VASC Seminar
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Toward BIGVISION
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Alex Berg's research concerns computational visual recognition. He has worked on general object recognition in images, action recognition in video, human pose identification in images, image parsing, face recognition, image search, and machine learning for computer and human vision. He co-organizes the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, and organized the [...]
Segmenting smoke, trees and waterfalls – Spatiotemporal filters and distance learning to segment dynamic textures in videos of natural scenes
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Damien Teney recently joined Carnegie Mellon University as a post-doctoral researcher with a fellowship of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation. His research interests are at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. He is currently working with Martial Hebert, focusing on visual scene understanding and semantic segmentation. He previously worked [...]
Language and Perceptual Categorization in Computer Vision
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Vicente Ordonez is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds an MS from Stony Brook University and an engineering degree from the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral in Ecuador. His research interests are at the at the intersection [...]