November 2, 2019 / Last updated : January 3, 2020 irfan Computer Vision

Paper in ICCV Workshop on Geometry Meets Deep Learning Workshop on "Floors are Flat: Leveraging Semantics for Real-Time Surface Normal Prediction"

Citation S. Hickson, K. Raveendran, Alireza Fathi, K. Murphy, and I. Essa (2019), “Floors are Flat: Leveraging Semantics for Real-Time Surface Normal Prediction,” in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshop on Geometry Meets Deep Learning, 2019. [PDF] [VIDEO] [arXiv] [BIBTEX] @InProceedings{ 2019-Hickson-FFLSRSNP, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06792}, author = {Steven Hickson and Karthik Raveendran and […]
November 1, 2019 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Computational Journalism

Newly Endowed Chair Underscores Value of Computational Journalism | College of Computing

It is great to see someone who has done so much for Computational Journalism, continue to support it this way. Thanks Krishna Bharat. Friday, November 1, 2019 The creator of Google News has endowed a new faculty chair position in computational journalism at Georgia Tech’s College of Computing. Krishna Bharat – Georgia Tech alumnus (MS […]
March 15, 2018 / Last updated : March 15, 2018 irfan Machine Learning

The Minds of the New Machines | Research Horizons | Georgia Tech's Research News

A nice write-up in Georgia Tech’s Research Horizons Magazine about ML@GT Machine learning has been around for decades, but the advent of big data and more powerful computers has increased its impact significantly — ­moving machine learning beyond pattern recognition and natural language processing into a broad array of scientific disciplines. A subcategory of artificial intelligence, […]
February 20, 2018 / Last updated : February 20, 2018 irfan Computer Vision

Real-Time Captcha Technique Improves Biometric Authentication | College of Computing

A short write-up on one of my recent publications. A new login authentication approach could improve the security of current biometric techniques that rely on video or images of users’ faces. Known as Real-Time Captcha, the technique uses a unique challenge that’s easy for humans — but difficult for attackers who may be using machine learning […]
June 21, 2017 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Activity Recognition

Paper in IPCAI 2017 on "Video and Accelerometer-Based Motion Analysis for Automated Surgical Skills Assessment"

Paper Abstract Purpose: Basic surgical skills of suturing and knot tying are an essential part of medical training. Having an automated system for surgical skills assessment could help save experts time and improve training efficiency. There have been some recent attempts at automated surgical skills assessment using either video analysis or acceleration data. In this […]
May 18, 2017 / Last updated : May 18, 2017 irfan Computational Journalism

Paper in AAAI's ICWSM (2017) "Selfie-Presentation in Everyday Life: A Large-Scale Characterization of Selfie Contexts on Instagram"

Paper Abstract Carefully managing the presentation of self via technology is a core practice on all modern social media platforms. Recently, selfies have emerged as a new, pervasive genre of identity performance. In many ways unique, selfies bring us full circle to Goffman—blending the online and offline selves together. In this paper, we take an […]
May 18, 2017 / Last updated : May 18, 2017 irfan Computational Journalism

Paper in IJCNN (2017) "Towards Using Visual Attributes to Infer Image Sentiment Of Social Events"

Paper U. Ahsan, M. D. Choudhury, and Irfan Essa (2017), “Towards Using Visual Attributes to Infer Image Sentiment Of Social Events,” in Proceedings of The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Anchorage, Alaska, US, 2017. [PDF] [BIBTEX] @InProceedings{ 2017-Ahsan-TUVAIISSE, address = {Anchorage, Alaska, US}, author = {Unaiza Ahsan and Munmun De Choudhury and Irfan Essa}, […]