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2021/22 Semester B activities [here].
Self-supervised representation learning for video generation
Stéphane Lathuilière, Telecom Paris
When: Thursday 1 December 2022, 1pm
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
Neural fields for scene reconstruction
James Tompkin, Brown University
When: Thursday 27 October 2022, 1pm
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
Robot audition: turning challenges into opportunities
François Grondin, University of Sherbrooke
When: Thursday 29 September 2022, 2pm
Where: Online
Host: Lin Wang
Audio: the missing sense in robotics
Shaun Edlin, Dotterel Technologies
When: Wednesday 31 August 2022, 10am
Where: Online
Host: Lin Wang
Arsha Nagrani, Google AI Research
When: Thursday 30 June 2022, 1:30pm
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
A deep dive of integral pose regression for 2D human pose estimation [video]
Angela Yao, National University of Singapore
When: Thursday 26 May 2022, 11:30am
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
Multimodal representation and learning [video]
Shah Nawaz, German Electron Synchrotron
When: Thursday 28 April 2022, 13:30pm
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
Machine learning for indoor acoustics [video]
Antoine Deleforge, Inria Nancy
When: Thursday 9 December 2021, 13:15pm
Where: Online
Host: Lin Wang
Target speech extraction
Marc Delcroix, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
When: Thursday 9 December 2021, 13pm
Where: Online
Host: Lin Wang
Active scene understanding with robot manipulations [video]
Shuran Song, Columbia University
When: Wednesday 8 December 2021, 13:30pm
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
Coarse-to-fine imitation learning: robot manipulation from a single demonstration
Edward Johns, Imperial College London
When: Wednesday 8 December 2021, 13:15pm
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
Towards robots manipulating objects like humans
Grégory Rogez, Naverlabs Europe
When: Wednesday 8 December 2021, 13pm
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
Separating object sounds from videos and robot interactions [video]
Ruohan Gao, Stanford University
When: Tuesday 7 December 2021, 13:30pm
Where: Online
Host: Lin Wang
Multimodal speech understanding
Naomi Harte, Trinity College Dublin
When: Tuesday 7 December 2021, 13:15pm
Where: Online
Host: Lin Wang
Efficient, robust, multimodal representations for human behavior analysis [video]
Stylianos Asteriadis, University of Maastricht
When: Tuesday 7 December 2021, 13pm
Where: Online
Host: Lin Wang
Underwater vision and 6D pose estimation [video]
Ayoung Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
When: Thursday 3 September 2020, 12:30pm
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
Perception through action and for action [video]
Dinesh Jayaraman, University of Pennsylvania
When: Thursday 3 September 2020, 12:15pm
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
Fully articulated hand tracking for HoloLens 2
Federica Bogo, Microsoft
When: Thursday 3 September 2020, 12pm
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
Frontiers for machine learning in speech (and hearing) technology: A brief analysis [video]
Thomas Hain, The University of Sheffield
When: Wednesday 2 September 2020, 12:30pm
Where: Online
Host: Emmanouil Benetos
Understanding the reverberation environment for immersive media [video]
Philip Jackson, University of Surrey
When: Wednesday 2 September 2020, 12:15pm
Where: Online
Host: Emmanouil Benetos
AI and audio in DCASE Challenge [video]
Annamaria Mesaros, Tampere University
When: Wednesday 2 September 2020, 12pm
Where: Online
Host: Emmanouil Benetos
When vision fails, using language and audio to understand videos [video]
Michael Wray, University of Bristol
When: Tuesday 1 September 2020, 13:45pm
Where: Online
Host: Lin Wang
Multimodal speech enhancement
Yu Tsao, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
When: Tuesday 1 September 2020, 13:30pm
Where: Online
