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\u201cRobots do not need to look like robots \u2026 the most important part is to (have the robot) understand what the human is thinking \u2026 Human, the weakest link!\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Takeo Kanade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Yang\u2019s research centers around the long lasting ancient quest: how to create intelligent agents that can understand human? His perspective to approach this quest is from the angle of visual perception. Why do robots perceive, how do robots perceive, what do robots perceive and when do robots perceive, to understand us? Over the last decade, Dr. Yang has been exploring problems and solutions stem from Computer Vision (more specifically, Active Vision), synergistically together with Natural Language Processing and AI reasoning, for the purpose of Robotic visual learning. His current research focuses on human manipulation action understanding, explainable methods for visual recognition and Robotic visual learner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Yang directs the ASU APG group<\/a> and its group seminar series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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INVITED TALKS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Yezhou: Tech talk \u201cVision-Language integration challenges and needs in Robotics\u201d at the 3rd integrating Vision and Language training school, Sep 5th, Athens, Greece.
\u2022 Yezhou: Tech talk \u201cActive Perception Beyond Appearance, and its Robotic Applications\u201d at the Brain team, Google Inc.
\u2022 Invited talk \u201cActive Perception Beyond Appearance, and its Robotic Applications\u201d at the Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning and Autonomy, University of California Los Angeles, April 2017;
\u2022 Visual Interpretation of Manipulation Actions for Cognitive Robots at GPUs for Deep Learning and Embedded Technologies Workshop at Arizona State University, June 2016;
\u2022 Human Manipulation Action Understanding for Cognitive Robots, at Carnegie Mellon University VASC Seminar, May 2016;
\u2022 Visual Interpretation of Manipulation Actions part II, at Mid-Atlantic Computer Vision (MACV) Workshop 2016, John Hopkins University, April 2016;
\u2022 Human Manipulation Action Understanding for Cognitive Robots, at Princeton Computer Vision Seminar, Feb 2016;
\u2022 Grasping type, Action Intention, and Manipulation Semantics, at Institute of Cyber-systems and Control, Zhejiang University, August 2015;
\u2022 Visual Interpretation of Manipulation Actions part I, at Mid-Atlantic Computer Vision (MACV) Workshop 2014, Virginia Tech University, April 18th 2014;
\u2022 Plenary Socratic Dialogue, the Manipulation Action Language, together with Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos at Humanoids 2013, Oct 17th 2013;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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