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[Saurabh Singh <ss1 AT illinois.edu>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Saurabh Singh 
<ss1 AT illinois.edu>
 wrote:
> – please email ( 
> ss1 AT illinois.edu
>  or 
> bisk1 AT illinois.edu
>  ) your
> availability if you are interested in a meeting --
>
> When: This Friday @ 2pm - May 3, 2013
> Where: 3405 SC
> Speaker: Christoph Lampert (http://pub.ist.ac.at/~chl/ )
>
> Title:  Attribute-based classification and the dream of life-long
> learning for scene understanding
>
>
> Abstract:
>
> The goal of life-long visual learning is to developing techniques that
> can continuously and autonomously learn from visual data, potentially
> for years or decades. During this time the system should build an
> ever-improving base of generic visual information, and use it as
> background knowledge and context for solving specific computer vision
> tasks.
>
> In my talk, I will introduce some challenges that one faces when
> trying to develop life-long learning computer vision systems and I
> will discuss some of our recent work on attribute-based and other
> representations that aim at addressing these challenges.
>
> Bio:
>
> Christoph Lampert is an assistant professor at IST, Austria. He is
> very well known for prize winning work on using structured output
> methods to improve the training and performance of sliding
> windowmethods.  He is co-author of one of the ground-breaking papers
> on using visual attributes to describe and recognize objects.  His
> current interests involve structured learning methods, object
> detection and recognition, and lifelong visual learning.