[talks] Reminder: CS Colloquium: tomorrow at 1pm -- Prof. Dan Huttenlocher (Cornell)

[Fei-Fei Li]

Please come to tomorrow's CS Colloquium at 1pm by Prof. Dan Huttenlocher 
(CS, Cornell). His talk title is "Sensing for Autonomous Driving: Some 
Lessons from the DARPA Urban Challenge Race" (abstract below).
Cookie/tea reception would be at 2pm in the 2nd floor tea room - i.e. 
after the talk.


Abstract:
Team Cornell's Skynet is one of six vehicles that successfully completed
the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, with over 55 miles of fully autonomous
driving in an urban environment. The competition included many scenarios
such as staying in a lane, merging into traffic, passing other vehicles,
obeying queueing order at stop signs, parking, and robot-robot
interaction. Skynet was designed to drive "human-like" with smooth,
predictable behaviors, even in the presence of a vast array of
uncertainties. In this talk I will describe the vehicle design with a
focus on the systems for perception and planning, and will present some
results from the semi-finals and the final race. In particular I will
discuss the pose estimation system which uses visual input to improve
the estimate of the vehicle's location, and the object tracking system
which can simultaneously track dozens of objects while accurately
estimating their speed and heading. I will also discuss some of the
limitations of such systems, which played a role in the fender bender
between Skynet and MIT's Talos robot.

Bio:
Dan Huttenlocher is the John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of
Computing, Information Science and Business at Cornell University, where
he holds a joint appointment in the Computer Science Department and the
Johnson Graduate School of Management. His current research interests
are in computer vision, social and information networks, geometric
algorithms and autonomous driving. He has been recognized for his
research and teaching contributions, including being named an NSF
Presidential Young Investigator, New York State Professor of the Year
and Fellow of the ACM. In addition to academic posts he has been chief
technical officer of Intelligent Markets, a provider of advanced trading
systems on Wall Street, and spent more than ten years at Xerox PARC
directing work that led to the ISO JBIG2 image-compression standard.

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Li, Fei-Fei     Ph.D.
(publish under L. Fei-Fei)
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Dept.
Princeton University
35 Olden St.
Princeton, NJ 08540

Tel: (609)258-8130
Office: Room 211, CS Building
Website: http://vision.cs.princeton.edu
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Li, Fei-Fei     Ph.D.
(publish under L. Fei-Fei)
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Dept.
Princeton University
35 Olden St.
Princeton, NJ 08540

Tel: (609)258-8130
Office: Room 211, CS Building
Website: http://vision.cs.princeton.edu
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