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 […]
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 […]
Announcement from Georgia Tech’s College of Computing about a new Interdisciplinary Research Center for Machine Learning (ML@GT) that I will be serving as the Inaugural Director. Machine Learning @ Georgia Tech Based in the College of Computing, ML@GT represents all of Georgia Tech. It is tasked with pushing forward the ability for computers to learn […]
Kudos to the team from Machine Perception at Google Research that just launched the Motion Still App to generate novel photos on an iOS device. This work is in part aimed at combining efforts like Video Textures and Video Stabilization and a lot more. Source: Research Blog: Motion Stills – Create beautiful GIFs from Live […]
Congratulations to my Ph. D. Student Nicholas Diakopoulos and best wishes on his new position. COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Computational journalist Nicholas A. Diakopoulos will be the newest assistant professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Dean Lucy Dalglish announced the appointment today. …. With a background in computer science and human-computer interaction, Diakopoulos […]
A wonderful write up on my friend and colleague, Thad Starner in the Atlanta Magazine. Worth a read for sure “The guy with the computer on his face.” This would have been a fair description of Starner at almost any time over the past twenty years. He first built his own wearable computer with a […]
Georgia Tech Alumna Named Rhodes Scholar Georgia Tech alumna Joy Buolamwini has been named a Rhodes scholar. She will attend the University of Oxford, where she plans to pursue degrees in African studies and global governance and diplomacy. A 2012 computer science graduate from Memphis, Tenn., Buolamwini plans to use her skills to lower barriers […]
Via Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing‘s Website > Essa, Egerstedt Named IEEE Fellows. The IEEE Board of Directors has elected professors Irfan Essa and Magnus Egerstedt (both Interactive Computing) as Fellows in its Class of 2012. Essa is a professor whose research focus is in computer vision, computer graphics, computational perception, robotics and computer animation. In his […]
