<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div style=""><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" style=""><b style="">When:</b>         Thursday, February 22nd<b style=""> </b>at<b style=""> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11AM CT  </span></b></font><div dir="ltr" style=""><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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"> <br><b>Where:</b><b>  </b>     Talk will be given<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font></span>at</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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                       TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                       5th Floor, Room 530<b>              </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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><br></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="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b><span class="gmail_default"></span>Virtually:</b>     via Panopto (<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c6ddd6ed-99c6-4ff3-a11c-b109010b4727" target="_blank">Livestream</a>)</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="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></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="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Who:          </b>Aleksander Hołyński, UC Berkeley</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="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b><br></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="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Title:</b>           How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data Monster</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="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Abstract:</b>   Recent advances in visual generative models have led to the generation of high quality, diverse images of nearly any imaginable concept, thanks to increasingly large models and huge training datasets. Looking at the quality of images that these models are able to produce, one may wonder: "are we done?". In this talk, I argue that we’ve only just scratched the surface.</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:14.95px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></font></p></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Bio:</b>    Aleksander Holynski is a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley, working with Alyosha Efros and Angjoo Kanazawa, and concurrently a Research Scientist at Google Research.  He completed his PhD at the University of Washington, advised by Steve Seitz, Brian Curless, and Rick Szeliski, and he received his B.S. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His co-authored work has received a best student paper award at ICCV 2023.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style="" color="#000000"><b style="">Host:<a href="mailto:zhiyuanli@ttic.edu" target="_blank" style=""> </a><a href="mailto:mturk@ttic.edu" style="">Matthew Turk</a></b></font></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></span></div></div></div></div>