SKC Science & Technology Webinar: Visual Intelligence from Human Learning

Date/Time: Friday, July 2, 2021, 10:00am IST (Indian Standard Time)

Speaker: Ranjay Krishna, Stanford University, USA

Recording available at: https://youtu.be/CpVqO2XCfd8

Abstract: At the core of human development is the ability to adapt to new, previously unseen stimuli. We ask one another for clarification when we encounter new concepts. Yet, this ability to go beyond the confounds of their training data remains an open challenge for artificial intelligence agents. My research designs visual intelligence to acquire new concepts by interacting with people. I will introduce a framework for socially situated learning. This framework pushes agents beyond traditional computer vision training paradigms and enables learning from human interactions in online social environments. I will showcase a real-world deployment of our agent, which learned to acquire new visual concepts by asking people targeted questions on social media. By interacting with over 230K people over 8 months, our agent learned to recognize hundreds of new concepts. This work demonstrates the possibility for agents to adapt and self-improve in real-world social environments.

Bio: Ranjay Krishna's research lies at the intersection of computer vision and human computer interaction. He recently received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, USA where he earlier received his M.S. in Computer Science. His undergraduate degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering as well as in Computer Science are from Cornell University, USA. His prior work experience in research and engineering has been with companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo Research, and MongoDB.

Target Audience: This is for a wider audience. In particular, higher secondary and college students and teachers are welcome.

The webinar is done in a fireside chat format.

This webinar will be conducted over Zoom. The Zoom link will be available to registrants (sent to their email addresses) shortly before the webinar starts.

Registration is free. Attendees who complete feedbacks (after the webinar) will receive e-certificates.

This webinar is part of SKC Science and Technology Webinar Series.