Babak Taati
New time slot: Tuesdays 1:00 pm.
Schedule:
- Feb 18, 2025 - SRIC-11 Minkowski Erin (W1160). starting 1:00 pmWe will read What matters when building vision-language models? by Laurencon et al. Armen will lead the discussion.
- Feb 4, 2025 - SRIC-11 Minkowski Erin (W1160). starting 1:00 pmSoroush will present SynthLight: Portrait Relighting with Diffusion Model by Learning to Re-render Synthetic Faces.
- Jan 21, 2025 - SRIC-11 Minkowski Erin (W1160). starting 1:00 pmAli will lead the discussion reviewing two papers.
- Jan 8, 2025 - SRIC-11 Minkowski Room (W1148). starting 1:00 pmWe will review and critically discuss DiffuseMix: Label-Preserving Data Augmentation with Diffusion Models from CVPR 2024.
- Dec 18, 2024 - SRIC-11 Minkowski Room (W1148). starting 1:00 pmArmen will present What Do Self-Supervised Vision Transformers Learn? from ICLR 2023.
- Dec 11, 2024 - SRIC-11 Minkowski Room (W1148). starting 1:00 pmWe will review this paper: Interfacing Foundation Models' Embeddings from NeurIPS2024 by Xueyan Zou et al.
- Nov 27, 2024 - SRIC-11 Minkowski Room (W1148). starting 1:00 pmWe will review the S3 paper from NeurIPS 2024: Segment, Shuffle, and Stitch: A Simple Layer for Improving Time-Series Representations, by Shivam Grover, Amin Jalali, and Ali Etemad.
- Sep 11, 2024 - SRIC-W1148. starting 1:00 pmSoroush will review this paper: Autoregressive Image Generation without Vector Quantization by Tianhong Li et al.
- Sep 4, 2024 - SRIC-11-Minkowski Room (W1148), starting 11:00 am (note te unusual date and time and location)Balagopal will present Shortcut learning in medical AI hinders generalization: method for estimating AI model generalization without external data.
- Aug 20, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmWe will review Neural Spline Fields for Burst Image Fusion and Layer Separation (CVPR 2024), by Ilya Chugunov et al. Amir Reza will lead the discussion.
- Aug 13, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmVida will present the VQ-Diffusion paper: Vector Quantized Diffusion Model for Text-to-Image Synthesis from CVPR 2022.
- Jul 23, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmArmen will lead the discussion reviewing this paper from CVPR 2023: SplineCam: Exact Visualization and Characterization of Deep Network Geometry and Decision Boundary, by Humayun et al.
- Jul 9, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmWe will review EMOPortraits: Emotion-enhanced Multimodal One-shot Head Avatars by Drobyshev et al from CVPR 2024. Yasamin will lead the discussion.
- Jun 25, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmWe will read KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks by Liu et al. Armen will lead the discussion.
- May 14, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pm Soroush Mehraban will present TokenHMR: Advancing Human Mesh Recovery with a Tokenized Pose Representation from CVPR 2024.
- Apr 23, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmVida will present Implicit Neural Representations for Variable Length Human Motion Generation from ECCV 2022 by Cervantes et al.
- Apr 9, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmContinuing from last week, Amirhosseing will lead the discussion reviewing the following papers:
- Apr 2, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pm This week and next week we'll read a few papers on implicit neural fields, from data representation to generative modelling and using diffusion models for synthesizing neural network parameters. Some of the papers we'll cover this week are: Amirhossein will lead the discussion.
- Mar 19, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmAbhi will review Fantastic Gains and Where to Find Them: On the Existence and Prospect of General Knowledge Transfer between Any Pretrained Model, by Karsten Roth et al, from ICLR 2024.
- Feb 27, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmWe will be reviewing a recent paper from WACV 2024 titled Back to Optimization: Diffusion-based Zero-Shot 3D Human. Armen Jeddi will lead the discussion.
- Feb 13, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmAndrea will lead the discussion reviewing Video-Based Quantification of Gait Impairments in Parkinson's Disease Using Skeleton-Silhouette Fusion Convolution Network.
- January 23, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmMohammad Javad Rajabiwill talk about Pose-and-Image Guided Diffusion-based Video Synthesis Models. His presentation will primarily cover these two papers:
- Jan 9, 2024 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmShayan Shekarforoush will discuss using the Stein unbiased risk estimator (SURE) for prediction without ground-truth, reviewing ideas from the following papers:
- Dec 12, 2023 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmAbhishekand Emerson will present the paper Agree to Disagree: When Deep Learning Models With Identical Architectures Produce Distinct Explanations.
