IIITH Newsletter – August 2022

August 2022 Dr. Sourav Garg, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Centre for Robotics (QCR) gave a KCIS invited talk on Image Representation & Learning for Mobile Robots on 11 July.   Perception and navigation are fundamental capabilities of an autonomous mobile robot. Sensory data in the form of RGB camera images is information-rich, convenient to use, low-cost and power-efficient. With the advent of deep learning, processing raw images into meaningful representations has made a significant stride. However, depending on the end-task, for example, those relevant for mobile robot localization, such latent representations can be defined in […]

August 2022 Dr. Karthi Desingh, Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington (UW) gave a KCIS Invited Talk on Robust and Generalized Perception Towards Mainstreaming Domestic Robots on 5 August. Dr. Karthik’s long-term goal is to build general-purpose robots that can care for and assist the aging and disabled population by autonomously performing various real-world tasks. To robustly execute various tasks, a general-purpose robot should be capable of seamlessly perceiving and manipulating a wide variety of objects in our environment. To achieve a given task, a robot should continually perceive the state of its environment, reason with the task at […]