Program and Presentation Materials

Time Event Presenter
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast and Check-in
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Welcoming Remarks Yannis Yortsos
Dean of Viterbi School of Engineering, USC
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM IMSC Introduction
(Slide) (Demo videos: GeoDec, iCampus on iPad)
Cyrus Shahabi
Director of IMSC, USC
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Break
The iCampus.USC Project (Intelligent Campus)
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM iCampus: A Geospatial Social Networking Web-Portal for the USC Community
(Slide) (Demo video)
Seon Ho Kim
Associate Director of IMSC, USC
10:45 AM - 10:55 AM Sensing Occupancy and Location
(Slide)
Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Professor of Electrical Engineering, USC
10:55 AM - 11:05 AM Continuous and Real-time Sensing of Occupant Satisfaction with Indoor Ambient Factors
(Slide)
Burcin Becerik-Gerber
Professor of Civil Engineering, USC
11:05 AM - 11:15 AM 3-D Object Recognition from LiDAR Point Clouds
(Slide)
Bingcai Zhang
Technical Fellow, BAE Systems
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Break
The iWatch Project (Intelligent Surveillance)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM iWatch: Connecting-the-Dots in Real-Time
(Slide)
Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
Associate Director of IMSC, USC
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Telling What-Is-What in Video
(Slide)
Ram Nevatia
Director of Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, USC
12:10 PM - 12:20 PM Targeted Trojan Alert: Enabling Dynamic Location-Based Evacuation Strategies
(Slide)
Daniel W. Goldberg
Professor of Spatial Science, USC
12:20 PM - 12:30 PM Managing Mobile Video in Spatiotemporal Space
(Slide)
Roger Zimmermann
Professor of Computer Science, NUS
12:40 AM - 1:45 PM Lunch
The CT Project (Intelligent Transportation)
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM Technical Challenges, the Fun of the Road
(Slide)
Barak Fishbain
Associate Director of IMSC, USC
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Plan Your Way
(Slide)
Lisa Schweitzer
Professor of Policy, Planning and Development, USC
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM The Technological Platform That Will Take You There Balan Sethu Raman
Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft
Demos, Posters and Panel
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM Demo and Poster Session
(Posters)
IMSC Students
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Panel: "The Geo-Social Revolution: Hype or Real?"
(Slide 1, Slide 2)
Geo: Beth Driver (NGA)
Social: Greg Badros (Facebook)
Geo-Social Applications: Jonathan Taplin (USC)
Geo-Social Market: Peter Marx (Qualcomm)
Geo-Social Research: Shashi Shekhar (UMN)
Moderator: Cyrus Shahabi (USC)
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Reception Wine, Cheese and more!

Full Agenda with Attendee List

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Viterbi News Coverage of the IMSC Retreat