- Nov 28, 2023 - TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmWe will discuss the ControlNet paper (Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models, ICCV 2023). Yasamin leads the discussion
- Nov 14, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmIrene will present Video Swin Transformer from CVPR 2022, by Liu et al.
- Nov 7, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmVida will review these 2 papers
- MotionGPT: Human Motion as a Foreign Language by Jiang et al., and
- MotionGPT: Finetuned LLMs are General-Purpose Motion Generators by Zhang et al.
- Oct 31, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmSoroush Mehraban will lead the discussion reviewing this ICCV 2023 paper Hierarchically Decomposed Graph Convolutional Networks for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition by Lee et al.
- Oct 17, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 11-111, starting 12:00 pm (note the unusual time)Mohammad Javad Rajabi will present 2 papers:
- Token Merging: Your ViT but Faster (ICLR 2023), and
- Token Merging for Fast Stable Diffusion (CVPR 2023 ECV Workshop).
- Oct 10, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmJianhui Gao and Prof. Jesse Gronsbell will present their recent work on "Reliably Auditing Fairness in Health with Semi-Supervised Inference."
- Oct 3, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 12:00 pm (note the unusual time)We will review DynamicViT: Efficient Vision Transformers with Dynamic Token Sparsification, by Rao et al. from NeurIPS 2021.
- Sep 26, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmWe will read Mask DINO: Towards A Unified Transformer-based Framework for Object Detection and Segmentation, by Feng Li et al, from CVPR 2023. Amir Reza will lead the discussion.
- Sep 12, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmEmerson will lead the discussion talking about a federated learning pipeline for detecting prostate cancer in magnetic resonance images.
- Aug 15, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pm Soroush Mehraban will present SwAV (Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features by Contrasting Cluster Assignments from NeurIPS 2020 by Caron et al). To understand this paper we might also review the deep clustering paper by Caron et al.
- July 25, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pm Saba will lead the discussion reviewing two papers:
- Jul 11, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmWe will be reading the DINO paper (Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers) from ICCV 2021. Soroush Mehraban will lead the discussion.
- Jun 13, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 12-177, starting 3:00 pmVida will lead the discussion reading MoDi: Unconditional Motion Synthesis from Diverse Data from CVPR 2023.
- May 30, 2023 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 3:00 pm Abhishek will be talking about a few papers that define example difficulty in different ways: variance of gradients, layer depth required to memorize an example, the effect of data augmentation, the amount of time it takes to forget or memorize an example, the agreement of intermediate model predictions, consistency scores, true positive agreement of models over epochs, uncertainty estimation, and more.
- May 16, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 11-123, starting 3:00 pmWe will review Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows by Ze Liu et al. Soroush Mehraban will lead the discussion.
- May 2, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 11-123, starting 3:00 pmSoroush Mehraban will tell us about his initial research ideas for improving pose tracking, including some initial results with different architectures.
- Apr 11, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 11-123, starting 3:00 pmWe will read Diffusion Video Autoencoders: Toward Temporally Consistent Face Video Editing via Disentangled Video Encoding by Gyeongman Kim et al. from CVPR 2023. Vida will lead the discussion.
- Mar 28, 2023 - In person, Gerstein B105B, starting 3:00 pmCaroline will present Learning 3D Human Pose Estimation from Dozens of Datasets using a Geometry-Aware Autoencoder to Bridge Between Skeleton Formats, by Sárándi et al.
- Mar 14, 2023 - In person, Gerstein Reading Room, starting 3:00 pmSaba will present her work on Magnetic resonance (MR) thermometry maps synthesized from brain MR imaging by U-Net-based models for MR-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy.
- Feb 28, 2023 - In person, Gerstein Reading Room, starting 3:00 pmSoroush Mehraban will present ViTPose: Simple Vision Transformer Baselines for Human Pose Estimation.
- Feb 14, 2023 - In person, Gerstein Reading Room, starting 3:00 pmAbhi will lead a discussion about the ethics of facial analysis software.
- Jan 31, 2023 - In person, TRI mtg room 11-123, starting 3:00 pmWe return to in-person meetings! Abhishek Moturu will present and lead the discussion reading Characterizing Datapoints via Second-Split Forgetting by P. Maini et al.
