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CS Colloq: Prof. Stella Yu

Talk Title: Art and Vision: A Quest for A Few Simple Right Strokes
Speaker: Prof. Stella Yu (Boston College)
Host: Prof. Shang-Hua TengAbstract:
A Chinese manual of painting instructs art students as follows:
"Figures, even though painted without eyes, must seem to look; without ears, must seem to listen... There are things which ten hundred brushstrokes cannot depict but which can be captured by a few simple strokes if they are right. That is truly giving expression to the invisible."While computer vision research has made fruitful progress with the help of massive data and computing power, I am more interested in an alternative approach: studying art techniques and human vision to discover those few simple right strokes that are essential for visual expression.In this light, visual computation on images needs to address 3 key questions: What are these few simple strokes? Why are they the right ones? How to find them in an image? I have been pursuing answers to these questions in the computation of brightness, space, and attention with simple features, powerful integration, and active selection. In this talk, I will present my progress on these frontiers as well as new ones explored with an artist in an interdisciplinary course on Art and Vision.Bio:
Stella X. Yu got her Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied robotics at the Robotics Institute and vision science at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. She continued her computer vision research as a postdoc at the Computer Science Department of UC Berkeley. Since she joined the faculty of Boston College, Dr. Yu has been developing an interdisciplinary curriculum and research agenda on Art and Vision, for which she received an NSF CAREER award in 2007. Dr. Yu is currently the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston College.

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: CS Front Desk