Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, a professor in UW CSE’s GRAIL group, and Eli Shlizerman, a professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, have joined the Research at Facebook team. Facebook’s gain is not UW’s loss, however, as the duo will be splitting their time between the company and campus.
In a welcome post, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Facebook’s director of applied machine learning, expressed excitement at what Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, an expert in computer vision and graphics, and Shlizerman, an expert… Read more →
UW CSE’s Dreambit imaging software lets people change their appearance virtually
Have you ever wondered what you would look like with a different hairstyle or if you were born in a different historical period? Now you can find out thanks to new imaging software created by UW CSE professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman.
Dreambit enables an individual to upload his/her photo and generate personalized search results in which the person’s face is synthesized with images matching the search terms.
Dreambit identifies a set of images that satisfy the search parameters, such as “curly… Read more →
UW CSE’s MegaFace Challenge shows bigger is better for facial recognition
Just how accurate are facial recognition algorithms—which may have been trained and tested on fewer than 15,000 photos—when put to the test on a larger scale? Researchers in UW CSE’s Graphics and Imaging Lab (GRAIL) aimed to find out by launching the MegaFace Challenge, a new competition in which teams from all over the world were invited to put their algorithms through their paces using the MegaFace dataset of one million images.
The results showed that, when it comes… Read more →
UW CSE’s Supasorn Suwajanakorn collects GeekWire Innovation of the Year Award
Ph.D. student Supasorn Suwajanakorn of UW CSE’s GRAIL group took home the coveted Innovation of the Year Award at GeekWire’s annual awards bash—a.k.a. “the Oscars of Northwest tech.” He collected the award, which was voted on by members of the local tech community, for his work with with professors Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman and Steve Seitz on What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks?, which combines 3-D face reconstruction, tracking, alignment, and multi-texture modeling to create a digital… Read more →
Vote for UW CSE’s 3D Face Reconstruction in the GeekWire Awards!
Balloting is open for the 2016 GeekWire Awards in several categories. Check ’em all out here.
But be sure to vote for UW CSE’s 3D Face Reconstruction in the “Innovation of the Year” category, here.
Congratulations to Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Steve Seitz and Ira Kemelmacher for being nominated!
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UW computer scientists are working on a way for you to talk to the dead
Advances in computing have disrupted many industries, from financial services and retail, to travel and real estate. Could psychic readings be next?
In a story posted on MyNorthwest.com, KIRO Radio reporter Rachel Belle foresees the day when you will be able to interact with a 3-D model of your dearly departed. And it will all be thanks to members of UW CSE’s GRAIL Group. From the article:
“Five years ago I sat down with my Grandma Sue and a… Read more →
What makes Tom Hanks look like Tom Hanks? UW CSE researchers can show you!
This week, UW CSE’s GRAIL Group demonstrated the ability to construct digital models of celebrities such as Tom Hanks by applying a novel combination of 3-D face reconstruction, tracking, alignment and multi-texture modeling to photos and videos mined from the Internet. The research team, which includes graduate student Supasorn Suwajanakorn and professors Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman and Steve Seitz, also engaged in some high-tech puppeteering, using footage of one person to control another’s expressions while preserving the latter’s own character.… Read more →
UW CSE and Madrona Venture Group celebrate student innovation
Each year, the Madrona Prize is awarded to students participating in UW CSE’s Open House whose work shows the greatest potential for commercialization. This year’s crop of one winner and three runners-up earned their awards by doing groundbreaking research in computer vision, systems and networking, health sensing, and ubiquitous computing.
WINNER
What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks (Total Moving Face Reconstruction): Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Steve Seitz, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
RUNNERS-UP
ApneaApp – Diagnosing Sleep Apnea: Rajalakshmi Nandakumar
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TUNE and Seattle Women in Tech team up in support of UW CSE’s DawgBytes program
UW CSE’s DawgBytes is one of three programs recently selected by mobile marketing company TUNE (formerly HasOffers) and Seattle Women in Technology as beneficiaries of a new partnership that aims to cultivate more women leaders in technology fields. DawgBytes, which hosts girls-only and co-ed summer day camps in computing, in addition to engaging in teacher support, community partnerships and other outreach activities, is part of a long tradition at UW CSE of encouraging women to pursue computer science education… Read more →
UW CSE hosts Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spent 90 minutes in UW CSE this morning – discussing our trajectory with Ed Lazowska and Hank Levy, and interacting with four groups of faculty and students: Ubiquitous Computing (Shwetak Patel and students), Data Visualization (Jeff Heer), Datacenter Systems (Arvind Krishnamurthy, Franzi Roesner and students), and Computer Vision (Ira Kemelmacher-Schlizerman, Steve Seitz, and students).
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