VASC Seminar
Hossein Mobahi
Postdoctoral Research Associate
MIT - CSAIL

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Hyun Soo Park
Ph.D. Student
CMU

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, [...]

VASC Seminar
Gordon Wetzstein
Postdoctoral Researcher
MIT

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Roozbeh Mottaghi
PhD Candidate
UCLA

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Rene Vidal
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
Wongun Choi
Ph.D candidate
University of Michigan

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, [...]

VASC Seminar
Aswin Sankaranarayanan
Assistant Professor, ECE, CMU

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 [...]

VASC Seminar
David Crandall
Assistant Professor
Indiana University

Studying the world by mining photo-sharing websites

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: David Crandall is an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. He received the Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University (2008) and the M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer science and engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (2001). He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at [...]

VASC Seminar
Noah Snavely
Assistant Professor
Cornell University

Calibrating the World’s Photos with a Massive 3D Database

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Noah Snavely is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, where he has been on the faculty since 2009. He received a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in [...]

VASC Seminar
Larry Davis
Professor
University of Maryland

A tasting menu of research on visual recognition at UMD

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Larry S. Davis received his B.A. from Colgate University in 1970 and his M. S. and Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 1974 and 1976 respectively. From 1977-1981 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas, Austin. He [...]