MS Thesis Defense: MEMS Infrared Resonant Detectors With Near-Zero Power Readout For Miniaturized Low Power Systems Sila Deniz Calisgan Location: Online Abstract: The demand for low-cost and low-power microsystems for spectrally-selective IR sensing has been rising with the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) for applications such as security surveillance and natural disaster monitoring. As […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Planning of Contact-Interaction Trajectories Using Numerical Optimization Aykut Onol Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Dynamic multi-contact behaviors, such as locomotion and item manipulation, remain to be a challenge for today’s robotic systems. This is primarily due to the discontinuous and non-smooth dynamics introduced by contacts. For mobile manipulators (e.g., humanoids) to become useful […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Automatic Face Understanding: Recognizing Families in Photos Joseph Robinson Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Visual kinship recognition has an abundance of practical uses. For this, we built the largest database for kinship recognition, FIW. Built entirely in-house with no cost using a semi-automatic labeling scheme. Specifically, we first aligned faces detected in family […]