Category: AIR Seminars

Learning Perceptual Organization with Minimal Human Supervision

AIR SEMINAR SERIES Stella Yu, University of California, Berkeley When: Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 Event Start Time: 10:00 am Event End Time: 11:00 am Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Computer vision has advanced rapidly with deep learning, achieving super-human performance on a few recognition benchmarks. At the core of the state-of-the-art approaches […]

AIR Series: First-Person Perception by Anticipating the Unseen and Unheard

AIR SEMINAR SERIES Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin This talk has been canceled and will be rescheduled to a later date. When: Monday, April 1, 2019 Event Start Time: 11:00 am (reception at 10:30am, talk at 11am) Event End Time: 12:00 pm Where: Kilachand Center, Colloquium Room 101 Abstract: Computer vision has seen major […]

AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

AIR SEMINAR SERIES Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind   When: Monday, March 11, 2019 Event Start Time: 10:30 am (reception 30mins prior to event start) Event End Time: 12:00 pm Where: Kilachand Center, Colloquium Room 101 Abstract: Games have been used for decades as an important way to test and evaluate the performance of artificial intelligence systems. […]

Some Empirical Observations Linking Representation and Generalization

Samy Bengio, Google When: Monday, February 4, 2019 Networking reception, 10:30-11:00am; Seminar 11:00-12:00pm Where: Photonics Building: 8 St. Mary’s Street, 9th Floor, Colloquium Room Abstract: Deep learning has shown incredible successes in the past few years, but there is still a lot of work remaining in order to understand some of these successes. Why do […]

“New Algorithms for Interpretable Machine Learning” Cynthia Rudin (Duke)

Cynthia Rudin, Duke University When: Monday, December 10, 2018 Networking reception, 10:30-11:00am; Seminar 11:00-12:00pm Where: Kilachand Center, 610 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA, Colloquium Room   Abstract: With the widespread use of machine learning, there have been serious societal consequences from using black box models for high-stakes decisions, including flawed models for medical imaging, and poor […]

“Building and Evaluating Conversational Agents”

João Sedoc, University of Pennsylvania Monday, December 3, 2018 11:00am – 12:00pm, refreshment & networking at 10:30am Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall Boston, MA 02215 Abstract: There has been a renewed focus on dialog systems, including non-task driven conversational agents (i.e. “chit-chat bots”). Dialog is a challenging problem since it spans multiple conversational turns. […]

“Visual Question Answering and Beyond”

Aishwarya Agrawal, Georgia Tech Wednesday, October 31, 2018 11:30am – 12:30pm in MCS 148 Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall Boston, MA 02215 Abstract: In this talk, I will present our work on Visual Question Answering (VQA) — I will provide a brief overview of the VQA task, dataset and baseline models, as well as, […]