Boston University
March 2, 2015
Photonics Building, 8 Saint Mary's Street, 9th Floor, room 906
Directions: http://www.bu.edu/photonics/about/contact/

Registration

Registration for the workshop is now closed.

Program

8.00 AM - 8.30 AM BREAKFAST and WELCOME (Stan Sclaroff)

Session I

Session chairs: Clem Karl, David Castañón

Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
8:30 AM - 8:45AM	Silvio Savarese	Stanford University	TBA
8.45 AM - 9.00 AM	Noah Snavely	Cornell University	TBA
9.00 AM - 9.15 AM	Yasuyuki Matsushita	Microsoft Research	TBA
9.15 AM - 9.30 AM	Rogerio Feris	IBM Research	TBA
9.30 AM - 9.45 AM	Larry Zitnick	Microsoft Research	TBA
9.45 AM - 10.00 AM	Florent Perronnin	Xerox Research	TBA
10.00 AM - 10.15 AM	Pawan Kumar	Ecole Centrale Paris	Diversity Labeling
10.15 AM - 10.30 AM	Fred Hamprecht	University of Heidelberg	Fast Approximate Inference

  10.30 AM - 10.45 AM     COFFEE BREAK

Session II

Session chairs: Venkatesh Saligrama, Ziming Zhang

Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
10.45 AM - 11:00 AM	Lihi Zelnik-Manor	Technion	TBA
11.00 AM - 11:15 AM	Erik Sudderth	Brown University	Diverse Particle Selection for Robust Visual Reasoning
11.15 AM - 11:30 AM	Piotr Dollar	Facebook AI Research	TBA
11.30 AM - 11:45 AM	Raquel Urtasun	University of Toronto	TBA
11.45 AM - 12:00 PM	Devi Parikh	Virginia Tech	TBA
12.00 PM - 12:15 PM	Hongdong Li	Australian National University	TBA
12.15 PM - 12:30 PM	Cristian Sminchisescu	Lund University	Sequential Models for Weakly Supervised Object Detection and Segmentation

  12.30 PM - 1.30 PM       LUNCH (boxed lunch provided)

Session III

Session chairs: Margrit Betke, Janusz Konrad

Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
1.30 PM - 1.45 PM	Gang Hua	Stevens Institute of Technology	Can Visual Recognition Benefit from Auxiliary Information in Training?
1.45 PM - 2.00 PM	Iasonas Kokkinos	Ecole Centrale Paris	TBA
2.00 PM - 2.15 PM	Vladimir Kolmogorov	Institute of Science and Technology Austria	TBA
2.15 PM - 2.30 PM	Vincent Lepetit	Graz University of Technology	TBA
2.30 PM - 2.45 PM	Kyoung Mu Lee	Seoul National University	TBA
2.45 PM - 3.00 PM	Terry Boult	University of Colorado, Colorado Springs	Probability Models for Open Set Recognition
3.00 PM - 3.15 PM	Michal Irani	Weizmann Institute of Science	Blind Optics
3.15 PM - 3.30 PM	Jean Ponce	Ecole Normale Superieure	TBA

  3.30 PM - 3.45 PM         COFFEE BREAK

Session IV

Session chairs: Prakash Ishwar, Behrouz Saghafi Khadem

Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
3.45 PM - 4.00 PM	Todd Zickler	Harvard University	TBA
4.00 PM - 4.15 PM	Srinivasa Narasimhan	Carnegie Mellon University	Programmable Headlights: One Billion Light Beam Adaptations Per Second
4.15 PM - 4.30 PM	Shai Avidan	Tel-Aviv University	TBA
4.30 PM - 4.45 PM	Victor Lempitsky	Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology	Unsupervised Domain Adaptation by Backpropagation
4.45 PM - 5.00 PM	Ivan Laptev	INRIA	TBA

  5.00 PM                           CONCLUSION

Location and Directions

The workshop will take place at 8 Saint Mary's St., Room 906.
Directions website: http://www.bu.edu/photonics/about/contact/

Event Sponsors

We are thankful for the support of the workshop's sponsors:

BU Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
BU Department of Computer Science
BU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering