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[Ming-Wei Chang <mchang21 AT uiuc.edu>]

Dear faculty and students,

     This is a reminder for today's talk (4:00 pm, 3405) at AIIS. Hope
     to see you there!

Best,

Ming-Wei

Ming-Wei Chang 
<mchang21 AT uiuc.edu>
 writes:

> Dear faculty and students,
>
> This week we will have Dr. Derek Hoiem, a new assistant professor in CS
> department, to have an interesting talk (details below) for the AIIS
> seminar at 4:00 pm, Apr 23rd (this Thursday). The room number is
> 3405. Hope to see you there!
>
> Title:
> Inferring Object Attributes
>
> Abstract:
> Ultimately, the goal of computer vision is to make useful inferences from
> imagery, and a big part of that is knowing something about the properties of
> nearby objects. In this talk, I'll describe our recent work on learning to
> identify object attributes, such as parts, materials, or shape, from images
> in a way that generalizes to new object categories. The tricky part is
> training classifiers that really predict the intended attribute, and not
> ones that are correlated through familiar object categories. Once we can
> predict attributes, we can say what is unusual about an object and more
> easily learn to recognize new objects. Sometimes we can even recognize new
> object categories from a purely verbal description (e.g., a goat has four
> legs, horns, and is furry).
>
> This work is with Ali Farhadi, Ian Endres, and David Forsyth at UIUC.
>
>
> Speaker Bio:
> Derek Hoiem is a new assistant professor at UIUC. He researches object
> recognition, segmentation, 3d reconstruction from images, and other
> aspects of computer vision that are related to scene understanding.
>
> Best,
>
> Ming-Wei
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