Modern Computer Vision and Its Pursuit to Next Generation AI

Date: 27 September 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm
Venue: LTC
Title: Modern Computer Vision and Its Pursuit to Next Generation AI
Speaker: Prof. Jiaya Jia, Distinguished Scientist and Director of Youtu Lab, Tencent & Professor, CSE, CUHK

Abstract:

In this talk, Prof. Jia will present the advancement of computer vision in these years and show how it becomes the center of next generation big-data artificial intelligence with the involvement of state-of-the-art mathematical models and machine learning technology. Prof. Jia will also demonstrate representative work that was yielded in his research group and show how this prospers research in this field in the long run. A few examples for low-, middle- and high-level computer vision techniques will be given to illustrate the practical impact of computer vision to society, industry and human lives. At the end of this talk, Prof. Jia will present his research direction, philosophy and his past and current team members.

Biography of the Speaker:

Jiaya Jia is the Distinguished Scientist and Director of Youtu Lab, Tencent Youtu Lab is the core research facility in Tencent focusing on cutting-edge computer vision and sound technologies. He is also a professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was a visiting scholar at Microsoft Research Asia from March 2004 to August 2005 and conducted collaborative research at Adobe Systems in 2007.

He is in the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). He served as area chairs for ICCV and CVPR for several times. He was on (technical paper) program committees of major conferences in graphics and computational imaging, including ICCP, SIGGRAPH, and SIGGRAPH Asia, and co-chaired the Workshop on Interactive Computer Vision, in conjunction with ICCV 2007. He received the Young Researcher Award 2008 and Research Excellence Award 2009 from CUHK. He and his students won the best paper award in NPAR 2012.

Jiaya Jia's research interests include computer vision, computational imaging, and machine learning. He published 100+ papers in top conferences and journals, with 10,000+ citations. His team also released 20+ open-source systems and freeware. PhDs and masters from this group made significant contributions, and become leaders, such as CEO of startups and professors, in a variety of fields.