Chad Jenkins, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded a three-year $380,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research. This grant, titled "Learning Predictive Motion Vocabularies for Kinematic Tracking and Activity Recognition", will support Jenkins' neuro-inspired research on learning the basic building blocks of human motion, or motion primitives, leading to their use for robot perception.

Important computational challenges exist in acquiring and analyzing large amounts of human motion. Existing work in this area has addressed some of these challenges for learning and vision-based tracking methodologies, but has been limited to relatively small datasets. Using new ...