VASC Seminar
Object Recognition from Active Detection to Accurate Pose Estimation
Event Location: 200 Smith HallBio: Menglong Zhu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research focus is 2D and 3D object recognition and pose estimation. He is also interested in semantic localization, text recognition, and action recognition. He obtained his Master’s degree in [...]
Video Forensics: Extracting and Analyzing Information from Video about Human Rights, Conflict, and Disaster
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jay Aronson is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Carnegie Mellon University. His research and teaching focus is on the interactions of science, technology, law, and human rights in a variety of contexts. He is currently engaged in a long-term study of the ethical, political, and social dimensions of [...]
Large-scale image classification and video highlight retrieval
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Min Sun is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Washington (UW) working with Steve Seitz and Ali Farhadi. Before joining UW, he graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a Ph.D. degree and Stanford University with a M.Sc. degree. His [...]
CANCELED – Understanding Cars: Leveraging Real World Knowledge in Computer Vision
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Yair Movshovitz-Attias is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department, advised by Prof. Yaser Sheikh and Prof. Takeo Kanade. His research interests include object detection, image classification and fine-grained recognition. Yair has an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He [...]
Improving Face Analysis Using Expression Dynamics
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hamdi Dibeklioglu received the B.Sc. degree from Yeditepe University, Istanbul in 2006 and the M.Sc. degree from Bogaziçi University,Istanbul in 2008. In 2013, he completed his PhD research in the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Pattern Recognition & Bioinformatics Group at [...]
MAP Visibility Estimation for Large-Scale Dynamic 3D Reconstruction
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hanbyul Joo is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Prof. Yaser Sheikh. Before joining CMU, he worked as a researcher at ETRI, Korea, and received M.S. and B.S. from KAIST, Korea. He focuses on developing large-scale dynamic reconstruction using about 500 synchronized cameras. He is [...]
Predicting Object Dynamics in Scenes
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: David Fouhey is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Abhinav Gupta and Martial Hebert. He holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Middlebury College. His research addresses a variety of scene understanding tasks in computer vision, with a particular interest in inferring [...]
Trinocular Geometry Revisited
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: This is a joint work with J. Ponce. When do the visual rays associated with triplets of point correspondences converge, that is, intersect in a common point? Classical models of trinocular geometry based on the fundamental matrices and trifocal tensor associated with the corresponding cameras only provide partial answers to this [...]
Predicting Failures of Vision Systems
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: This is a joint work with P. Zhang, J. Wang, A Farhadi, and D. Parikh. Computer vision systems today fail frequently. They also fail abruptly without warning or explanation. Alleviating the former has been the primary focus of the community. In this work, we hope to draw the community’s attention to [...]
Patch to the Future: Unsupervised Visual Prediction
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jacob Walker is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Abhinav Gupta and Martial Hebert. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science, a B.S. in Mathematics, and a B.S. in Economics from Michigan State University. His current research focuses on predicting dynamic events [...]