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Events for April 26, 2011
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Epstein ISE Research Seminar
Tue, Apr 26, 2011 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Julia L. Higle, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Integrated Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University
Talk Title: "Decisions and Data under Uncertainty"
Abstract: From its very inception, Operations Research has grappled with problems of Decisions under Uncertainty. Even in the early days of linear programming, Dantzig recognized that "the real problem"
involved programming under uncertainty! Progress with algorithmic methods, and advances in computing technology have made it possible to address "industrial-strength" applications which integrate data and decisions to deliver convincing real-world solutions.
Applications compel us to make decisions about the data that we use, a fact that we recognize with varying degrees of formality. In this talk, we will motivate a stochastic programming approach to "decision modeling" and "data modeling" using two applications emerging from the service sector. Following a presentation of the models that describe these applications, we provide an overview of Stochastic Decomposition (SD), a stochastic programming solution methodology. We report results that illustrate the quality of the policies that can be developed through this approach.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - Room 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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CS Colloquium
Tue, Apr 26, 2011 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Luc Vincent, Director of Engineering, Google Inc.
Talk Title: Google Street View: Image Acquisition and Computer Vision at Global Scale
Abstract: Unveiled in May 2007, the Street View feature of Google Maps is the result of a substantial engineering effort by a team including software engineers, mechanical engineers, UI designers, computer vision scientists, operations experts, and scores of others. The initial vision for Street View was provided by Google co-founder Larry Page, who personally collected street scene videos from his moving car in order to bootstrap research in this area. Turning this initial vision into a product required developing major new pieces of technology, including robust data collection platforms (vans, cars, tricycles, snowmobiles, etc.), systems for computing accurate pose from imperfect sensors, various software components to stitch, blend, color correct and warp collected imagery, efficient systems to manage a Gargantuan flow of data, a number of systems to address privacy issues, AJAX software components to integrate Street View to Google Maps, and many others. This presentation will go over some of these components and give the audience a peek at the Street View project from behind the scene.
Host: Dr. Cyrus Shahabi, USC
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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Integrating speech science and technology: New models for speech and audio processing
Tue, Apr 26, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University
Talk Title: Integrating speech science and technology: New models for speech and audio processing
Abstract: Traditional speech recognition techniques adopt a hierarchical, top down approach to modeling speech data; linguistic information such as word pronunciations or language models typically act as priors in statistical models for automatic speech recognition (ASR). One line of research has started to integrate linguistic information within the representation of the underlying speech data. However, the top down approach typically used in ASR (Hidden Markov Models) does not easily allow for combining evidence from different linguistic representations.
Similarly, in speech separation (removing background noise from a speech-noise mixture), different cues have been identified that indicate speech or background noise. However, the techniques that have utilized multiple cues typically combine them in an ad hoc manner.
In this talk, I will discuss a line of research from my lab that looks at combining evidence using Conditional Random Fields: CRFs have been utilized within the NLP community for many tasks, but their use in the speech community is only starting to take off. Applications of CRFs to the ASR and speech separation problems show that this type of model can be an effective combiner of information, and can allow us to easily integrate ideas from speech science into working systems.
Biography: Eric Fosler-Lussier is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, with a courtesy appointment in Linguistics, at The Ohio State University. After receiving a B.A.S. (Computer and Cognitive Science) and B.A. (Linguistics) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, he received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of California, Berkeley, performing his dissertation research at the International Computer Science Institute under the tutelage of Prof. Nelson Morgan. He has also been a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and a Visiting Researcher at Columbia University. In 2006, Prof. Fosler-Lussier was awarded an NSF CAREER award, and in 2010 was presented with a Lumley Research Award by the Ohio State College of Engineering. He is also the recipient (with co-author Jeremy Morris) of the 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He has published over 90 papers in speech and language processing, is a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the International Speech Communication Association, and a senior member of the IEEE.
Fosler-Lussier serves on the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee (2006-2008, 2010-2013), as well as on the editorial boards of the ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing and the Journal of Experimental Linguistics. He is generally interested in integrating linguistic insights as priors in statistical learning systems.
Host: Professor Shrikanth Narayanan
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 320
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Francis
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Application Deadline for the VSC Funding Board
Tue, Apr 26, 2011 @ 03:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
If you are interested in being on Viterbi Student Council's Funding Board for 2011-12, please submit your application to RTH 110 by 3pm. More information and the application can be found at http://http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/vsc/funding/. Questions? Email vscfb@usc.edu.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 110
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: VSC
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Epstein Institute Seminar Series / ISE 650 Seminar
Tue, Apr 26, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ge Wang, Assistant Professor, CCRMA, Stanford University/CCO, Chief Creative Officer, Smule
Talk Title: "THE WORLD IS YOUR STAGE: SOCIAL MUSIC-MAKING ON MOBILE PHONES"
Abstract: Due to their mobility, computing power, and sheer strength in numbers, mobile phones have become much more than simply "a phone" (and mobile devices more than simply "portable computers"), increasingly serving as personal and "natural" extensions of ourselves. Therein lies, we believe, immense potential to reshape the way we think and do, and especially in how we engage one another expressively and socially. This presentation explores the research we are doing on mobile music at Stanford and at Smule - including mobile phone orchestras, iPhone's Ocarina, I Am T-Pain, and Magic Piano and Magic Fiddle on the iPad. We also trace their origins to laptop orchestras, programming languages for music, and an intersection of music, computer science, and the simple joy of building things together.
Biography: GE WANG, is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), and researches interactive software systems for computer music, programming languages, mobile/social music, and education at the intersection of computer science and music. Ge is the author of the ChucK audio programming language, the founding director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), and the cofounder and director of the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO). Ge is the Co-founder, CTO, and Chief Creative Officer of Smule, and the designer of the iPhone's Ocarina and the iPad's Magic Piano.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Room 105
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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United States Air Force Information Session
Tue, Apr 26, 2011 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Technical Degree Sponsorship Program (TDSP)
Now Hiring Electrical and Computer Engineering Students!
If you are interested in getting paid while earning your degree without working full time and having a guaranteed electrical or computer engineering job waiting for you when you graduate then the TDSP program may be for you! Get the experience and training you need to put you above the rest! Many major companies give priority to those who have served in the military.
The United States Air Force is looking for qualified and motivated electrical and computer engineering students to apply between now and May 14th. To find out more come out to our information session this Tuesday at 5pm Grace Ford Salvatori Hall (GFS) 106.. You can email crystal.caslin@us.af.mil or call (310) 863-5771 to RSVP for this event or to schedule an interview. Secure your engineering future today!
Come and learn about this opportunity within the United States Air Force this Tuesday!Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