- Oct 27, 2022 - Over Zoom, starting 2:00 pm
We will read Relating Transformers to Models and Neural Representation of the Hippocampal Formation. Leif Simmatis will lead the discussion. - Sep 8, 2022 - Over Zoom, starting 2:00 pm
Caroline will lead the discussion reviewing PoseTriplet: Co-evolving 3D Human Pose Estimation, Imitation, and Hallucination under Self-supervision (CVPR 2022), by Gong et al. - Aug 18, 2022 - Over Zoom, starting 2:00 pm
Vida will present HybrIK: A Hybrid Analytical-Neural Inverse Kinematics Solution for 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation, by Jiefeng Li et al. -
Jun 30, 2022Posponed to July 14, 2022 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 2:00 pm
Saied Alavi will present and review AST: Audio Spectrogram Transformer by Yuan Gong et al. - Jun 2, 2022 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 2:00 pm
Abhishek Moturu will present and review 3D face reconstruction with dense landmarks by Erroll Wood et al. - Mar 24, 2022 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 2:00 pm
Caroline will lead the discussion reviewing HuMoR: 3D Human Motion Model for Robust Pose Estimation, from ICCV 2021 - Nov 23, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 11:00 pm
Guest speaker (and lead author) Nikita Dvornik will review Drop-DTW: Aligning Common Signal Between Sequences While Dropping Outliers from NeurIPS 2021. - Oct 12, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 11:00 pm
Deniz Jafari will review Face-GCN: A Graph Convolutional Network for 3D Dynamic Face Identification/Recognition, by Papadopoulos et al. -
Jul 6, 2021Postponed to July 20, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 1:00 pm
Deniz Jafari will review VATT: Transformers for Multimodal Self-Supervised Learning from Raw Video, Audio and Text, by H. Akbari et al. - Jun 29, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 1:00 pm
Andrea Sabo will present two paper on assessing parkinsonian gait:- Vision-based Estimation of MDS-UPDRS Gait Scores for Assessing Parkinson's Disease Motor Severity, by M. Lu et al.
- Multi-scale Sparse Graph Convolutional Network for the Assessment of Parkinsonian Gait by Guo et al.
- Jun 22, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 1:00 pm
Wei Cui will present HuMoR: 3D Human Motion Model for Robust Pose Estimation, by Rempe et al. - Jun 8, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 1:00 pm
Deniz Jafari will present Learning an Animatable Detailed 3D Face Model from In-The-Wild Images, by Yao Feng et al. - May 25, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 1:00 pm
Ali Mojdeh will review StyleCLIP: Text-Driven Manipulation of StyleGAN Imagery, by Patashnik et al. - May 4, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 1:00 pm
Leif Simmatis will present Pre-training strategies and datasets for facial representation learning, by Bulat et al. - May 3, 2021 - Over Zoom (abstract and zoom link here), starting 12:00 pm
We are hosting Prof. Itır Önal Ertuğrul of Tilburg University, who will be giving a talk titled "Automated Analysis and Synthesis of Facial Actions: Models and Applications". - Mar 30, 2021 - Over Zoom (abstract and zoom link here), starting 2:30 pm
We are hosting Prof. Sarah Ostadabbas of Northeastern University, who will be giving a talk titled "Learning Strong Inference Models in Small Data Domains". - Mar 16, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 2:30 pm
Abhishek Moturu will be presenting Weakly Supervised Facial Action Unit Recognition through Adversarial Training, by Guozhu Peng and Shangfei Wang. - Mar 9, 2021 - Over Zoom (abstract and zoom link here), starting 2:30 pm
We are hosting Dr. Morteza Rezanejad (postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto) who will give a talk titled "Medial measures for recognition, mapping, and categorization - Feb 23, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 2:3 pm
Ali will review three papers on split learning:- Distributed learning of deep neural network over multiple agents, by Gupta and Raskar,
- Split learning for health: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw patient data, by Vepakomma et al., and
- SplitFed: When Federated Learning Meets Split Learning, by Thapa et al.
