Algorithms
Opportunities abound in the creative and collaborative culture of STEM
The explosion of data available today everywhere from biomedicine to the arts is opening new opportunities for researchers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math to pursue creative and collaborative endeavors that have deep…
Primetime Engineering Emmy® Award goes to HEVC, a key technology behind ultra-high definition TV
A technology standard that helps deliver ultra-high definition video to everything from smartphones to stadium displays will receive an Emmy® Award on October 25. The 2017 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award, from the Academy of Television…
Towards Program Synthesis for Security
Many of the major security problems are caused by small programming errors, which could be avoided by automating menial programming tasks through program synthesis. However, program synthesis is still limited to a few lines of…
Robust, Visual-Inertial State Estimation: from Frame-based to Event-based Cameras
I will present the main algorithms to achieve robust, 6-DOF, state estimation for mobile robots using passive sensing. Since cameras alone are not robust enough to high-speed motion and high-dynamic range scenes, I will describe…
Scalable Trust-Region Method for Deep Reinforcement Learning Using Kronecker-Factored Approximation
In this work, we propose to apply trust region optimization to deep reinforcement learning using a recently proposed Kronecker-factored approximation to the curvature. We extend the framework of natural policy gradient and propose to optimize…
Project Prague – Hand Gestures SDK
Project Prague is a cutting-edge, easy-to-use SDK that creates more intuitive and natural experiences by allowing users to control and interact with technologies through hand gestures. Based on extensive research, it equips developers and UX…