Schedule

The MULEA 2019 Workshop is a full day workshop on Friday, 25 October 2019.

The following is the schedule of the workshop:

9:00- 9:15 Workshop opening and welcome.

    • Dr. Jiang Gao and Dr. Jia-Yu Pan (Samsung Research America, USA, and Google Inc., USA)

9:15- 10:10 Keynote 1: "Connecting Language and Vision: From Captioning towards Embodied Learning".

    • Dr. Subhashini Venugopalan, Google, Inc., USA.

10:10- 10:30 Oral presentation 1: "Geometry-Aware Relational Exemplar Attention for Dense Captioning".

    • Tzu-Jui Julius Wang, Hamed Rezazadegan Tavakoli, Mats Sjöberg, Jorma Laaksonen (Aalto University, Nokia Technologies, CSC – IT CENTER FOR SCIENCE LTD, Finland)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break.

11:00- 11:20 Oral presentation 2: "Deep Reinforcement Learning Visual-Text Attention for Multimodal Video Classification".

    • Mengyi Liu and Zhu Liu (Alibaba Group, China)

11:20- 12:15 Keynote 2: "On the Multisensory Nature of Objects and Language: A Robotics Perspective".

    • Prof. Jivko Sinapov (Tufts University, USA)

12:15- 12:30 Poster Blitz Session (3 minutes each) and Setup.

    • Poster 1: "Video Question Generation via Cross-Modal Self-Attention Networks Learning", by Yu-Siang Wang, Hung-Ting Su, Chen-Hsi Chang and Winston Hsu (National Taiwan University).
    • Poster 2: "MultiLock: Mobile Active Authentication based on Multiple Biometric and Behavioral Patterns", by Alejandro Acien, Aythami Morales, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Julian Fierrez and Ruben Tolosana (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain).
    • Poster 3: "Video Object Linguistic Grounding", by Alba Herrera-Palacio, Carles Ventura and Xavier Giró-Nieto (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).
    • Poster 4: "An Improvement on Audio-to-MIDI Alignment Using Triplet Pair", by Yifan Wang, Shuchang Liu and Li Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China).


12:30-14:00 Lunch.


14:00- 14:55 Keynote 3: "Learning to Navigate".

    • Dr. Piotr Mirowski (DeepMind, UK)

14:55- 15:15 Oral presentation 3: "Visually Grounded Language Learning for Robot Navigation".

    • Emre Unal, Ozan Arkan Can, Yucel Yemez (Koc University, Turkey)

15:15- 15:35 Oral presentation 4: "Clustering Optimization for Abnormality Detection in Semi-Autonomous Systems".

    • Hafsa Iqbal, Damian Campo, Mohamad Baydoun, Lucio Marcenaro, David Martin Gomez, Carlo Regazzoni (University of Genova, Italy and University of Madrid, Spain)

15:30-16:00 Coffee break.

16:00- 16:15 Wrap up, next steps and closing.

    • Dr. Jiang Gao and Dr. Jia-Yu Pan (Samsung Research America, USA, Google Inc., USA)

16:15- 17:30 Poster Session continues.


Invited Speakers

  • Dr. Subhashini Venugopalan (Google, Inc., USA)
  • Prof. Jivko Sinapov (Tufts University, USA)
  • Dr. Piotr Mirowski (DeepMind)