<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">When: <span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_8517400907154022034gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-m_-2475804285784780919gmail-m_-7164114494009287624gmail-m_-7229391482845024438gmail-m_7776827232588711945gmail-m_-3320638437953326758gmail-m_3990498715904616980gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_8517400907154022034gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-il">Friday</span></span>, May 12th at noon</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Where: TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px">Who: </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Greg Shakhnarovich, TTIC</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div style="font-size:12.8px">Title: <span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-il">Image</span> C<span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">olorization</span> and Its Role in Visual Learning<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">Abstract</span>: </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I will present our recent and ongoing work on fully automatic <span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-il">image</span> <span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">colorization</span>. Our approach exploits both low-level and semantic representations during <span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">colorization</span>. As many scene elements naturally appear according to multimodal <span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">color </span>distributions<wbr>, we train our model to predict per-pixel <span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">color</span> histograms. Ou<wbr>r system achieves state-of-the-art results under a variety of metrics. Moreover, it provides a vehicle to explore the role the <span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">colorization</span> task can play as a proxy for visual understanding, providing a self-supervision mechanism for learning representations. I will describe the application of our self-supervised network in several contexts, such as classification and semantic segmentation. On these tasks, we present results that are state-of-the-art among methods not using massive supervised pre-training.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Joint work with Gustav Larsson and Michael Maire.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:arial"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>************</font></b><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:arial"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">Research</span> at <span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">TTIC</span> Seminar Series</font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">TTIC</span> is hosting a weekly seminar series presenting the <span class="gmail-m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">research</span> currently underway at the Institute. 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Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 504</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:(773) 834-1757</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: (773) 357-6970</font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Mary Marre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">When: <span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_8517400907154022034gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-m_-2475804285784780919gmail-m_-7164114494009287624gmail-m_-7229391482845024438gmail-m_7776827232588711945gmail-m_-3320638437953326758gmail-m_3990498715904616980gmail-il"><span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_8517400907154022034gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-il">Friday</span></span>, May 12th at noon</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Where: TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px">Who: </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Greg Shakhnarovich, TTIC</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div style="font-size:12.8px">Title: <span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-il">Image</span> C<span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">olorization</span> and Its Role in Visual Learning<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">Abstract</span>: </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I will present our recent and ongoing work on fully automatic <span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-il">image</span> <span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">colorization</span>. Our approach exploits both low-level and semantic representations during <span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">colorization</span>. As many scene elements naturally appear according to multimodal <span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">color </span>distributions<wbr>, we train our model to predict per-pixel <span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">color</span> histograms. Ou<wbr>r system achieves state-of-the-art results under a variety of metrics. Moreover, it provides a vehicle to explore the role the <span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">colorization</span> task can play as a proxy for visual understanding, providing a self-supervision mechanism for learning representations. I will describe the application of our self-supervised network in several contexts, such as classification and semantic segmentation. On these tasks, we present results that are state-of-the-art among methods not using massive supervised pre-training.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Joint work with Gustav Larsson and Michael Maire.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:arial"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>************</font></b><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:arial"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">Research</span> at <span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">TTIC</span> Seminar Series</font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">TTIC</span> is hosting a weekly seminar series presenting the <span class="m_-4918502519132212820gmail-m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">research</span> currently underway at the Institute. 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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Mary Marre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">When: <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_8517400907154022034gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-m_-2475804285784780919gmail-m_-7164114494009287624gmail-m_-7229391482845024438gmail-m_7776827232588711945gmail-m_-3320638437953326758gmail-m_3990498715904616980gmail-il"><span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_8517400907154022034gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-il">Friday</span></span>, May 12th at noon</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Where: TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px">Who: </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Greg Shakhnarovich, TTIC</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div style="font-size:12.8px">Title: <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-il">Image</span> C<span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">olorization</span> and Its Role in Visual Learning<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">Abstract</span>: </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I will present our recent and ongoing work on fully automatic <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-il">image</span> <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">colorization</span>. Our approach exploits both low-level and semantic representations during <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">colorization</span>. As many scene elements naturally appear according to multimodal <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">color </span>distributions<wbr>, we train our model to predict per-pixel <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">color</span> histograms. Ou<wbr>r system achieves state-of-the-art results under a variety of metrics. Moreover, it provides a vehicle to explore the role the <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_8934613978959087454gmail-m_6335703555692498283gmail-il">colorization</span> task can play as a proxy for visual understanding, providing a self-supervision mechanism for learning representations. I will describe the application of our self-supervised network in several contexts, such as classification and semantic segmentation. On these tasks, we present results that are state-of-the-art among methods not using massive supervised pre-training.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Joint work with Gustav Larsson and Michael Maire.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:arial"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>************</font></b><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:arial"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">Research</span> at <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">TTIC</span> Seminar Series</font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">TTIC</span> is hosting a weekly seminar series presenting the <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">research</span> currently underway at the Institute. Every week a different <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">TTIC</span> faculty member will present their <span class="m_-4918502519132212820m_1720774104243437451gmail-m_-1373732299076081700gmail-m_8098459857377829946gmail-m_3501577321612593658m_2233888670260786339gmail-m_-1915443502635870593gmail-m_3780754808999067173gmail-m_681982430442049102gmail-m_7957711656738355323gmail-m_-3334114423867790755gmail-m_-9149867449940684394gmail-il">research</span>. 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