Technical - Partner Event
AI Seminar – Yang Wang
When
Oct. 1, 2021 - Oct. 1, 2021
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM MST
Where
Online
Online
Presenter: Yang Wang, University of Manitoba
Title: Self-Adaptive Visual Learning
Abstract: There have been significant advances in computer vision in the past few years. Despite the success, current computer vision systems are still hard to use or deploy in many real-world scenarios. In particular, current computer vision systems usually learn a generic model. But in real world applications, a single generic model is often not powerful enough to handle the diverse scenarios. In this talk, I will introduce some of our recent work on self-adaptive visual learning. Instead of learning and deploying one generic model, our goal is to learn a model that can effectively adapt itself to different environments during testing. I will present applications from several computer vision applications, such as crowd counting, anomaly detection, personalized highlight detection, etc.
Bio: Yang Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba. He is currently on leave and working as the Chief Scientist in Computer Vision, Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Canada. He did his PhD from Simon Fraser University, MSc from University of Alberta, and BEng from Harbin Institute of Technology. Before joining UManitoba, he worked as a NSERC postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning. He received the 2017 Falconer Emerging Researcher Rh Award in applied science at the University of Manitoba. He currently holds the inaugural Faculty of Science research chair in fundamental science at UManitoba.
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