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Events for November 16, 2015
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering Talk
Mon, Nov 16, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process, a student led walking tour of campus, and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering school. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process, and financial aid.
Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Canstruction
Mon, Nov 16, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Help out people in need by donating canned food!! Students and faculty come together for this annual event to collect cans and donate them to the LA Food Bank. On the last day of the drive, we bring all the cans together to make a Canstruction. Collection is from 10/14 - 11/20.
Collection Bin Locations:
ACCT 101 Office
Crocker Library (in HOH)
Popovich Hall Rm 200
Deans Office BRI 100
Advising Office BRI 104Location: Various Locations (look at description)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC NOBE
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AI Seminar
Mon, Nov 16, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Graham Neubig, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Talk Title: Simultaneous Speech Translation
Abstract: Speech translation is an application of machine translation that converts utterances from the speakers language into the listeners language. One of the most identifying features of speech translation is the fact that it must be performed in real time while the speaker is speaking, and thus it is necessary to split a constant stream of words into translatable segments before starting the translation process. Simultaneous speech translation is a line of research that investigates how to perform this segmentation and translation with minimal delay, presenting the translation results to the user as soon as possible. However, because this entails potentially starting translation before the speaker has spoken the whole sentence, it is often necessary to translate before receiving a syntactically or semantically complete unit, and methods to maintain translation accuracy in these adversary conditions are necessary.
In this talk, I will present four major threads of work in simultaneous speech translation covering (1) segmentation strategies, which decide when it is appropriate to start translation, (2) prediction methods, which attempt to predict content that the user has not yet spoken, (3) rewording, which changes the standard way of wording output to make it more conducive to low-latency translation, and (4) evaluation, which attempts to make clear just how important speed and accuracy are in the simultaneous speech translation task.
Biography: Graham Neubig received his B.E. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A, in 2005, and his M.E. and Ph.D. in informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in 2010 and 2012 respectively. He is currently an assistant professor at the Nara Institute of Science an Technology, Nara, Japan. His research interests include natural language and speech processing, with a focus on machine learning approaches for applications such as machine translation, spoken language analysis, spoken dialog, and syntactic/semantic parsing.
Host: Ashish Vaswani
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=663b4d4be2624f8ea47f5e906df9215e1dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th floor large conference room
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=663b4d4be2624f8ea47f5e906df9215e1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kary LAU
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Nov 16, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Changhuei Yang, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering and Medical Engineering, Caltech
Talk Title: Deep tissue imaging with optical time-reversal
Series: Seminars in Engineering, Neuroscience & Health (ENH)
Abstract:
Time-Reversal Optical Focusing - We appear opaque because our tissues scatter light very strongly. Interestingly, optical scattering is deterministic and can be time-reversed in much the same way a ricocheting billiard ball can be made to retrace its trajectory if nudged appropriately. I will discuss our recent results in using ultrasound tagging in combination with digital optical phase conjugation to focus light tightly and deeply within biological tissues. I will also report on our experiments using digital optical phase conjugation to tightly focus light on a moving target in a scattering medium. These technologies can potentially enable incisionless laser surgery, targeted optogenetic activation, high-resolution biochemical tissue imaging and more.
Fourier Ptychography - Microscopes are complex and fussy creatures that are capable of delivering limited image information. This is because physical optical lenses are intrinsically imperfect. The perfect lenses we draw in high school ray diagrams simply do not exist. I will discuss our recent work on Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy - a computational microscopy method that enables a standard microscope to push past its physical optical limitations to provide gigapixel imaging ability.
Biography: For more information, visit Professor Yang's lab website at: http://www.biophot.caltech.edu/
Host: Stanley Yamashiro, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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PhD Defense - Chen Sun
Mon, Nov 16, 2015 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
PhD Defense- Chen Sun
Title: Event Detection and Recounting from Large-scale Web Videos
Committee: Ramakant Nevatia, Yan Liu, B. Keith Jenkins (external member)
Abstract:
Whether captured by smart phones, surveillance cameras or self-driving cars, videos stand out as as one of the most important and informative media in the digital world. Videos bring temporal information to the visual recognition domain, and open doors to applications such as motion analysis, tracking and event detection.
The primary goal of my research is to detect high-level events (e.g. birthday party, town hall meeting) from unconstrained web videosï¼ and to generate video recounts containing key event evidence. The ever-increasing popularity of video capturing devices and sharing websites has created a huge gap between the fast pace of video generation and our ability to index them. In response, I aim to build a semantic representation of videos with objects, actions, events and their interactions.
My PhD work mainly focuses on the following three aspects towards this goal: (1) utilize temporal information effectively; (2) extract rich semantics with moderate video annotations; (3) build connection between videos and language. In this talk, I will introduce my recent work on weakly-supervised action recognition, and automatic visual concept discovery for image description and retrieval. I will also provide a brief overview of the history and state-of-the-art methods for action and event recognition.
Location: Charles Lee Powell Hall (PHE) - 223
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
