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Rudra
Poudel
Senior Research Scientist in ML, CV, Robotics & AI
Toshiba Research Europe
Dr. Rudra P.K. Poudel is a Senior Research Scientist in AI at Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Europe Ltd, UK, and supervises PhD students at Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He received his Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Computer Vision from Bournemouth University, UK. Before, he co-founded the big-data migration and data analytics company Elvsys and joined an M.Sc. program in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex, UK. He has over 20 years of working experience in academic and industrial research, which includes Siemens Corporate Research, USA, Microsoft Research, UK, and King’s College London. His main research interests include unsupervised learning, multimodal representation learning, causality, world models, reinforcement learning, and embodied AI.
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07 November 2024 14:30 - 15:00
World Models for Embodied Agents
In this talk, Rudra will present what a world model is and why more than just scene understanding is needed to build an embodied agent. He will also highlight: - The importance of learning the physical attributes, relationships, and affordances of objects. - How world models can predict both likely pasts and possible futures. - How physical grounding helps to reduce hallucination effects and improve generalization.