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Reconstructing 3D Humans From Visual Data
Announcing the Final Examination of Sijie Zhu for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreCongratulations to CRCV Ph.D. students Jyoti Kini, Ishan Dave and undergraduate student Sarah Fleischer
We are excited to announce that a team from CRCV has been declared the winner of the MECCANO Dataset Challenge. The participants competed to obtain the best score on the provided test split of the MECCANO dataset...
Read MoreTowards Secure, Privacy-preserving and Fair Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu The University of Texas at Dallas Wednesday, September 6, 2023 10:00AM – 11:00AM HEC 101A | Zoom Abstract In the age of big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), protecting the security and privacy of stored data is paramount for maintaining public trust, accountability and getting the full value from the collected data.…...
Read MoreEighteen Papers Accepted in ICCV 2023
ICCV is the premier international computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and tutorials. Members of UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) and their collaborators had a record number of 18 papers accepted into the (ICCV 2023) conference that will take place in Paris, France from October 2-6, 2023.…...
Read MoreTowards Efficient Learning under Label Noise: From Dawid-Skene to Deep Neural Networks
Ms. Shahana Ibrahim Oregon State University Friday, June 30, 2023 2:00PM – 3:00PM CREOL 102/103 | Zoom Abstract With the rise of the AI revolution, there is an exceptionally high demand for data labeling. However, most data labeling is done through crowdsourcing techniques, where non-expert annotators often provide labels. This results in considerably noisy labels,…...
Read MoreTowards Optimal and Adaptive Algorithms for Optimization in Games
Mr. Junchi Yang ETH Zurich Thursday, June 29, 2023 10:00AM – 11:00AM TC2 222 | Zoom Abstract Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as AlphaZero and ChatGPT, have significantly impacted various fields. Reinforcement learning (RL) plays a crucial role in these achievements. However, deploying RL in real-world applications, including robotics, finance, and healthcare, presents…...
Read MoreDeployable Reinforcement Learning: Addressing Real-World Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Amrit Singh Bedi University of Maryland Monday, June 26, 2023 10:00AM – 11:00AM Research I 101 | Zoom Abstract Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as AlphaZero and ChatGPT, have significantly impacted various fields. Reinforcement learning (RL) plays a crucial role in these achievements. However, deploying RL in real-world applications, including robotics, finance,…...
Read MoreAdvanced Machine Learning Techniques for Processing Complex Data
Dr. Dixon Vimalajeewa Texas A&M University Thursday, May 25, 2023 10:00AM – 11:00AM Technology Commons II 222 | Zoom Abstract The recent advancements in Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Nano-Things (IoNT), and Information and Communication Technologies have made it possible to collect large amounts of data from previously inaccessible locations, such as the human…...
Read MoreA Tale of Two Worlds: The Variational Approach to Machine Learning
Dr. Alexander Alemi Google Wednesday, May 24, 2023 10:00AM – 11:00AM Research I 101 | Zoom Abstract We are in the era of deep learning. The alchemy that is deep learning enables us to tractably search in the space of functions. Our challenge then is to provide meaningful objectives to guide that search. I will…...
Read MoreInteractive Decision Making in Multi-agent Intelligent Systems
Mr. Chuanhao Li University of Virginia Monday, May 22, 2023 11:30AM – 11:30PM HEC 101B | Zoom Abstract Interactive decision making (e.g., bandit and reinforcement learning) is a promising paradigm for developing intelligent systems capable of efficiently exploring unknown environments. It has achieved remarkable success in recommender systems, clinical decision systems, robotics and cyber-physical systems,…...
Read MoreTrustworthy and Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Anh Nguyen Auburn University Wednesday, May 17, 2023 11:00AM – 12:00PM HEC 101A | Zoom Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous and a key that enables humankind to reach unprecedented horizons (e.g. in protein folding). However, in high-stake applications (e.g. cancer diagnosis, automated target detection, or face identification), a single incorrect decision of…...
