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 [...]

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, [...]

VASC Seminar
Nathan Jacobs
Assistant Professor
University of Kentucky

Novel Cues for Geocalibration: Cloudy Days, Rainbows, and More

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Nathan Jacobs earned a PhD in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis (2010). Since then, he has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Jacobs' research area is computer vision; his speciality is developing learning-based algorithms and systems for processing large-scale image collections. [...]