{"627425":{"#nid":"627425","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Premier Computer Vision Conference Accepts 10 Georgia Tech Papers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFrom helping chair umpires make better line calls in professional tennis to teaching robots to \u0026ldquo;see\u0026rdquo;, the field of computer vision continues to expand and become a part of people\u0026rsquo;s everyday lives. A subfield of artificial intelligence, computer vision teaches computers to understand and interpret the visual world through photos or videos.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iccv2019.thecvf.com\/\u0022\u003EInternational Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)\u003C\/a\u003E takes place from Oct. 27 to Nov. 2 and brings together researchers from Georgia Tech and around the world to discuss recent breakthroughs and research in the field. Researchers in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT)\u003C\/a\u003E have ten accepted papers in the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing (IC)\u003C\/a\u003E and ML@GT associate professor \u003Cstrong\u003EDevi Parikh\u003C\/strong\u003E leads with seven research papers. Her work spans from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.voguebusiness.com\/technology\/facebook-ai-fashion-styling\u0022\u003Eusing artificial intelligence (AI) to help people make more stylish outfit choices\u003C\/a\u003E to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2ndC6qv\u0022\u003Eembodied visual recognition\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIC assistant professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJudy Hoffman \u003C\/strong\u003Eand professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJames Rehg\u003C\/strong\u003E are 2019 area chairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As the computer vision field continues to expand and create novel ideas, conferences like ICCV become increasingly important. There was a lot of impressive work submitted to the conference this year. With computer vision being one of ML@GT\u0026rsquo;s strongest areas, I\u0026rsquo;m thrilled to see the center\u0026rsquo;s presence in this premier conference,\u0026rdquo; said Hoffman.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther work from Georgia Tech includes papers on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mlatgt.blog\/2019\/09\/10\/overcoming-large-scale-annotation-requirements-for-understanding-videos-in-the-wild\/\u0022\u003Elessening the need for additional annotation in videos\u003C\/a\u003E, making vision and language models more grounded, and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2ndC6qv\u0022\u003Eagents learning to move to better perceive objects.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Having a paper accepted, especially as an oral presentation, especially in a top conference gives me lots of confidence and encouragement for my Ph.D. research. I can\u0026#39;t wait to attend ICCV to share my work, talk with other talented people, and learn other interesting topics in both academic and industrial areas,\u0026quot; said \u003Cstrong\u003EMin-Hung Chen\u003C\/strong\u003E, a sixth-year electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOrganized by IEEE, ICCV is one of the premier international computer vision conferences and will take place at the COEX Convention Center in Seoul, South Korea.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on ML@GT\u0026rsquo;s involvement with the conference, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/339BYaS\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/339BYaS\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Machine Learning Center will make a splash at the International Conference on Computer Vision later this month."}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2019-10-09 19:54:48","changed_gmt":"2019-10-10 12:11:43","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-10-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-10-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"627424":{"id":"627424","type":"image","title":"Seoul, South Korea","body":null,"created":"1570650742","gmt_created":"2019-10-09 19:52:22","changed":"1570650742","gmt_changed":"2019-10-09 19:52:22","alt":"","file":{"fid":"238886","name":"sunyu-kim-HjsWTyyVDgg-unsplash.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sunyu-kim-HjsWTyyVDgg-unsplash.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sunyu-kim-HjsWTyyVDgg-unsplash.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":317658,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sunyu-kim-HjsWTyyVDgg-unsplash.jpg?itok=D8FfXLvU"}}},"media_ids":["627424"],"groups":[{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAllie McFadden\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eallie.mcfadden@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["allie.mcfadden@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}