PhD Proposal Review: Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning for Visual Recognition Kunpeng Li Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning models have achieved great success in various tasks for visual recognition such as image classification, semantic segmentation, visual semantic matching etc. Instead of just treating them as black boxes, recently, a tremendous of efforts have been put […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Optimal Proactive Services with Uncertain Predictions Ran Liu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: With the evolution of technologies such as machine learning and data science, proactive services with the aid of predictive information have been recognized as a promising method to exploit network bandwidth, storage, and computation resources to achieve improved user experiences, […]
PhD Proposal Review: Power Optimization and Management of PV Grid-Connected Microgrid in Energy Market Ya Guo Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Microgrids can integrate renewable energy resources (RES), such as photovoltaics (PV) and wind energy generation, with the main power grid to provide reliable, secure and affordable energy. Fortunately, the electricity markets have evolved to facilitate […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Active Recursive Bayesian Classification (Querying and Stopping) for Event Related Potential Driven Brain Computer Interface Systems Aziz Kocanaogullari Location: Remote (contact akocanaogullari@ece.neu.edu) Abstract: Recursive Bayesian classification (RBC) requires optimal latent variable estimation in the presence of noisy observation to achieve real-time sequential decision making. Active RBC introduced in this dissertation attempts to […]
PhD Proposal Review: A Systems Approach to Spectrum Sharing and Multi-antenna Operation for Emerging Networks Carlos Bocanegra Location: TBD Abstract: The demands on wireless connectivity and sensing are ever-increasing, fueled by both emerging applications and an exponential growth in the number of connected devices. Availability of new spectrum in the sub-6GHz bands is limited, which […]
PhD Proposal Review: Enhancements for Monte Carlo Light Modeling Method and Its Applications in Near-infrared-based Brain Techniques Yaoshen Yuan Location: Microsoft Teams Link Abstract: Studying light propagation in biological tissues is critical for developing biophotonics techniques and its applications. Monte Carlo (MC) method, a stochastic solver for radiative transfer equation, has been recognized as the […]
PhD Proposal Review: Learning from Spatio-Temporal Data with Applications in Climate Science Yumin Liu Location: Zoom Link Abstract:Climate change is one of the major challenges to human beings and many other species in our time. In the recent decade, the number of disasters related to climate change such as wildfires, storms, floods and droughts are […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]