<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><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">    Monday, February 10th at <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:30am CT</b><b> </b></font></font><b></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><br></b></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Where:       </b>Talk will be given <font style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</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="georgia, serif" color="#000000">                       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"><b><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></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="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually:</b><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">  via Panopto </span>(<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=714aa30f-f7d1-4d95-b972-b22001091ce7" target="_blank">livestream</a><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">)</span><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="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><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="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>         </font></font>Katerina Fragkiadaki<span class="gmail_default">, CMU</span></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"></p><div><p style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><b>Title:</b>          </span><span style="letter-spacing:normal">Developing and Learning World Simulators</span></font></p><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Abstract:  </b>In this talk, we will present our ongoing work on learning neural 3D scene representations from images and videos and their applications in vision-language understanding, 4D video completion, and robotic manipulation. Additionally, we will discuss our efforts in developing faster and more general explicit physics engines and integrating them with generative models of language and vision. This integration aims to automate the replication of physical environments within the physics engine, enabling more accurate and scalable world simulation.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Short Bio</b>: Katerina Fragkiadaki is the JPMorgan Chase Associate Professor in the Machine</font></div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Learning Department in Carnegie Mellon University. She received her undergraduate diploma from Electrical and Computer Engineering in the National Technical University of Athens.<br>She received her Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania and was a postdoctoral fellow in<br>UC Berkeley and Google research after that.  Her work focuses on combining<br>forms of common sense reasoning, such as spatial understanding and 3D scene understanding, with deep visuomotor learning.  The goal of her work is to enable few-shot learning and continual learning for perception, action and language grounding.  Her  group develops methods for computer vision for mobile agents, 2D and 3D visual parsing, 2D-to-3D perception,  vision-language grounding,  learning of object dynamics, navigation and manipulation policies. Pioneering innovations of her group’s research include 2D-to-3D geometry-aware neural networks for 3D understanding from 2D video streams,   analogy-forming networks for memory-augmented few-shot visual parsing, and language-grounding in 2D and 3D scenes with bottom-up and top-down attention.  Her work has been awarded with a best Ph.D. thesis award,  an NSF CAREER award, AFOSR Young Investigator award, a DARPA Young Investigator award, Google, TRI, Amazon, NVIDIA, UPMC and Sony faculty research awards. She was a program chair for ICLR 2024.<br><br><b>Host:<span class="gmail_default"></span><a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank"> </a></b><b><a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Greg Shakhnarovich</a></b></font></div><br clear="all"></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><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div>
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