[Colloquium] *CANCELED*: TTIC Colloquium Andrew Gallagher

[Julia MacGlashan]

* Andrew Gallagher's Talk *HAS BEEN CANCELED*. *

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Julia MacGlashan <macglashan at tti-c.org>wrote:

> When:             *Monday, Nov 15 @ 1:00 PM*
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> Where:           * TTIC Conference Room #526*, 6045 S Kenwood Ave, 5th
> Floor
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> Who:               *Andrew Gallagher*, Eastman Kodak Company
>
> Title:                *The Loop: People and Computer Vision*
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>
> When we see other humans, we can quickly make judgments such as their
> demographic description and identity if they are familiar to us. We can
> answer questions related to the activities of, emotional states of, and
> relationships between people in an image. We draw conclusions based not just
> on what we see, but also from a lifetime of experience of living and
> interacting with other people. Even simple, common sense knowledge such as
> the fact that children are smaller than adults allows us to better
> understand the roles of the people we see. In this work, we propose
> contextual features, drawn from a variety of sources, and models for
> understanding images of people with the objective of providing computers
> with access to the same contextual information that humans use.
>
> Further, we show that computer vision can play a role in helping us learn
> about people. We now are able to see millions of candid images of people on
> the Internet. Using computer vision techniques, we are able to gain insight
> into the lives of people, and their behavior in social situations, that
> simply was not possible before.
>
> This work shows that people act in predictable ways, for example that human
> patterns of association contain regular structure that can be effectively
> modeled and learned. From a broad perspective, this work presents a loop in
> that our knowledge about people can help computer vision algorithms, and
> computer vision can help us learn more about people.
>
> Host:             Devi Parikh (dparikh at ttic.edu) and Dhruv Batra (
> dbatra at ttic.edu)
>
>
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