Author: Hariri Institute

Knowledge Transfer for Face Recognition

This talk by Zhengming Ding, a graduate student at Northeastern University, outlines a proposal to build a large-scale face recognizer capable of fighting off the data imbalance difficulty that existing machine learning approaches experience in mimicking human visual intelligence. To seek a more effective general classifier, we develop a novel generative model attempting to synthesize meaningful data for one-shot classes by adapting the data variances from other normal classes.

Hariri Institute Hosts 11/30 JP Morgan Machine Learning Presentation

The Hariri Institute is excited to host the JP Morgan Machine Learning Presentation at BU. Coordinated by Assistant Professor of Mathematics & Statistics Kostas Spiliopoulos, the event is open to students in fields such as, but not limited to, mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, finance and any interdisciplinary combinations of these.

From Vision to Language and Back Again

This talk by Andrei Barbu, a research scientist at MIT, will discuss a program to unify research around a number of vision-language problems into a single mathematical framework culminating in a robotic platform that is able to follow natural language commands, store knowledge, and answer questions.

Media Analysis and Understanding

This talk by Guorong Li, an associate professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, will outline recent research in media analysis including learning label-specific features for multi-label classification, learning common space for cross-modal retrieval and car tracking in UAV video.

Institute Fellow Jacob Bor Ties Life Expectancy to Voting Choices

Jacob Bor, Junior Faculty Fellow at the Hariri Institute and Hariri Research Award recipient, shows how voting patterns correlated with the nation’s growing geographic health divides in his recent publication in the American Journal of Public Health.