Vision in an AI World

Digital Festival 2018

Challenge the way you perceive the world. Computer scientists and entrepreneurs working with artificial intelligence reveal how they adapt visual perception to enable robots and intelligent systems to see and interpret the environment.

Much of how we perceive our daily lives stems from the visual input we receive - paintings, photographs, and videos reveal how we think, feel and perceive light. Creating sensors for robots, intelligent machines, and augmented reality, researchers enable machines to perceive information related to the task-at-hand, without having to produce visual images. Tasks such as search and rescue, industrial inspection, crop monitoring or archeological surveying require an unconventional approach that delivers visual information in differing formats.

Speakers will reveal how sensory perception allows robotic devices to operate at high speeds and with a fraction of the power consumption of a conventional camera. They will also demonstrate multiple scene perception algorithms based in Computer Vision techniques and their applications.

As a participant, you will have the opportunity to challenge your own perception with interactive visual illusions and convince yourself that what your brain perceives is not what your eyes see.
 

Public event
Friday, 14 September 2018

14 - 17h

Venue
Schiffbau, Schiffbaustrasse 4, 8005 Zurich

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Programme
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Please register external pagehere.

Moderation:
external pageSusan Kish

Confirmed speakers:

Margarita Chli, Vision for Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich
Teaching robots to see

Alexander Ilic, Head of external pageMagic Leap and founder of external pageDacuda
Spatial Computing: Towards a Co-Processor to the Human Brain

Markus Gross, Institute for Visual Computing at ETH Zurich and Director of Disney Research Zurich

external pageAlexander Sorkine-Hornung, external pageOculus
Machine perception for VR

external pageYulia Sandamirskaya and external pageJulien Martel
external pageInstitute for Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich
Creating visual technologies in-silico inspired by what is found in-vivo  

Isaac Deutsch and David Hoeller, external pageNvidia
Applications and recent advances of deep learning for robot navigation

Marc Pollefeys, Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich
Computer Vision for Mixed Reality

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