[Colloquium] REMINDER: 6/26 TTIC Colloquium: Svetlana Lazebnik, UIUC

[Mary Marre via Colloquium]

When:     Monday, June 26th at 11:00 a.m.

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

Who:       Svetlana Lazebnik, UIUC


Title:       Towards Joint Understanding of Images and Language

Abstract: Numerous real-world tasks can benefit from practical systems that
can identify objects in scenes based on language and understand language
grounded in visual context. This presentation will focus on my group’s
recent work on developing systems for jointly modeling images and language.
I will talk about neural models for learning cross-modal embeddings for
text-to-image and image-to-text search, and about the challenging task of
grounding or localizing of textual mentions of entities in an image.
Finally, I will discuss applications of our models to automatic image
description and visual question answering.

Bio: Svetlana Lazebnik is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her
research interests include visual object recognition, scene understanding,
and machine learning for big visual data. She received her Ph.D. in 2006 at
U of I and was an Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill from 2007 to 2012
before returning to U of I. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research
Fellowship. In 2016, she received the Longuet-Higgins Prize for a CVPR 2006
paper with significant impact on computer vision research. She serves as an
Associate Editor for the International Journal of Computer Vision and the
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and has
served as a Program Chair for ECCV 2012 and Workshops Chair for CVPR 2016.


Host: Greg Shakhnarovich <greg at ttic.edu>




For more information on the colloquium series or to subscribe to the
mailing list, please see http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php



Mary C. Marre
Administrative Assistant
*Toyota Technological Institute*
*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*
*Room 504*
*Chicago, IL  60637*
*p:(773) 834-1757*
*f: (773) 357-6970*
*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Mary Marre <mmarre at ttic.edu> wrote:

> When:     Monday, June 26th at 11:00 a.m.
>
> Where:    TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526
>
> Who:       Svetlana Lazebnik, UIUC
>
>
> Title:         Towards Joint Understanding of Images and Language
>
> Abstract: Numerous real-world tasks can benefit from practical systems
> that can identify objects in scenes based on language and understand
> language grounded in visual context. This presentation will focus on my
> group’s recent work on developing systems for jointly modeling images and
> language. I will talk about neural models for learning cross-modal
> embeddings for text-to-image and image-to-text search, and about the
> challenging task of grounding or localizing of textual mentions of entities
> in an image. Finally, I will discuss applications of our models to
> automatic image description and visual question answering.
>
> Bio: Svetlana Lazebnik is an Associate Professor in the Department of
> Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her
> research interests include visual object recognition, scene understanding,
> and machine learning for big visual data. She received her Ph.D. in 2006 at
> U of I and was an Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill from 2007 to 2012
> before returning to U of I. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a
> Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research
> Fellowship. In 2016, she received the Longuet-Higgins Prize for a CVPR 2006
> paper with significant impact on computer vision research. She serves as an
> Associate Editor for the International Journal of Computer Vision and the
> IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and has
> served as a Program Chair for ECCV 2012 and Workshops Chair for CVPR 2016.
>
>
> Host: Greg Shakhnarovich <greg at ttic.edu>
>
>
>
>
> For more information on the colloquium series or to subscribe to the
> mailing list, please see http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php
>
>
>
>
>
> Mary C. Marre
> Administrative Assistant
> *Toyota Technological Institute*
> *6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*
> *Room 504*
> *Chicago, IL  60637*
> *p:(773) 834-1757 <(773)%20834-1757>*
> *f: (773) 357-6970 <(773)%20357-6970>*
> *mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
>
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