University of Toronto Scarborough Great Explorations speaker series:

Title: Understanding the World from Images
Presented by: Professor David Fleet

Professor David Fleet, Department of Computer & Mathematical Sciences, U of T Scarborough, CIFAR AI Chair, U of T, Faculty Member, Vector Institute, and Google Research leads our Fall 2020 line-up on Tuesday, October 6 with Understanding the World from Images. Prof. Fleet will speak on his research in Computer Vision and Deep Learning - reconstructing large-scale scenes to support applications such as virtual reality and autonomous vehicles, and in the small, estimating the structure of biological molecules such as viruses and proteins at atomic resolutions.

Abstract: Through research in Computer Vision and Deep Learning over the last few decades we have developed algorithms for successfully detecting objects and inferring their structure from images.  Many such algorithms use multiple views of the same scene to infer a three-dimensional model of the world from two-dimensional images. I will review some of these capabilities in the large, reconstructing large-scale scenes to support applications such as virtual reality and autonomous vehicles, and in the small, to estimate the structure of biological molecules such as viruses and proteins, at atomic resolutions.

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