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Events for October 15, 2024
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement Tue, Oct 15, 2024 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: IISE Faculty, IISE Faculty
Talk Title: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Abstract: USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement, offered in partnership with the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, allows professionals to learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics, and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a USC Six Sigma Green Belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the USC Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
Host: USC Viterbi Corporate and Professional Programs
Audiences: Six Sigma Green Belt Students
Contact: VASE Executive Education
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Viterbi - Job Searching in the US
Tue, Oct 15, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This event is for Viterbi engineering students only. Please register through Handshake.
Learn how to navigate the application process to help you find your fit and engage with Employers in the US. Understand the recruitment process and increase your career readiness!Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: BS, MS, PhD
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/
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Epstein Institute, ISE 651 Seminar Class
Tue, Oct 15, 2024 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Szu Hui Ng, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, University of Singapore
Talk Title: Dynamic Simulation Optimization of Chlorine Dosage in Drinking Water Distribution Systems
Host: Dr. Qiang Huang
More Information: FLYER 651 Dr. Szu Hui Ng 10.15.24.png
Location: Social Sciences Building (SOS) - B2
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Casi Jones/ ISE
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Modeling Human Motion Behaviors and 3D Environment from Real-World Capture
Tue, Oct 15, 2024 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Andrew Feng , Associate Director - Geospatial Research, USC-ICT
Talk Title: Modeling Human Motion Behaviors and 3D Environment from Real-World Capture
Abstract: Synthesizing believable human motions based on input conditions is an essential task that will find many applications in gaming, simulation, and virtual reality. Various conditional inputs can be utilized to drive the motion synthesis process such as speech, music, action categories, and natural language text descriptions. Generating motions from text prompts or speech audios requires modeling of both languages and motions, which is especially challenging as the model needs to learn a cross-modal mapping to produce motion sequences. Another challenge in learning the motion synthesis model is that the cross-modal mapping may not be deterministic. For instance, there may be multiple viable gesture motions for the same speech utterance that are all plausible. The first part of this talk will cover our research in leveraging discrete latent space learning and recent generative modeling methods to address such challenges. Our proposed method models the motion segments as discrete codes and learns the underlying data distributions for these motion units. Therefore it does not suffer from the over-smoothed or damped animations caused by the deterministic mapping of the regression models in previous methods. Modeling the real world environment from multi-view images remain significant challenges in computer vision and graphics. The resulting models need to retain both accurate visual appearances and geometry to be valuable for digital twins, simulation, or scan-to-BIM applications. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently advanced the field to be a viable method for novel view synthesis and real-time rendering. The second part of the talk will cover our recent research work in 3DGS for revising the training and densification strategy to improve the radiance field and geometry reconstructions.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium.
Biography: Andrew Feng is currently the Associate Director of Geospatial Research at USC-ICT. He leads the Terrain Research group at ICT focusing on geospatial R&D initiatives in support of the Army’s One World Terrain project. Previously, he was a research scientist working on gesture synthesis, character animation and automatic 3D avatar generation. His research work involves applying machine learning techniques to solve computer graphics problems such as 3D model reconstructions, semantic segmentations, and animation synthesis. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Host: Jonathan Gratch, Research Professor
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100c
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
