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<div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-weight:400;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:normal;display:inline"><b>When:    </b> <span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:normal;display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Wednesday,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-weight:400;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:normal;display:inline"><span> </span>August 29th at 11:00 am <span> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">**</span><span class="gmail-m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-il" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NOTE</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>-<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-il" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Unusual</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span></span><span class="gmail-m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-il" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Day</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">**</span><span> </span></p></b><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Where:     </span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Who:     <span style="font-weight:400"><span> </span>  </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Gal Chechick; <span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Bar-Ilan University/Google</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></p><font style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class="gmail-m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></font></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Title:</b><span>        </span>Talking about images</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Abstract:</b> </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Learning to understand and describe complex visual scenes raises hard challenges: it often requires to learn to generalize effectively from few samples and sometimes take into account the unseen context of an image. I will discuss two research thrusts for facing these challenges. First, modelling context, I will discuss an unsupervised approach to model listener expectations during communication, and an approach to describe images in a natural but discriminative language. Second, I will discuss leveraging small label sets for large-scale image understanding. <br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Joint work with Rama Vednatam, Lior Bracha, Yuval Atzmon, Tom Duerig, Ariel Fuxman, Neil alldrin, Devi Parikh, Kevin Murphy and Samy Bengio. </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Bio:</b> </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Gal Chechik is a staff research scientist at Google Brain, California and an Associate  Professor at the Gonda Brain research institute in Bar-Ilan U. Israel. His research spans learning in brains and machines, including large-scale learning algorithms for machine perception, and analysis of representation and development of mammalian brains.  Gal earned his PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, followed by a postdoctoral research at Stanford. He is the author ~75 papers<span> </span><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">and ~35 patents</span>, including publications in Nature Biotech, Cell, and PNAS.</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Host:  <a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Greg Shakhnarovich</a></font></div><div style="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="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-kerning:none"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);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 class="gmail-m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-m_-3248960543318141455gmail-m_767208242022040581gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">For more information on the </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);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"><span class="gmail-m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-m_-3248960543318141455gmail-m_767208242022040581gmail-m_5118066322451693210gmail-m_3292142122556441362m_4179300188985034065m_8112548636363365103gmail-m_-5864378453105999086gmail-m_-1690647303496242289m_1430452980776983890gmail-m_1031910664862358996gmail-m_8778633083237298896gmail-m_-8347358208690191418gmail-m_6958947101002467454gmail-m_4240741644540508174gmail-m_-7649362550103587767gmail-m_37711595404184628gmail-m_-83666213733552292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<br><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"><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 523</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></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:33 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">

<div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-weight:400;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:normal;display:inline"><b>When:    </b> <span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:normal;display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Wednesday,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-weight:400;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:normal;display:inline"><span> </span>August 29th at 11:00 am <span> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">**</span><span class="m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-il" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NOTE</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>-<span> </span></span><span class="m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-il" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Unusual</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span></span><span class="m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-il" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Day</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">**</span><span> </span></p></b><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Where:     </span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Who:     <span style="font-weight:400"><span> </span>  </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Gal Chechick; <span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Bar-Ilan University/Google</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></p><font style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class="m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></font></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Title:</b><span>        </span>Talking about images</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Abstract:</b> </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Learning to understand and describe complex visual scenes raises hard challenges: it often requires to learn to generalize effectively from few samples and sometimes take into account the unseen context of an image. I will discuss two research thrusts for facing these challenges. First, modelling context, I will discuss an unsupervised approach to model listener expectations during communication, and an approach to describe images in a natural but discriminative language. Second, I will discuss leveraging small label sets for large-scale image understanding. <br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Joint work with Rama Vednatam, Lior Bracha, Yuval Atzmon, Tom Duerig, Ariel Fuxman, Neil alldrin, Devi Parikh, Kevin Murphy and Samy Bengio. </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Bio:</b> </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Gal Chechik is a staff research scientist at Google Brain, California and an Associate  Professor at the Gonda Brain research institute in Bar-Ilan U. Israel. His research spans learning in brains and machines, including large-scale learning algorithms for machine perception, and analysis of representation and development of mammalian brains.  Gal earned his PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, followed by a postdoctoral research at Stanford. He is the author ~75 papers<span> </span><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">and ~35 patents</span>, including publications in Nature Biotech, Cell, and PNAS.</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Host:  <a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Greg Shakhnarovich</a></font></div><div style="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="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-kerning:none"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);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 class="m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-m_-3248960543318141455gmail-m_767208242022040581gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">For more information on the </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);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"><span class="m_210100292977020833gmail-m_1821303009779869031gmail-m_-3248960543318141455gmail-m_767208242022040581gmail-m_5118066322451693210gmail-m_3292142122556441362m_4179300188985034065m_8112548636363365103gmail-m_-5864378453105999086gmail-m_-1690647303496242289m_1430452980776983890gmail-m_1031910664862358996gmail-m_8778633083237298896gmail-m_-8347358208690191418gmail-m_6958947101002467454gmail-m_4240741644540508174gmail-m_-7649362550103587767gmail-m_37711595404184628gmail-m_-8366621373355229216gmail-il"><span class="m_210100292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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 4:49 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">

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