VASC Seminar
Matthew Loper
Research Engineer
Industrial Light and Magic

OpenDR: An Approximate Differentiable Renderer

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Matthew Loper is a research engineer at Industrial Light and Magic, and a PhD candidate at the University of Tuebingen. He received his ScM from Brown University in 2008. His current research interests include differentiable rendering and statistical body shape modeling.Abstract: Inverse graphics attempts to take sensor data and infer 3D [...]

VASC Seminar
Ognjen Rudovic
Research Fellow
Imperial College London, UK

Context-sensitive Dynamic Ordinal Regression for Human Facial Behaviour Analysis

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ognjen Rudovic received a PhD from Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK, in 2014, an MSc degree in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence from Computer Vision Centre (CVC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2008, and BSc in Automatic Control Theory from Electrical Engineering Dept., University Of Belgrade, Serbia, in 2007. He is [...]

RI Seminar
Louis-Philippe Morency
Assistant Professor
LTI

Multimodal Machine Learning: Modeling Human Communication Dynamics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Louis-Philippe Morency is Assistant Professor in the Language Technology Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University where he leads the Multimodal Communication and Machine Learning Laboratory (MultiComp Lab). He received his Ph.D. and Master degrees from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2008, Dr. Morency was selected as one of [...]

VASC Seminar
Chen Sun
PhD Candidate
University of Southern California

Towards Large-scale Video Understanding

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Chen Sun is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Vision group at University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Ram Nevatia. His research interest includes Computer Vision and Machine Learning, with a focus on large-scale video understanding. Chen got his bachelor degree in Computer Science at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He has [...]

VASC Seminar
Vijay Mahadevan
Research Scientist
Yahoo! Labs, Sunnyvale, CA

Learning optimal seeds for diffusion based salient object detection

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Vijay Mahadevan is Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs in Sunnyvale, CA. He received the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from UC San Diego. He also has an M.S. from Rensselaer, and a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His interests are in the areas of computer vision, machine learning and [...]

RI Seminar
Sonia Chernova
Assistant Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology

Crowds and Robots: Leveraging the Web to Advance Robot Autonomy

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sonia Chernova is the Catherine M. and James E. Allchin Early-Career Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, and the director of the Robot Autonomy and Interactive Learning (RAIL) lab. Her research interests span robotics, interactive machine learning, adjustable autonomy, human computation and human-robot interaction. Dr. Chernova received her Ph.D. [...]

VASC Seminar
David Held
PhD Student
Stanford University

Using Motion to Understand Objects in the Real World

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: David Held is a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Stanford doing research at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. He is co-advised by Sebastian Thrun and Silvio Savarese. David has also interned at Google, working on the self-driving car project. Before Stanford, he worked as a software developer [...]

VASC Seminar
Philipp Krähenbühl
Postdoctral Researcher
UC Berkeley

Constrained Convolutional Neural Networks for Weakly Supervised Segmentation

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Philipp is a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2014 under the supervision of Vladlen Koltun. His main research interests lie in Computer vision, Machine learning and Computer Graphics. He is particularly interested in image segmentation and deep learning. Abstract: In this talk, I'll [...]

VASC Seminar
Bohyung Han
Associate Professor
POSTECH Korea

Learning deconvolution network for semantic segmentation: DeconvNet and DecoupledNet

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Bohyung Han Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering POSTECH, Korea Bohyung Han received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, [...]