Read MoreEnabling Urban Intelligence by Harnessing Human-Generated Spatial-Temporal Data
Ms. Xin Zhang Worcester Polytechnic Institute Tuesday, May 16, 2023 2:00PM – 3:00PM HEC 101A | Zoom Abstract Technology advancement in mobile sensing and communication has enabled a massive amount of mobility data to be generated from human decision-makers, which we call human-generated spatial-temporal data (HSTD). Applying the HSTD to extract the unique decision-making strategies…...
Read MoreRobust Reinforcement Learning under Model Uncertainty
Mr. Yue Wang University at Buffalo Monday, May 15, 2023 10:00AM – 11:00AM HEC 101A | Zoom Abstract Reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable success in various applications, such as video games, the game of Go, and the development of ChatGPT. However, most traditional reinforcement learning methods suffer from performance degradation due to the gap between…...
Read MoreDistance Metric Learning and its application in high dimensional data analysis
Dr. Maryam Bagherian Yale University Monday, May 8, 2023 10:30AM – 11:00AM MSB 318 Abstract Distance metric learning is an approach in high-dimensional analysis which facilitates the exploration of underlying structures among data points in an effective and efficient manner. By learning a suitable distance metric, distance-based algorithms can better capture the intrinsic structure of…...
Read MoreThe First Batch of MSCV Students Graduated
We graduated our first batch of Masters of Science in Computer Vision (MSCV) at UCF on May 6, 2023. Congratulations to Ryan Glaspey and Tristan De Blegiers. Ryan is starting his job at Meta in August and Tristan has several interviews lined up. https://www.crcv.ucf.edu/mscv/...
Read MoreIntegrated AI Systems for Translational Biomedicine
Dr. Laura Brattain MIT Lincoln Laboratory Wednesday, May 3, 2023 3:30PM – 4:30PM COM 302 | Zoom Abstract With the rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), biomedical AI is poised to transform healthcare at scale. To spearhead the translation from bench to bedside, we need to go beyond standalone AI algorithms but instead endeavor to…...
Read MoreTopological Graph Machine Learning
Dr. Cuneyt Akcora Manitoba University Tuesday, May 2, 2023 3:00PM – 4:00PM Zoom Abstract Recently, there has been an increasing interest among machine learning researchers in topological approaches. Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is an emerging field that combines algebraic topology, statistics, and computer science to analyze data sampled from a metric space and recover the…...
Read MorePeeling Back the Layers of Deep Neural Networks—A Venture from Implementation Perspective
Dr. Aritra Dutta University of Southern Denmark Monday, May 1, 2023 10:00AM – 11:00AM MSB 318 | Zoom Abstract When there is a lot of training data or the deep neural network is too large, distributed parallel training becomes essential, which refers to either data or model parallelism. In both cases, parallelism introduces various overheads.…...
Read MoreAlgorithmic and Field Robotics for Environmental Monitoring
Dr. Nare Karapetyan University of Maryland Tuesday, April 18, 2023 1:30PM – 2:30PM Zoom Abstract In the pursuit of understanding the world around us, significant efforts are dedicated to developing dependable autonomous systems capable of planning out exploration tasks. These tasks encompass a range of applications, such as scientific sampling, environmental monitoring, surveillance, and search…...
Read MoreEmbracing Change: Tackling In-the-Wild Shifts in Machine Learning
Dr. Huaxiu Yao Stanford University Thursday, April 13, 2023 10:00AM – 11:00AM Zoom Abstract The real-world deployment of machine learning algorithms often poses challenges due to shifts in data distributions and tasks. These shifts can lead to a degradation in model performance, as the model may not have seen such changes during training. It can…...
Read MoreAdvancing Data-Aspect AI: From Efficient Data Annotation to High-Quality Data Creation
Dr. Siyu Huang Harvard University Tuesday, April 11, 2023 11:30AM – 12:30PM Zoom Abstract The real-world deployment of machine learning algorithms often poses challenges due to shifts in data distributions and tasks. These shifts can lead to a degradation in model performance, as the model may not have seen such changes during training. It can…...
