[Colloquium] Distinguished Lecture Series: Trevor Darrell, Univ of California, Berkeley

[Dawn Ellis]

[image: Trevor Darrell]
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 11:00 am
TTIC
6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
Room #526​

*Trevor Darrell*, Professor, CS Division, University of California,
Berkeley, and the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley.
Director, Berkeley Vision and Learning Center.

Homepage <http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~trevor>

*Title:* Large-scale detector adaptation and other recent results

*Abstract:* In this talk I'll review recent progress towards robust and
effective perceptual representation learning.  I'll describe new methods
for large-scale detection, whereby robust detectors can be learned from
weakly labeled training data, following paradigms of domain adaptation and
multiple instance learning.  I'll discuss how such models can be used not
only for detection but also for pose prediction and further for effective
fine-grained recognition, extending traditional convolutional neural
network models to include explicit pose-normalized descriptors. Finally,
and time permitting (pardon the pun), I'll review our recent work on
anytime recognition, which provides methods that strive to provide the best
answer possible, even with a limited (and unknown) time budget.

*Bio:* Prof. Trevor Darrell’s group is co-located at the University of
California, Berkeley, and the UCB-affiliated International Computer Science
Institute (ICSI), also located in Berkeley, CA. Prof. Darrell is on the
faculty of the CS Division of the EECS Department at UCB and is the vision
group lead at ICSI. Darrell’s group develops algorithms for large-scale
perceptual learning, including object and activity recognition and
detection, for a variety of applications including multimodal interaction
with robots and mobile devices. His interests include computer vision,
machine learning, computer graphics, and perception-based human computer
interfaces. Prof. Darrell was previously on the faculty of the MIT EECS
department from 1999-2008, where he directed the Vision Interface Group. He
was a member of the research staff at Interval Research Corporation from
1996-1999, and received the S.M., and PhD. degrees from MIT in 1992 and
1996, respectively. He obtained the B.S.E. degree from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1988, having started his career in computer vision as an
undergraduate researcher in Ruzena Bajcsy's GRASP lab.

Host: Greg Shakhnarovich, greg at ttic.edu

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