VASC Seminar
Predicting Primary Gaze Behavior using Social Saliency Fields
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hyun Soo Park is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. Yaser Sheikh. The main focus of his research is developing a computational basis for social scene understanding. He received his bachelor’s degree from POSTECH, Korea in 2007, and master’s degree from Carnegie [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]