Read MoreVisual Storytelling with Generative Models of Video
Dr. Ruben Villegas Google Brain Monday, April 10, 2023 11:00AM – 12:00PM Zoom Abstract Generative models of images have been making incredible progress in the past few years. This brings an opportunity for users to unleash their creativity and easily generate images with just a few words describing what they want to see. However, taking…...
Read MoreCVPR 2023: A comprehensive tour and recent advancements toward real-world visual geo-localization
Research collaboration between CRCV and SRI International result in CVPR 2023 Tutorials and Publications. For more information, please visit: https://www.sri.com/computer-vision/cvpr-2023-a-comprehensive-tour-and-recent-advancements-toward-real-world-visual-geo-localization/...
Read MoreReliable Data-Driven Decision-Making Systems
Dr. Paria Rashidinejad Berkeley AI Research Lab Wednesday, March 22, 2023 11:00AM – 12:00PM Zoom Abstract Despite impressive success in domains such as vision and language, machine learning is still far from reliable integration into many challenging real-world scenarios, such as healthcare, where the coverage of existing data and the ability to collect new, diverse…...
Read MoreExtreme Computational Imaging
Dr. Ramesh Raskar MIT Media Lab Friday, March 10, 2023 2:00PM – 3:00PM Zoom Abstract The invention of X-ray imaging enabled us to see inside our bodies. The invention of thermal infrared imaging enabled us to depict heat. So, over the last few centuries, the key to making the invisible visible was recording with new…...
Read MoreTowards Deploying AI in the Real World
Dr. Sernam Lim Facebook AI Thursday, March 9, 2023 11:00AM – 12:00PM Zoom Abstract In this talk, I will focus on three of our most recent works with one having been published in CVPR2023 and two at ECCV2022. In all these works, our focus is on AI technologies that will actually work in the real…...
Read MoreFourteen Papers Accepted in CVPR 2023
The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is the premier annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. Members of UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) and their collaborators had a record number of 14 papers accepted into the CVPR 2023 (https://cvpr2023.thecvf.com/)…...
Read MoreThree Papers Accepted in ICLR 2023
The 11th International Conference on Learning Representations invites paper submissions from all areas of machine learning. UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) had 3 papers accepted into the ICLR 2023 (https://iclr.cc/Conferences/2023) conference that will take place in Kigali, Rwanda from May 1-5, 2023. You can access the CRCV Publications Page for enhanced search…...
Read MoreTwo Workshops Accepted at CVPR 2023
Dr. Chen’s 2nd International Workshop on Federated Learning ofr Computer Vision (FedVision) was accepted to CVPR 2023. Federated Learning (FL) has become an important privacy-preserving paradigm in various machine learning tasks. However, the potential of FL in computer vision applications, such as face recognition, person re-identification, and action recognition, is far from being fully exploited.…...
Read MoreTwo Papers Accepted in ICRA 2023
ICRA is the largest and most prestigious event of the year in the Robotics and Automation calendar, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will bring together the world’s top academics, researchers, and industry representatives. UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) had 2 papers accepted into the ICRA 2023 conference that…...
Read MoreUCF Computer Vision Team Receives Prestigious Computer Vision Award for Action Recognition Dataset
A University of Central Florida research team has received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize for pioneering human action recognition datasets, which have played important role in the advancement of computer vision technology. The researchers behind UCF-101, the challenging action recognition dataset, are being awarded for their impressive collection of 13,320 clips across 101 action categories.…...
Read MoreFour Papers Accepted in AAAI 2023
AAAI-23 is the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The theme of this conference is to create collaborative bridges within and beyond AI. Like previous AAAI conferences, AAAI-23 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibit programs, and two new activities: a Bridge Program…...
Read MoreNeural Reconstruction and Rendering
Dr. Mohamed Elgharib Max Planck Institute for Informatics Monday, December 5, 2022 10:00AM – 11:00AM Zoom Abstract Digitizing the world around us is of increasing importance, with several applications in Extended Reality, movie and media production, telecommunications, medicine, video games, robotics, and many more. Digitisation involves three main stages: modeling, reconstruction and rendering. Modeling is…...
