Industrial Workshop and Invited Talks

From Academia to Industry: a Comprehensive View of Computer Vision Research

Mission

Complementary to the main program of the 2010 Sino-USA Summer School in Vision, Learning, and Pattern Recognition, this one day workshop brings together world-class researchers in computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition from leading industrial research labs in China, USA and Japan, etc.. In this workshop, the students will have the opportunity to interact with these leading researchers and be immersed with cutting-edge research work in computer vision and machine learning that are oriented for a wide spectrum of real-world applications.

Workshop Chairs

Dr. Gang Hua, IBM Research T. J Watson Center
Prof. Yi Ma, Microsoft Research Asia/UIUC, China/USA
Prof. Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA, USA

Schedule

8:35am~8:40am
Chair's opening speech

Session 1:
08:40am~09:15am
"Human activity analysis for multimedia collaboration", Dr. Zicheng Liu, Microsoft Research
09:15am~09:50am
"Probabilistic Graphical Models and Their Applications in Computer Vision", Prof. Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

09:50am~10:05am
Coffee Break

Session 2:
10:05am~10:40am
"Future mobile user interface technologies", Dr. Kongqiao Wang, Nokia Research Center Beijing
10:40am~11:15am
"Discovering and Tracking patterns: perception of spatiotemporal varying structures", Prof. Yanxi Liu, Penn State University
11:15am~11:50am
"Feature learning for object recognition and image classification", Dr. Kai Yu, NEC Labs USA

11:50am~1:00pm
Lunch

Session 3:
1:00pm~1:35pm
"Overview of Research in MSRA Visual Computing Group", Prof. Yi Ma, Microsoft Research Asia/University of Illionois
1:35pm~2:10pm
"Video retargeting using spatio-temporal segmentation", Dr. Mei Han, Google Research
2:10pm~2:45pm
"Visually Indexing the world's videos", Dr. Gang Hua, IBM Research T. J Watson Center

2:45pm~3:00pm
Coffee Break

Session 4:
3:00pm~3:35pm
"Image Search", Prof. Qi Tian, University of Texas, San Antonio
3:35pm~4:10pm
"Face detection and recognition: from algorithm to LSI for digital camera", Mr. Shihong Lao, Omron

4:10pm~4:25pm
Coffee Break

4:25pm~5:10pm
Panel Discussion
Topic: "Academia v.s. Industry: Different Career Paths of Computer Vision Research"
Panel Chair: Prof. Song-Chun Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles
Panelist: ALL INVITED SPEAKERS

Contacts

Please email the workshop chairs at ganghua@gmail.com for any questions.