[Colloquium] 2/13 Talks at TTIC: Dinesh Jayaraman, UC Berkeley

[Mary Marre via Colloquium]

When:     Wednesday, February 13th at *11:00 am*

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

Who:       Dinesh Jayaraman, UC Berkeley


*Title:       *Towards Embodied Visual Intelligence

*Abstract*: What would it mean for a machine to see the world? Computer
vision has recently made great progress on problems such as finding
categories of objects and scenes, and poses of people in images. However,
studying such tasks in isolated disembodied contexts, divorced from the
physical source of their images, is insufficient to build intelligent
visual agents. My research focuses on remarrying vision to action, by
asking: how might vision benefit from the ability to act in the world, and
vice versa? Could embodied visual agents teach themselves through
interaction and experimentation? Are there actions they might perform to
improve their visual perception? Could they exploit vision to perform
complex control tasks? In my talk, I will set up the context for these
questions, and cover some strands of my work addressing them, proposing
approaches for self-supervised learning through proprioception, visual
prediction for decomposing complex control tasks, and active perception.
Finally, I will discuss my long-term vision and directions that I hope to
work on in the next several years.


Host: Greg Shakhnarovich <greg at ttic.edu>



Mary C. Marre
Administrative Assistant
*Toyota Technological Institute*
*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*
*Room 517*
*Chicago, IL  60637*
*p:(773) 834-1757*
*f: (773) 357-6970*
*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
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