{"648320":{"#nid":"648320","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IRIM Seminar Series - Fall 2021 | Shedding Light on 3D Cameras","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch5\u003EFeaturing Mohit Gupta | Assistant Professor; Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E The advent (and commoditization) of low-cost 3D cameras is revolutionizing many application domains, including robotics, autonomous navigation, human computer interfaces, and recently even consumer devices such as cell-phones. Most modern 3D cameras (e.g., LiDAR) are\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eactive\u003C\/em\u003E; they consist of a light source that emits coded light into the scene, i.e., its intensity is modulated over space, and\/or time. The performance of these cameras is determined by their illumination coding functions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI will talk about our work on developing a coding theory of active 3D cameras. This theory, for the first time, abstracts several seemingly different 3D camera designs into a common, geometrically intuitive space. Based on this theory, we design novel 3D cameras that achieve up to an order of magnitude higher performance as compared to the current state-of-the art. I will also briefly talk about our work toward developing `All-Weather\u0026rsquo; 3D cameras that can operate in extreme real-world conditions, including outdoors (e.g., a robot navigating outdoors in bright sunlight and poor weather), under multi-camera interference (e.g., multiple robots navigating in a shared space such as a warehouse), and handle optically challenging objects such as shiny metal (e.g., for an industrial robot sorting machine parts).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio: \u003C\/strong\u003E Mohit Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received B. Tech in Computer Science from IIT-Delhi, Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and was a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University.\u0026nbsp;He directs the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wisionlab.cs.wisc.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWISION Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with research interests broadly in computer vision and computational imaging. He has received best paper honorable mention awards at computer vision and photography conferences in 2014 and 2019, and a Sony Faculty Innovation Award in 2019. His research is supported by NSF, ONR, DARPA, Sony, Intel and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Featuring Mohit Gupta | Assistant Professor; Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison"}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2021-06-23 20:07:41","changed_gmt":"2021-08-19 18:37:24","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-09-08T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2021-09-08T14:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-09-08T14:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-09-08 17:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-09-08 18:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-09-08 18:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188087","name":"go-irim"},{"id":"78811","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"187082","name":"go-ideas"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"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":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Emedia@robotics.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}