- Feb 9, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 2:30 pm
We read Concept Bottleneck Models by Koh et al. Abhishek Moturu will lead the discussion. -
Jan 19postponed to Feb 2, 2021 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 2 pm
We'll read An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale by Dosovitskiy et al. Saeid will lead the discussion. - Dec 8, 2020 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 2 pm
Ali will lead the discussion reviewing this paper: Synthetic Expressions are Better Than Real for Learning to Detect Facial Actions, by Niinuma et al. - Dec 1, 2020 - Over Zoom (email me if you want to join and I can share the link), starting 2 pm
Andrea Sabo and Abhishek Moturu will review these 2 papers:- Transfusion: Understanding Transfer Learning for Medical Imaging, by Raghu, Zhang, et al., and
- Do Adversarially Robust ImageNet Models Transfer Better?, by Salman, Ilyas, et al.
- Aug 10, 2020 - Online on Zoom, starting 1 pm
We will read Rethinking Pre-training and Self-training by Barret Zoph et al. Abhishek Moturu will lead the discussion. - Jul 13, 2020 - Online on Zoom, starting 1 pm
We review Robust Learning Through Cross-Task Consistency from CVPR2020 by Amir R. Zamir et al. Abhishek Moturu will lead the discussion. - Jul 6, 2020 - Online on Zoom, starting 1 pm
Andrea Sabo will be leading the discussion on Geometric graphs from data to aid classification tasks with graph convolutional networks, by Yifan Qian et al. - Jun 15, 2020 - Online on Zoom, starting 1 pm
Andrea Sabo, Deniz Jafari, Navid Korhani, and Abhishek Moturu present their work (their final project for CSC2541) on outcome prediction using pediatric renal ultrasounds (in collaboration with mentors at SickKids). - Jun 8, 2020 - Online on Zoom, starting 1 pm
Abhishek Moturu and Sia Rezaei will lead the discussion reading these three papers:- Your Classifier is Secretly an Energy Based Model and You Should Treat it Like One, by Will Grathwohlet al.,
- Superposition of many models into one, by Brian Cheung et al., and
- Side-Tuning: Network Adaptation via Additive Side Networks, by Jeffrey O Zhang et al.
- Jun 1, 2020 - Online on Zoom, starting 1 pm
Andrea Sabo will lead the discussion reviewing VIBE: Video Inference for Human Body Pose and Shape Estimation (code here) by Muhammed Kocabas, Nikos Athanasiou, and Michael Black (CVPR 2020). - May 20, 2020 - Online on Zoom, starting 1 pm
Abhishek Moturu and Sia Rezaei will review these papers:- A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations, by T. Chen et al.
- Supervised Contrastive Learning, by P. Khosla et al.
- May 4, 2020 - Online on Zoom, starting 1 pm
Navid Korhani will review RNN-SURV: a Deep Recurrent Model for Survival Analysis, by Giunchiglia et al. - Mar 30, 2020 -
TRI mtg room 11-123Online because of COVID-19: Zoom
Abhishek Moturu will review these papers:- Cross-Database Evaluation of Pain Recognition from Facial Video, by Ehsan Othman et al.
- Automatic Recognition Methods Supporting Pain Assessment: A Survey, by Philipp Werner et al.
- Mar 16, 2020 -
TRI mtg room 11-123Online because of COVID-19: Zoom
Abhishek Moturu and Navid Korhani will present Multi-Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time 3D-Landmark Detection in CT Scans, by Florin C. Ghesu et al. - Nov 19, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
Andrea Sabo will lead the discussion reading How to Select Balance Measures Sensitive to Parkinson's Disease from Body-Worn Inertial Sensors-Separating the Trees from the Forest. - Nov 12, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
Deniz will be reviewing these 2 papers: - Oct 1, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-073
Andrea Sabo will review this paper: Gait analysis with wearables predicts conversion to parkinson disease. - Sep 17, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
Shabnam will review Learning to Learn How to Learn: Self-Adaptive Visual Navigation using Meta-Learning. - [rescheduled from Jun 4] Sep 10, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
We'll read this Lancet Neurology paper: Gait impairments in Parkinson's disease. Dr. Diego Guarin will lead the discussion. - Sep 3, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
Sia will review the original Transformer paper and a new (CVPR'19) paper using transformer networks in video analysis: - Aug 27, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
GPU / PyOpenCL Tutorial. Reza will present the tutorial. This tutorial will introduce the architecture of GPUs, and will cover a hello world example in PyOpenCL. - Aug 20, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
Andrea Sabo will lead the discussion reading Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition by Yan et al. - Aug 13, 2019 - TRI mtg room 12-026
We will review Neural Ordinary Differential Equations by Chen, Rubanova, Bettencourt, and Duvenaud. Navid Korhani will lead the discussion. - Aug 6, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
We'll read MS-TCN: Multi-Stage Temporal Convolutional Network for Action Segmentation from CVPR'19, by Farha and Gall. Sina Abarian will lead the discussion. - July 30, 2019 - TRI mtg room 12-177-3
Khashayar will review the following papers: - Jul 16, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
Sia will lead the discussion reading Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features. This is a helpful blog post about the paper. - Jul 9, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
Pouria will review these three papers:- The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks
- Deconstructing Lottery Tickets: Zeros, Signs, and the Supermask
- Stabilizing the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
- [cancelled. will be rescheduled later.]
