Synced's Onsite Report from CVPR 2018
CVPR 2018 Kicks Off; Best Papers Announced
The 2018 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) opened today in Salt Lake City, USA. The CVPR organizing committee used the occasion to announce its coveted Best Paper and Best Student Paper selections...
Best Paper Award: Taskonomy: Disentangling Task Transfer Learning
The paper proposes a computational approach for finding correlations between different tasks by using transfer learning techniques to solve new tasks with reduced dependency on labeled data...
(Stanford University and UC Berkeley research group)
Best Student Paper Award: Total Capture: A 3D Deformation Model for Tracking Faces, Hands, and Bodies
This paper presents a unified deformation model for the markerless capture of multiple scales of human movement, including facial expressions, body motion, and hand gestures...
(Carnegie Mellon University)
CVPR Honorable Mention Award:
- Deep Learning of Graph Matching
- SPLATNet: Sparse Lattice Networks for Point Cloud Processing
- CodeSLAM – Learning a Compact, Optimisable Representation for Dense Visual SLAM
- and Efficient Optimization for Rank-based Loss Functions
PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize- A Discriminatively Trained, Multiscale, Deformable Part Model
PAMI Young Researcher Award -
- Andreas Geiger, Computer Science Professor at University of Tübingen
- Kaiming He, Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR).
Technology
Facebook Research Open Source Densepose
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) open sourced DensePose, our real-team approach for mapping all human pixels of 2D RGB images to a 3D surface-based model of the body.
NCRF in Deep Learning Improves Cancer Metastasis Detection
The Baidu Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab has released a paper which proposes a neural conditional random field (NCRF) process for cancer metastasis detection on Whole Slide Images (WSIs)...
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Global AI Events
| 24–29 Jun | ICAPS | Delft, The Netherlands. |
| 29 Jun | The 4th Research and Applied AI Summit | London, UK. |
| 26–29 Jun | CPAIOR | Delft, The Netherlands. |
| 26–30 Jun | Robotics: Science and Systems | Pittsburgh, USA. |
| 27–28 Jun | AI Expo Europe | Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
| 28 Jun | AI for CxOs Dinner | San Francisco, USA. |
Global AI Opportunities
Cape Analystics needs Machine Learning Specialist - Deep Learning and Software Engineer in Munich, Germany and Mountain View, CA.
SparkCognition is looking for Data Scientist - Computer Vision/Autonomy/Security to join in their R&D Lab in Austin, TX.
Twiggle is hiring NLP Engineer, Algorithm Engineer, Knowledge Engineer and Software Engineer in Tel Aviv, New York.
ZestFinance wants Data Scientist (specialized in machine learning) and Machine Learning Engineer in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.
