Vision & Robotics

Shree Nayar Wins Funai Achievement Award

Shree K. Nayar has been awarded the prestigious Funai Achievement Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan for his seminal work on computer vision and computational imaging. Nayar will receive the award at the Forum on Information Technology (FIT) to be held in Sendai, Japan.

Want the attention of the audience? Introduce a new gesture

Using EEG data of study participants watching clips of the 2012 presidential debates, researchers found atypical, or extremal gestures to be the strongest indication of listeners' engagement.

The Pulse interviews Brian Smith on making racing games accessible to people with vision loss

The Pulse interviews Brian A. Smith (PhD'18, advisor Shree Nayar) on making racing games accessible to people with vision loss

About

The group studies the computational foundations for visual and robotic intelligence. They investigate machines that are able to perceive their surroundings and interact with them too.

The group of ten faculty often collaborate across the sciences and the arts. They leverage insights from both nature and math to advance the fundamentals of perception and interaction, and they also transfer their research to tackle practical challenges across disciplines. Several of the faculty are cross-listed with the Data Science Institute.