2014
Misrak Seifu
I am a senior under graduate majoring in Computer Engineering at Jackson State University. Yes, I do have plans to go on to professional school, and maybe eventually get an engineering degree; most importantly I plan to use the knowledge I gain from this REU experience to further advance today’s scientific and technological field. This summer I am working with Mahdi M. Kalayeh on Capturing the Visual Trends of Selfies in Real Time. Where we are working on detecting the different properties, such as gender, number of people in a selfie, race, hair and many other properties among the selfies are changing and understanding how different attributes contribute in making a selfie popular. Then use this data’s for further studies. You will find more on how we are addressing the project below. When I first started this project I didn’t have a lot of knowledge base in the field of Computer Vision, but a very wise professor once told me that it’s good to broaden my horizon and not focus only on the fields I am familiar with, “have more tools in your box,” he said and this is what I am doing.
Weekly Presentations
Poster Presentation
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