Jun 4, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
We'll read this Lancet Neurology paper: Gait impairments in Parkinson's disease. Dr. Diego Guarin will lead the discussion. - May 21, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
TensorBoard Tutorial. Sia will present the tutorial. - May 7, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-147-3
Yucheng Zhang will lead the discussion reviewing these two papers: - Apr 23, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-204
Sina Mehdizadeh will lead the discussion reading this paper: Associations between daily-living physical activity and laboratory-based assessments of motor severity in patients with falls and Parkinson's disease. - Mar 5, 2019 - TRI mtg room 10-147-3
Sia will review these three (related) papers: - Feb 26, 2019 - TRI mtg room 12-026
Sina Abarian will be reviewing these two (related) papers: - [Related] Nov 19, 2018 - TRI Lecture Hall - 12:00-1:00
I am hosting Sana Tonekaboni of the Goldenberg Lab at SickKids. She will be giving a talk on the Prediction of Cardiac Arrest from Physiological Signals in the Pediatric ICU. - Aug 21, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
We read Learning to Segment Every Thing. Ghazaleh will lead the discussion. - Aug 7, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
We'll be reading Distilling a Neural Network Into a Soft Decision Tree. Sina will lead the discussion. - Jul 24, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
We'll read MonoCap: Monocular Human Motion Capture using a CNN Coupled with a Geometric Prior. Becky will lead the discussion. - Jul 10, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
Pouria will lead the discussion reviewing the following two papers: - Jun 12, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
Tutorial: hyperparameter optimization using Gaussian processes. Elham will present the tutorial. - May 22, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
Jacob will review this paper from CVPR 2018: Future Frame Prediction for Anomaly Detection - A New Baseline, by Wen Liu, Weixin Luo, Dongze Lian, and Shenghua Gao. - May 8, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
Shun will lead the discussion reading these 3 papers:- ExpNet from FG 2018: ExpNet: Landmark-Free, Deep, 3D Facial Expressions, by F.-J. Chang, A. Tran, T. Hassner, I. Masi, R. Nevatia, G. Medioni;
- IdentityShapeNet from CVPR 2017: Regressing Robust and Discriminative 3D Morphable Models with a very Deep Neural Network, by A. Tran, T. Hassner, I. Masi, G. Medioni; and
- FacePoseNet from ICCVW2017: FacePoseNet: Making a Case for Landmark-Free Face Alignment, by F.-J. Chang, A. Tran, T. Hassner, I. Masi, R. Nevatia, G. Medioni.
- Apr 24, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
We'll read An Empirical Evaluation of Generic Convolutional and Recurrent Networks for Sequence Modeling by @shaojieb, @zicokolter, and Koltun. Maziar will lead the discussion. - Apr 10, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
We review Scalable and accurate deep learning for electronic health records. Elham will lead the discussion. - Mar 27, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
Becky will lead the discussion reading LSTM Pose Machines. - Mar 13, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
We will go through the NIPS 2017 tutorial on Fairness in Machine Learning by Solon Barocas and Moritz Hardt. - Mar 6, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
We will read Detecting and Correcting for Label Shift with Black Box Predictors by Lipton et al. Ahmed will lead the discussion. - slides by @zacharylipton
- related blog post
- Feb 27, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
Jacob will lead the discussion readhing this CVPR 2016 paper: Slow and steady feature analysis: higher order temporal coherence in video, by Jayaraman and Grauman - Feb 13, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
Shehroz will lead the discussion reading this paper from ICML'13: On autoencoder scoring + erratum - Feb 6, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
We'll read two related papers by Lipton et al. Zain will lead the discussion. - Jan 30, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
Maziar will read this paper from ICCV 2015: FlowNet: Learning Optical Flow with Convolutional Networks. - Jan 16, 2018, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
We'll read Geoff Hinton's new capsule paper: Dynamic Routing Between Capsules, by Sabour, Frosst, and Hinton. Celine will lead the discussion. - Dec 12, 2017, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 11-123
Elham will give a cloud computing tutorial (SciNet basics) - Dec 5, 2017, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
Juliana will review Mask R-CNN by Kaiming He et al., ICCV 2017 - Nov 28, 2017, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
We'll be the following two papers. Azin will lead the discussion.- Stacked Hourglass Networks for Human Pose Estimation, by Newell et al., and
- How far are we from solving the 2D & 3D Face Alignment problem?, by Bulat and Tzimiropoulos.
