The Robotics Institute

In this talk, I will introduce the idea of "sketching reality", the process of converting a freehand sketch into a realistic-looking model.

Many applications today involving mobile robots require human control because the task to solve or the environment to move in is too complicated for existing fully autonomous systems.

Humanoid robots represent the state of the art in complex robot systems, but the design of controllers can be challenging and tedious.

Robots with legs have a number of advantages over those with wheels, such as greater ability to navigate through rough terrain, more flexible manipulation of objects, and fully holonomic control of the body.

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Combining the recent ideas from data-driven appearance transfer techniques of webcam images with a general and theoretically-grounded physically-based illumination model.

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