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"DMU Creative Robots"
Dr Aladdin Ayesh, Coordinator of Intelligent Mobile Robots and Creative
Computing Research Group, De Montfort University.
Friday, 16th June 2006, 1400 - 1500 British Summer Time (1300 - 1400
UTC)
ESNW Access Grid, Room 1.10, Kilburn Building
See end of email for Access Grid Joining Instructions
The Laboratory of Advanced Mobile Robots and Intelligent Agents (LAMRIA) at DMU
includes many types of robots and supports both research and teaching. There is
particular focus on cognitive robots, human-robot interaction, and creative
computing. In this talk, an overview of the laboratory facilities and research
projects will be given. The rest of the presentation will focus on robot
communication in different forms linked to projects undertaken at DMU. Robot
communication can be direct or indirect for robot-robot and robot-human
interaction. Projects that will be covered in the talk with a degree of details
are:
* Dynamic robot-robot communication with local-global views (Dr Ghada A.
Al-Hudhud)
* Facial expressions analysis for Emotions identification (Dr John Cowell)
and tracking for human-computer interaction (Dr Rafael Muñoz Salinas ? visiting
researcher, Spain)
* Emergent behaviours and animal intelligence (Dr Laurance Tylor)
* Emotion expression using structured sound: this is a new project, which I
have just started, to develop a phonic language using music as structured sound
for robot-robot and robot-human communication.
Video clips of these projects, when available, will be shown. The talk will
finish with a demonstration of Sony AIBO simulator (motion editor) and a brief
mention of the Narrative Lab AIBO stories workshop.
The Use of Volume Scene Graphs in Very Large Dataset Visualization
Professor Min Chen & Dr David Chisnall, Computer Science, University of Wales,
Swansea.
Friday, 23rd June 2006, 2-3p.m.
Room 1.10, Kilburn Building
The concept of volume scene graphs provides an elegant means for combining
multiple datasets into a visualization in a constructive manner. In this talk,
the speakers will present the algebraic framework of volume scene graphs,
describe how different types of datasets (e.g., volume, point clouds) are
combined into a volume scene graph, and discuss the relative merits of discrete
ray tracing in rendering volume scene graphs. They will consider the challenges
in modelling and rendering very large datasets in a complex volume scene graph,
and examine several methods for out-of-core data management. In particular,
they will highlight the use of the knowledge-based approach, which minimises
the needs for hard-coding application-specific logic into a visualization
system.
HPC Research at Manchester Computing
Kevin Roy & Dr Craig Lucas, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester
Friday, 28th July 2006, 2-3p.m.
Room 1.10, Kilburn Building
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