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Spring 2012 GRASP Seminar – Serge Belongie, University of California, San Diego, “Visual Recognition with Humans in the Loop”

March 23, 2012 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Abstract: We present an interactive, hybrid human-computer method for object classification. The method applies to classes of problems that are difficult for most people, but are recognizable by people with the appropriate expertise (e.g., animal species or airplane model recognition). The classification method can be seen as a visual version of the 20 questions game, where questions based on simple visual attributes are posed interactively. The goal is to identify the true class while minimizing the number of questions asked, using the visual content of the image. Incorporating user input drives up recognition accuracy to levels that are good enough for practical applications; at the same time, computer vision reduces the amount of human interaction required. The resulting hybrid system is able to handle difficult, large multi-class problems with tightly-related categories. We introduce a general framework for incorporating almost any off-the-shelf multi-class object recognition algorithm into the visual 20 questions game, and provide methodologies to account for imperfect user responses and unreliable computer vision algorithms. We evaluate the accuracy and computational properties of different computer vision algorithms and the effects of noisy user responses on a dataset of 200 bird species and on the Animals With Attributes dataset. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness and practicality of the hybrid human-computer classification paradigm.This work is part of the Visipedia project, in collaboration with Steve Branson, Catherine Wah, Florian Schroff, Boris Babenko, Peter Welinder and Pietro Perona.

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Serge Belongie received the B.S. degree (with honor) in
Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in
1995 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences (EECS) at U.C. Berkeley in 1997 and 2000,
respectively. While at Berkeley, his research was supported by a
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He is also a
co-founder of Digital Persona, Inc., and the principal architect of the
Digital Persona fingerprint recognition algorithm. He is currently a
Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at U.C.
San Diego. His research interests include computer vision and pattern
recognition. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the Alfred
P. Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2004 MIT Technology Review named him to the list of the 100 top young technology innovators in the world (TR100).

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Date:
March 23, 2012
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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