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Events for December 17, 2012
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkMon, Dec 17, 2012
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) -
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen Students and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Advances in Sign Language Recognition and Morphological Systems
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Petros Maragos, School of E.C.E., National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and Athena â Research and Innovation Center
Talk Title: Advances in Sign Language Recognition and Morphological Systems
Abstract: This talk presents an overview of some advances in two broad research areas in image analysis and computer vision and in related nonlinear systems. The first area deals with some major problems in sign language recognition including efficient algorithms for visual processing and the development of multimodal subunits, data-driven or phonetically-based, that provide a temporal sequential structure and allow for both temporal segmentation as well as automatic recognition and signer adaptation in continuous sign language videos. The talk will address several topics in multimodality such as motion-position cues, handshapes, and facial events. The second area deals with the nonlinear geometric approach to image analysis based on morphological operators and a new lattice-theoretic generalization which has a rich algebraic structure. The talk will summarize results on the variational formulation of some morphological operators, their extensions on graphs, and some applications in image simplification and segmentation as well as in nonlinear dynamical systems on lattices.
Biography: Petros Maragos received the Diploma in E.E. from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1980 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech, Atlanta, in 1982 and 1985. In 1985, he joined the faculty of the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where he worked for eight years as professor of electrical engineering affiliated with the Harvard Robotics Lab. In 1993, he joined the faculty of the School of ECE at Georgia Tech. During periods of 1996-98 he had a joint appointment as director of research at the Institute of Language and Speech Processing in Athens. Since 1998, he has been working as a professor at the NTUA School of ECE. His research and teaching interests include signal processing, systems theory, pattern recognition, and their applications to image processing and computer vision, audio, speech and language processing, cognitive systems, and robotics. He has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on ASSP, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, and editorial board member and guest editor for several journals on signal processing, image analysis and vision; co-organizer of several conferences and workshops, including VCIP'92, ISMM'96, VLBV'01, MMSP'07, ECCV'10, EUSIPCO'12; and member of the IEEE committees on DSP, IMDSP and MMSP.
He is the recipient or co-recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Sigma Xi best thesis award, a 1987-1992 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, the 1988 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award for the paper `Morphological Filters',Âthe 1994 IEEE SPS Senior Best Paper Award and the 1995 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Award for the paper `Energy Separation in Signal Modulations with Application to Speech Analysis', the 1996 Pattern Recognition Society's Honorable Mention Award for the paper `Min-Max Classifiers', the EURASIP 2007 Technical Achievement Award for contributions to nonlinear signal, image and speech processing, and the Best Paper Award of the IEEE CVPR-2011 Gesture Recognition Workshop. He was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 1995 and of EURASIP in 2010 for his research contributions. http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/maragos
Host: Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 320
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Francis
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An Optical Turing Machine
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Joseph Touch, USC/ISI
Talk Title: An Optical Turing Machine
Abstract: The Optical Turing Machine (OTM) is our effort to design and implement a digital device that processes network data in an optical multibit/symbol modulation format. Its goal is to support high-speed computation using an encoding capable of high-speed, long-distance transmission. OTM explores the unification of communication and computation, and investigates the nature of Turing-equivalent computation. This talk introduces the OTM approach and discusses its key challenges. We discuss our current OTM projects, including the extension of our earlier all-optical packet hopcount decrement to multibit encoding, and the design and implementation of the world's first all-optical Internet checksum.
The OTM project is supported by grants from USC/ISI's New Research Initiatives (NRI) and the NSF Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN).
For those of you that are unable to attend in person, please use the following webcast link to view:
http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=83c9a7910ac34185b9e2c61eacff55ec1d
Host: John Wroclawski
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=83c9a7910ac34185b9e2c61eacff55ec1dLocation: 11th Floor Large Conference Room
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=83c9a7910ac34185b9e2c61eacff55ec1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Joe Touch: An Optical Turing Machine
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Joe Touch, USC / ISI
Talk Title: An Optical Turing Machine
Abstract: The Optical Turing Machine (OTM) is our effort to design and implement a digital device that processes network data in an optical multibit/symbol modulation format. Its goal is to support high-speed computation using an encoding capable of high-speed, long-distance transmission. OTM explores the unification of communication and computation, and investigates the nature of Turing-equivalent computation. This talk introduces the OTM approach and discusses its key challenges. We discuss our current OTM projects, including the extension of our earlier all-optical packet hopcount decrement to multibit encoding, and the design and implementation of the world's first all-optical Internet checksum.
The OTM project is supported by grants from USC/ISI's New Research Initiatives (NRI) and the NSF Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN).
For those of you that are unable to attend in person, please use the following webcast link to view:
http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=83c9a7910ac34185b9e2c61eacff55ec1d
Host: John Wroclawski
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=83c9a7910ac34185b9e2c61eacff55ec1dLocation: ISI 11th Floor Large Conference Room
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=83c9a7910ac34185b9e2c61eacff55ec1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