Read MoreUsing Hierarchies of Skills to Assess and Achieve Automatic Multimodal Comprehension
Dr. Ajay Divakaran SRI International Wednesday, November 30, 2022 4:00PM – 5:00PM ENG1 327 Abstract Unlike current visual question answering (VQA), elementary school (K-5) teaching of reading comprehension has a graded approach based on a hierarchy of skills ranging from memorization to content creation. We take inspiration from such hierarchies to investigate both dataset creation…...
Read MoreVideo Analysis – Motion Prediction and Object Tracking
Dr. Mohsen Zand Robotics and Computer Vision (RCV) Lab, Queen’s University Monday, November 28, 2022 2:00PM – 3:00PM Zoom Abstract A variety of applications, including moving object detection, motion prediction, object tracking, motion segmentation, event detection, and behavior understanding, are addressed in the current research disciplines of video analysis and interpretation. In this talk, I…...
Read MoreVideo Understanding: from Spatio-Temporal Representation Learning to Open-World Long-Term Reasoning
Dr. Du Tran Facebook AI Research Monday, November 21, 2022 2:00PM – 3:00PM Zoom Abstract Video understanding is one of the fundamental problems in computer vision with various applications, including autonomous vehicles, robot learning, and visual perception. Compared with traditional image understanding, video understanding: (i) has higher model complexity and requires learning from a much…...
Read MoreToward Real-world Cross-view Image Geo-localization
Announcing the Final Examination of Sijie Zhu for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreVisual Question Answering: Trade-Offs Between Task Accuracy and Explainability
Announcing the Final Examination of Aisha Urooj Khan for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreThree Papers Accepted in NeurIPS 2022
The Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) annual meeting fosters the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. The core focus is peer-reviewed novel research which is presented and discussed in the general session, along with invited talks by leaders in their fields. In 2022, UCF’s Center…...
Read MoreOmar Javed ’05 PhD, VP of Applied Science at Twitch was Honored with UCF Computer Science Distinguished Alumni Award
Every year, CECS recognizes and honors distinguished alumni for their remarkable professional contributions and their dedication to the college and UCF. The University of Central Florida was established in the spirit that if we reach for the stars, dreams come true. This year, Dr. Omar Javed, VP of Applied Science at Twitch (an Amazon company)…...
Read MoreHandwriting Recognition: A Perspective on Two Decades of Innovations
Dr. Venu Govindaraju National University at Buffalo Thursday, October 20, 2022 1:00PM – 2:00PM HEC 101 Abstract We present an overview of two decades of innovation in handwriting recognition at the Govindaraju lab at the University at Buffalo and offer a perspective on the evolution of research in this area and the future of the…...
Read MoreUsing ML to Power Live-stream Recommendations at a Global Scale
Dr. Omar Javed Twitch (an Amazon company) Friday, October 14, 2022 3:00PM – 4:00PM HEC 101 Abstract Twitch is a premier live social video platform with millions of unique streamers and tens of millions of daily viewers (who watched 1.3 trillion minutes of content in 2021). Recommendations are a major means of connecting viewers to…...
Read MoreUS Patent titled “Methods of real-time spatio-temporal activity detection and categorization from untrimmed video segments”
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued on October 11, 2022, the patent number US 11,468,676 titled “System and Method for Human Pose Estimation in Unconstrained Video”. Title: Methods of real-time spatio-temporal activity detection and categorization from untrimmed video segments UCF Inventor(s): Mubarak Shah, Yogesh Singh Rawat, Aayush Jung Bahadur Rana, Praveen Tirupattur,…...
Read MoreCRCV solicits applications for for Assistant Professor or Associate Professor, Deep Learning and Computer Vision
The University of Central Florida (UCF) Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) solicits applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track assistant professor or tenured associate professor in the area of Deep Learning. CRCV is the world–class leader in computer vision research and related disciplines including, but not limited to, the algorithmic aspects of deep learning…...
