visual computing

From Images to Neural Scenes: Efficient Rendering, Robust Editing, and Human-Aware Reconstruction

-
This thesis addresses these challenges by introducing efficient mesh-based distillation for real-time rendering, view-consistent text-guided scene editing, and human-aware reconstruction that improves geometry and camera estimation.

Teaching algorithms to see

1 min read ·
Four hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Other than using text to search the title, description or tags associated with a video, video content search is limited. In addition to helping users find content more quickly and accurately, the ability to search video content is of paramount importance to video platforms and advertisers. Last year, YouTube was embroiled in controversy after rolling video ads for Coca-Cola and Amazon, among others, were shown before racist and extremist content. Advertising content is a major revenue stream for video platforms like YouTube

Testing the blind spots in artificial intelligence

1 min read ·
Understanding the situations when artificial intelligence can fail is critical for application of future autonomous vehicles and medical diagnostics.