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	Christian Siagian Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Computer Science University of Southern California HNB 10, 3641 Watt Way Los Angeles, CA 90089 - USA Email: christian . g . siagian at gmail.com Phone: (213) 740 - 6995 Fax: (213) 740 - 5687
Education	Ph.D., University of Southern California, Computer Science, Los Angeles, CA - 2002 - 2009 B.S., Cornell University, Computer Science, Ithaca NY - 1997 - 2001
Experience	Postdoctoral Fellow, iLab, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA - 2011 - present Postdoctoral Scholar, kLab, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA - 2010 - 2011 Research Assistant, iLab,University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA - 2003 - 2009 Team Leader, , Autonomous Vehicle & Controls Lab, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - 2000 - 2001
Research/ Projects	Robotic Vision Mobile robot vision localization Mobile robot vision navigation: landmark-based navigation visual road recognition obstacle detection Beobot 2.0: Parallel high-performing robotics vision platform Vision-based hierarchical Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Rich and more robust social perception system for Human Robot Interaction (HRI) Consolidated robot vision architecture Biological and Computer Vision Biologically plausible model of gist or context of a scene Motion perception: ego-motion, biological motion, motion saliency and adaptation Models of Scene Understanding: interaction of gist and saliency Computer/machine Vision Salient object segmentation and boundary detection Static and dynamic visual feature binding Integrated representation of a person: face, gaze, expression, pose, and action recognition
Publications	current full list Selected list: C. Siagian, C. K. Chang, L. Itti, Autonomous Mobile Robot Localization and Navigation Using Hierarchical Map Representation Primarily Guided by Vision, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. -, No. -, pp. -, accepted 2014 (equal authorship). C. Siagian, C. K. Chang, R. Voorhies, L. Itti, Beobot 2.0: Cluster Architecture for Mobile Robotics, Journal of Field Robotics,* Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 278-302, March/April 2011. C. Siagian, L. Itti, Biologically Inspired Mobile Robot Vision Localization, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 861-873, July 2009. C. Siagian, L. Itti, Rapid Biologically-Inspired Scene Classification Using Features Shared with Visual Attention, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 300-312, Feb 2007.
Teaching	Mentor: USC Robotics Competition Club, University of Southern California - 2006 - 2009 Co-Lecturer: CS445 Introduction to Robotics, University of Southern California - Fall 2006 Teaching Assistant: CS445 Introduction to Robotics, University of Southern California - 2004 - 2007 Teaching Assistant: CS211 Computers and Programmers, Cornell University - Summer 2001

Miscellaneous

[PAMI2007] and [IEEE-TR 2009] dataset

Web application Saliency Model

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