Seminar
Toward BIGVISION
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Alex Berg's research concerns computational visual recognition. He has worked on general object recognition in images, action recognition in video, human pose identification in images, image parsing, face recognition, image search, and machine learning for computer and human vision. He co-organizes the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, and organized the [...]
I would kill for a pigeon
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Michael J. Tarr is the Head of the Department of Psychology in Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Chair of Carnegie Mellon's BrainHub Steering Committee. He studies the neural, cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying visual perception and cognition. He is particularly interested in object and [...]
Segmenting smoke, trees and waterfalls – Spatiotemporal filters and distance learning to segment dynamic textures in videos of natural scenes
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Damien Teney recently joined Carnegie Mellon University as a post-doctoral researcher with a fellowship of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation. His research interests are at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. He is currently working with Martial Hebert, focusing on visual scene understanding and semantic segmentation. He previously worked [...]
Developing Trust in Autonomous Robots
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am a Senior Commercialization Specialist at the NREC and the CEO of Edge Case Research, a company I co-founded to help make autonomous vehicles and other complex software-based systems safer and more reliable. I have sixteen years of experience developing advanced robotic systems for industry, the Department of Defense, and [...]
Language and Perceptual Categorization in Computer Vision
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Vicente Ordonez is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds an MS from Stony Brook University and an engineering degree from the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral in Ecuador. His research interests are at the at the intersection [...]
Advances in Photoreal Digital Humans in Film and in Real-Time
Event Location: CIC DEC RoomBio: Paul Debevec is a Research Professor at the University of Southern California and the Chief Visual Officer at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. From his 1996 P.hD. at UC Berkeley, Debevec’s publications and animations have focused on techniques for photogrammetry, image‐based rendering, high dynamic range imaging, image‐based lighting, appearance measurement, [...]
Detection, segmentation and fine-grained localization
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: I am a fifth year graduate student with Prof. Jitendra Malik in the Vision group at University of California Berkeley. I did my undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. My interests are in Computer Vision and Machine learning. I am funded by a Microsoft Research Fellowship.Abstract: Object recognition in [...]