2019 Speaking Engagements

December 19, 2018 Author: Michael

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22nd January, ConocoPhillips Science Experience, QUT

2019

  • 22nd January, ConocoPhillips Science Experience, QUT
  • 13th February, Project Launch Media Call for “How Autonomous Vehicles Will Interact with Infrastructure” project, Parliament House, Brisbane, Australia.
  • 22nd February, Brisbane Grammar School Foundation Day Assembly Address
  • 26th February, Artificial Intelligence, QUT School of Law
  • 11th March, Prophesee Metavision for Machines, Paris, France.
  • 12th March, Institut VeDeCoM, Paris, France.
  • 13 March, From Rats to Robots and Everything In-between: Blending Neural Inspiration, Robotics and Deep Learning, Neural Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, European Human Brain Project, Paris, France
  • 20th March, From Pit to Port with the push of a button – Trends in Mining and Transport Automation, Minter Ellison, Brisbane
  • 21st March, “Death, Delays and Differentiation: Takeaways for Australia from recent events in Autonomous Vehicles” and Panel Discussion on Smart Cities and Future of Mobility, Carmageddon 3, Motor Trades Association of Queensland 
  • 26th March, Autonomous Vehicles Talk, iMOVECRC Future of Transport Event, Melbourne (midday)
  • 26th March, Autonomous Vehicles Talk/Panel, Grattan Institute and QUT, Brisbane (evening)
  • 28 March, invited talk and panel on Autonomous Vehicles and Health, Australian Healthcare Week, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney
  • 14 April, Invited panelist, “What are the Implications of the use of AI to deliver legal services on the ethical and professional duties of a legal professional?”, QUT Law School Capstone Workshop
  • 8 May, Invited speaker, CITEL Lourdes Hill College, Brisbane
  • 15 May, Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, California, USA
  • 17 May, Nvidia, Santa Clara, California, USA
  • [team member] 20-22 May, researcher presentation, Multi-Process Fusion: Visual Place Recognition Using Multiple Image Processing Methods, Stephen Hausler, Adam Jacobson, Michael J Milford, ICRA2019, Montreal, Canada
  • [team member] 20-22 May, researcher presentation, Look No Deeper: Recognizing Places from Opposing Viewpoints under Varying Scene Appearance using Single-View Depth Estimation, Sourav Garg, Madhu Babu Vankadari, Thanuja Dharmasiri, Stephen Hausler, Niko Sünderhauf, Swagat Kumar, Tom Drummond, Michael J Milford, ICRA2019, Montreal, Canada
  • [team member] 20-22 May, researcher presentation, LookUP: Vision-Only Real-Time Precise Underground Localisation for Autonomous Mining Vehicles, Fan Zeng, Adam Jacobson, David Smith, Nigel Boswell, Thierry Peynot, Michael J Milford, ICRA2019, Montreal, Canada
  • [team member or collaborator] 20-22 May, researcher presentation, Multi-Process Fusion: Evaluating Merging Strategies for Sampling-based Uncertainty Techniques in Object Detection, Dimity Miller, Feras Dayoub, Michael J Milford, Niko Sünderhauf, ICRA2019, Montreal, Canada
  • 23 May, Are State-of-the-art Visual Place Recognition Techniques any Good for Aerial Robotics?:  Mubariz Zaffar, Ahmad Khaliq, Shoaib Ehsan, Kostas Alexis, Michael Milford and Klaus McDonald-Maier, oral presentation at The Future of Aerial Robotics: Challenges and OpportunitiesDGB-ICRA-2019: Dataset Generation and Benchmarking of SLAM Algorithms for Robotics and VR/AR, ICRA2019.
  • 24 May, Chair of Debates on the Future of Robotics Research workshop, ICRA2019, Montreal, Canada
  • 24 May, Levelling the Playing Field: A Comprehensive Comparison of Visual Place Recognition Approaches under Changing Conditions: Mubariz Zaffar, Ahmad Khaliq, Shoaib Ehsan, Michael Milford and Klaus McDonald-Maier, oral and poster presentation at DGB-ICRA-2019: Dataset Generation and Benchmarking of SLAM Algorithms for Robotics and VR/AR, ICRA2019.
  • 19 June, Technology and Innovation Conference: Developing innovative technology for the rail industry, UTS, Sydney, Australia
  • 20 June, Baraja, Sydney, Australia
  • 20 June, Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia, Sydney, Australia
  • 2 July, “Navigation, robotics and neuroscience”, Royal Geographical Society of Queensland (RGSQ), Brisbane
  • 8 July, Talk at Tier IV, Inc, Tokyo, Japan
  • 9 July, Talk at Omron Sinic X Corp, Tokyo, Japan
