About CVR Basic Research Ophthalmology Vision Training News & Events

Upcoming Talk

Wed, May 16, 2012

12-1pm, 182 George St, Room 110

Sponsored by

Division of Applied Mathematics & Center for Vision

Research Seminar

Lessons from Photographing and Identifying the

World's Plant Species

Peter Belhumeur

Professor

Department of Computer Science

Columbia University

Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the

Smithsonian Institution are working on visual

recognition software to help identify species from

photographs. I will discuss our work on developing

Leafsnap -- the first in a series of electronic field guides.

As part of this work, we have completed photographing

close to one third of the world's plant species and have

begun capturing beautiful high-resolution images of live

specimens. Our work has led us in new research

directions for the visual recognition of human faces, dog

breeds, and bird species, including the adoption of

centuries-old techniques from taxonomy for the process

of labeling images with visual attributes and object

parts. In particular, I will show that it is possible to

automatically recognize a wide range of visual attributes

and parts in images and use them in numerous

applications of computer vision.

 
 

working at

 

the interface of disciplines

 

Perception

 

Computational

Vision

 

Neurobiology

 

Ophthalmology

 

Machine

Vision

 

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Slideshow of the CVR lecture given by Pietro Perona on April 24, 2012 

Visual search: a computational exploration

 

Color Effects

A talk given at Rhode Island School of Design in

March that was co-sponsored by the Center for

Vision Research in conjunction with the exhibit

titled

Painting Air :   Spencer Finch

February 24 - July 29, 2012

Rhode Island School of Design Museum

Providence, RI

Co-sponsored by Center for Vision Research

at Brown University

 

The Center for Vision Research

Brown Institute for Brain Science

Brown University