- Nov 21, 2017, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 12-026
Elham will give a hands on tutorial on training a Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) in TensorFlow - Nov 14, 2017, 1-3 pm - Mtg room 11-123
We review 2 papers about using RNN or RCNN in pain assessment. Azin will lead the discussion.- Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network Regression for Continuous Pain Intensity Estimation in Video, by Zhou et al., and
- Spatio-temporal Pain Recognition in CNN-Based Super-Resolved Facial Images, by Bellantonio et al.
- Nov 7, 2017, 1-3 pm - TRI mtg room 12-026
Shabnam and Tuck will jointly lead the discussion, reading this paper: Toeplitz Inverse Covariance-Based Clustering of Multivariate Time Series Data from KDD 2017, by D. Hallac et al. - Oct 10, 2017, 1-3 pm - TRI mtg room 11-123
Jacob leads the discussion reading 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Action Recognition by Ji et al. - Aug 31, 2017, 10-12 - TRI mtg room 10-147-3
We will continue reading the YOLO9000 paper from CVPR 2017. Shabnam will lead the discussion - [Related] Aug 29, 2017 - TRI Lecture Hall - 12:00-1:00
I am hosting Yani Ioannou of the University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research. He will give a talk at noon titled Structural Priors in Deep Neural Networks. - Aug 24, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 10-147-3
Shabnam will lead the discussion, reading 2 YOLO papers (CVPR 2016 and CVPR 2017), Redmon et al. - Aug 10, 2017, 10-12 - Mtg room 10-147-3
We will read Densely Connected Convolutional Networks by Gao Huang, Zhuang Liu, et al. (best paper award at CVPR 2017). Juliana will lead the discussion. - Jul 20, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 12-157
Azin will review this paper from CVPR 2016: Face Alignment Across Large Poses: A 3D Solution by Xiangyu Zhu et al. - [Related] July 6, 2017 - TRI Lecture Hall - 12:00-1:00
I am hosting Prof. Bradley MacIntosh of Sunnybrook. Dr. MacIntosh will give a lecture at noon on the use of "vascular imaging biomarkers of neurodegeneration, with application to stroke recovery". - Jul 6, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 10-147-3
Juliana will lead the discussion reading this Google Research CVPR 2017 paper: Speed/accuracy trade-offs for modern convolutional object detectors. by Jonathan Huang et al. - Jun 29, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 10-147-3
Elham will review these two papers:- Assessing gait stability: The influence of state space reconstruction on inter- and intra-day reliability of local dynamic stability during over-ground walking, by K. S. van Schooten et al.
- A practical method for calculating largest Lyapunov exponents from small data sets, by M. T. Rosenstein et al.
