Vision Journal Club, Nov 02, 2012, 02:00PM – 03:00PM, Wachman 447 High Resolution Registration, Tracking, and Synthesis of 3D Deforming Objects Dr. Yang Wang, Siemens Corporate Research Abstract : Recent advent of new technologies allows us to capture massive amounts of high resolution, high frame rate geometry and appearance data in 3D. In order to […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Oct 09, 2012, 02:00PM – 03:00PM, Wachman 1015D Connecting the dots for prospective and personalized healthcare Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame Abstract: Proactive personalized medicine is expected to bring fundamental changes, offering recommendations of lifestyle adjustments and treatments to avoid diseases a patient has high risk for developing in the future. Due […]
Read More »Vision Journal Club, Sep 28, 2012, 11:05AM – 12:05PM, Wachman 447 Object Recognition with Hierarchical Kernel Descriptors, Liefeng Bo, Kevin Lai, Xiaofeng Ren, and Dieter Fox, CVPR 2011 Semir Elezovikj, Temple University Abstract : Kernel descriptors [1] provide a unified way to generate rich visual feature sets by turning pixel attributes into patch-level features, and […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Sep 12, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Heterogeneity Meets Rarity: Mining Multi-Faceted Diamond Jingrui He, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Abstract: Many real-world problems exhibit both heterogeneity and rarity. Take insider threat detection from various social contexts as an example. While the target malicious insiders may only be a very small portion […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Jun 13, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 First order methods for the large convex optimization problem arising in sparse inverse covariance selection Katya Scheinberg, Lehigh University Abstract: Many problems arising in signal processing, statistics and machine learning are solved by casting them as very large scale convex optimization problems. These problems usually […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Apr 11, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Computer Vision Technology for Applications to Assist Blind People YingLi Tian, The City College, City University of New York Abstract: Recent technology developments in computer vision, digital cameras, and portable computers make it possible to develop practical computer vision-based algorithms to help blind persons independently […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Mar 21, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Creating and analyzing co-participation networks Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University Abstract: The past decade has seen a massive rise in web services and social networks that allow users to create, collaborate, and share varied forms of data in the form of articles, pictures, videos, links […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Mar 14, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Multiple Instance Learning for Human Centered Visual Computing Gang Hua, Stevens Institute of Technology Abstract: The proliferation of internet and visual sensors have created tremendous amount of online visual media. A significant amount of online user activities are indeed driven by these massive visual media. […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Mar 02, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 1015D The Power of Space – how spatial structures can replace computational effort Christian Freksa, University of Bremen Abstract: Spatial structures determine the ways we perceive our environment and the ways we act in it in important ways. Spatial structures also determine the ways we think […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Mar 01, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 1015D Computational Approaches for Drug Repositioning Lun Yang, GlaxoSmithKline Abstract: Drug repositioning helps fully explore indications for marketed drugs and clinical candidates. Here I introduce several computational approaches that could be used in predicting new indications. 1) Chemical-protein Interactome (CPI), which mimics the interaction profile of […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Feb 28, 2012, Wachman 1015D Teaching with Emerging Media Cheryl A. Dugas, Stevens Institute of Technology Abstract: Emerging media is the evolving use of technology and digital content to enhance work, play, and learning, to broaden access to information, and to enrich personal connection by eliminating the constraints of time and location. (source: […]
Read More »CIS Distinguished Speaker, Feb 27, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Mobile Cloud and Green Computing Ivan Stojmenovic , University of Ottawa Abstract: Mobile devices (smart phones, tablets, laptops, embedded boards, robots) can serve as ‘dumb’ terminals for cloud computing services over intelligent network. Mobile cloud has emerged as a new cloud computing platform that […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Feb 24, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 On False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grid Wei Yu, Towson University Abstract: Smart Grid, a typical energy-based Cyber-Physical System (CPS), uses modern advanced communication technologies to make the power grid more efficient, reliable, secure and resilient. It supplies electric power from various generators through […]
Read More »CIS Distinguished Speaker, Feb 15, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Searching in the “Real World” Ophir Frieder, Georgetown University Abstract: For many, “searching” is considered a mostly solved problem. In fact, for text processing, this belief is factually based. The problem is that most “real world” search applications involve “complex documents”, and such applications […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Feb 09, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 1015D Towards Freeing Drivers from Phone Distractions Marco Gruteser, Rutgers University Abstract: In this talk, I will describe a system that lets mobile phones detect whether they are used by a driver and then lay out our vision for apps and phone interfaces that reduce driver […]