Read MoreUCF-led Research Team to Play Key Role in National $26M NSF-funded Effort to Develop Smart Streetscapes
A team of UCF researchers will lead one of the five areas that are part of a research center focused on developing livable, safe and inclusive communities. By Kimberly J. Lewis|August 19, 2022 A team of researchers led by UCF Trustee Chair Professor Mubarak Shah, professor of computer science in the UCF Center for…...
Read MoreUCF CRCV is core Partner for $26 Million NSF ERC on Smart Streetscapes Led by Columbia University
Columbia University will partner with four other universities to forge livable, safe, and inclusive communities by using technologies built on advances in wireless communications that promote privacy and security while balancing community-defined benefits. Read more here...
Read MoreUCF Researchers Present at Top International Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition Conference
Read original article by Kissimmee Crum a href=”https://www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-researchers-present-at-top-international-computer-vision-pattern-recognition-conference/” target=”_blank”>here. Researchers from UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) had a strong showing at one of the top computer vision conferences in the world. The annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), which was held recently in New Orleans, is ranked as the fourth…...
Read MoreOur ECCV 2022 Papers
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Read MoreUCF Strategic Investment Program Invests in Artificial Intelligence
The UCF Strategic Investment Program invests in core academic activities to support President Alexander N. Cartwright’s vision that UCF will become a “University for the Future” as a top public institution and the world’s leading public metropolitan research university. The investments align with areas of strategic emphasis identified by UCF’s strategic plan as approved by…...
Read MoreSegmenting and Anticipating Procedural Activities
Dr. Angela Yao National University of Singapore Tuesday, June 28, 2022 2:00PM – 3:00PM ENGI 327 / Zoom Abstract Videos of procedural activities are goal-oriented, with multiple steps or actions in a sequence over time. In this talk, I will outline our group’s efforts in developing methods for segmenting and anticipating actions in procedural videos.…...
Read MoreCVPR 2022 Best Paper Award Finalist
A recent work from CRCV researchers and collaborators was a finalist for the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022. The paper is titled Local Learning Matters: Rethinking Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning. In a nutshell, the work investigates the data heterogeneity challenge in Federated Learning (FL).…...
Read MoreStarting a new era in Self-Supervised Learning for Computer Vision AND New Developments in Multimodal Image Understanding
Dr. Muhammad Rana University of Surrey Friday, June 17, 2022 1:00PM – 2:00PM ENGI 327 / Zoom Abstract 1 Vision transformers have generated significant interest in the computer vision community because of their flexibility in exploiting contextual information, whether it is sharply confined local, or long range global. However, they are known to be data…...
Read MoreObject-centric anomaly detection in video
Dr. Radu Ionescu University of Bucharest Wednesday, June 15, 2022 2:00PM – 3:00PM ENGI 327 / Zoom Abstract Anomaly detection in video is a challenging computer vision problem, as the classification of an event as normal or abnormal always depends on context. For instance, driving a truck on the street is considered normal, but, if…...
Read MoreUsing Hierarchies of Skills to Assess and Achieve Automatic Multimodal Comprehension
Dr. Ajay Divakaran SRI International Thursday, May 26, 2022 1:00PM – 2:00PM – Zoom Abstract We lay out a human learning-based framework for studying computational multimodal comprehension. Current visual question answering (VQA) systems treat all questions as equal and have no notion of comprehension. Elementary school (K-5) teaching of reading comprehension on the other hand…...
Read MoreCRCV Has 9 Papers Accepted to 4th Ranked CVPR According to h5-Index
The h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. According to Google Scholar Metrics, the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is ranked 4th in the h5-index rankings. In 2022, UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) had 9 papers accepted into the CVPR conference, covering…...
Read MoreTwo Workshops Accepted at CVPR 2022
Dr. Yogesh Rawat’s “Robustness in Sequential Data” workshop has been accepted to CVPR 2022. Most of the real-world data is sequential and there is always a distribution shift when we move from training set to real-world testing scenario. This workshop invites researchers from both academia and industry to advance the research in robust learning for…...
