Welcome to the Bren School Alumni Chapter blog! Find out what classmates are up to, stay up to date with the latest news and events and discuss trends in the field of information and computer science.
On October 30, 2009, the Computational Vision group at UC Irvine hosted the second annual Southern California Computer Vision Meetup, a day of talks and discussion on the latest results in computer vision. Topics of discussion ranged from surveillance and automotive safety, to differentiating white blood cells by qualitatively analyzing a single image.
A paper entitled, "Markerless View-Independent Registration of Multiple Distorted Projectors on Extruded Surfaces Using an Uncalibrated Camera" by Computer Science professor Aditi Majumder and graduate student Behzad Sajadi has won the runner up in the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Visualization 2009 conference held in Atlantic City this month.
Informatics Professor Alfred Kobsa has been appointed Associate Editor of the new "ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems" (TIIS). The journal will publish research articles concerning the design, realization, and/or evaluation of interactive systems that exhibit some form of "intelligent" behavior.
A paper entitled "Discriminative models for multi-class object layout" by PhD student Chaitanya Desai and Assistant Professors Deva Ramanan and Charless Fowlkes received the Marr Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) held the first week of October in Kyoto, Japan.
Paul Dourish, Professor of Informatics, has received a $500,000 National Foundation Grant for his research entitle "From Local Ties to Transnational Connections: The Role of Computer-mediated Communication in Relational Maintenance." The research is in collaboration with Irina Shklovski, an assistant professor at the IT University in Copenhagen, D […]