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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">When: Thursday, March 29th <span class="gmail-m_-6783917865694549519gmail-m_-752062954428580434gmail-m_-4002343983082707046gmail-m_7108663852680761240gmail-m_8932996379216170455gmail-m_7943440058048769724gmail-m_6885163803304591797gmail-m_1291990161734276046gmail-m_-5366141555987907539gmail-m_7288451293410119657gmail-m_7014796927259893518gmail-m_-5237592048697853688gmail-m_-2847741945628619148gmail-m_-681226243108775954gmail-m_-4338767794047815756gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-il">at</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>11:00 am</b></span></font></span></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Where: <span class="gmail-m_-6783917865694549519gmail-m_-752062954428580434gmail-m_-4002343983082707046gmail-m_7108663852680761240gmail-m_8932996379216170455gmail-m_7943440058048769724gmail-m_6885163803304591797gmail-m_1291990161734276046gmail-m_-5366141555987907539gmail-m_7288451293410119657gmail-m_7014796927259893518gmail-m_-5237592048697853688gmail-m_-2847741945628619148gmail-m_-681226243108775954gmail-m_-4338767794047815756gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-m_8421504075585210435gmail-m_3262824545120381495gmail-m_-1141671822915777344gmail-m_-7219251726624328345gmail-m_-8588148075564318222gmail-m_-8767966813928691312gmail-m_-1542318334608687154gmail-m_5717104778280916634gmail-m_4845490158781220632gmail-m_5124567205141626540gmail-m_3209361100497750746gmail-m_2953668934074478317gmail-m_-3155518689668024534m_9067904842688472155gmail-m_3071693547520408192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_-6783917865694549519gmail-m_-752062954428580434gmail-m_-4002343983082707046gmail-m_7108663852680761240gmail-m_8932996379216170455gmail-m_7943440058048769724gmail-m_6885163803304591797gmail-m_1291990161734276046gmail-m_-5366141555987907539gmail-m_7288451293410119657gmail-m_7014796927259893518gmail-m_-5237592048697853688gmail-m_-2847741945628619148gmail-m_-681226243108775954gmail-m_-4338767794047815756gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-il">TTIC</span></span>, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></span></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font color="#000000" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Who: </font></font></font></font></b></font></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Ramakrishna Vedantam, Georgia Tech</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Title: Connecting Vision and Language for Interpretation, Grounding and Imagination<br><br>Abstract: </font></p><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Understanding how to model vision and language jointly is a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence. Vision is one of the primary sensors we use to perceive the world, while language is our data structure to represent and communicate knowledge. In this talk, we will take up three lines of attack to this problem: interpretation, grounding, and imagination.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In interpretation, the goal will be to get machine learning models to understand an image and describe its contents using natural language in a contextually relevant manner. In grounding, we will connect natural language to referents in the physical world, and show how this can help learn common sense. Finally, we will study how to ‘imagine’ visual concepts completely and accurately across the full range and (potentially unseen) compositions of their visual attributes. We will study these problems from computational as well as algorithmic perspectives and suggest exciting directions for future work.<br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Host:<span> </span><a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Greg Shakhnarovich</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. 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, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:05 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 style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</font></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">When: Thursday, March 29th <span class="m_-6783917865694549519gmail-m_-752062954428580434gmail-m_-4002343983082707046gmail-m_7108663852680761240gmail-m_8932996379216170455gmail-m_7943440058048769724gmail-m_6885163803304591797gmail-m_1291990161734276046gmail-m_-5366141555987907539gmail-m_7288451293410119657gmail-m_7014796927259893518gmail-m_-5237592048697853688gmail-m_-2847741945628619148gmail-m_-681226243108775954gmail-m_-4338767794047815756gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-il">at</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>11:00 am</b></span></font></span></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Where: <span class="m_-6783917865694549519gmail-m_-752062954428580434gmail-m_-4002343983082707046gmail-m_7108663852680761240gmail-m_8932996379216170455gmail-m_7943440058048769724gmail-m_6885163803304591797gmail-m_1291990161734276046gmail-m_-5366141555987907539gmail-m_7288451293410119657gmail-m_7014796927259893518gmail-m_-5237592048697853688gmail-m_-2847741945628619148gmail-m_-681226243108775954gmail-m_-4338767794047815756gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-m_8421504075585210435gmail-m_3262824545120381495gmail-m_-1141671822915777344gmail-m_-7219251726624328345gmail-m_-8588148075564318222gmail-m_-8767966813928691312gmail-m_-1542318334608687154gmail-m_5717104778280916634gmail-m_4845490158781220632gmail-m_5124567205141626540gmail-m_3209361100497750746gmail-m_2953668934074478317gmail-m_-3155518689668024534m_9067904842688472155gmail-m_3071693547520408192gmail-il"><span class="m_-6783917865694549519gmail-m_-752062954428580434gmail-m_-4002343983082707046gmail-m_7108663852680761240gmail-m_8932996379216170455gmail-m_7943440058048769724gmail-m_6885163803304591797gmail-m_1291990161734276046gmail-m_-5366141555987907539gmail-m_7288451293410119657gmail-m_7014796927259893518gmail-m_-5237592048697853688gmail-m_-2847741945628619148gmail-m_-681226243108775954gmail-m_-4338767794047815756gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-il">TTIC</span></span>, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></span></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font color="#000000" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Who: </font></font></font></font></b></font></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Ramakrishna Vedantam, Georgia Tech</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Title: Connecting Vision and Language for Interpretation, Grounding and Imagination<br><br>Abstract: </font></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Understanding how to model vision and language jointly is a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence. Vision is one of the primary sensors we use to perceive the world, while language is our data structure to represent and communicate knowledge. In this talk, we will take up three lines of attack to this problem: interpretation, grounding, and imagination.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In interpretation, the goal will be to get machine learning models to understand an image and describe its contents using natural language in a contextually relevant manner. In grounding, we will connect natural language to referents in the physical world, and show how this can help learn common sense. Finally, we will study how to ‘imagine’ visual concepts completely and accurately across the full range and (potentially unseen) compositions of their visual attributes. We will study these problems from computational as well as algorithmic perspectives and suggest exciting directions for future work.<br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><br></div><div>Host: <a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Greg Shakhnarovich</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-6783917865694549519gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. 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:<a href="tel:(773)%20834-1757" value="+17738341757" target="_blank">(773) 834-1757</a></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: <a href="tel:(773)%20357-6970" value="+17733576970" target="_blank">(773) 357-6970</a></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>
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