cs.washington.eduI am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Before this, I spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University working with Martial Hebert and Alyosha Efros. I got my PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of David Forsyth. During my PhD I also had the privilege of working closely with Derek Hoiem.
I am mainly interested in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, the intersection of Natural Language and Vision, and analysing the role of Semantics in Visual Understandings. More specifically, my research interests include:
- Object and action recognition
- Attribute based object representations and cross category generalization
- Generating richer descriptions for images
- Aspect issues in human activity and object recognition
- Knowledge trasnfer, transfer learning and it's applications in computer vision
- Scene understanding
- Multitask learning and annotation prediction
- Sign language recognition
- Image segmentation