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3d Robotic Sensing Of People: Human Perception, Representation And Activity Recognition, Hao Zhang
3d Robotic Sensing Of People: Human Perception, Representation And Activity Recognition, Hao Zhang
Doctoral Dissertations
The robots are coming. Their presence will eventually bridge the digital-physical divide and dramatically impact human life by taking over tasks where our current society has shortcomings (e.g., search and rescue, elderly care, and child education). Human-centered robotics (HCR) is a vision to address how robots can coexist with humans and help people live safer, simpler and more independent lives.
As humans, we have a remarkable ability to perceive the world around us, perceive people, and interpret their behaviors. Endowing robots with these critical capabilities in highly dynamic human social environments is a significant but very challenging problem in practical …
Online Multi-Stage Deep Architectures For Feature Extraction And Object Recognition, Derek Christopher Rose
Online Multi-Stage Deep Architectures For Feature Extraction And Object Recognition, Derek Christopher Rose
Doctoral Dissertations
Multi-stage visual architectures have recently found success in achieving high classification accuracies over image datasets with large variations in pose, lighting, and scale. Inspired by techniques currently at the forefront of deep learning, such architectures are typically composed of one or more layers of preprocessing, feature encoding, and pooling to extract features from raw images. Training these components traditionally relies on large sets of patches that are extracted from a potentially large image dataset. In this context, high-dimensional feature space representations are often helpful for obtaining the best classification performances and providing a higher degree of invariance to object transformations. …