[visionlist] VSS 2019 | William T. Freeman Announced as Keynote Speaker

Tue Nov 27 13:51:23 -05 2018

Announcing William T. Freeman as the 

Keynote Speaker at VSS 2019

VSS is pleased to welcome William T. Freeman as the VSS 2019 Keynote Speaker. 

Dr. Freeman is the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) there. He was the Associate Department Head from 2011 – 2014.

Dr. Freeman's current research interests include machine learning applied to computer vision, Bayesian models of visual perception, and computational photography. He received outstanding paper awards at computer vision or machine learning conferences in 1997, 2006, 2009 and 2012, and test-of-time awards for papers from 1990, 1995 and 2005. Previous research topics include steerable filters and pyramids, orientation histograms, the generic viewpoint assumption, color constancy, computer vision for computer games, and belief propagation in networks with loops.

He is active in the program or organizing committees of computer vision, graphics, and machine learning conferences. He was the program co-chair for ICCV 2005, and for CVPR 2013.

Dr. Freeman's talk will be held on Saturday, May 18th at 7:15 pm in Talk Room 1-2.

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