<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-color:rgb(207,226,243)">Thesis Defense: Ruotian Luo, TTIC</b><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">When:  </span></b><span style="color:black">     Tuesday<b>,</b> August 17th at <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">8<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">:</span></span><span style="background:yellow">00 - 10:00 am CT</span></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><b>Virtually: </b>  </span><b><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrfuuuqD4pGtFW2b2FRbZI7dz7Y2ePyH6B" target="_blank">Register in advance here</a></span></u></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Who: </span></b><span style="color:black">       <span class="gmail_default"> Ruotian Luo</span>, TTIC</span></font><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><div><div><b>Thesis title: </b>Goal-Driven Text Descriptions for Images<br><br><b>Abstract: </b>While visual understanding has achieved significant progress in recent years, only perception is not enough for building AI; an AI agent also needs to know how to talk, especially how to communicate with a human. In the thesis, I study how we design goals for generating more meaningful texts given visual inputs. First, I will introduce a method to generate informative image tags, based on the idea of information utility: how much information does a tag convey about the image. Then, I will discuss how we incorporate “discriminability” in generating referring expressions and image captions. Specifically, I will introduce a speaker-listener framework where the speaker generates the expressions/captions, and the listener tells if they are discriminative or not.<br><br><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Thesis Advisor:</font></b><font color="#500050" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </font><a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font color="#0000ff">Greg Shakhnarovich</font></b></a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>