VASC Seminar
Bryan Russell
Research Scientist
Adobe Research, Creative Technologies Lab

Grounding text, maps, and images to 3D geometry

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Bryan Russell is a Research Scientist in the Creative Technologies Lab at Adobe Research in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2008 under the supervision of Professors William T. Freeman and Antonio Torralba. He was a post-doctoral fellow from 2008-2010 [...]

VASC Seminar
Pengtao Xie
Graduate Student
LTI

Integrating Image Clustering and Codebook Learning

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Pengtao Xie is a graduate student in the Language Technologies Institute, working with Professor Eric Xing. His primary research interests lie in latent space models and large scale distributed machine learning. He received a M.E. from Tsinghua University in 2013 and a B.E. from Sichuan University in 2010. He is the [...]

VASC Seminar
Jakob Engel
PhD Student
Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Direct SLAM and 3D Reconstruction in real-time

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jakob Engel received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science in 2009 and his Master degree in December 2011 at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). He received the SIEMENS Award for the best Master's Thesis 2012 for his work on Autonomous Camera-Based Navigation of a Quadrocopter. Since September 2012 he is [...]

VASC Seminar
Cordelia Schmid
INRIA Research Director
INRIA

Weakly supervised learning from images and videos

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Cordelia Schmid holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe and a Doctorate, also in Computer Science, from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG). Her doctoral thesis on "Local Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval" received the best thesis award from INPG in 1996. She [...]

VASC Seminar
Jean Ponce
Professor
Departement Informatique, Ecole Normale Superieure

Weakly Supervised Video Understanding

Event Location: NSH 1305Abstract: This talk addresses the problem of understanding the visual content of videos using a weak form of supervision such as the textual information available in television or film scripts. I will discuss two instances of this problem, the joint localization and identification of movie characters and their actions, and the assignment [...]

VASC Seminar
Sofien Bouaziz
PhD Student
Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Digital Humans

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Sofien Bouaziz is a PhD student in the Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He received an MSc degree in Computer Science from EPFL in 2009 and completed his master thesis at the Imaging Group of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, where he developed computer vision [...]

VASC Seminar
Yael Moses
Associate Professor
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel

Photo Sequencing v.s. Feature Matching in CrowdCam Images

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Prof. Yael Moses, from the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya Israel, received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Weizmann Institute, Israel. Her early work concentrated on theoretical aspects of object recognition. Recently, she has been focusing on various aspects of multi-camera systems and [...]

VASC Seminar
Yang Wu
Assistant Professor
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

Collaborative Representation for Person Re-identification

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Yang Wu received a BS degree and a Ph.D degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2004 and 2010, respectively. From Sep. 2007 to Dec. 2008, he was a visiting student in the GRASP lab at University of Pennsylvania. From 2011 to 2014, he was a program specific researcher at the Academic [...]

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 [...]