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Events for April 02, 2012
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Random Walk with Restart and Its Application to Computer Vision
Mon, Apr 02, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Kyoung Mu Lee, Dept. of EECS, College of Engineering Seoul National University, Korea
Talk Title: Random Walk with Restart and Its Application to Computer Vision
Abstract: In this talk, we introduce the Random Walk with Restart (RWR), and a new generative framework based on RWR for semi-supervised labeling problems in computer vision. Typical semi-supervised labeling problems in computer vision include the seeded image segmentation, photomontage, image coloring, matting and feature matching, and so on, in which the initial seeds or labels are positioned by users. We solve these problems by finding the generative model for each label using RWR in a Bayesian framework. In our new formulation, the generative model is defined by the pixel likelihood of each seed, and it is estimated efficiently by the steady-state probability of RWR. Final solution is obtained by assigning the label with maximum posterior probability to each pixel. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our new framework in some computer vision problems including semi-supervised image segmentation, image colorization, and correspondence problem.
Biography: Kyoung Mu Lee received the B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Control and Instrumentation Eng. from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1993. He is currently with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Seoul National University as a professor. His primary research interests include object recognition, MRF optimization, tracking, and visual navigation.
Kyoung Mu Lee had been an editor of the Journal of Applied Signal Processing, and currently serving as an associate editor of the IPSJ Trans. on Computer Vision and Application, Machine Vision and Applications, the Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He has received several awards including Okawa Foundation Research Grant Award in 2006, Honorable Mention Award at the ACCV2007, the Most Influential Paper over the Decade Award at IAPR MVA2009, and the Outstanding Research Award by the College of Engineering of SNU in 2010. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) for 2012-2013. He has (co)authored more than 140 publications in refereed journals and conferences including PAMI, IJCV, CVPR, ICCV and ECCV.
Host: Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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BME 533 (Seminar in Biomedical Engineering)
Mon, Apr 02, 2012 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Cosgrove,
Talk Title: A more youthful self-renewal: Bioengineering approaches to rejuvenate dysfunctional muscle stem cells in aging
Host: BME Department
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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FE Review Session: Water Resources
Mon, Apr 02, 2012 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Professor Lee from the USC Civil Engineering Department will lead a review session on the topics covered in the Water Resources section of the FE/EIT Civil Exam.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 229
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tau Beta Pi
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At Home in the World: New Directions in Writing from the Asia Pacific
Mon, Apr 02, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
From South Asian Kenyans struggling under the threat of expulsion to Samoan girls on the cusp of womanhood to a word-obsessed, multiracial Aussie piecing together his familyâs past through fragments of letters and half-forgotten stories, the characters found in Kaya Press books are as provocative and nuanced as the writers who give them voice. Celebrate the arrival of Kaya Press at USC with readings and conversations with award-winning authors Brian Castro (Australia), Sia Figiel (Samoa) and Shailja Patel (Kenya). Performance meets poetry meets experimental fiction in this exploration of the creative forces behind the next wave of cutting-edge transnational literature from the Asian and Pacific Island diasporas.
Related Event:
A writing workshop with the three authors will take place on Tuesday, April 3, at 12:30 p.m. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss writing techniques, present their own writings for feedback from the authors and get guidance on the process of publishing their work. Lunch will be served.
Speaker Bios:
Brian Castro was born in Hong Kong in 1950 of Portuguese, Chinese and English parents, and arrived in Australia in 1961. His novels include Birds of Passage (1983), which shared the Australian/Vogel Literary Award; Double-Wolf (1991), winner of the Age Fiction Prize and the Victorian Premierâs Award for Fiction; After China (1992), which also won the Victorian Premierâs Award; and Stepper (1997), for which he received the National Book Council Banjo Award. Shanghai Dancing (republished by Kaya Press in the United States) won the Christina Stead Fiction Prize and the New South Wales Premierâs Book of the Year Award. His books have been translated into German and French. He is currently the chair of creative writing at the University of Adelaide.
Sia Figiel was born in Matautu Tai, Samoa, and grew up amidst traditional Samoan singing and poetry, which heavily influenced her writing. Author of novels, plays and poetry, she has traveled extensively in Europe and the Pacific Islands and has had residencies at the University of Technology in Sydney, the East-West Center in Hawaii, the Pacific Writing Forum at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji and Logoipulotu College in Savaii. Her poetry won the Polynesian Literary Competition in 1994, and her first novel, Where We Once Belonged, was awarded the 1997 Commonwealth Writerâs Prize for Fiction, South East Asia/South Pacific region. Her work has been translated into French, German, Catalan, Danish, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Portuguese.
Shailja Patel was born and raised in Kenya, has lived in London and San Francisco, and now divides her time between Nairobi and Berkeley. She honed her poetic skills in performances that have received standing ovations throughout Europe, Africa and North America. She has been described by the Gulf Times as âthe poetic equivalent of Arundhati Royâ and by CNN as âthe face of globalization as a people-centered phenomenon of migration and exchange.â She has appeared on the BBC World Service, NPR and Al Jazeera, and her poems have been translated into twelve languages. She is a recipient of a Sundance Theatre Fellowship, the Fanny-Ann Eddy Poetry Award from IRNAfrica, the Voices of Our Nations Poetry Award, a Lambda Slam Championship and the Outwrite Poetry Prize.
Organized by Viet Nguyen (English and American Studies and Ethnicity), Sumun Pendakur (Asian Pacific American Student Services) and Sunyoung Lee (Kaya Press).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
