<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>When:         </b>May 16th <b>at <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">12:30pm CT  </span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div dir="ltr" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;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>      <span class="gmail-il">Talk</span> 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="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;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="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;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="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;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="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;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=72cc1aee-28ff-46d5-b5c1-b1a901057bbe" target="_blank">Livestream</a>) </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;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"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;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><b> </b>           </font>Greg Shakhnarovich<font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">, TTIC</font></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;width:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in"></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;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"> <span class="gmail_default"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;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>:             H</font>ow Should We Tokenize Visual Data?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;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" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif"><b>Abstract:</b>  </font><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"> I'll discuss some existing approaches to representing images and videos as sets of vectors. Such "tokenization" mechanisms are at the core of all modern methods for visual understanding and synthesis (generation). Methods for tokenization that are widely used today are heavily inspired by approaches that proved successful for text. But I argue that there are significant differences between the domain of text and that of visual data, and describe some early work in my group related to this topic, as well as some more speculative directions we are thinking about.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;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></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif"><div class="gmail_default"><b><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">*********************************************************************************************</font></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Masks are optional in all common areas. </b><b>Full visitor guidance is available at <a href="http://ttic.edu/visitors" target="_blank">ttic.edu/visitors</a>.</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px"><b><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">*********************************************************************************************</font></b></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><i><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail-il">Research</span> at TTIC Seminar Series</font></i></b></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"> </font></p><div class="gmail_default"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div dir="ltr"><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 is hosting a weekly seminar series presenting the <span class="gmail-il">research</span> currently underway at the Institute. Every week a different TTIC faculty member will present their <span class="gmail-il">research</span>.  The lecture</font></p></div></div></div></div></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>