Title: Computing Makes Ordinary Cameras Extraordinary
Abstract: The convergence of computations with optics and imaging that started a few decades ago has created high quality, high dynamic range, low-light, and high resolution images and videos and are in all our smart-phones today. In this talk, I will summarize current research that combines computing with existing CMOS sensors and has the potential to, quite simply, change what it means to be a camera. I will show cameras with extraordinary abilities that can see beyond the line of sight, see deep beneath the skin, see audio and mechanical vibrations, see better in poor weather and murky waters, see beneath the surface of crops, and much more. Much like the research during 1990-2010 transformed personal photography, current computational imaging research has the potential to impact many domains including healthcare, transportation, robotics and agriculture.
Biography: Srinivasa Narasimhan is a Professor of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He served as Interim Director of the RI from Aug 2019 to Dec 2021. He obtained his PhD from Columbia University. His group focuses on novel techniques for imaging and illumination to enable applications in vision, graphics, robotics, agriculture, intelligent transportation and medical imaging. His works have received more than a dozen Best Paper or Best Demo or Honorable mention awards at major conferences. In addition, he has received the Ford URP, Okawa Research and the NSF CAREER Awards. He is the co-inventor of several technologies including programmable headlights, Aqualux 3D display, Assorted-pixels, Motion-aware cameras, Episcan360, Episcan3D, EpiToF3D, and programmable triangulation light curtains. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision and serves frequently as an Area Chair of top computer vision conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, BMVC, ACCV, 3DV).
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Title: Data Science for Social Good
Abstract: With increase in sage of the Internet, social media platforms, huge amount of data is getting generated at various level; one of the dire need of the hour is to see how we can use this data to have societal impact. I will briefly mention some super cool projects that we have worked on and that have made some visible contributions to the world outside academia. All work presented in the talk (including datasets, code, slides, recorded videos) has related publications at https://precog.iiit.ac.in/ Projects that I will touch upon are — Selfie deaths / KillFie http://labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/killfie/ #GeneralElections2019 http://bit.ly/elections19(Mis)Information / Fake content on Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and Computing for Medicine. We all understand, many real world problems cannot be addressed by a single domain faculty / researcher, we need more students & faculty to come together, hoping to generate some interest to join hands to have an impact and make a difference. Many of our research work is made available for public use through tools or online services at https://precog.iiit.ac.in/ including datasets that we have used in our research work. Our work derives techniques from Computational Social Science, Data Science, Statistics, and Network Science. I will be more than happy to clarify, discuss, any of our work in detail, as required, after the talk.
Biography: Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru ("PK") is a Professor of Computer Science at IIIT-Hyderabad. He is an Associate Researcher at Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & AI - IIT Madras, Visiting Faculty at IIT Kanpur and an Adjunct faculty at IIIT Delhi. PK was inducted an ACM Distinguished Member in 2021. PK is an ACM India Council Member, and Chair of the Publicity & Membership Committee of ACM India. PK is a TEDx and an ACM Distinguished & ACM India Eminent Speaker. PK received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His Ph.D. thesis work on anti-phishing research at CMU contributed in creating an award-winning startup - Wombat Security Technologies, wombatsecurity.com. Wombat was acquired in March 2018 for USD 225 Million. PK was listed in the World's 2% Scientists by Stanford University in Nov 2020. He is a senate member of IIIT Una, LNMIIT and is on various Board of Studies / Academic Council of different institutes across the country. He has co-authored research papers in the field of Computational Social Science, Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Cyber Security, Social Computing, Data Science for Social Good, amongst others. In addition to his contributions to academia, PK is on advisory role on various government organizations, government committees, including a 8 member committee on Non-Personal Data by Government of India, chaired by Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan. PK and his students have played an integral role in developing a technology used by many State and Central Government agencies in India. PK's research work regularly gets featured on news media, including print, online, and TV within India and across the world; to list a few, BBC, CBC, CBS, CNN, Doordarshan, Economic Times, Indian Express, NBC, New Scientist, NewYorker, Reuters, Times of India, USA Today (on 1st Feb 2021), Washington Post, and many more. PK Spear heads ACM India's programs on improving the quality of PhD students in Computing in India -- PhDClinic & Anveshan Setu Fellowship. In his Dean's role, he managed a team of 15 faculty members and 10+ admin staff, including Associate Dean of Student Affairs, overseeing hostel, sports centre, health centre, student {well-being, clubs, mentorship program}, technical & cultural fests. He was the Founding Head of Cybersecurity Education and Research Centre (CERC) at IIIT-Delhi. PK started and successfully manages PreCog (precog.iiit.ac.in), a research group at IIIT-Hyderabad.
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