{"634603":{"#nid":"634603","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Defense by Samarth Manoj Brahmbhatt ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EGrasp Contact between Hand and Object: Capture, Analysis, and Applications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESamarth Manoj Brahmbhatt -\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/samarth-robo.github.io\u0022 id=\u0022LPNoLP885734\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/samarth-robo.github.io\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. Candidate in Robotics\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate\u003C\/strong\u003E: April 30, 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETime\u003C\/strong\u003E: 1 pm to 3 pm (EST)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/gewfgupj\u0022 id=\u0022LPNoLP515143\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/gewfgupj\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRemote only because of GT COVID-19 guidelines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJoin through the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bluejeans.com\/downloads#events\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/www.bluejeans.com\/downloads#events\u0022\u003EBlueJeans Events app\u003C\/a\u003E or web browser (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/support.bluejeans.com\/s\/article\/HTML5-Playback-for-BlueJeans-Events\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/support.bluejeans.com\/s\/article\/HTML5-Playback-for-BlueJeans-Events\u0022\u003Einstructions\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. James Hays (advisor)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Charles C. Kemp\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. C. Karen Liu (Stanford University)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. James M. Rehg\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Yaser Ajmal Sheikh (Carnegie Mellon University, Facebook Reality Labs)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EContact is an important but often oversimplified component of human grasping. Capturing hand-object contact in detail can lead to important insights about grasping behavior, and enable applications in diverse fields like virtual reality and human-robot interaction. However, observing contact through external sensors is challenging because of occlusion and the complexity of the human hand. Lack of ground-truth data has significantly influenced research in this field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe introduce the\u0026nbsp;use of thermal cameras to capture detailed ground-truth hand-object contact (called contact maps), and techniques to simultaneously capture other data modalities like 3D hand pose, object pose, and multi-view RGB-D grasp videos. This has resulted in ContactDB and ContactPose, two large-scale and diverse datasets of participants grasping 3D-printed household objects with functional intents.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnalysis of this data confirms some long held intuitions about hand-object contact, and also reveals some surprising new patterns. We also train machine learning models for diverse contact map prediction from object shape, and for contact modeling from object shape and grasp information.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENext, we present ContactGrasp, an algorithm that uses object shape and a contact map to synthesize functional grasps for kinematically diverse hand models, including robotic end-effectors. Finally, we investigate whether\u0026nbsp;the contact data captured by thermal cameras encodes contact pressure in addition to contact locations.\u0026nbsp;We find that (subject to certain conditions) the structure of our contact data indeed includes information about contact pressure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Grasp Contact between Hand and Object: Capture, Analysis, and Applications"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2020-04-21 16:21:28","changed_gmt":"2020-04-21 16:21:28","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-04-30T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2020-04-30T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-04-30T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-04-30 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-04-30 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-04-30 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}