- [Related] June 26, 2016 - Rm 132, Rehab Sciences Bldg (500 University Ave)
12:00-1:00
Prof. Tamar Weiss of University of Haifa will give a seminar titled Rehabilitation technologies: Why are they not yet disruptive? - Jun 22, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 12-177
We will be reading another facial landmark detection paper: Robust Face Alignment Using a Mixture of Invariant Experts by Tuzel et al, ECCV 2016. Azin will lead the discussion. - Jun 15, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 12-177
We will continue reading the AUC ROC paper from last week. - Jun 8, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 12-177
Shehroz will review this paper: Hand, David J. Measuring classifier performance: a coherent alternative to the area under the ROC curve Machine learning 77.1 (2009): 103-123. - May 25, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026
Michael will give a tutorial on Keras. - [Related] May 24, 2017 - TRI Lecture Hall - 12:00-1:00
I am hosting Prof. Lauren Sergio of York University. Dr. Sergio will give a lecture at noon titled "The Wounded Brain - Assessing Function Pre-Dementia and Post-Concussion". - May 18, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026 - TRI
Theano tutorial, presented by Ahmed - May 11, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
Paul will lead the discussion, reading this 2011 paper by Hamm et al.: Automated Facial Action Coding System for dynamic analysis of facial expressions in neuropsychiatric disorders. - May 4, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123
Next week, we'll be reviewing two papers related to pain estimation and facial expression analysis using deep learning:- Fusing Deep Learned and Hand-Crafted Features of Appearance, Shape, and Dynamics for Automatic Pain Estimation
- Deep Learning the Dynamic Appearance and Shape of Facial Action Units
- Apr 27, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026
We will be reading Face Alignment by Coarse-to-Fine Shape Searching, from CVPR2015, by Zhu et al. Azin will be leading the discussion. - Mar 30, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026
We read this CVPR'15 paper: FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering, by Schroff, Kalenichenko, Philbin (2015, Google). Michael leads the discussion. - Mar 9, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 12-177
We will read this paper from ICCV 2013: Constrained Local Neural Fields for robust facial landmark detection in the wild. Azin leads the discussion - Jan 26, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 12-177 - TRI
Shehroz will lead the discussion, reading dual many-to-one-encoder-based transfer learning for cross-dataset human action recognition, by Xu et al. - Jan 12, 2017, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
We'll read Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks, by Alex Graves. Zain will lead the discussion. - Holiday break. We will resume in January.
- Dec 8, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
Andrea will lead the discussion, reading two short papers evaluating markerless face tracking for speech articulation (with applications in the study of speech disorders in neurological illnesses, e.g. Parkinson's disease). The papers are Is markerless acquisition technique adequate for speech production? (Ouni & Dahmani, 2016) and Accuracy of a markerless acquisition technique for studying speech articulators (Bandini et al, 2015) - [Related] Nov 4, 2016 - TRI Lecture Hall - 12:00-1:00
I am hosting Prof. James Tung of the University of Waterloo. The title of his invited lecture is "Multimodal integration of wearable sensors: emerging methods and clinical applications". - Oct 13, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026 - TRI
We will continue with GPs, reading Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models for Visualisation of High Dimensional Data by Neil Lawrence. Elham will lead the discussion. - [Related] Oct 4, 2016 - 500 University Ave. Room 140 - 12:00-1:00
I am hosting Prof. Tiago Falk of INRS-EMT (U Quebec). The title of his invited lecture is "Towards low-cost Alzheimer's disease diagnosis using electroencephalography". - Sep 29, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026 - TRI
This week, Elham will provide a tutorial on Gaussian Processes, going over Chapter 2 of Rasmussen and Williams' book. This is our first session on GPs, to be followed up with a few more this semester. So if you are not familiar with them, this is your opportunity to come learn about them! - Aug 31, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026 - TRI
We'll continue with the Variational Autoencoders, which we started reading last week. - Aug 25, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
We'll read Tutorial on Variational Autoencoders, by Carl Doersch. Shehroz will lead the discussion. - [Related] Aug 4, 2016 - Room 235 - 500 University Ave - 12:00-1:00
Talk by Dr. Hongdao Meng, visiting from the University of South Florida. - Jul 14, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
Shehroz leads the discussion reading Detecting the effect of Alzheimer's disease on everyday motion behavior. (J Alzheimers Dis 2014). - Jun 30, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
Michael leads the discussion reviewing Convolutional Pose Machines (CVPR 2016) by Wei et al. - Jun 23, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
We will be reading Instance-weighted Transfer Learning of Active Appearance Models from CVPR 2016. Azin will lead the discussion. - Jun 16, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
This week, we read Continuous Pain Intensity Estimation from Facial Expressions from the iBUG group at Imperial College. Anqi will lead the discussion. - May 5, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
We will finish reading Active Appearance Models Revisited this week. We continue reading where we left off last time (Section 4, page 17). Azin leads the discussion. - Apr 21, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
We read another extreme value theory paper this week. Shehroz will lead the discussion reading this paper: Extending the generalised Pareto distribution for novelty detection in high-dimensional spaces by Clifton et al. - Apr 7, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
This week, we read Active Appearance Models Revisited by Iain Matthews and Simon Baker. Azin leads the discussion. - Mar 24, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
We will read Detecting rare events using extreme value statistics applied to epileptic convulsions in children by Stijn Luca et al. Shehroz will lead the discussion. - Mar 10, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
This week Zain will lead the discussion on this NIPS 2013 paper: Learning a Deep Compact Image Representation for Visual Tracking by Wang and Yeung. - Feb 25, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
Ahmed will cover these two papers: The painful face - Pain expression recognition using active appearance models and Investigating Spontaneous Facial Action Recognition through AAM Representations of the Face. - Feb 11, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
Michael will lead the discussion reviewing Struck: Structured Output Tracking with Kernels (ICCV 2011) by Hare, Saffari, and Torr. - Jan 28, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
We review Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation, by Hal Daumé III. Azin will read the discussion again. - Jan 14, 2016, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
This week, Azin will review this paper from NIPS 2010: Exploiting weakly-labeled Web images to improve object classification: a domain adaptation approach, by Bergamo and Torresani - [Related] Jan 12, 2016 - TRI Lecture Hall - 12:00-1:00
I am hosting Dr. Alexandra König from the University of Waterloo. She will talk about Alzheimer Assessment and Technology and the European Dem@Care project. - Holiday break. We will resume in January.
