Portrait of Deva Kannan Ramanan
Professor
Home Department: RI
Office: 221 Elliot Dunlap Smith Hall
Phone: (412) 268-6966
Administrative Assistant: Tyler Mannion
Mailing Address

My research focuses on computer vision, often motivated by the task of understanding people from visual data. My work tends to make heavy use of machine learning techniques, often using the human visual system as inspiration. For example, temporal processing is a key component of human perception, but is still relatively unexploited in current visual recognition systems. Machine learning from big (visual) data allows systems to learn subtle statistical regularities of the visual world. But humans have the ability to learn from very few examples. Here’s a recent talk (from 2015) that discusses some thoughts on these issues.

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