VASC Seminar
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Visualizing Convolutional Neural Networks
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Rob Fergus is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He received a Masters in Electrical Engineering with Prof. Pietro Perona at Caltech, before completing a PhD with Prof. Andrew Zisserman at the University of Oxford in 2005. Before coming to NYU, [...]