{"id":19571,"date":"2024-11-18T19:08:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=19571"},"modified":"2024-12-04T01:41:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T06:41:31","slug":"distinguished-cs-colloquium-talk-by-prof-kristen-grauman-on-dec-4th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2024\/11\/18\/distinguished-cs-colloquium-talk-by-prof-kristen-grauman-on-dec-4th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished CS Colloquium Talk by Prof. Kristen Grauman on Dec 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> <span>First-person video understanding<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Prof. Kristen Grauman, <span>University of Texas at Austin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Wednesday, December 4<span>, 2024 @ 11am<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> CDS 950<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<br \/>\n<\/strong><span>First-person or \u201cegocentric\u201d perception requires understanding the video that streams to a wearable camera.\u00a0 The egocentric view offers a special window into the camera wearer\u2019s attention, goals, and interactions, making it an exciting avenue for the future of augmented reality and robot learning.\u00a0 \u00a0This talk will describe our AI research group\u2019s recent explorations for multimodal perception, such as vision-language embeddings that inject semantics from text into powerful video representations, audio-visual video models that can anticipate the sounds of human actions or augment a user\u2019s hearing in busy places, and models that can facilitate learning new skills from \u201chow-to\u201d videos.\u00a0 I\u2019ll also overview how we are advancing the frontier of egocentric perception for the broader community via large-scale open-sourced datasets called Ego4D and Ego-Exo4D&#8212;multi-year, multi-institutional efforts to capture daily-life and skilled activity of people around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\"><strong>Bio<\/strong><br \/>\nKristen<\/span><span> Grauman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and a Research Director in Meta\u2019s Fundamental AI Research lab (FAIR).\u00a0 Her research in computer vision and machine learning focuses on visual recognition, video, and embodied perception.\u00a0 Before joining UT-Austin in 2007, she received her Ph.D. at MIT.\u00a0 She is an IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, Sloan Fellow, and recipient of the 2013 Computers and Thought Award.\u00a0 She and her collaborators have been recognized with several Best Paper awards in computer vision, including a 2011 Marr Prize and a 2017 Helmholtz Prize (test of time award).\u00a0 She has served as Associate Editor-in-Chief for PAMI and Program Chair of CVPR 2015, NeurIPS 2018, and ICCV 2023.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/~grauman\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/~grauman\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1732666057113000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2SnubAOdzxkNWJkeUXUAsk\">http:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/~grau<wbr \/>man\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: First-person video understanding Speaker: Prof. Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin When: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 @ 11am Where: CDS 950 Abstract First-person or \u201cegocentric\u201d perception requires understanding the video that streams to a wearable camera.\u00a0 The egocentric view offers a special window into the camera wearer\u2019s attention, goals, and interactions, making it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19653,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions\/19653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}