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<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Erahuls/"><font color="#000000">The CouchPotato Project: Learning Visual Concepts by Watching YouTube</font><br></a></span></p><p><span class="event-speaker"><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Erahuls/">Rahul Sukthankar</a> </span>
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(<a href="http://research.google.com/">Google Research</a>) <br></span></p><p><span class="event-speaker-from">Thursday, October 9, 4:30pm</span></p><p><span class="event-speaker-from">Computer Science 105<br></span></p><p><br></p><p>What could computers learn about visual concepts, such as objects and
actions, by watching large quantities of internet video, with minimal
human supervision? In this talk, I will present several of our recent
explorations in this area, including spatio-temporal object segmentation
in video, weakly-supervised learning of human actions and unsupervised
discovery of motion patterns in animal videos.</p><p><br></p>
<p>The talk includes research contributions from many colleagues at
Google, interns and faculty colleagues: L. Del Pero, I. Essa, L.
Fei-Fei, V. Ferrari, M. Grundmann, G. Hartmann, J. Hoffman, A. Karpathy,
T. Leung, V. Kwatra, O. Madani, J. Rehg, S. Ricco, S. Shetty, K. Tang,
G. Toderici, D. Tsai, J. Yagnik.</p><p><br></p>
<p>Rahul Sukthankar is a scientist at Google Research, an adjunct
research professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon and
courtesy faculty at UCF. He was previously a senior principal researcher
at Intel Labs, a senior researcher at HP/Compaq and research scientist
at Just Research. Rahul received his Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie
Mellon in 1997 and his B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton in
1991. His current research focuses on computer vision and machine
learning, particularly in the areas of object recognition and video
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