[Colloquium] 8/16 TTIC Colloquium: Sanjeev Koppal, University of Florida

[Mary Marre]

*When:*      Monday, August 16th, 2021 at *11:10 am CT*



*Where:*     Zoom Virtual Talk (*register in advance here
<https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pRHCtNhbT2ib5hAEnxbr9A>*)



*Who: *       Sanjeev Koppal, University of Florida


*Title: *Adaptive Attention: Bringing Active Vision into the Camera

*Abstract:* Most cameras today capture images without considering scene
content. In contrast, animal eyes have fast mechanical movements that
control how the scene is imaged in detail by the fovea, where visual acuity
is highest. The prevalence of active vision during biological imaging, and
the wide variety of it, makes it very clear that this is an effective
visual design strategy. In this talk, I cover our recent work on creating
*both* new camera designs and novel vision algorithms to enable adaptive
and selective active vision and imaging inside cameras and sensors.

*Bio:* Sanjeev Koppal is an assistant professor at the University of
Florida's Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He is also the
Director of the FOCUS Lab at UF. Prior to joining UF, he was a researcher
at the Texas Instruments Imaging R&D lab. Sanjeev obtained his Masters and
Ph.D. degrees from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
After CMU, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received his
B.S. degree from the University of Southern California in 2003 as a Trustee
Scholar. He is a co-author on best student paper awards for ECCV 2016 and
NEMS 2018, and work from his FOCUS lab was a CVPR 2019 best-paper finalist.
Sanjeev won an NSF CAREER award in 2020 and recently became an IEEE Senior
Member. His interests span computer vision, computational photography and
optics, novel cameras and sensors, 3D reconstruction, physics-based vision
and active illumination.

*Host:  **Greg Shakhnarovich* <greg at ttic.edu>

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