Colloquia

Facial Gesture Analysis in an Interactive Environment

UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS:
Gérard Medioni
Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
DATE: MONDAY, May 5, 2008
TIME: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
PLACE: Computer Science Conference Room, Harold Frank Hall Rm. 1132
ABSTRACT:
Facial gesture analysis is an important problem in computer vision. Facial gestures carry critical information in nonverbal communication. The difficulty of automatic facial gesture recognition lies […]

Making sense of meaning – new computational perspectives

UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS:
Hari Sundaram
DATE: MONDAY, April 21, 2008
TIME: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
PLACE: Computer Science Conference Room, Harold Frank Hall Rm. 1132
ABSTRACT:
The problem of the “semantic gap,” – how to resolve sensory data to meaning, is a familiar and significant challenge within the media computing and AI communities. Today, a majority of the […]

Mixed Reality Research at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Masayuki Kanbara, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2008
TIME: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
PLACE: Computer Science Conference Room, Harold Frank Hall Rm. 1132
ABSTRACT:
I will present an overview of our mixed reality research work at the Vision and Media Computing Laboratory of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan. Our […]

What do those images have in common?

UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS:
Narendra Ahuja
Donald Biggar Willet Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
DATE: MONDAY, April 7, 2008
TIME: 3:30 - 4:30 PM
PLACE: Computer Science Conference Room, Harold Frank Hall Rm. 1132

ABSTRACT:
This talk is about a priori unknown themes that may characterize a given, arbitrary or strategically chosen, set of images. If objects […]

100 Years of Digital Data

UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS:
Distinguished Lecture
Dr. Fran Berman
Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Professor and HPC Endowed Chair, UC San Diego
DATE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2008
TIME: 3:00 - 4:30 PM
PLACE: 3:00 - 4:30 Marine Science Auditorium
Marine Science Building, Room 1302

ABSTRACT:
The Information Age has brought with it a deluge of digital data. Current estimates are […]

Online Advertisement and Submodular Maximization

UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS
FACULTY CANDIDATE:
Vahab Mirrokni
Microsoft Research
DATE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2008
TIME: 3:30 - 4:30 PM
PLACE: Computer Science Conference Room, Harold Frank Hall Rm. 1132

ABSTRACT:
Submodular maximization is a central problem in optimization with many applications in data mining, social network analysis, and online advertisement. Unlike the problem of minimizing submodular functions, the problem of […]

Dynamic Compilation in Practice: From Instrumentation to Parallelization

Chi-Keung (CK) Luk
CE Program Faculty Candidate - Intel
DATE: Monday, Mar 17th
TIME: 9:00 AM
PLACE: Engineering Science Building 2001

ABSTRACT:
As the complexity of computer systems continues to grow, the job of a compiler is increasingly challenging as it strives to generate optimized code for many different runtime environments. One promising approach to addressing this challenge is via […]

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