Read MoreDr. Mubarak Shah Named ACM Fellow
Dr. Mubarak Shah has been named as an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow for his contributions to human action recognition in video and leadership for undergraduate research experience. To read more about this honor, please visit https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/january/fellows-2021 Dr. Mubarak Shah, the UCF Board of Trustees Chair Professor, is the founding director of Center for…...
Read MoreCRCV team selected as one of the Semi-finalists in U.S. DOE organized ‘Solar Prize Round 5 Software Track’
The team includes Postdoctoral scholar Shruti Vyas from CRCV, Assistant Professor Dr. Kristopher Davis from Material Science and Engineering Department, and Undergraduate students Joe Fioresi and Melody Halbert from Computer Science Department. https://www.herox.com/solarprizeR5software The team competed in the first round, Ready and won a $30,000 cash prize along with the eligibility to participate in the…...
Read MoreCapsule Networks for Video Understanding
Announcing the Final Examination of Kevin Duarte for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreFirst Place in the ICCV VIPriors Action Recognition Challenge
CRCV team ‘knights’ got first place at Visual Inductive Priors for Data-Efficient Action Recognition challenge, ICCV 2021. The team includes graduate students Ishan Dave, Brandon Clark, Rohit Gupta, and undergraduate intern Naman Biyani from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. https://vipriors.github.io/challenges/#action-recognition Data is fueling deep learning, yet it is costly to gather and to annotate.…...
Read MoreCRCV Has 6 Papers Accepted to ICCV 2021
ICCV is the premier international computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and tutorials. In 2021, UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) had 6 papers accepted into the ICCV conference. You can access the CRCV Publications Page for enhanced search capabilities...
Read MoreDr. Chen Chen Joins CRCV as Assistant Professor
CRCV is pleased to announce Dr. Chen Chen has joined our center as an Assistant Professor as of July 1, 2021. He has an h-index of 44 as of July 2021 according to his Google Scholar profile. He is ranked among the top 2% of scientists in the world by a recent Stanford University study (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918). He…...
Read MoreExploring Relationships Between Ground and Aerial Views by Synthesis and Matching
Announcing the Final Examination of Krishna Regmi for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreUCF Wins JackRabbot 3D tracking at CVPR workshop
CRCV researchers top the 3D Tracking Leaderboard at https://jrdb.stanford.edu/leaderboards/tracking. You can read the extended abstract here. “JRDB is a novel dataset collected from our social mobile manipulator JackRabbot. The dataset includes 64 minutes of multimodal sensor data including stereo cylindrical 360° RGB video at 15 fps, 3D point clouds from two Velodyne 16 Lidars, line…...
Read MoreUCF Master in Computer Vision Virtual Open House
Join us to learn more about UCF’s exciting new Computer Vision Masters Program on Tuesday, March 30 at 5:30pm! Register Here The Master of Science in Computer Vision (MSCV) Program aims to provide technical skills and domain knowledge to the future professionals who seek to acquire expertise in Computer Vision and its related areas. This…...
Read MoreCan We Trust AI? Towards Practical Implementation and Theoretical Analysis in Trustworthy Machine Learning
Mr. Kaidi Xu Northeastern University Monday, March 15, 2021 3:00PM – 4:00PM – Zoom Abstract Deep learning has achieved extraordinary performance in many application domains recently. It has been well accepted that Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which raises concerns of DNNs in securitycritical applications and may result in disastrous consequences.…...
Read MoreCRCV Has 6 Papers Accepted to 5th Ranked CVPR According to h-5-Index
The h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. According to Google Scholar Metrics, the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is ranked 5th in the h5-index rankings. In 2021, UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) had 6 papers accepted into the CVPR conference, covering…...
Read MoreICPR 2020 Best Scientific Paper Award
CRCV researchers won the Best Scientific Paper award at the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. See the project page, Gabriella: An Online System for Real-Time Activity Detection in Untrimmed Security Videos – Center for Research in Computer Vision (ucf.edu), for details on the system from the Center for Research in Computer Vision. <b>Publication<b> Mamshad N…...
