[Colloquium] 2/24 Talks at TTIC: Olga Russakovsky, CMU

[Mary Marre]

When:     Wednesday, February 24th at 3:00 pm

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526

Who:        Olga Russakovsky, CMU


Title: The Human Side of Computer Vision

Abstract: Intelligent agents acting in the real world need to perceive,
learn from, reason about and interact with their environment. In this talk,
I will explore the role that humans play in the design and deployment of
computer vision systems. First, large-scale manually labeled datasets have
proven instrumental for scaling up visual recognition, but they come at a
substantial human cost. I will talk about strategies for making optimal use
of human annotation effort for computer vision progress. However, no
dataset can foresee all the visual scenarios that a real-world system might
encounter. I will argue that seamlessly integrating in human expertise at
runtime will become increasingly important for open-world computer vision.
I will talk about both mathematical frameworks for human-machine
collaboration as well as deep reinforcement learning models that open up
new avenues for human-in-the-loop exploration.

Bio: Olga Russakovsky is a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon
University. She recently completed her PhD in computer science at Stanford
advised by Prof. Fei-Fei Li. Her research is in computer vision, closely
integrated with machine learning and human-computer interaction. She led
the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge effort for two year,
served as a Senior Program Committee member for WACV’16, and organized
multiple workshops and tutorials at premier computer vision conferences.
She founded and directs the Stanford AI Laboratory’s outreach camp SAILORS
designed to expose high school students in underrepresented populations to
the field of AI, and helped pioneer the first “Women in Computer Vision”
workshop at CVPR’15.


Host: Greg Shakhnarovich, greg at ttic.edu




Mary C. Marre
Administrative Assistant
*Toyota Technological Institute*
*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*
*Room 504*
*Chicago, IL  60637*
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*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
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