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Alex Teichman

Alex Teichman

Founder & CEO of Happenstance ๐Ÿ€ // Prior: Stanford CS PhD (๐Ÿค–๐Ÿš—), Lighthouse AI cofounder+CEO, Apple

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Joined March 2024

Summary

Radically increasing the amount of luck in the world.

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

Group induction

January 1, 2013

A mathematical framework for online semi-supervised learning that enables systems to induce new object groups from a few user-provided examples during runtime.

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Unsupervised extrinsic calibration of depth sensors in dynamic scenes

January 1, 2013

Method to estimate the relative pose of two stationary depth sensors using only motion cues, requiring no calibration targets or specialized hardware.

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Unsupervised intrinsic calibration of depth sensors via SLAM

January 1, 2013

CLAMS: a technique to calibrate depth sensor distortions by recording data from a handheld sensor and using SLAM, removing the need for calibration targets.

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Learning to segment and track in RGBD (IEEE Transactions)

January 1, 2013

Extended journal paper describing algorithmic optimizations for real-time segmentation and tracking of arbitrary objects in RGB-D data, and applications for training object detectors with reduced annotation effort.

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Online, semi-supervised learning for long-term interaction with object recognition systems

January 1, 2012

Invited workshop talk presenting early ideas on enabling long-term, online semi-supervised learning for object recognition systems, precursor to group induction.

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Tracking-based semi-supervised learning (IJRR)

January 1, 2012

A semi-supervised learning method that leverages tracking information to automatically find useful training examples, achieving similar accuracy with far less human labeling.

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Learning to segment and track in RGBD (WAFR)

January 1, 2012

Conference version describing a model-free segmentation and tracking method for RGB-D data that supports subsequent semi-supervised learning approaches.

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Practical object recognition in autonomous driving and beyond

January 1, 2011

Overview of recent object recognition research in the Stanford autonomous driving lab, and discussion of challenges needed to make high-accuracy systems applicable beyond autonomous driving.

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Tracking-based semi-supervised learning (RSS)

January 1, 2011

Original RSS conference paper introducing a method that uses tracking information to expand training datasets automatically, reducing labeling requirements by orders of magnitude.

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Towards 3D object recognition via classification of arbitrary object tracks

January 1, 2011

A method that decomposes object recognition into segmentation, tracking, and track classification, enabling real-time classification of tracked objects (car, pedestrian, bicyclist, other).

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Towards fully autonomous driving: systems and algorithms

January 1, 2011

A broad summary paper on systems and algorithms developed for Stanford's autonomous vehicle 'Junior', covering perception, sensor calibration, planning, and control.

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Exponential family sparse coding with application to self-taught learning

January 1, 2009

Work on sparse coding in the exponential family with applications to self-taught learning, co-authored with Honglak Lee, Rajat Raina, and Andrew Ng.

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Automatic configuration recognition methods in modular robots

January 1, 2008

Methods for recognizing configurations of modular robots, published in the International Journal of Robotics Research.

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Hobbies

Snowboarding & mountain biking with the kids.

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