  • 10 July, Invited Plenary at Living Machines: the International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Nara, Japan.
  • 26 July, LLH401 – Research Capstone Unit, QUT
  • 11 August, Artificial Intelligence and Automation 101, Brisbane Square Library Sunday Conversations Series, Brisbane
  • 18 August, STEM Storytime, Robotronica, QUT, Brisbane
  • 18 August, Driverless Vehicles: What’s in store for Queensland?, Robotronica, QUT, Brisbane
  • 29 August, Engineering Meeting for Chief Innovation Officer of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
  • 6-7 September [team member Sourav Garg], OpenSeqSLAM 2.0 and other projects, MathWorks Asia Research Summit, Tokyo, Japan
  • 12 September, Autonomous Vehicles, Neuroscience-inspired Algorithms and Positioning Systems: A Pictorial Snapshot of Our Past and Future Research, QUT, Brisbane, Australia
  • 13 September, Leveraging Social Media for the Modern Academic, QUT Mid-Career Academic Development Program, Brisbane, Australia
  • 27 September, Keynote: Qld Department of Education STEM Teacher Symposium, Brisbane, Australia
  • 9 October, “Cooperative and Highly Automated Driving Pilot (ZOE1)”, ITS Australia Webinar
  • 11 October, 5th Annual Queensland Infrastructure Summit, Brisbane
  • 15 October, Future Trends In Mobility: The 2071 Vision panel, Dubai World Congress for Self-driving Transport
  • 16 October, Presenting Dubai’s Autonomous Strategy for Public Transportation and Key Implementation Enablers panel, Dubai World Congress for Self-driving Transport
  • 24 October, “Working with your supervisor” panel, QUT, Brisbane
  • 24 October, “Open Robotics” panel member, Open Innovation Symposium, Brisbane
  • 28 October, Futureproofing autonomous vehicle evaluations: a case study in infrastructure assessment, 4th International Driverless Vehicle Summit (IDVS4)
  • 27 October – 2 November [team member or collaborator], “Hierarchical Encoding of Sequential Data with Compact and Sub-linear Storage Cost”, Huu Le, Ming Xu, Tuan Hoang, Michael Milford, International Conference on Computer Vision, Seoul, Korea.
  • 1-3 November, Invited Keynote, IEEE 14th International Conference on Electronic Measurement & Instruments (ICEMI), Changsha, China
  • 5-7 November, BTEL: A Binary Tree Encoding Approach for Visual Localization, Huu Le, Tuan Hoang, Michael J Milford, IROS2019, Macau, SAR China
  • 5-7 November [team member or collaborator], researcher presentation, TIMTAM: Tunnel-Image Textually-Accorded Mosaic for Location Refinement of Underground Vehicles with a Single Camera, Fan Zeng, Adam Jacobson, David Smith, Nigel Boswell, Thierry Peynot, Michael J Milford, IROS2019, Macau, SAR China
  • 5-7 November [team member or collaborator], researcher presentation, Filter Early, Match Late: Improving Network-Based Visual Place Recognition, Stephen Hausler, Adam Jacobson, Michael J Milford, IROS2019, Macau, SAR China
  • 5-7 November [team member or collaborator], researcher presentation, Automatic Coverage Selection for Surface-Based Visual Localization, James Mount, Les Dawes, Michael J Milford, IROS2019, Macau, SAR China
  • 8 November, speaker at IROS workshop “Towards Cognitive Vehicles: perception, learning and decision making under real-world constraints. Is bio-inspiration helpful?“
  • 13 November, “Place perception through bio-mimetic sensing and fusing neurally-inspired and deep neural networks“, MURI Launch Meeting, Boston University, Boston
  • 17 November [team member Sourav Garg], Human-Inspired Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles, SIGGRAPH2019 Asia workshop on CG for Autonomous Vehicles and Car Experience, Brisbane, Australia
  • 20 November, Real World Futures Breakfast Keynote, QUT, Brisbane
  • 25 November, speaker at Australian Research Summit on Connected and Automated Vehicles, Blue Mountains, NSW
  • 27 November, Driverless Vehicles Podcast, Minter Ellison, Brisbane
  • 4 December, Artificial Intelligence & Automation , SIRF (Strategic Industry Research Foundation) Senior Leaders Day (invite only), Brookwater Golf & Country Club, QLD 
  • 6 December, “Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles and AI: Hype, Hope, and Holy Grails“, invited speaker at IEEE QLD Annual Dinner, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia
  • 9 December, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science