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Events for October 27, 2015
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Canstruction
Tue, Oct 27, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Help out people in need by donating canned food!! Students and faculty come together for this annual event to collect cans and donate them to the LA Food Bank. On the last day of the drive, we bring all the cans together to make a Canstruction. Collection is from 10/14 - 11/20.
Collection Bin Locations:
ACCT 101 Office
Crocker Library (in HOH)
Popovich Hall Rm 200
Deans Office BRI 100
Advising Office BRI 104Location: Various Locations (look at description)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC NOBE
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Navigating the Job Search
Tue, Oct 27, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Are you looking for an industry position and want to know where to begin? This workshop will give you the tips needed to help you find a full time position or an internship!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Epstein Institute Seminar - ISE 651
Tue, Oct 27, 2015 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Xiaoping Qian, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of Wisconsin-Madison
Talk Title: Topology Optimization of Multi-physics Systems
Host: Yong Chen
More Information: October 27, 2015_Xiaoping Qian.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Shelly Lewis
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CS Colloquium: Yisong Yue (Caltech) - A Decision Tree Framework for Data-Driven Speech Animation
Tue, Oct 27, 2015 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yisong Yue, Caltech
Talk Title: A Decision Tree Framework for Data-Driven Speech Animation
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Computer Science Research Colloquium
In many animation projects, the animation artist typically spends significant time animating the face. This process involves many labor-intensive tasks that offer relatively little potential for creative expression. One particularly tedious task is speech animation: animating the face to match spoken audio. Indeed, the often prohibitive cost of speech animation has limited the types of animations that are feasible, including localization to different languages.
In this talk, I will show how to view speech animation through the lens of data-driven sequence prediction. In contrast to previous sequence prediction settings, visual speech animation is an instance of contextual spatiotemporal sequence prediction, where the output is continuous and high-dimensional (e.g., a configuration of the lower face), and also depends on an input context (e.g., audio or phonetic input).
I will present a decision tree framework for learning to generate context-dependent spatiotemporal sequences given training data. This approach enjoys several attractive properties, including ease of training, fast performance at test time, and the ability to robustly tolerate corrupted training data using a novel latent variable approach. I will showcase this approach in a case study on speech animation, where our approach outperforms several competitive baselines in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations, and also demonstrates strong robustness to corrupted training data.
This is joint work with Taehwan Kim, Sarah Taylor, Barry-John Theobald and Iain Matthews.
The lecture will be available to stream HERE.
Host: Yan Liu
Webcast: https://bluejeans.com/535615811Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
WebCast Link: https://bluejeans.com/535615811
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Le Val Lund Lecture on Lifeline Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Tue, Oct 27, 2015 @ 05:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Robert Kennedy, ASCE Le Val Lund Award Winner
Talk Title: Performance-Goal Based (Risk Informed) Seismic Design Criteria
Host: ASCE
More Info: http://www.ascemlab.org or http://ascemlab.org/index.php/event/24-second-annual-leval-lund-lecture-on-lifeline-infrastructure-and-community-resilience
More Information: ASCE Le Val Lund Lecture_Invitation Announcement_100215.pdf
Location: Town and Gown
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kaela Berry
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Information Session in Vancouver
Tue, Oct 27, 2015 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Interested in graduate studies in engineering or computer science?
You are cordially invited to meet Mary Kae, Assistant Dean of Graduate and International Recruitment for the Viterbi School of Engineering, at our upcoming information session in Vancouver.
Students who have earned or are in the process of earning a Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, or a hard science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend to learn more about applying to our graduate programs.
The session will include information on the following topics:
Master's & Ph.D. programs in engineering and computer science
Paid summer research for undergraduate students
How to Apply
Scholarships and funding
Student life at USC and in Los Angeles
There will also be sufficient time for questions.
Please contact us at viterbi.gradprograms@usc.edu if you have any inquiries about the event.
For more information, please visit the event pageLocation: University of British Columnia Fred Kaiser, Room 2020/2030 2332 Main Mall V6T 1Z4
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Kae
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Clark Construction Information Session
Tue, Oct 27, 2015 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Clark Construction Information Session
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
