<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(80,0,80);margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style=""><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b style="">When:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> Thursday, February 17th at<b> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:00 am CT</span></b></font></font><br></font></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(80,0,80);margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Where: </b><font color="#500050">Talk will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"> </font><font color="#000000">at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);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"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);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"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b><span style="color:black"> </span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);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"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b> </font></font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Zoom Virtual Talk (</font><b><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-fIntttT_6jFjQygERiaQ" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">register in advance here</font></a></b><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">)</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);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"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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 style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font color="#000000"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> </font></font></font>Stella Yu, UC Berkeley</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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>Title: </b> Zero-Shot Representation Learning from Natural Visual Data<br><br><b>Abstract:</b> Human vision develops on its own upon natural visual stimulation without external supervision. Data-driven computational modeling that accomplishes the same not only sheds light on human visual perception, but also opens exciting new ways for scientists, engineers, and clinicians to look at their data and make novel discoveries. I will discuss my latest progress on unsupervised learning of visual recognition from natural data along with their applications, such as the emergence of objectness from watching unlabeled videos and hierarchical scene parsing from a collection of unlabeled images.<br><br><b>Bio: </b>Stella Yu is the Director of Vision Group at the International Computer Science Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, and on the faculty of Computer Science, Vision Science, Cognitive and Brain Sciences at UC Berkeley. Dr. Yu is interested not only in understanding visual perception from multiple perspectives, but also in using computer vision and machine learning to automate and exceed human expertise in practical applications. Her group is currently actively pursuing complex-valued deep learning, sound-vision integration, and actionable mid-level representation learning from non-curated data with minimal human annotations. </font></p><div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><b style="">Host: </b><a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank" style=""><b style="">Greg Shakhnarovich</b></a></font></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></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><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 2:16 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(80,0,80);margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> Thursday, February 17th at<b> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:00 am CT</span></b></font></font><br></font></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(80,0,80);margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Where: </b><font color="#500050">Talk will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"> </font><font color="#000000">at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);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"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);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"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b><span style="color:black"> </span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);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"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b> </font></font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Zoom Virtual Talk (</font><b><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-fIntttT_6jFjQygERiaQ" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">register in advance here</font></a></b><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">)</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);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"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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 style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font color="#000000"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> </font></font></font>Stella Yu, UC Berkeley</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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>Title: </b> Zero-Shot Representation Learning from Natural Visual Data<br><br><b>Abstract:</b> Human vision develops on its own upon natural visual stimulation without external supervision. Data-driven computational modeling that accomplishes the same not only sheds light on human visual perception, but also opens exciting new ways for scientists, engineers, and clinicians to look at their data and make novel discoveries. I will discuss my latest progress on unsupervised learning of visual recognition from natural data along with their applications, such as the emergence of objectness from watching unlabeled videos and hierarchical scene parsing from a collection of unlabeled images.<br><br><b>Bio: </b>Stella Yu is the Director of Vision Group at the International Computer Science Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, and on the faculty of Computer Science, Vision Science, Cognitive and Brain Sciences at UC Berkeley. Dr. Yu is interested not only in understanding visual perception from multiple perspectives, but also in using computer vision and machine learning to automate and exceed human expertise in practical applications. Her group is currently actively pursuing complex-valued deep learning, sound-vision integration, and actionable mid-level representation learning from non-curated data with minimal human annotations. </font></p><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Host: </b><a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>Greg Shakhnarovich</b></a></font></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p></div><div><div dir="ltr"><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>
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