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News

Love, hate and a hospital robot

Bilge Mutlu and Jodi Frolizzi are featured in the New Scientist article Learning to love to hate robots. Jodi Frolizzi and Jessica Hodgins advised Bilge during his PhD work on socially interactive robots. Bilge is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

CMU Graphics in the New Scientist

A recent article in the international science magazine New Scientist features work by Assistant Research Professor Yaser Sheikh on an augmented reality system that can be used to gain visibility while driving a car. The article describes the prototype and gives a brief introduction to the system. To read the paper and check out more videos you can visit the project page.

CMU-GATECH Graphics Retreat

On October 16 - 18 the CMU Graphics Lab hosted the (almost) annual CMU/GATECH graphics retreat. Twenty talks and 18 posters that elaborated on existing projects or proposed new ones were presented. We spent Friday evening investigating the visual appeal of "Where the Wild Things Are" and Saturday evening doing research in traditional printing techniques at the Artist Image Resource. Thanks everyone for participating and making this happen!

More SIGGRAPH Asia news

Following up on a recent news post, check out another paper authored by members of the lab which will be presented during Siggraph Asia 2009:

• Manfred Lau, Ziv Bar-Joseph, and James Kuffner, Modeling Spatial and Temporal Variation in Motion Data.

Congrats and keep up the great work!

Former lab member works on The Beatles: Rock Band

Michael Mandel graduated in 2003 from CMU and, as part of the Graphics Lab, he worked on interactive CG and animation. His interests in graphics and music landed him a job with Harmonix Music System, a company owned by MTV and located in Boston. At Harmonix, Mandel works as a software engineer and is part of the team that developed "The Beatles: Rock Band". You can check out more news items like an article about Michael in the The Pittsburgh Tribune or the positive reviews for the game in The New York Times.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2009

Congratulations to Jean-François Lalonde, Alexei Efros, and Srinivasa Narasimhan for their paper: Webcam Clip Art: Appearance and Illuminant Transfer from Time-lapse Sequences which was accepted to Siggraph Asia 2009.

New Grant!

Srinivasa Narasimhan has been selected as a 2009 Okawa Research Grant Recipient . The award will be presented at a dinner November 6th in San Francisco. Congratulations Srinivasa!

NSF Grant Awarded to Fernando de la Torre and Jessica Hodgins

Fernando de la Torre and Jessica Hodgins have been awarded a NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Grant for research in "Monitoring Human Performance with Wearable Accelerometers".

Treuille in TR35

Our very own Graphics Lab Professor Adrien Treuille has been selected as one of the 2009 top 35 innovators under 35 by MIT's Technology Review magazine. You can read more about this prestigious award as well as Adrien's work on the School of Computer Science web page . Congratulations Adrien!

NSF Grant Awarded to Nancy Pollard

We are happy to announce that Nancy Pollard has been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation . The grant is part of the CISE - Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) program and will finance research under the title of "Robotic Equipment for the Investigation of Dexterous Two-Handed Manipulation".