[Theory] TODAY: [TTIC Talks] 3/6 Talks at TTIC: Lorenzo Torresani, META

[Brandie Jones via Theory]

*When:*        Thursday, March 6th at *10AM CT*


*Where:       *Talk will be given *live, in-person* at

                       TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue

                       5th Floor, Room 530


*Virtually:*  via Panopto (livestream
<https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=dbae4f17-d5c5-4cee-b6eb-b26e0115cfd6>
)


*Who: *         Lorenzo Torresani, META

*Title:*          Towards perceptual AI assistants
*Abstract:  *What if you had an AI assistant that seamlessly observes and
understands your actions and is available at any time to remind you where
you misplaced your objects, to automatically transcribe "who" said "what"
in a meeting, or to interactively guide and track your progress in the
execution of complex activities, such as cooking a recipe, or fixing a
bike? In this talk, I will present our research towards this vision through
the development of multimodal video-language systems that can assist humans
in their daily lives by perceiving and predicting their behavior from
wearable cameras. Our advances in this field include models that detect and
describe not only what the user is doing but also how the activity is
performed to provide relevant guidance and improvement suggestions in
language form. I will also discuss our contributions to the broad research
community by creating and open-sourcing multiple foundational datasets to
promote the next generation of multimodal perceptual AI.

*Short Bio*:  Lorenzo Torresani is an AI researcher, author of the first
methods for 3D reconstruction of non-rigid objects and influential
architectures for image and video analysis (e.g., Classemes, C3D,
TimeSformer). His current research interests are in video-language models.
He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2005.
>From 2009 to 2021, he was on the faculty of the Computer Science Department
at Dartmouth College, where he received tenure in 2014 and was promoted to
full professor in 2020. From 2018 to 2024, he held positions at Meta
(formerly Facebook), most recently as a Research Director leading teams in
multimodal research. Previously, he worked at Microsoft Research, Like.com,
and Digital Persona. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including a
CVPR Best Student Paper prize, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award,
a Google Faculty Research Award, three Facebook Faculty Awards, and a
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award.

*Host: Greg Shakhnarovich <greg at ttic.edu>*


-- 
*Brandie Jones *
*Executive **Administrative Assistant*
Toyota Technological Institute
6045 S. Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL  60637
www.ttic.edu
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