MIT-CSAIL Expert to Discuss How Computers Have Same Vision

Keynote speaker to talk at HBKU on the ability of computers to gain high-level understanding from digital content

Entity: Qatar Computing Research Institute

MIT-CSAIL Expert to Discuss How Computers Have Same Vision as Humans at QCRI Talk

An expert in computer vision who programs computers to perceive the world in the same way that humans do, is to deliver a keynote speech during a visit to Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU).

Dr. Antonio Torralba, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a principal investigator at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), will address the topic of ‘Learning to See’, at the HBKU Researchery on Monday, March 25.

In his talk, Dr. Torralba will discuss recent advances in computer vision, a scientific field which deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images, videos, or audio and seeks to automate tasks that the human visual system can accomplish.

The MIT professor will demonstrate several applications for object recognition, computer graphics, and unsupervised learning from images and audio.

“My research covers a wide range of topics in computer and human vision - including object and scene recognition in images, building systems that can see around the corner, studying how deep neural networks work, and applications such as Pic2Recipe (a collaboration with QCRI) that predicts ingredients from a picture of food and suggest similar recipes,” Dr. Torralba said.

“I am also interested in other modalities such as audition and touch and how, together with vision, they can allow building systems to learn like humans do. A system able to perceive the world through multiple senses might be able to learn without requiring massive curated datasets.”

Dr. Torralba and other MIT-CSAIL researchers are visiting Doha as part of their annual spring meeting with QCRI, which has been collaborating with MIT-CSAIL for almost seven years. A public meeting updating their joint research is being held at the HBKU Researchery from 9am on March 25.

Dr. Torralba is also the MIT director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and the inaugural director of The MIT Quest for Intelligence. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is collaborating with QCRI scientists Ferda Ofli and Ingmar Weber on using machine learning to analyze social media images to better understand food habits in Qatar.
For more information about QCRI, please visit qcri.org.qa

MIT-CSAIL Expert to Discuss How Computers Have Same Vision as Humans at QCRI Talk

Keynote speaker to talk at HBKU on the ability of computers to gain high-level understanding from digital content

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