BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Turkey BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20380119T061407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3TU;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+03 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20160907T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1WE;BYMONTH=9 TZNAME:+03 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181125T153000Z UID:41CA18CA-AFE4-488F-9359-D3320B1344F5 DTSTART;TZID=Turkey:20181123T133000 DTEND;TZID=Turkey:20181123T153000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Sinan Kalkan\, Middle East Technical Univ ersity\n\nTopic: "Context in Robots"\n\nLocation: Middle East Technical Un iversity\, Ankara\, Turkey\n\nAbstract: In many of our cognitive capabilit ies and perceptual processes\, we (humans) rely on vast amount of backgrou nd knowledge and stimuli that we call context. Robots that are expected to populate our daily lives in near future should use such contextual inform ation\, and perceive\, act\, reason and plan accordingly. In this talk\, a fter providing a short summary of how context helps us (humans) and the us e of contextual cues in the robotics literature\, I will present some of o ur recent work on incremental and hierarchical modeling of context in robo ts.\n\nBio: Dr. Sinan Kalkan received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Enginee ring from Middle East Technical University\, Turkey in 2003\, and his Ph.D . degree in Informatics from the University of Göttingen\, Germany in 200 8. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gotting en and at Middle East Technical University\, he became an assistant profes sor at Middle East Technical University in 2010. Since 2016\, he has been working as an associate professor. Sinan Kalkan’s research interests inc lude Computer Vision\, and Developmental Robotics. In Computer Vision\, he has been working on depth estimation\, stereo vision and object detection . In Developmental Robotics\, he has been focusing on scene modeling\, con text modeling and life-long learning for the last couple of years.\n\nSpea ker(s): Asst. Prof. Sinan Kalkan\, \n\nAnkara\, Ankara\, Türkiye LOCATION:Ankara\, Ankara\, Türkiye ORGANIZER:ozergul@metu.edu.tr SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:IEEE AP/MTT/EMC/ED TURKEY CHAPTER SEMINAR SERIES -- SEMINAR 40 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/182834 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Sinan Kalkan\, Middl e East Technical University</p>\n<p>Topic: "Context in Robots"</p>\n<p>Loc ation:&nbsp\;Middle East Technical University\, Ankara\, Turkey</p>\n<p>Ab stract: In many of our cognitive capabilities and perceptual processes\, w e (humans) rely on vast amount of background knowledge and stimuli that we call context. Robots that are expected to populate our daily lives in nea r future should use such contextual information\, and perceive\, act\, rea son and plan accordingly. In this talk\, after providing a short summary o f how context helps us (humans) and the use of contextual cues in the robo tics literature\, I will present some of our recent work on incremental an d hierarchical modeling of context in robots.</p>\n<p>Bio: Dr. Sinan Kalka n received his M.Sc. degree&nbsp\; in Computer Engineering from Middle Eas t Technical University\, Turkey in 2003\, and his Ph.D. degree in Informat ics from the University of G&ouml\;ttingen\, Germany in 2008. After workin g as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gottingen and at Middl e East Technical University\, he became an assistant professor at Middle E ast Technical University in 2010. Since 2016\, he has been working as an a ssociate professor. Sinan Kalkan&rsquo\;s research interests include Compu ter Vision\, and Developmental Robotics. In Computer Vision\, he has been working on depth estimation\, stereo vision and object detection. In Devel opmental Robotics\, he has been focusing on scene modeling\, context model ing and life-long learning for the last couple of years.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</ p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR