Alumni Technical Talk and Reception

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
5:00pm - 7:30pm

~ Network with fellow alumni ~
~ Learn about exciting research at the Jacobs School and
job opportunities at Google ~

Featuring

Frieder Seible
Dean, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

Serge Belongie
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

Visual Recognition with Humans in the Loop [View Slides PDF]
Presenting an interactive, hybrid human-computer method for object classification

Computer science professor Serge Belongie will present his groundbreaking work to improve computer vision and object recognition by harnessing human expertise to improve object classification algorithms. For example, computerized object recognition systems struggle mightily to identify bird species-a task that takes experienced birders only a few seconds to a few minutes. Belongie and colleagues consulted bird experts to develop a computerized 20-questions game that utilizes users' input to dramatically improve the performance of computer vision algorithms. The method demonstrates the effectiveness and feasibility of the human-computer hybrid classification paradigm.

Hosted by

Google Headquarters
Seville Tech Talk - Bldg 40
Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Spouses/guests welcome

RSVP by October 26th >>

Inquiries: Tatis Cervantes Aiken, ttcervantes@ucsd.edu, 858-822-6968