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June 17, 2019 / Last updated : September 1, 2020 irfan Computer Vision

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 […]

March 15, 2018 / Last updated : March 15, 2018 irfan Machine Learning

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, […]

February 20, 2018 / Last updated : December 26, 2019 irfan Computer Vision

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 […]

November 1, 2017 / Last updated : September 2, 2020 irfan Presentations

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 […]

June 21, 2017 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Activity Recognition

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 […]

May 18, 2017 / Last updated : December 31, 2019 irfan Computational Journalism

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 […]

May 18, 2017 / Last updated : December 24, 2019 irfan Computational Journalism

Paper in IJCNN (2017) "Towards Using Visual Attributes to Infer Image Sentiment Of Social Events"

Paper U. Ahsan, M. D. Choudhury, and Irfan Essa (2017), “Towards Using Visual Attributes to Infer Image Sentiment Of Social Events,” in Proceedings of The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Anchorage, Alaska, US, 2017. [PDF] [BIBTEX] @InProceedings{ 2017-Ahsan-TUVAIISSE, address = {Anchorage, Alaska, US}, author = {Unaiza Ahsan and Munmun De Choudhury and Irfan Essa}, […]

March 27, 2017 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Computational Journalism

Paper in IEEE WACV (2017): "Complex Event Recognition from Images with Few Training Examples"

Paper Abstract We propose to leverage concept-level representations for complex event recognition in photographs given limited training examples. We introduce a novel framework to discover event concept attributes from the web and use that to extract semantic features from images and classify them into social event categories with few training examples. Discovered concepts include a variety of objects, scenes, […]

March 1, 2017 / Last updated : September 2, 2020 irfan Presentations

Presentation at the Machine Learning Center at GA Tech on "The New Machine Learning Center at GA Tech: Plans and Aspirations"

Machine Learning at Georgia Tech Seminar Series Speaker: Irfan Essa Date/Time: March 1, 2017, 12n Abstract The Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC) for Machine Learning at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) was established in Summer 2016 to foster research and academic activities in and around the discipline of Machine Learning. This center aims to create a community that […]

October 21, 2016 / Last updated : January 6, 2020 irfan Awards

Paper in M2CAI (MICCAI workshop) on “Fine-tuning Deep Architectures for Surgical Tool Detection and results of Tool Detection Challange”

Paper A. Zia, D. Castro, and I. Essa (2016), “Fine-tuning Deep Architectures for Surgical Tool Detection,” in Workshop and Challenges on Modeling and Monitoring of Computer Assisted Interventions (M2CAI), Held in Conjunction with International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Athens, Greece, 2016. [PDF] [WEBSITE] [BIBTEX] @InProceedings{ 2016-Zia-FDASTD, address = {Athens, […]

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