Lecturers

The course is lectured by Dr Matthew Johnson-Roberson and Dr Gert Kootstra from Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Sweden.

Dr. Gert Kootstra received his Ph.D degree on "Visual Attention and Active Vision: from natural to artificial systems" from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He received his M.Sc. degree in Artificial Intelligence in 2002. From 2002-2005, he was a lecturer of Autonomous Systems at the University of Groningen. Gert is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Autonomous Systems at the KTH, Stockholm, studying visual attention and segmentation.

Dr. Matthew Johnson-Roberson is a postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He works on issues of perception and sensor processing for robotic platforms. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Sydney. He has been a part of many large-scale robotic projects. He led he Computing Team for Carnegie Mellon's entry into the 2004 and 2005 DARPA Grand Challenges. He has also worked on the development of a long-term coral reef monitoring system using autonomous underwater vehicles. He is interested in computer vision and machine learning, specifically their applications to real world problems in challenging unstructured environments.