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Brandon Sanders (Graduate Student )
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Contact:

Brandon Sanders
CSB 631
Department of Computer Science
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627

vox: 585.275.0469
fax: 585.273.4556

email: sanders@cs.rochester.edu
home: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~sanders
vision: http://www.rochester.edu/research/vision/people/Brandon_C_S_Sanders

About:

I am in my fifth year of the Computer Science Ph.D. program at the University of Rochester finishing my thesis on Quasi-static Object Discovery with Randal Nelson. Outside interests: the meaning of life, reading, team sports, guitar, go, public speaking, entreprengineering.

Research Interests:

My research interests include spatial intelligence (Computer Vision), Machine Learning and Neural Models of Computation. My thesis is part of a larger effort to create spatially intelligent machines capable of interacting with humans in the physical rather than virtual world. Specifically, our framework provides perceptually grounded objects to processes that reason about the relations between the objects and actions involving them. We call this process of finding objects in the world, Object Discovery, or OD for short. The problem of Object Discovery may be defined thus:
Given a set of observations, group all the observations stemming from a particular object without including other observations originating from different objects.

Projects:

Perceptual Basis of Spatial Relations: We seek to visually recognize the spatial relations between objects in a 3-D realistic environment, using an interaction-based approach that identifies a small high-leverage set of visual features.

Quasi-static Object Discovery (QsOD): We discover quasi-static objects, objects that are stationary during some interval of observation, across image sequences acquired by any number of completely uncalibrated cameras using only temporal (no spatial) information.


Publications:

The {OD} Theory of {TOD}: The Use and Limitations of Temporal Information for Object Discovery (Brandon C.S. Sanders and Randal C. Nelson and Rahul Sukthankar)
A Theory of the Quasi-static World (Brandon C.S. Sanders and Randal C. Nelson and Rahul Sukthankar)
Discovering Objects Using Temporal Information (Brandon C.S. Sanders and Randal C. Nelson and Rahul Sukthankar)