Computer Science Speaking Skills Talks
— 4:00pm
Location:
In Person
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Reddy Conference Room, Gates Hillman 4405
Speaker:
ROGER IYENGAR
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Ph.D. StudentComputer Science DepartmentCarnegie Mellon University
https://rogeriyengar.com/
Wearable Cognitive Assistance
This is a talk that presents experience-based insights from building a new class of applications that leverage wearable devices and edge computing. In particular, I will describe Wearable Cognitive Assistance (WCA), explain why these applications require edge computing, and present our practical experiences in constructing this class of applications. WCA applications have the potential to help users with tasks such as assembling physical objects. These applications are run using a headset with a camera that processes live image streams and sends them to a cloudlet. The cloudlet then processes the images using deep neural networks (DNNs) to determine when steps of the task have been completed. These DNNs must be trained on thousands of labeled images. Capturing and labeling these images is a huge amount of work, especially when the models must be trained to recognize many different task states. We explored training DNNs with synthetically generated images, as a way to help make it more practical to develop these applications. Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the CSD Speaking Skills Requirement
For More Information:
deb@cs.cmu.edu