When: Wednesday, May 14, 3:00 p.m.

Where: 4623Wean Hall

Sarah Aboutalib

Speaking Skills Talk

Abstract:
Reliable recognition of objects is an important capability in order to have agents accomplish and assist in a variety of useful tasks such as search and rescue or office assistance. Numerous approaches attempt to recognize objects based on visual cues alone. However, the same type of object can have very different visual appearances, such as shape, size, pose, color. Although such approaches are widely studied with relative success, the general task of object recognition still remains difficult. In this talk, I will introduced MCOR (Multiple-Cue Object Recognition), a flexible object recognition approach which can use any multiple cues, whether they are visual cues intrinsic to the object or provided by observation of a human. As part of the framework, weights will be described that reflect the variation in the strength of the association between a particular cue and an object. Results obtained from real meeting video data, simulation, and a robot agent, Qrio will be shown.

Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the CSD Speaking Skills Requirement.

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