Newly Endowed Chair Underscores Value of Computational Journalism | College of Computing
It is great to see someone who has done so much for Computational Journalism, continue to support it this way. Thanks Krishna Bharat. Friday, November 1, 2019The creator of Google News has endowed a new faculty chair position in computational journalism at Georgia Tech’s College of Computing. Krishna Bharat – Georgia Tech alumnus (MS CS […]
Jeff Dean (SVP/Senior Fellow Google) at GA Tech
It was great to host Jeff Dean during his recent visit to Georgia Tech It’s not every day that Google’s head of artificial intelligence visits Georgia Tech, but when he does he makes an impact. Hosted by the College of Computing and the Machine Learning Center (ML@GT), Jeff Dean, senior fellow and senior vice president […]
Paper in CVPR 2019 on “Embodied Question Answering in Photorealistic Environments with Point Cloud Perception”
Abstract To help bridge the gap between internet vision-style problems and the goal of vision for embodied perception we instantiate a large-scale navigation task – Embodied Question Answering in photo-realistic environments (Matterport 3D). We thoroughly study navigation policies that utilize 3D point clouds, RGB images, or their combination. Our analysis of these models reveals several […]
Paper in CVPR 2019 on “Audio visual scene-aware dialog”
Abstract We introduce the task of scene-aware dialog. Our goal is to generate a complete and natural response to a question about a scene, given video and audio of the scene and the history of previous turns in the dialog. To answer successfully, agents must ground concepts from the question in the video while leveraging […]
The Minds of the New Machines | Research Horizons | Georgia Tech's Research News
A nice write-up in Georgia Tech’s Research Horizons Magazine about ML@GT Machine learning has been around for decades, but the advent of big data and more powerful computers has increased its impact significantly — moving machine learning beyond pattern recognition and natural language processing into a broad array of scientific disciplines. A subcategory of artificial intelligence, […]
Real-Time Captcha Technique Improves Biometric Authentication | College of Computing
A short write-up on one of my recent publications. A new login authentication approach could improve the security of current biometric techniques that rely on video or images of users’ faces. Known as Real-Time Captcha, the technique uses a unique challenge that’s easy for humans — but difficult for attackers who may be using machine learning […]
TEDx Talk (2017) on "Bridging Human and Artificial Intelligence" at TEDxCentennialParkWomen
A TEDx talk that I recently did. In this talk, the speaker takes you on a journey of how AI systems have evolved over time. DIRECTOR OF MACHINE LEARNING AT GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Dr. Irfan Essa is a professor in the school of Interactive Computing and the inaugural Director of Machine Learning at Georgia […]
Paper in IPCAI 2017 on "Video and Accelerometer-Based Motion Analysis for Automated Surgical Skills Assessment"
Paper Abstract Purpose: Basic surgical skills of suturing and knot tying are an essential part of medical training. Having an automated system for surgical skills assessment could help save experts time and improve training efficiency. There have been some recent attempts at automated surgical skills assessment using either video analysis or acceleration data. In this […]
Paper in AAAI's ICWSM (2017) "Selfie-Presentation in Everyday Life: A Large-Scale Characterization of Selfie Contexts on Instagram"
Paper Abstract Carefully managing the presentation of self via technology is a core practice on all modern social media platforms. Recently, selfies have emerged as a new, pervasive genre of identity performance. In many ways unique, selfies bring us full circle to Goffman—blending the online and offline selves together. In this paper, we take an […]