[Colloquium] TTI-C Show and Tell Series: Sminchisescu (Monday 2.27 @ 12:00 pm)

[Katherine Cumming]

TTI-C SHOW AND TELL SERIES

Presented by:  Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
 

Speaker: Cristian Sminchisescu, TTI-C
Speaker's home page:  http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~crismin/

Time: Monday, February 27, 2006
Location: TTI-C Conference Room
Lunch Provided @ 12:00pm 
Seminar @ 12:15pm

Title:

Generative and Conditional Models for Visual Inference

Abstract:

In this talk I will discuss ongoing work on using conditional models of
various kinds for visual reconstruction and recognition, and I will show
applications to 3d human motion analysis in monocular video.  I will
illustrate the key ingredients that make the computation efficient,
including the use of observation context, sparsity, low- dimensionality and
mixture modeling.  I will also describe some of the limitations of
conditional models, and show how more reliable estimates can be obtained by
jointly learning bidirectional, conditional-generative tandems.
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