VASC Seminar
Ricardo Cabral
PhD Student Electrical & Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Unifying Nuclear Norm and Bilinear Factorization Approaches for Low-rank Matrix Decomposition

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ricardo S. Cabral is working on a joint PhD program between Carnegie Mellon and IST-Lisbon. He received his Master's degree in ECE at IST-Lisbon and a research grant from the Portuguese Science Foundation, in 2009, for work in correspondence methods for structure from motion. He received an outstanding academic achievement award [...]

VASC Seminar
Supreeth Achar
PhD Student, RI
Carnegie Mellon University

Compensating for Motion During Direct Global Separation

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Supreeth Achar is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is advised by Dr Srinivasa Narasimhan. His research interests include physics based methods for computer vision and projector-camera systems. Abstract: Separating the direct and global components of radiance can aid shape recovery algorithms and can provide [...]

VASC Seminar
David Fouhey
PhD Student RI
Carnegie Mellon University

Data-Driven 3D Primitives for Single Image Understanding

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: David Fouhey is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute, where he is supervised by Abhinav Gupta and Martial Hebert. He holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Middlebury College. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning and he is particularly interested in single-view scene understanding problems [...]

VASC Seminar
Xiaoyu Ding
Visiting Scholar RI
Carnegie Mellon University

Facial Action Unit Event Detection by Cascade of Tasks

Bio: Xiaoyu Ding is a visiting scholar in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He works with Fernando De la Torre and Jeffrey F. Cohn. His research interests include practical aspects of computer vision and machine learning. In particular, he is working on facial expression analysis in videos.Abstract: Automatic facial Action Unit (AU) detection from video [...]

VASC Seminar
Hyun Soo Park
PhD Student Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

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 [...]

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 [...]