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Martial Hebert

Computer Perception for Quality of Life Technologies

PLACE:	Clark 110
EVENT:	CIS Seminar
DATE:	February 12, 2008
TIME:	1:00 - 2:00 PM

Abstract

The Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center is a NSF center whose mission is to transform lives of people with reduced functional capabilities due to aging or disability. In this talk, I will briefly discuss several of the perception areas that we are investigating in support of QoLT. They include vision-based localization and recognition techniques for understanding the interaction of users in static environments, and detecting and identifying actions in videos for understanding the interactions between users. In addition to techniques aimed at understanding the environment, we also investigate ways to predict user behavior based on observed training data. The development of vision algorithms is complemented by the development of a wearable sensor package to implement the idea of "inside-out}" perception in which sensor data is collected from the point of view of the user rather than from external sensors. This material includes work with other CMU faculty, Takeo Kanade, Drew Bagnell, and Fernando dela Torre.

Brief Biography:

Dr. Hebert is a professor in the School of Computer Science, Robotics Institute, at Carnegie Mellon University. His research is in the areas of computer vision and perception for autonomous systems. My interests are in the interpretation of perception data (both 2-D and 3-D), including building models of environments.