There will be a talk this Tuesday March 27th at Kings Buildings, University of Edinburgh. It is part of the School of Engineering Institute for Digital Communications Seminar Series.
Visual, Auditory and Collaborative Sensing for Autonomous Robots
Abstract:
Countless applications will benefit from the capabilities offered by robots that can autonomously sense, compute, communicate and collaboratively decide. The algorithms running in these autonomous robots need to adapt in response to unknown or dynamic environments and to changes in the assigned task. In this talk I will present recent methods for robots to move and to interact locally to reach coordinated decisions under resource and physical constraints. I will discuss how robots can self-evaluate their performance and improve the quality of the task they are executing through collaboration, adaptively. I will cover several examples of visual and auditory sensing, distributed perception, multi-robot active sensing and distributed decision making.
Biography:
Andrea Cavallaro is Professor of Multimedia Signal Processing and the founding Director of the Centre for Intelligent Sensing at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, in 2002. He was a Research Fellow with British Telecommunications (BT) in 2004/2005 and was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering teaching Prize in 2007; three student paper awards on target tracking and perceptually sensitive coding at IEEE ICASSP in 2005, 2007 and 2009; and the best paper award at IEEE AVSS 2009. Prof. Cavallaro is currently Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing; and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and IEEE Multimedia. He is a past Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2012-2014) and past Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2011-2015), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2011), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2009-2010) and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2008-2011). He is vice chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee and an elected member of the IEEE Video Signal Processing and Communication Technical Committee. He is a past elected member of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee and of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee, and chair of its Awards committee. Prof. Cavallaro has published over 200 journal and conference papers, one monograph on Video tracking (2011, Wiley) and three edited books: Multi-camera networks (2009, Elsevier); Analysis, retrieval and delivery of multimedia content (2012, Springer); and Intelligent multimedia surveillance (2013, Springer).