Event Location: NSH 1305
Bio: Douglas Summers-Stay is a robot vision researcher for the Army Research Laboratory. He is finishing up his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, working with Yiannis Aloimonos. He recently published Machinamenta, an examination of creative machines before the invention of computers.

Abstract: “Visual filters” is an approach to the problem of scene classification. We learn classifiers that act as a series of convolution kernels to generate a probability map for belonging to each class. The filters are able to take into account context to improve their estimates.