VASC Seminar
Rich Caruana
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research

Do Deep Nets Really Need To Be Deep?

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Rich Caruana is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. Before joining Microsoft, Rich was on the faculty at the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, at UCLA’s Medical School, and at CMU’s Center for Learning and Discovery (CALD). Rich’s Ph.D. is from Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked with Tom Mitchell [...]

VASC Seminar
Hayley Hung
Assistant Professor
Delft University of Technology

Towards context-ready tagging: Solutions and open challenges of implicit tagging in the real world

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hayley Hung is an Assistant Professor and Delft Technology Fellow in the Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics group at TU Delft, The Netherlands, since 2013. Between 2010-2013, she held a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at the Intelligent Systems Lab at the University of Amsterdam. Between 2007-2010, she was a post-doctoral researcher at [...]

VASC Seminar
Xiaoming Liu
Assistant Professor
Michigan State University

Unconstrained 3D Face Reconstruction

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Xiaoming Liu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Michigan State University. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. Before joining MSU in Fall 2012, he was a research scientist at General Electric (GE) Global Research. [...]

VASC Seminar
Chris Sweeney
PhD Candidate
University of California Santa Barbara

Removing Common Assumptions from Large Scale Structure-from-Motion

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Chris Sweeney is currently a PhD candidate in the 4 Eyes Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include multi-view geometry, structure from motion, and augmented reality. His main research interest is in using unorganized photo collections from the internet to create a complete and up-to-date 3D [...]

VASC Seminar
Matthew Trager
PhD Student
Inria/ENS Paris

The joint image variety

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Matthew Trager is a second year PhD student at Inria/ENS Paris. In 2014 he received a master's in applied mathematics (Degree in Mathematics, Machine Learning and Computer Vision "MVA") from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Previously, he received a master's in pure mathematics from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. His research [...]

VASC Seminar
Aleix Martinez
Professor
The Ohio State University

My Adventured with Bayes: In search of optimal solutions in machine learning, computer vision and beyond

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Aleix M. Martinez is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU), where he is the founder and director of the Computational Biology and Cognitive Science Lab. He is also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and to the Center for Cognitive [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]