April 2022 - Ai - Engineering Mailing Lists

AI seminar: April 13, 2022
by Mangannavar, Rajesh Devaraddi 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Dear all, Our next AI seminar on *"**Human-AI Collaboration for Interactive Image Editing and Machine Autonomy**" *by professor Bolei Zhou is scheduled to be on April 13th, 1-2 PM PST. It will be followed by a 30 minute Q&A session by the graduate students. Zoom Link: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/93591935144?pwd=YjZaSjBYS0NmNUtjQzBEdzhPeDZ5U… *Human-AI Collaboration for Interactive Image Editing and Machine Autonomy* Bolei Zhou Assistant Professor Computer Science University of California, Los Angeles *Abstract:* Deep learning models such as ConvNet and transformers have made huge progress in real-world applications from image generation to self-driving vehicles. Researchers and developers mainly focus on building larger and deeper models to improve the accuracy and numbers on public benchmarks. However, it is difficult to establish a reliable and trustworthy relationship between humans and AI if there are no meaningful interactions. In this talk, I will present our effort to facilitate the Human-AI collaboration for certain tasks. I will first introduce our work on improving the controllability of deep generative models such as GANs for interactive image editing. I will then talk about Human-AI Copilot (HACO), a new human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning method to efficiently teach agents to drive in uncertain environments while preserving their own curiosity and exploration. *Speaker Bio:* Bolei Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 2018. His research interest lies at the intersection of computer vision and machine autonomy, focusing on enabling interpretable and trustworthy human-AI interaction. He has developed a number of widely used interpretation methods such as CAM and Network Dissection, as well as computer vision benchmarks Places and ADE20K. He is an associate editor for Pattern Recognition and has been area chair for CVPR, ICCV, and AAAI. He received MIT Tech Review's Innovators under 35 in Asia-Pacific Award. More about his research is at https://boleizhou.github.io/. This talk will be followed by a talk on the topic "*Upscaling Nonlinear Reactions in Tissues: Closure via Machine Learning*" by professor Brian Wood on 20th April (Wednesday) 1-2 PM, 2022 *Please watch this space for future AI Seminars :* * https://eecs.oregonstate.edu/ai-events <https://eecs.oregonstate.edu/ai-events>* Rajesh Mangannavar, Graduate Student Oregon State University ---- AI Seminar Important Reminders: -> For graduate students in the AI program, attendance is strongly encouraged.

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AI seminar: April 6, 2022
by Mangannavar, Rajesh Devaraddi 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Dear all, Our next AI seminar on *"Charismatic Robots in Everyday Human Spaces" *by professor Heather Knight is scheduled to be on April 6th (Tomorrow), 1-2 PM PST. It will be followed by a 30 minute Q&A session by the graduate students. Zoom Link: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/93591935144?pwd=YjZaSjBYS0NmNUtjQzBEdzhPeDZ5U… *Charismatic Robots in Everyday Human Spaces* Heather Knight Assistant Professor Computer Science Oregon State University *Abstract:* The pandemic has brought increasing numbers of robots and automation into everyday human spaces, making our prior work in service robots, expressive communication, and autonomous and human-in-the-loop robot behavior systems ever more relevant. Using examples from 20 years in the field, this talk illustrates how technology designers can repeatedly leverage human-inspired communication systems into robot perception and enactment systems that can add social and functional value to robots operating with, for, and around humans. It will also present work from the CHARISMA Robotics lab at Oregon State University, an acronym for Collaborative Humans and Robotics: Interaction, Sociability, Machine learning and Art. From robot furniture to robot comedy, from nonverbal expressions to the cultural situation of robots operating around people in factories, workplaces, and sidewalks, CHARISMA contributes to the fields of human-robot interaction and social robotics, regularly deploying robots in naturalistic human settings and entertainment contexts. *Speaker Bio:* Heather Knight runs the CHARISMA Robotics research group at Oregon State University, which applies methods from entertainment to the development of more effective and charismatic robots. Their research interests include minimal social robots, multi-robot/multi-human social interaction, and entertainment robots. Her previous work includes a postdoc at Stanford University that explores minimal robots and autonomous car interfaces, a PhD in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University exploring Expressive Motion for Low Degree of Freedom Robots, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she developed a sensate skin for a robot teddy bear at the MIT Media Lab. Additional past work includes robotics and instrumentation at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, sensor design at Aldebaran Robotics, and nine years of producing an annual Robot Film Festival exploring positive storytelling about robots. Additional honors include a robot flower garden installation at the Smithsonian/Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, robot comedy on TED.com, and a British Video Music Award for OK GO's "This Too Shall Pass" music video featuring a two-floor Rube Goldberg Machine. This talk will be followed by a talk on the topic "*Human-AI Collaboration for Interactive Image Editing and Machine Autonomy*" by professor Bolei Zhou on 13th April (Wednesday) 1-2 PM, 2022. *Please watch this space for future AI Seminars :* * https://eecs.oregonstate.edu/ai-events <https://eecs.oregonstate.edu/ai-events>* Rajesh Mangannavar, Graduate Student Oregon State University ---- AI Seminar Important Reminders: -> For graduate students in the AI program, attendance is strongly encouraged.

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[CoRIS-List] Reminder: Today: OSU Robotics Seminar: Cristina Wilson, Human-robot teaming
by Ross L. Hatton 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Hi All, As a reminder, our first seminar of the spring term will be today from Cristina Wilson of the University of Pennsylvania. ----- Title: A cognitive science approach to addressing bottlenecks in human-robot teaming during spatiotemporal search Speaker: Dr. Cristina Wilson Date/Time: Friday, April 1, 10-11 am https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/93908195212?pwd=cEdoQVdac0JxMUpOSS9xVzZjVG5xU… Abstract: Robots are taking on increasingly important roles in human spatiotemporal search problems, e.g., planetary exploration, search and rescue, wildfire management. However, state-of-the-art robots are still struggling to support human experts’ reasoning and decision making in the type of complex and uncertain environments that characterize search problems. In this talk, I identify the common bottlenecks in human-driven search and share my work on how collaborative robots can ameliorate bottlenecks through improved cognitive interfacing with human teammates. For example, a bottleneck in the integration of new information from the environment with existing abstract search objectives can lead to inflexible and maladaptive decisions about where to explore next. Computational models that translate abstract human objectives into quantitative actions (rendered as scripts) allow mobile robot assistants to aid in real-time information search. In this manner, understandings of human cognition and behavior expectations are used to inform and complement machine intelligence, endowing robots with representations of human reasoning and decision processes, so robots can, in turn, produce explainable search behaviors to the satisfaction of human teammates. About the speaker: Dr. Wilson is currently a postdoctoral fellow studying collaborative human-robot teaming in the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in cognitive psychology in 2018 from Washington State University, developing expertise in the study of human cognition and behavior. Dr. Wilson’s research emphasizes the human mind in human-robot teaming, designing robotic systems that can understand human objectives and support adaptive decision making. She works closely with domain expert end-users to understand the cognitive challenges to effective robot teaming, thereby enhancing robot systems application in their domains. =========== Ross L. Hatton Associate Professor, Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute Oregon State University coris.oregonstate.edu research.engr.oregonstate.edu/lram/ rosslhatton.com ross.hatton(a)oregonstate.edu

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