Read More »ACM Distinguished Lecture, Feb 08, 2012, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Tech Center 111 The Interaction of Science and Society, As Illustrated by The Internet Peter Freeman, Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract : Science and society are more tightly intertwined than either recognizes; both need to act on this observation. The need-based interaction between them is well […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Nov 29, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 1015D Different Methods for Image Processing and Dataset Retrieval Derived by the IPTM Group in Belgrade Branimir Reljin, University of Belgrade Abstract: Lecture 1. Indexing and Retrieving of Large Image Datasets Due to new technologies a huge digital multimedia files for personal, entertainment, professional and commercial […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Nov 23, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Moving Between Tasks and Domains Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland, College Park Abstract: Often it is easier to learn to solve a task once you’ve already learned to solve other, related tasks. In one case, perhaps the task you want to solve stays the […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Nov 16, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Believing is seeing – how prior beliefs influence perception Alan A. Stocker, University of Pennsylvania Abstract: Our percept of the world is shaped by our beliefs and expectations about what there is to be perceived. This has been well-known. Yet only recently we began to […]
Read More »CIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Nov 02, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Tech Center 111 Contextual Analysis of Images and Videos Larry S. Davis, University of Maryland, College Park Abstract : In spite of the significant effort that has been devoted to the core problems of object and action recognition in images and videos, the recognition performance […]
Read More »Vision Journal Club, Oct 27, 2011, 10:00AM – 11:00AM, Wachman 1015D RASL: Robust Batch Alignment of Images by Sparse and Low-Rank Decomposition, Yigang Peng, Arvind Ganesh, John Wright, Wenli Xu, and Yi Ma. 2010. Yu Pang, Temple University Abstract : Abstract: This paper studies the problem of simultaneously aligning a batch of linearly correlated images […]
Read More »Vision Journal Club, Oct 20, 2011, 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Wachman 1015D RASL: Robust Batch Alignment of Images by Sparse and Low-Rank Decomposition, Yigang Peng, Arvind Ganesh, John Wright, Wenli Xu, and Yi Ma. 2010. Yu Pang, Temple University Abstract : Abstract: This paper studies the problem of simultaneously aligning a batch of linearly correlated images […]
Read More »CIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Oct 19, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Tech Center 111 Never Ending Machine Learning Tom M. Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University Abstract : What would it take to develop machine learners that run forever, each day improving their performance and also the accuracy with which they learn? This talk will describe our attempt […]
Read More »CIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Oct 07, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Tech Center 111 Coexistence of Heterogeneous Networks Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Abstract : Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are typified by cellular deployments with various types of cells of different sizes and overlapping coverage areas, as well as by the ISM spectrum sharing, […]
Read More »CIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Sep 28, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Walk Auditorium, Ritter Hall Heuristic Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology and Genetics Richard M. Karp, University of California, Berkeley In many practical situations heuristic algorithms reliably give satisfactory solutions to real-life instances of optimization problems, despite evidence from computational complexity theory that the problems are […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Sep 22, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 1015D Marginal Space Learning for Efficient Detection and Segmentation of 2D/3D Anatomical Structures in Medical Images Yefeng Zheng, Siemens Corporate Research Recently, we proposed marginal space learning (MSL) as a generic approach for automatic detection and segmentation of 2D/3D anatomical structures in many medical imaging modalities. […]
Read More »Vision Journal Club, May 23, 2011, Wachman 1015D When Sparse Learning Met Signal Processing Junzhou Huang , University of Texas, Arlington Abstract : Sparsity techniques have been widely used to address practical problems in the fields of medical imaging, machine learning, computer vision, data mining and signal processing. The basic assumption is that the interested […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, May 04, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 CiteSeerX and Friends: The Open Source SeerSuite Lee Giles, Penn State University Cyberinfrastructure or e-science has become crucial in many areas of science as data access often defines scientific progress. Open source systems have greatly facilitated design and implementation and supporting cyberinfrastructure. However, there exists […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Apr 15, 2011, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas There is growing interest in the automatic extraction of opinions, emotions, and sentiments in text (subjectivity), to provide tools and support for various natural language processing applications. Most of the research to date has focused on […]
Read More »CIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Apr 08, 2011, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman Hall 447 Human Computer Intelligent Interaction Thomas S. Huang, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Computer technologies are progressing at a breakneck speed. But the tremendous computing speed and the enormous storage capacity come to naught, if we […]
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