Host: Lin Wang
Audio-visual modalities fusion for efficient emotion recognition with active learning capabilities [video]
Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace
When: Tuesday 1 September 2020, 13:15pm
Where: Online
Host: Lin Wang
Identify, locate and separate: Audio-visual object extraction in large video collections using weak supervision [video]
Slim Essid, Telecom ParisTech
When: Tuesday 1 September 2020, 13pm
Where: Online
Host: Lin Wang
Audio-visual variational speech enhancement [video]
Xavier Alameda-Pineda, INRIA
When: Tuesday 1 September 2020, 12:10pm
Where: Online
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Leveraging human data to bring DeepRL to robot manipulation [video]
Jon Scholz, DeepMind
When: Thursday 9 July 2020, 12pm
Where: Online
Host: Changjae Oh
Unsupervised general dynamic scene reconstruction and understanding [video]
Armin Mustafa, University of Surrey
When: Thursday 23 January 2020, 11am
Where: Laws 2.09
Host: Changjae Oh
Distant microphone speech recognition in everyday environments: from CHiME-5 to CHiME-6 [video]
Jon Barker, University of Sheffield
When: Wednesday 4 September 2019, 3:15pm
Where: Bancroft 1.13a
Host: Lin Wang
Localize, track, and interact: machine listening for AI
Christine Evers, Imperial College London
When: Wednesday 4 September 2019, 1:45pm
Where: Bancroft 1.13a
Host: Lin Wang
The challenges and benefits of sound sensing [video]
Sacha Krstulovic, Audio Analytic
When: Wednesday 4 September 2019, 1pm
Where: Bancroft 1.13a
Host: Lin Wang
Applying AI in news filtering [video]
Raymond Ng, Signal AI
When: Tuesday 3 September 2019, 2:45pm
Where: Bancroft 1.13a
Host: Massimo Poesio
Conversational agents in games [video]
Emilie Shortk, Spirit AI
When: Tuesday 3 September 2019, 2pm
Where: Bancroft 1.13a
Host: Massimo Poesio
Perla Maiolino, University of Oxford
When: Tuesday 3 September 2019, 12pm
Where: Bancroft 1.13a
Host: Lorenzo Jamone
Applications of tactile sensing in industry [video]
Rich Walker, Shadow Robot
When: Tuesday 3 September 2019, 10:10am
Where: Bancroft 1.13a
Host: Lorenzo Jamone
Multimodal and cross-modal robotic perception with vision and tactile sensing [video]
Shan Luo, University of Liverpool
When: Tuesday 3 September 2019, 9:40am
Where: Bancroft 1.13a
Host: Lorenzo Jamone
Use of machine learning in video enhancement [video]
Marta Mrak, BBC
When: Monday 2 September 2019, 2:20pm
Where: Bancroft 1.13a
Host: Qianni Zhang
Signal processing and machine learning for self awareness in autonomous systems
Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genoa
When: Monday 13 May 2019, 11am
Where: BR 4.01 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Yue Gao
Outdoor scene segmentation and reconstruction from LiDAR data
Murtaza Taj, Lahore University of Management Sciences
When: Friday 10 May 2019, 12pm
Where: Graduate Centre 201
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Deformable kernel networks for joint image filtering
Bumsub Ham, Yonsei University
When: Monday 28 January 2019, 12:10am
Where: UG1, G.O. Jones Building
Host: Changjae Oh
An active power normalization for the panning-based binaural rendering
Young-cheol Park, Yonsei University
When: Monday 28 January 2019, 10:20am
Where: UG1, G.O. Jones Building
Host: Changjae Oh
Deep learning based speech signal processing: recent research activities of DSP Lab in Yonsei University
Hong-Goo Kang, Yonsei University
When: Monday 28 January 2019, 9:40am
Where: UG1, G.O. Jones Building
Host: Changjae Oh
Automated recognition of mouse behaviours [video]
Huiyu Zhou, University of Leicester
When: Thursday 27 September 2018, 3pm
Where: ITL 1st floor meeting room
Host: Qianni Zhang
Solving semantic segmentation: precision matrix, knowledge-based rules and Generator Adversarial Network (GAN)
Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida
When: Friday 1 December 2017, 11am
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Shaogang Gong
Rule control of teleo-reactive, multi-tasking, communicating robotic agents
Keith Clark, Imperial College London
