VASC Seminar
Michael Tarr
Professor and Department Head
Carnegie Mellon University

CANCELED

Event Location: NSH 1507

VASC Seminar
Christophe De Vleeschouwer
Professor
Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

Computer vision for democratic and personalized access to sport video reports

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Christophe De Vleeschouwer is a Professor at ‘Université catholique de Louvain’ (UCL), and a Research Associate of the Belgian NSF. He received the M. Eng. and the Ph. D. degrees from UCL, in 1995 and 1999 respectively. As a young PhD, he was a senior research engineer with the IMEC Multimedia [...]

VASC Seminar
Joseph Lim
PhD Student
MIT

3D Object Understanding

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Joseph Lim is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is advised by Professor Antonio Torralba. His research interests are in computer vision and machine learning. He has been motivated by the goal of building computer systems that [...]

VASC Seminar
Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
Postdoctoral Researcher
Stanford University

Decoupling Algorithms from the Organization of Computation for High-Performance Image Processing

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jonathan Ragan-Kelley is a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford, where he works with Pat Hanrahan. He recently finished his PhD in computer science at MIT, where he worked with Frédo Durand and Saman Amarasinghe. His work focuses on high-efficiency computer graphics, at the intersection of graphics with systems, architecture, and compilers. He [...]

VASC Seminar
Shiguang Shan
Professor
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Visual Representation and Metrics for Face Classification with Image Sets

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Shiguang Shan is now a visiting scholar with Dr. Alex Hauptmann at CMU. He received Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, in 2004. He then joined ICT, CAS and has been a Professor since 2010. He is now [...]

VASC Seminar
Xinlei Chen
Graduate Research Assistant, PhD
LTI

Learning a Recurrent Visual Representation for Image Caption Generation

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Xinlei Chen is a PhD student in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Abhinav Gupta. He holds an Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University, China. His research focuses on the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing and he is particularly [...]

VASC Seminar
Jia Xu
PhD Candidate
University of Wisconsin

Visual Parsing with Weak Supervision

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jia Xu is a PhD candidate of the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Prof. Vikas Singh, Prof. Jerry Zhu, and Prof. Chuck Dyer. He was a visiting student at University of Toronto in Summer 2014 and at TTI-Chicago during Summer 2013, both working with Prof. Raquel [...]

VASC Seminar
Andrew Fitzgibbon
Principal Research
Microsoft Research

CANCELED 3D Vision in a Changing World

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Andrew Fitzgibbon is a principal researcher in the computer vision group at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He is best known for his work on 3D vision, having been a core contributor to the Emmy-award-winning 3D camera tracker "boujou" (www.boujou.com) and Kinect for Xbox 360, but his interests are broad, spanning computer vision, [...]

VASC Seminar
Larry Zitnick
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research, Redmond

Commonsense, Vision and Language

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: C. Lawrence Zitnick is a senior researcher in the Interactive Visual Media group at Microsoft Research, and is an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington. He is interested in a broad range of topics related to object recognition, the semantic interpretation of visual scenes, and methods for gathering commonsense [...]