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Towards Achieving General Video Understanding

October 29, 2025
Final Oral Examination for Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science) Rohit Gupta Thursday, October 30, 2025 3:00PM – 4:00PM Global 229 [Bifold] Dissertation Video is now a key medium for learning, communication, and autonomy, so perception systems must recognize fine-grained activities, adapt to new concepts, stay robust under change, and support multiple capabilities. Current methods fall […]

Exploring Segmentation, Detection and Tracking in Videos

October 29, 2025
Final Oral Examination for Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science) Jyoti Kini Friday, October 31, 2025 2:00PM – 3:00PM Research I, 101A [Bifold] Dissertation Autonomous agents rely on robust segmentation, detection, and tracking to perceive, reason about, and act in dynamic environments. These perception capabilities form the core of intelligent systems, from self-driving vehicles navigating urban […]

Towards Label-Efficient Approaches for Dense Video Tasks

October 13, 2025
Final Oral Examination for Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science) Akash Kumar Monday, October 13, 2025 2:00PM – 3:00PM [Bifold] Dissertation Deep learning has significantly advanced visual understanding tasks like object detection, tracking, and spatio-temporal grounding, benefiting fields such as autonomous vehicles, surveillance systems, and robotics. While large-scale labeled datasets have been crucial to this success, […]