Machine learning and the incredible flying robot with Dr. Ashish Kapoor
Episode 22, May 2, 2018 – Dr. Kapoor talks about how cutting-edge machine learning techniques are empowering a new generation of autonomous vehicles, and tells us all about AirSim, an innovative platform that’s helping bridge…
ChatPainter: Improving text-to-image generation by using dialogue
Generating realistic images from a text description is a challenging task for a bot. A solution to this task has potential applications in the video game and image editing industries, among many others. Recently, researchers…
Uncanny Valley and the Sense of Touch
The notion of an “uncanny valley” is well known in robotics[1]. This is when increasing the realism of a robot’s human-like appearance can lead to feelings of unease—or even revulsion—as a robot becomes more and…
Semantic Visual Localization
Towards reconstructing the visual world
I will be talking about some of my recent work on reconstructing faces, materials and 360 environments from images and videos. The projects I will talk about are published at IEEE VR 2018, and others…