Photo Uncrop
I’m sure you have cropped a photo before, trying to remove some unnecessary background from a picture you’ve taken. However, have you …
One Hundred Million Creative Commons Flickr Images for Research
The title says it all. a huge dataset with title, description, camera type, and tags. What would you do with it if you …
Machine Learning, meet Computer Vision
A nice and readable description of using decision forests for image segmentation. This method is able to achieve really nice results in …
Mint: Google buying photo-analysis startup Jetpac to expand tech tools
Google buys a company that is trying to organize all the photos you upload online into a city guide. Have never tried …
MIT researchers can listen to your conversation by watching your potato chip bag – The Washington Post
Many times in computer vision we try to come up with algorithms to match the performance of human vision. However, here is …
Starting my new faculty position
This year I will be starting my new position as an assistant Professor of Computer Science at Lafayette College. I am looking …
Amazon’s Fire Phone recognizes everything around you with ‘Firefly’
Very cool application of computer vision! http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/18/5821594/amazon-fire-phone-recognizes-everything-around-you
Reffering Expression Generation for Visual Data
Referring expressions, which are sentences that try to refer to a single object within a group, have been studied extensively in the …
A Visual Dictionary Attack on Picture Passwords
Microsoft’s Picture Password provides a method to authenticate a user without the need of typing a character based password. The password consists …
I have successfully defended my thesis!
I have successfully passed my PhD Dissertation Defense. My thesis work is entitled “It’s Not Polite to Point: Refering Expressions for Visual Scenes”. …