When: Tuesday 7 November 2017, 2pm
Where: Graduate Centre 101
Host: Ildar Farkhatdinov
Tactile perception in and outside our body
Vincent Hayward, University Pierre and Marie Curie
When: Thursday 12 October 2017, 2pm
Where: Graduate Centre 101
Host: Ildar Farkhatdinov
Deep learning for unconstrained face analysis [video]
Georgios Tzimiropoulos, University of Nottingham
When: Friday 8 September 2017, 2pm
Where: David Sizer Lecture Theatre, Bancroft building
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Mobile sensing for human behaviour monitoring and mobile health: challenges and applications [video]
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge
When: Friday 8 September 2017, 11am
Where: David Sizer Lecture Theatre, Bancroft building
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Spatial perception for mobile robots [video]
Stefan Leutenegger, Imperial College London
When: Friday 8 September 2017, 9:30am
Where: David Sizer Lecture Theatre, Bancroft building
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Unsupervised cross-modal adaptation for audio-visual target identification with wearable cameras [video]
Alessio Brutti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
When: Thursday 7 September 2017, 3:30pm
Where: David Sizer Lecture Theatre, Bancroft building
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Audio-visual multi-speaker tracking with PHD filtering [video]
Wenwu Wang, University of Surrey
When: Thursday 7 September 2017, 2pm
Where: David Sizer Lecture Theatre, Bancroft building
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Computer vision and graphics research in visual effects and entertainment
Darren Cosker, University of Bath
When: Wednesday 21 June 2017, 1:30pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Yi-Zhe Song
Ubiquitous sensing with light
Xia Zhou, Dartmouth College
When: Tuesday 30 May 2017, 3pm
Where: BR 3.01 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Hamed Haddadi
Sequential latent force models for segmenting motor primitives
Mauricio Alvarez, University of Sheffield
When: Wednesday 24 May 2017, 4pm
Where: Graduate Centre 2.22
Host: Dan Stowell
AMAT: medial axis transform for natural images
Stavros Tsogkas, University of Toronto
When: Monday 8 May 2017, 2pm
Where: BR 4.02 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Yi-Zhe Song
Internet of visual "things" and cloud computing: models, research advances, and practical testbeds [video]
Yiannis Andreopoulos, University College London
When: Thursday 6 April 2017, 3:30pm
Where: Fogg Lecture Theatre
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Advances in gait recognition
Nikolaos Boulgouris, Brunel University London
When: Thursday 2 March 2017, 3pm
Where: BR 4.02 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Computer vision and robotics at Ocado
Marco Paladini, Ocado Technology
When: Monday 13 February 2017, 2pm
Where: France House Ground Floor
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Sensing well-being using heterogeneous smartphone data and stance identification in social media conversations
Maria Liakata, University of Warwick
When: Tuesday 6 December 2016, 5pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Matthew Purver
Phenotyping, computer vision, and sensing – a match made in heaven [video]
Sotirios A Tsaftaris, University of Edinburgh
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When: Thursday 17 November 2016, 2pm
Where: Laws 2.09
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
The computational face for behaviomedics - using face analysis in medicine
Michel Valstar, University of Nottingham
When: Tuesday 15 November 2016, 2pm
Where: Bancroft 3.18
Host: Ioannis Patras
Cities as playgrounds for IoT technology
Alex Gluhak, Digital Catapult
When: Friday 22 April 2016, 2pm
Where: Eng 209
Host: Hamed Haddadi
The Internetable of anything to everything in my pocket [video]
Patricia Charlton, Creative Digital Solutions
When: Tuesday 8 March 2016, 11am
Where: Maths lecture theatre
Host: Stefan Poslad