Read MoreMaster of Science in Computer Vision Approved by Board of Governors
The Master of Science in Computer Vision at UCF has been approved by the Florida Board of Governors to begin in Fall 2021. This will be the first masters program of its kind in Florida and among a select few in the United States...
Read MoreCS PhD graduate and Prof. Shah win SIGMM Test of Time Honorable Mention Award
CS PhD graduate Yun Zhai and Professor Mubarak Shah received an ACM SIGMM Test of Time Paper Honorable Mention award for their paper “Visual attention detection in video sequences using spatiotemporal cues,” in Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM ’06, page 815–824, New York, NY, USA, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1145/1180639.1180824 Earlier this year,…...
Read MoreUCF-CMU Team Win Topic 4 of HeroX ASAPS Challenge
CRCV Assistant Professor, Dr. Yogesh Rawat, captained a UCF-CMU team in the herox Automated Streams Analysis for Public Safety (ASAPS) Challenge. They competed and won a $30,000 prize for Topic 4 of Contest 1 on Extraction-to-analysis systems approach across all data categories as did another team led by Roy Hayes. The National Institute of Standards…...
Read MoreLarge-scale Human-centric Video Analysis in Complex Events (HiEve)
http://humaninevents.org In this grand challenge, we focus on very challenging and realistic tasks of human-centric analysis in various crowd & complex events, including subway getting on/off, collision, fighting, and earthquake escape (cf. Figure. 1). To the best of our knowledge, few existing human analysis approaches report their performance under such complex events. With this consideration,…...
Read MoreDr. Bagci Awarded SAIC Professorship
CRCV Professor, Dr. Ulas Bagci, has been awarded the SAIC professorship in the Department of Computer Science for a period of 5 years. This appointment is in addition to his academic appointment and is in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments and national and international recognition in his discipline. Furthermore, it has the strong support of…...
Read MoreOur ECCV 2020 Papers
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Read MoreNovel Computational Approaches for Multidimensional Brain Image analysis
Announcing the Final Examination of Harish RaviPrakash for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreAlgorithms and Applications of Novel Capsule Networks
Announcing the Final Examination of Rodney LaLonde III for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreUCF Wins NIST ActEV: Activities in Extended Video Challenge at CVPR-2020
The ActEV (Activities in Extended Video) Sequestered Data Leaderboard is an ongoing ranking of software systems that watch lengthy videos and detect activities of interest. Anyone can submit their system to NIST, which will then run the system on sequestered data, score the results and post the score to the leaderboard. The sequestered data…...
Read MoreDr. Bagci Received Editor’s Recognition Award from RadioGraphics
RadioGraphics’ mission to publish high-quality educational content is in large part the result of the efforts of those radiologists, medical physicists, and radiation oncologists who provide peer review of submitted material for the journal. Peer reviewers contribute their time and expertise to ensure that articles meet the high scientific standards and educational quality readers have…...
Read MoreMubarak Shah Inducted into Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida
For his contributions in video surveillance, including object detection, tracking and action recognition, Dr. Mubarak Shah was been elected to be a member of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL).The induction of new members and certificate awards will be presented during the opening session of the Annual Meeting of AMEMFL to…...
Read MoreAMiner recognized Dr. Mubarak Shah with Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention on AI2000
Dr. Shah has been recognized as the Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention for his “outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of Computer Vision between 2009 and 2019”. The list is conferred in recognition of outstanding technical achievements with lasting contribution and impact. Each year, the top 10 most-cited scholars from the top venues…...
Read MoreDr. Bagci’s NIH R01 Funded
CRCV Professor, Dr. Ulas Bagci, has been awarded NIH’s prestigious R01 funding. The title of his grant is “Cyst-X: Interpretable Deep Learning Based Risk Stratification of Pancreatic Cystic Tumors”, and a total of award more than $2.5M. Dr. Bagci has obtained this funding from National Cancer Institute (NCI) of NIH, the nation’s leader in cancer…...
Read MoreDr. Abhijit Mahalanobis Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Congratulations to Dr. Abhijit Mahalanobis who received promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in the last cycle! This will officially be effective on August 8, 2020...
