographic documentation of an accident site.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Human Error Analysis for System Safety (HEASS)
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
System safety analysis of engineered systems must often deal with the possibility of human error leading to adverse conditions. Hence human error probability evaluation is an important part of system safety. This course presents a summary of the methods and underlying theory for estimating human error probabilities.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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CS Seminar
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Sven Dickinson, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Talk Title: The Role of Intermediate Shape Priors in Perceptual Grouping and Image Abstraction
Abstract: Perceptual grouping played a prominent role in support of early object recognition systems, which typically took an input image and a database of shape models and identified which of the models was visible in the image. When the database was large, local features were not sufficiently distinctive to prune down the space of models to a manageable number that could be verified. However, when causally related shape features were grouped, using intermediate-level shape priors, e.g., cotermination, symmetry, and compactness, they formed effective shape indices and allowed databases to grow in size. In recent years, the recognition (categorization) community has focused on the object detection problem, in which the input image is searched for a specific target object. Since indexing is not required to select the target model, perceptual grouping is not required to construct a discriminative shape index; the existence of a much stronger object-level shape prior precludes the need for a weaker intermediate-level shape prior. As a result, perceptual grouping activity at our major conferences has diminished. However, there are clear signs that the recognition community is moving from appearance back to shape, and from detection back to unexpected object recognition. Shape-based perceptual grouping will play a critical role in facilitating this transition. But while causally related features must be grouped, they also need to be abstracted before they can be matched to categorical models. In this talk, I will describe our recent progress on the use of intermediate shape priors in segmenting, grouping, and abstracting shape features. Specifically, I will describe the use of symmetry and non-accidental attachment to detect and group symmetric parts, the use of closure to separate figure from background, and the use of a vocabulary of simple shape models to group and abstract image contours.
Biography: Sven Dickinson received the B.A.Sc. degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, in 1983, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he has also served as Acting Chair (2008-2009), Vice Chair (2003-2006), and Associate Professor (2000-2007). From 1995-2000, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University, where he also held a joint appointment in the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) and membership in the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS). From 1994-1995, he was a Research Assistant Professor in the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and from 1991-1994, a Research Associate at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Toronto. He has held affiliations with the MIT Media Laboratory (Visiting Scientist, 1992-1994), the University of Toronto (Visiting Assistant Professor, 1994-1997), and the Computer Vision Laboratory of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland (Assistant Research Scientist, 1993-1994, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1994-1997). Prior to his academic career, he worked in the computer vision industry, designing image processing systems for Grinnell Systems Inc., San Jose, CA, 1983-1984, and optical character recognition systems for DEST, Inc., Milpitas, CA, 1984-1985.
Host: Prof. Gerard Medioni
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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CS Colloquium
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Zhichun Li, NEC Research Labs
Talk Title: Towards Scalable User-Agnostic Attack Defense
Abstract: Security has become one of the major concerns for todayâs Internet. End users, however, are slow in adopting new security technologies. Many users cannot do good security management by themselves. On the other hand, IT managers desire efficient and scalable protection mechanisms.
Towards solving these issues, in this talk, I would like to introduce two of my efforts I did at Northwestern University. First, I will present the design of NetShield, a new vulnerability signature based NIDS/NIPS, which achieves high throughput comparable to that of the state-of-the-art regular expression based systems while offering much better accuracy. In particular, I propose a candidate selection algorithm which efficiently matches thousands of vulnerability signatures simultaneously, and design a parsing transition state machine that achieves fast protocol parsing.
Second, I will talk about WebShield, a secure web proxy design that protects clients from web-based exploits by processing potentially malicious JavaScript in a sandboxed environment (shadow browser) on a middlebox. With shadow browsers, WebShield also aims to deploy client-based defenses against various classes of web attacks without client modifications.
Biography: Zhichun Li currently is a research staff member at NEC Research Labs. Before joining NEC, he received his Ph.D. on Dec 2009 from Northwestern University, and continued working in the same university as a research associate for half a year. He earned both M.S. and B.S. degrees from Tsinghua University in China. His research interests span the areas of security, networking and distributed systems with an emphasis on network security, web security, smartphone security, cloud security, social network security, network measurement and distributed system diagnosis. He has conducted research at Microsoft Research Redmond and International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) of UC Berkeley.
Host: Prof. William Halfond
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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ASBME Explore LA: Korean BBQ!!
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Explore LA: Korean BBQ!!
WHEN: Thursday, March 31st
**Meet at RTH at 6:30PM
WHERE: Oh Dae San
Get ready to eat lots of meat!!! ASBME will be going out for Korean Barbeque on the evening of Thursday, March 31st to eat MEAT and of course, bond and get to know each other better. It would be great if you could come out for a bit this evening to have some fun and eat delicious Korean BBQ with ASBME! (We are sorry if you cannot eat meat BUT there are plenty of vegetarian side dishes). Please fill out this form if you are interested: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE03cGVSSEVYWGd1dFVsXzRMUzZfd1E6MQ
If you will be joining us, please meet in front of RTH at 6:30PM on Thursday, March 31st.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Musical Patois: Reflections of Language in Music
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
A unique collaboration among a neuroscientist, a composer, a performer/engineer and a computer scientist, this event will boldly explore and transgress the boundaries between science, music, technology and art. The event is inspired by the research of neuroscientists Aniruddh Patel and John Iversen and composer Jason Rosenberg, which demonstrated that the instrumental music of British and French composers reflects the rhythm and intonation of their native languages. Patel, along with composer Peter Child, pianist-engineer Elaine Chew and computer scientist Alexandre François, will examine the influence of language on music through an evening of scientific presentation, musical performance, interactive visualization and lively conversation.
Organized by Elaine Chew (Engineering) and Alexandre François (Engineering).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Allan Hancock Foundation (AHF) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