Sensing drama: theatre as a lab for Ubicomp
Jamie A. Ward, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
When: Thursday 12 November 2015, 12.15pm
Where: BR 4.01 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Stefan Poslad
Social robot avatars
Paul Bremner, University of West England
When: Thursday 15 October 2015, 2pm
Where: Laws 1.12
Host: Hatice Gunes
Objective image quality assessment - what's beyond [video]
Zhou Wang, University of Waterloo
When: Friday 2 October 2015, 3pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Hatice Gunes
The application of visual saliency models in objective image quality assessment [video]
Hantao Liu, Cardiff University
When: Friday 2 October 2015, 3.30pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Hatice Gunes
Wide area surveillance and camera networks
Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida
When: Monday 14 September 2015, 1.30pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Sean Gong
TV white space networking and video streaming [video]
Luca Bedogni, University of Bologna
When: Wednesday 8 July 2015, 11.30am
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Yue (Frank) Gao
Towards fine-grained social behaviour analysis in dense crowded settings [video]
Hayley Hung, Delft University of Technology
When: Tuesday 30 June 2015, 3.00pm
Where: Eng 324
Host: Hatice Gunes
Patrick Meier, QCRI
When: Thursday 4th June 2015, 11.00am
Where: Eng 209
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
(Higher-order) Graphical models & visual perception [video]
Nikos Paragios, CentraleSupelec/INRIA
When: Friday 15th May 2015, 11.00am
Where: BR 3.02 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Ioannis Patras
What large-scale computational models teach us about the visual cortex
Robert Shapley, New York University
When: Wednesday 29th April 2015, 3.00pm
Where: Fogg Lecture Theatre
Host: Isabelle Mareschal
Robot learning of motor skills
Petar Kormushev, Italian Institute of Technology
When: Monday 4th March 2015, 4.00pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Timothy Hospedales
wide.io: How rapid research exchange fosters the deployment intelligent computer vision pipelines [video]
Bertrand Nouvel, Wide io Ltd.
When: Thursday 12th February 2015, 3.00pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Danaë Stanton Fraser, University of Bath
When: Thursday 12th February 2015, 2.00pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Hatice Gunes
Motion analysis with spatiotemporal descriptors [video]
Guoying Zhao, University of Oulu
When: Wednesday 11th February 2015, 2.00pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Yi-Zhe Song
Non-photorealistic rendering of images [video]
Paul Rosin, Cardiff University
When: Friday 28th November 2014, 1.30pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Yi-Zhe Song
Novel techniques towards free viewpoint video conferencing
Bruno Macchiavello and Edson Mintsu Hung, University of Brasilia
When: Wednesday 5th November 2014, 5.00pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Ebroul Izquierdo
Machine learning for autonomous systems and knowledge extraction from big data [video]
Lyudmila S Mihaylova, University of Sheffield
When: Thursday 23rd October 2014, 3.15pm
Where: Eng 209
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Summaries on mobile phones: context learning and data simplification [video]
Rik Sarkar, University of Edinburgh
When: Friday 3rd October 2014, 11.15am
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Hamed Haddadi
Face and people identification
Stan Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences
When: Monday 1st September 2014, 3pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Shaogang Gong
New challenges in multi-camera systems
Yael Moses, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya
When: Friday 29th August 2014, 12pm
Where: BR 4.02 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Where chemistry meets wireless technology: Air Quality Networks have arrived
John Saffell, Alphasense Ltd.
