AI in Art Webinar

IEEE Maine Joint Commuciations/Computer Societies Chapter is sponsoring an AI in Art webinar, held live via Zoom on Thursday March 3, 12-1 PM EST, hosted by UMaine-AI, featuring two presentations:

Making AI Art More Accessible to the Mainstream by Pindar Van Arman

Pindar Van Arman is an American artist and roboticist who designs painting robots that explore the differences between human and computational creativity. Since his first system in 2005 he has built multiple artificially creative robots earning multiple accolades including a TEDx Talk, making the Shortlist at Barbican’s DevArt Competition, and First Prize in the Robot Art 2018.

Imitating Human Driving using Inverse Reinforcement Learning by Dr. Vikas Dhiman (UMaine)

Vikas Dhiman received the B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in 2008, the MS degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University at Buffalo, NY in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2019. Dr. Dhiman was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of California, San Diego from 2019 to 2021. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the ECE department in the University of Maine, Orono. His research interests include robotic localization, mapping, reinforcement learning, and safe-control of robots.

Co-sponsored by: UMaine

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/305026