Paper Readings

The papers below will be analyzed in class. For any given paper, one team will present the work and highlight positive aspects (15min), while another team will discuss limitations and/or shortcomings of the approach (10mins). We will then have 5-10min for questions or additional discussion.

• Wed. 09/11
  

  1. RetroDepth
     Main presentation: Jevin Jiang, Adriel Sumathipala
     Critique: Garima Singh, Simon Mendelsohn
     

  2. OmniTouch
     Main presentation: Qinying Sun, Jun Kwak
     Critique: Nicholas Georgiou, Emmanuel Adeniran
     

• Wed. 09/18

  1. AnglePose
     Main presentation: Emmanuel Adeniran, Debasmita Ghose
     Critique: Nathan Tsoi, Jay Son
     

  2. Detecting Moving Objects using a Single Camera on a Mobile Robot in an Outdoor Environment
     Main presentation: Sally Ma
     Critique: Joe Connolly, Annie Gao
     

• Mon. 09/30

  1. YOLO
     Main presentation: Nathan Tsoi, Sydney Thompson
     Critique: Sally Ma, Annie Gao
     

• Wed. 10/02

  1. Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation
     Main presentation: Vanessa Yan
     Critique: Debasmita Ghose, Jun Kwak
     

• Wed. 10/14

  1. Attention is All You Need
     Main presentation: Garima Singh
     Critique: Debasmita Ghose
     
     

• Wed. 10/23

  1. Keyframe-based Learning from Demonstration
     Main presentation: William Hu, Sean Hackett
     Critique: Adriel Sumathipala, Lukas Burger
     

  2. Agile Autonomous Driving
     Main presentation: Nicholas Georgiou, Debasmita Ghose
     Critique: Yichao Cheng, Valerie Chen
     

• Mon. 10/28.

  1. Inference Machines
     Main presentation: Simon Mendelsohn, Vanessa Yan
     Critique: Nicholas Georgiou, Sydney Thompson
     

  2. Scheduled Sampling
     Main presentation: Marynel
     Critique: Sally Ma

• Mon. 11/04

  1. DQN
     Main presentation: Valerie Chen, Annie Gao
     Critique: Nathan Tsoi, Sydney Thompson
     

  2. Mastering the Game of Go
     Main presentation: Nicholas Georgiou, Emmanuel Adeniran
     Critique: Jevin Jiang, William Hu
     

• Wed. 11/06

  1. How to Shape the Humor of a Robot - Social Behavior Adaptation Based on Reinforcement Learning
     Main presentation: Kayleigh Bishop, Joe Connolly
     Critique: Joseph Valdez, Qinying Sun
     

  2. Trust Region Policy Optimization
     Main presentation: Cove Geary, Jay Son
     Critique: Tony Fu, Yichao Cheng
     

• Wed. 11/13

  1. Probabilistic Pointing Target Prediction
     Main presentation: Yichao Cheng, Tony Fu
     Critique: Marynel
     

  2. Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning
     Main presentation: Sally Ma, Lukas Burger
     Critique: Vanessa Yan
     

• Mon. 11/18

  1. ViBand
     Main presentation: Yichao Cheng, Annie Gao
     Critique: Kayleigh Bishop
     

  2. Affordance++
     Main presentation: Jevin Jiang, Joseph Valdez
     Critique: Emmanuel Adeniran, Cove Geary

• Wed. 11/20

  1. Generalized Speech Animation
     Main presentation: Marynel
     Critique: Jevin Jiang, Vanessa Yan
     

  2. Deep Appearance Models for Face Rendering
     Main presentation: Nathan Tsoi, Sydney Thompson
     Critique: Sean Hackett