VASC Seminar
Understanding Events and Tags in Media-rich Messages
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Lexing Xie is Senior Lecturer in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. She was with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York from 2005 to 2010, and adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University 2007-2009. She received B.S. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and M.S. and [...]
Visual Mapping of Rivers, Vineyards and Orchards
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Stephen Nuske is a project scientist in the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He originally joined CMU as a PostDoc in 2008 after completing his PhD at the University of Queensland and the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia.Abstract: Maps can store and convey many valuable attributes, [...]
Gaussian Smoothing for Nonconvex Optimization with Applications to Computer Vision
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hossein Mobahi is a postdoctoral research associate in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in Dec 2012. He has worked on several topics in computer vision and machine learning, including image alignment, image segmentation, 3D [...]
Understanding a Social Scene from Social Cameras
Event Location: TBABio: Hyun Soo Park is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. Yaser Sheikh. He is interested in computer vision, graphics, and robotics. The main focus of his research is developing a computational basis for social scene understanding. He received his bachelor’s degree from POSTECH, [...]
Compressive Light Field Displays
Event Location: TBABio: Gordon Wetzstein is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MIT Media Lab. His research interests include light field and high dynamic range displays, projector-camera systems, computational optics, computational photography, computer vision, computer graphics, and augmented reality. Gordon received a Diplom in Media System Science with Honors from the Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2006 and [...]
Towards Holistic Scene Understanding: Hybrid Semantic Segmentation & Articulated Object Modeling
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Roozbeh Mottaghi is a PhD candidate in the department of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles working with Alan Yuille. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering Science (Electrical & Computer Engineering) from Simon Fraser [...]
Sparse and Low-Rank Subspace Clustering
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Professor Vidal received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. He has been on the faculty of the Center for Imaging Science, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University since 2004, where he currently is an Associate Professor. His research interest [...]
Understanding Complex Human Behaviors in Videos
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Wongun Choi received his BS degree in Electrical Engieering in the Seoul National University in 2008 and MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2011. Currently, he is working toward his Ph.D degree at the Computer Vision Lab in the University of Michigan, [...]
Breaking the resolution limits of sensors: Compressive sensing of high-dimensional visual signals
Event Location: TBABio: Aswin Sankaranarayanan is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. His research interests lie in the areas of computer vision, signal processing, and image and video acquisition. Prof. Sankaranarayanan received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2003 and MSc [...]