Seminar in AI - Spring 2020

Sponsored by the Institute for AI+X

This weekly seminar will focus on broad research issues in artificial intelligence, image analysis, computer vision, pattern recognition, robotics, applied machine learning and other relevant fields. The purpose of the seminar is to provide the participants with the understanding of current research in these areas, as well as to promote greater awareness and interaction between multiple research groups within USF and in Tampa Bay area. The format of the course is informal. Scheduled presentation by participants and invited speakers are followed by question and answer period. The seminar is open to all students interested in artificial intelligence research. Faculty and researchers interested in these fields are invited to attend.

Time: 1:00-2:00pm, Friday, Room: ENB 118
Faculty coordinator : Lawrence O. Hall, Office: ENB 330
Email lohall@mail.usf.edu

Date	Speakers	Topic
Jan. 17	Organization
Jan. 24	Dmitry Cherezov	Lung Nodule Sizes are Encoded when Scaling
		CT Image for CNN's
Jan. 31	Carlo Canezo	Control of a Humanoid Arm Robotic Unit using Augmented Reality
Feb. 7	Prof. Sudeep Sarkar, USF	Canonical Representations from Grenandar's Pattern Theory: Beyond Bayesian Networks and MRFs
Feb. 14	Khadija Zanna	Toward Culturally-Relevant Emotion Detection Using Physiological Features
Feb. 21	Charley Wang and Chang Li	Machine Learning in decoding epi/genomic architecture and variant structures.
Feb. 28	Seth Hutchinson, Georgia Tech.	Design, Modeling and Control of a Robot Bat: From Bio-inspiration to Engineering Solutions
March 6	Prof. Mark Last - Ben-Gurion University	Using Classification and Prediction Algorithms for Intensive Care Monitoring
March 13	John Murray-Bruce, USF	Photographing shadows and seeing around corners: Computational periscopy using ordinary cameras
Mar. 27	Daniel Sawyer	Detectron2 for Object Detection
Apr. 3	Saumya Bhadani	Information Diversity and News Recommendation
Apr. 10	Prof. Kevin Bowyer, University of Notre Dame	What would it even mean for face recognition to be biased, sexist, racist, etc?
Apr. 17	Agaz Hussain Wani	Machine Learning in diagnosing human diseases in large parameter spaces
Apr. 24	Philip Kegelmeyer, Sandia National Labs	An Overview of Training Data Security Vulnerabilities
May 1	No Seminar - Reading Day

Additional Events

Date	Time	Room	Name	Topic
Feb. 12	4pm	Oak View Room - Research Park at USF	Dr. Gerard Medioni - Amazon Go Research	40+ years of Computer Vision Research: A Personal journey

The proceedings of the Fall 2019 class can be found here
The proceedings of the Spring 2019 class can be found here
The proceedings of the Fall 2018 class can be found here
The proceedings of the Spring 2018 class can be found here
The proceedings of the Fall 2017 class can be found here
The proceedings of the Spring 2017 class can be found here
The proceedings of the Fall 2016 class can be found here
The proceedings of the Spring 2016 class can be found here
The proceedings of the Fall 2015 class can be found here

Website maintained by : Lawrence Hall
Email lohall@mail.usf.edu

Updated 01/23/2020