Our team was awarded a a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Justice, the research agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, for "An Object-Centric Approach for Image Analysis to Combat Human Trafficking". This work is part of the TraffickCam project, in collaboration with George Washington University, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the St. Louis County, Missouri, Police Department.
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ICCV 2019 Area Chair
Published on Dec 1, 2018
I will be an Area Chair for ICCV 2019, which will be held in Seoul, Korea.
AAAI paper accepted!
Published on Oct 31, 2018
Our paper, "Hotels-50K: A Global Hotel Recognition Dataset", has been accepted to the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19) in Honolulu, Hawaii. This work is part our TraffickCam collaboration with researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, George Washington University, and Adobe.
Abby Stylianou, Hong Xuan, Maya Shende, Jonathan Brandt, Richard Souvenir and Robert Pless. "Hotels-50K: A Global Hotel Recognition Dataset". AAAI, 2019.
ECCV paper accepted
Published on Oct 1, 2018
Our paper "Deep Randomized Ensembles for Metric Learning" was accepted to the 15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). This work was in collaboration with researchers from George Washington University.
Hong Xuan, Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless. Deep Randomized Ensembles for Metric Learning. ECCV, 2018.
Undergrad Summer Research 2018
Published on Aug 9, 2018
This summer, our group hosted four students from various summer programs (NSF REU Site @ Temple, Temple Summer Scholars Program, and Temple Merit Scholars Program) who were exposed to research in computer vision and machine learning. Quang Tran came in 2nd Place in the end-of-summer REU Site Symposium for his research presentation. Congrats Quang!
From left: Shatiz (Temple SSP), Sam (NSF REU), me, Gabe (NSF REU), and Quang (Temple MSP)