- Dec 3, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
Ahmed will lead the discussion on these two papers: 1) A Testbed for Cross-Dataset Analysis, by Tommasi & Tuytelaars, and 2) A Deeper Look at Dataset Bias, by Tommasi et al. - Nov 19, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
Aaron leads the discussion today on Robotic Grasping of Novel Objects using Vision, by Ashutosh Saxena, Justin Driemeyer, and Andrew Ng. - Nov 5, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
Michael will review two papers from EMBC 2015: 1) A Novel Method for Assessing the Severity of Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia using Wearable Sensors by Lee et al.; and 2)Detection of Levodopa Induced Dyskinesia in Parkinson's Disease Patients based on Activity Classification by Jalloul et al. - [Related] Oct 30, 2015 - TRI Lecture Hall - 12:00-1:00
I am hosting prof. Dana Kulić from the University of Waterloo. The title of her invited lecture is "Motion Measurement and Analysis during Rehabilitation". - Oct 1, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
This week I will review reusable holdout by Dwork et al. (Science 2015), starting with a brief review of differential privacy, Laplace mechanism, and the exponential mechanism.
Other references: supplementary material of that paper and this book: The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy by Dwork & Roth (2014) - Summer break. We will resume in September.
- May 21, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
Ahmed will lead the discussion on the problem of dataset bias (Unbiased Look at Dataset Bias, by Torralba & Efros), and proposed solutions in these papers: Khosla et al (Undoing the Damage of Dataset Bias), and Tommasi et al (Beyond Dataset Bias: Multi-task Unaligned Shared Knowledge Transfer). - May 21, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026 - TRI
Tuck will lead the discussion this week on activity recognition & context. - May 21, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
This week, Ahmed will give a tutorial on variational methods in computer vision. - May 7, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 11-123 - TRI
Michael will review High Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping by Brox et al., from ECCV 2004. The discussion will be more broadly on variational optical flow and popular extensions of the above paper: A duality based approach for realtime TV-L1 optical flow - Zach et al. (2007), Large displacement optical flow: descriptor matching in variational motion estimation - Brox & Malik (PAMI 2011). - Apr 23, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026 - TRI
This week, Belkacem will lead the discussion on Probabilistic Suffix Trees. - Apr 2, 2015, 10-12 - Room 438 - 500 University Ave.
This week, Ahmed will be presenting DeepPose: Human Pose Estimation via Deep Neural Networks, by Alexander Toshev and Christian Szegedy, from CVPR'14. - Feb 26, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026 - TRI
This week, Ahmed will review Learning Fair Representations, by Zemel et al, from ICML'13. (Supplementary Materials) - Feb 25, 2015 - Mtg 2-055-3 - TRI library
Gen will lead the discussion on HOG this week. - Jan 27, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026 - TRI
Michael will review Validating an objective video-based dyskinesia severity score in Parkinson's disease patients by Rao et al. (2013) and parts of this PhD thesis this week. - Jan 27, 2015, 10-12 - mtg room 12-026 - TRI
This week, Michael will explain UPDRS and UDYsRS and the different components in each rating score and will then review these two papers: Minimal clinically important change on the unified Parkinson's disease rating scale, by Schrag et al. (2006) and The Clinically Important Difference on the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale, by Shulman et al. (2010).
