VASC Seminar
What can we do with motion cues?
Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Karteek Alahari is an Inria permanent researcher (chargé de recherche) since October 2015. He has been at Inria since 2010, initially as a postdoctoral fellow in the WILLOW team in Paris, and then on a starting research position in Grenoble since September 2013. Dr. Alahari's PhD from Oxford Brookes [...]
Understanding Social and Physical Interactions from First Person Cameras
Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Hyun Soo Park is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of Minnesota. He is interested in understanding human visual sensorimotor behaviors from first person cameras. Prior to the UMN, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Jianbo Shi at University of Pennsylvania. [...]
Instrumented and Connected: Designing Next-Generation Learning Experiences
Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Tovi Grossman is a Distinguished Research Scientist at Autodesk Research, located in downtown Toronto. Dr. Grossman’s research is in HCI, focusing on input and interaction with new technologies. In particular, he has been exploring how emerging technologies, such as wearables, the Internet of Things, and gamification can be leveraged [...]
Simulation-guided Interactive Exploration of Functional Design
Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Nobuyuki Umetani is a research scientist at Autodesk Research. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Autodesk Research and Disney Research Zurich. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2012 from The University of Tokyo under supervision of Takeo Igarashi. He also spent one year in Columbia University and in [...]
Molecular resolution structural pattern mining inside single cells
Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Dr. Min Xu is an Assistant Research Professor of Computational Biology at the Computational Biology Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received degrees in Computational Biology, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics. He has more than 16 years of research experience in various Computational [...]
Character Animator
Bio: Jovan Popovic is a Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems. After receiving bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science in 1995, he attended the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a doctoral degree for his work in computer animation and geometric modeling. He was on the faculty at the Massachusetts [...]
Exploring and Modifying Spatial Variations in a Single Image
Event Location: Gates Hillman 5222Bio: Tali Dekel is currently a Research Scientist at Google, working on developing computer vision and computer graphics algorithms. Before Google, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT, working with Prof. William T. Freeman. Tali completed her Ph.D studies at the school [...]
Reasoning About Our Visual World
Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: C. Lawrence Zitnick is a research manager at Facebook AI Research, and an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington. He is interested in a broad range of topics related to artificial intelligence including object recognition, the relation of language and imagery, and methods for gathering common sense [...]