VASC Seminar

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ishan Misra is a Masters student at the Robotics Institute and is advised by Prof. Martial Hebert. He works in computer vision, specifically on object recognition and semi-supervised learning.Abstract: We consider the problem of discovering discriminative exemplars suitable for object detection. Due to the diversity in appearance in real world objects, [...]

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Yuxiong Wang is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Prof. Martial Hebert. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning and he is particularly interested in object recognition problems. Abstract: In this work, we explore an approach to generating detectors [...]

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Adriana Kovashka is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. Her advisor is Professor Kristen Grauman. Adriana received her B.A. in Computer Science and Media Studies from Pomona College, CA, in May 2008. Her research interests primarily lie in computer vision, with [...]