VASC Seminar
Xinlei Chen
PhD Student, Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

NEIL: Extracting Visual Knowledge from Web Data

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
Abhinav Shrivastava
PhD Student, RI
Carnegie Mellon University

Building Parts-based Object Detectors via 3D Geometry

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Abhinav Shrivastava is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Abhinav Gupta and Alexei A. Efros. He received his Master's degree from the same institute under the supervision of A. A. Efros and Martial Hebert. His research interests span computer vision esp. [...]

VASC Seminar
Carl Doersch
PhD Student, Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University

Mid-Level Visual Element Discovery as Discriminative Mode Seeking

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Carl Doersch is a PhD student in the Machine Learning Department at CMU, advised by Alyosha Efros and Abhinav Gupta. He holds a bachelor's in computer science/cognitive science and a masters in machine learning, both from CMU. His research focuses on machine learning and computer vision, particularly in the use of [...]

VASC Seminar
C. Lawrence Zitnick
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research

Looking for the Right Line

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: C. Lawrence Zitnick is a senior researcher in the Interactive Visual Media group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. He is interested in a broad range of topics related to visual object recognition. His current interests include object detection, semantically interpreting visual scenes, and the use of human debugging to identify promising areas [...]

VASC Seminar
Pinar Duygulu-Sahin
Assistant Professor
Bilkent University

Towards leveraging large data for video analysis

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Pinar Duygulu has received her BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from Department of Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1996, 1998 and 2003 respectively. During her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. David Forsyth. After being [...]

VASC Seminar
Yuan Junsong
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Nanyang Technological University

Understanding Human Behaviours using 2D and 3D Sensors

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Junsong Yuan is a Nanyang Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, leading the video analytics program at School of EEE. He obtained his PhD from Northwestern University in Aug. 2009. His research interests include computer vision, video analytics, large-scale visual search and mining, human computer interaction, biomedical image analysis, [...]

VASC Seminar
Vishnu Naresh Boddeti
Post Doc Fellow, RI
Carnegie Mellon

Correlation Filters : Theory and Applications

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Vishnu Naresh Boddeti received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition. He received the best paper award at BTAS [...]

VASC Seminar
Jia Deng
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan

Advancing visual recognition with big data

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jia Deng is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the EECS department of the University of Michigan, where he will start as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2014. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2012 and his B.Eng. from Tsinghua University, both in computer science. He has been co-organizing the [...]

VASC Seminar
Natasha Kholgade
PhD Student RI
Carnegie Mellon

Automatic Viewpoint Alignment and Deformation of 3D Models to Match Photographs Exactly

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Natasha Kholgade is a fifth year Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research lies at the intersection of computer graphics and computer vision. She is especially interested in extraction, manipulation, and editing of three-dimensional information in images. Prior to attending Carnegie Mellon, she received her B.S. [...]

VASC Seminar
Hyun Oh Song
PhD Candidate
UC Berkeley

Object detection with parsimony

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hyun Oh Song is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He is a recipient of five year Ph.D. fellowship from Samsung Lee Kun Hee Scholarship Foundation. His research interest lies at the intersection between computer vision, machine learning and optimization with an application focus in large scale object [...]