Title: Learning to see and hear without human supervision Date: February 16th, 2021 at 10:00 am Place: Virtual meeting Presenter: Pedro Morgado Abstract: Imagine the sound of crashing waves. This sound may evoke the image of a beach. A single sound serves as a bridge to connect multiple instances of a visual scene. It can group scenes that ‘go together’...
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Title: Inclusive Teaching Practices for Busy Faculty Date: February 26, 2021 at 2 pm Presenter: Colleen M. Lewis Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Place: Virtual meeting* (an extended Q&A session will happen after the talk) * The above link works for those affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh. If you are not affiliated with the...
Read MoreThe Computer Science Department is announcing AI for Good: Ethics and Impact & Evaluation of Interactive Systems, two new courses that will be offered in the Spring 2021 term under CS 1699 - Special Topics in Computer Science. Both are considered upper-level CS electives courses: CS1699 - AI for Good: Ethics and Impact Instructor: Dr. Malihe Alikhani Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise to...
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Title: The Role of Symmetry in Human and Computer Vision Date: November 13, 2020 at 2 pm Place: Virtual (meeting information) Presenter: Sven Dickinson Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Head, Samsung Toronto AI Research Abstract: Symmetry is one of the most ubiquitous regularities in our natural world. For almost 100 years, human vision researchers have studied how...
Read MoreThe annual Undergraduate Research Symposium took place on Friday, Oct 16, 2020. The symposium featured short talks by five Computer Science faculty who are active in research (involving undergraduate students). In attendance were students who may want to pursue research in one of these areas as a capstone project, or just because it is a great way to enhance their...
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