Read MoreOur CVPR 2020 Papers
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Read MoreVideo Content Understanding Using Text
Announcing the Final Examination of Amir Mazaheri for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreUS Patent titled “System and Method for Human Pose Estimation in Unconstrained Video”
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued on December 17, 2019, the patent number US 10,509,957 titled “System and Method for Human Pose Estimation in Unconstrained Video”. Title: System and Method for Human Pose Estimation in Unconstrained Video UCF Inventor(s): Dong Zhang, Dr. Mubarak Shah UCF REF ID#: 33602 Download...
Read MoreNational Academy of Inventors Names UCF Computer Vision Pioneer as Fellow
UCF NEWS | STORIES OF IMPACT + INNOVATION | ORLANDO, FL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY National Academy of Inventors Names UCF Computer Vision Pioneer as Fellow Mubarak Shah is the university’s 13th NAI fellow, the highest professional accolade given to academic inventors. BY BEL HUSTON | FEBRUARY 6, 2020 Mubarak Shah, Trustee Chair Professor of Computer Science,…...
Read MoreOptimization Algorithms for Deep Learning Based Medical Image Segmentations
Announcing the Final Examination of Aliasghar Mortazi for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreVisual-Textual Video Synopsis Generation
Announcing the Final Examination of Aidean Sharghi for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreCollaborative Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Medial Imaging Applications
Announcing the Final Examination of Naji Khosravan for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreIrene Tanner recommended for Honors Undergraduate Thesis Scholarship
The College of Engineering and Computer Science has recommended to The Burnett Honors College that Irene Tanner receive an Honors Undergraduate Scholarship (HUT) for her research accomplishments and completion of the honors thesis. Irene’s honors thesis is about finding obesity and cancer link with deep learning algorithms, working under CRCV Professor, Ulas Bagci in collaboration…...
Read MoreOur ICCV 2019 Papers
Paper: Bridging the Domain Gap for Ground-to-Aerial Image Matching Presentation: https://youtu.be/gmAhQXCYCEQ Paper: Deep Constrained Dominant Sets for Person Re-Identification Presentation: https://youtu.be/R8vXWtwwAbk Paper: CapsuleVOS: Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation Using Capsule Routing Presentation: https://youtu.be/YjjVatilGpA...
Read MoreCRCV Assistant Professor Dr. Abhijit Mahalanobis selected for DARPA Young Faculty Award
The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions, emphasizing those without prior DARPA funding, and expose them to DoD needs and DARPA’s program development process. The YFA program provides funding, mentoring and industry and DoD contacts to awardees early in their careers…...
Read MoreDr. Shah wins Prestigious ACM SIGMM Award
Trustee chair professor Dr. Mubarak Shah is the 2019 winner of the prestigious ACM SIGMM award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. Dr. Shah was selected for this award for his “outstanding and pioneering and continued research contributions in the areas of multimedia content analysis and multimedia applications, for leadership in…...
Read MoreAction Recognition, Temporal Localization And Detection in Trimmed And Untrimmed Video
Announcing the Final Examination of Rui Hou for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
Read MoreCapsule Networks for Computer Vision – CVPR 2019 Tutorial
A capsule network provides an effective way to model part-to-whole relationships between entities and allows to learn viewpoint invariant representations. Through this improved representation learning, capsule networks are able to achieve good performance in multiple domains with a drastic decrease in the number of parameters. Recently, capsule networks have shown state-of-the-art results for human action…...
Read MoreBest Research Paper Award in “The Smart Conference”
Enes Karaaslan, Ulas Bagci and Necati Catbas received the Best Research Paper Award for their paper on “Smart Infrastructure Assessment Using Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence” at the 1st International Conference on Smart Tourism, Smart Cities and Enabling Technologies. This work was in collaboration with the Civil Engineering Department of UCF, and the first author…...
Read MoreDescribing Images by Semantic Modeling using Attributes and Tags
Announcing the Final Examination of Mahdi M. Kalayeh for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science...
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