2022 News

The researchers behind UCF-101, a challenging action recognition dataset, are being awarded for their impressive collection of 13,320 clips across 101 action categories. The dataset has been cited over 4,000 times since its creation. By Katrina Cabansay | October 28, 2022 [Original Article]   The Everingham Prize was presented to UCF Center for Research in Computer Vision […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]