When: Thursday 31st July 2014, 11am
Where: Eng 209
Host: Russell Binions
Automated mobility: how environment awareness technologies will 'drive' intelligent transportation of the future
Xin Chen, HERE/Nokia
When: Thursday 10th July 2014, 1pm
Where: ITL top floor meeting room
Host: Shaogang Gong
Flying insects and multicopters
Wolfgang Stuerzl, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
When: Tuesday 3 June 2014, 11am
Where: Fogg Lecture Theatre
Host: Lars Chittka
Computer vision applied to the monitoring of people
Sergio Velastin, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
When: Tuesday 20th May 2014, 3pm
Where: Eng 207
Host: Ebroul Izquierdo
Wearable algorithms != electronics + algorithms
Alex Casson, The University of Manchester
When: Thursday 1st May 2014, 4pm
Where: BR 3.02 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Miles Hansard
The delights and dilemmas associated with sending audio over networks
Richard Foss, Rhodes University
When: Thursday 1st May 2014, 2pm
Where: Eng 209
Host: Joshua Reiss
Speech recognition with neural networks
Andrew Senior, Google
When: Monday 28th April 2014, 4pm
Where: BR 4.01 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Brain-computer interfaces and interactive media
Marc Cavazza, Teesside University
When: Friday 21st February 2014, 3pm
Where: BR 3.02 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Rapid prototyping of embedded VLSI systems
Joseph Cavallaro, Rice University
When: Tuesday 10th December 2013, 4pm
Where: ITL Top floor meeting room
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Modeling dynamics in 3D video production and human communication
Takashi Matsuyama, Kyoto University
When: Tuesday 19th November 2013, 4pm
Where: ITL Top floor meeting room
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Multi-modal sensing and analysis of poster conversations
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University
When: Monday 18th November 2013, 4pm
Where: People's Palace LG01
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
An engineering approach to conversational informatics –
towards conversational intelligence
Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University
When: Monday 23rd September 2013, 4pm
Where: ITL Top floor meeting room
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
The emergence of autocatalysis in prebiotic systems
Nathaniel Virgo, Tokyo University
When: Friday 24th May 2013, 2pm
Where: ITL Top floor meeting room
Host: Chrisantha Fernando
Video visualization and fusion - new tasks for computer vision
Kai Berger, Oxford e-Research Centre
When: Wednesday 8th May 2013, 12pm
Where: BR 3.01 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Miles Hansard
Component analysis for human sensing
Fernando de la Torre, Carnegie Mellon University
When: Tuesday 19th February 2013, 11am
Where: ITL Top floor meeting room
Host: Chris Russell
Field robotics in industrial environments: navigation and
safety using computer vision
Paulo V. K. Borges, CSIRO
When: Monday 4th February 2013, 1pm
Where: ITL Top floor meeting room
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Sparse prediction and first-order optimization
Andreas Argyriou, Ecole Centrale Paris
When: Monday 26th November 2012, 11am
Where: ITL Top floor meeting room
Host: Tony Xiang
Multimodal (audio-visual) speech separation for multiple
moving
sources within a room environment
Syed Mohsen Naqvi, Loughborough University
When: Monday 5th November 2012, 4pm
Where: ITL Top floor meeting room
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Visual 3D/4D modeling of urban places and events
Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zurich
When: Wednesday 19th September 2012, 3pm
Where: Skeel Lecture Theatre
Host: Lourdes Agapito
Self-calibration of heterogeneous sensor networks
Alessio Del Bue, Italian Institute of Technology
When: Friday 7th September 2012, 11am
Where: ITL Top floor meeting room
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Slow-dimensional subspaces: models and algorithms
Roland Angst, ETH Zurich
When: Friday 13th July 2012, 11am
Where: Eng 216
Host: Lourdes Agapito
Perceptual video coding: fundamentals and applications in the
emerging High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard
Matteo Naccari, BBC R & D
When: Friday 29th June 2012, 3.30pm
Where: Eng 207
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
REWIND: REVerse engineering audio-VIsual coNtent Data
Marco Tagliasacchi, Politecnico di Milano
When: Monday 14th May 2012, 4pm
Where: BR 4.02 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Segment-based SVMs for time series analysis
Minh Hoai Nguyen, University of Oxford
When: Thursday 19th April 2012, 1pm
Where: BR 4.02 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Lourdes Agapito
Dynamic facial capture and processing from both
computational and psychological perspectives
Darren Cosker, University of Bath
When: Monday 27th February 2012, 12pm
Where: ITL Top floor meeting room
Host: Lourdes Agapito
Towards 3D immersive+interactive TV
Oliver Grau, BBC R & D
When: Friday 6th January 2012, 2:30pm
Where: BR 3.01 (BR=Bancroft Road Teaching Rooms)
Host: Andrea Cavallaro
Past semester activities
2021/22 Semester A
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2020/21 Semester A
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2019/20 Semester A
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2018/19 Semester A
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2017/18 Semester A
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2016/17 Semester A
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2015/16 Semester A
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2014/15 Semester A
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2013/14 Semester B activities
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