[Lisa_seminaires] [Tea Talk] Abhishek Das (Georgia Tech) August 17 2018 10:30 AA3195

Michael Noukhovitch mnoukhov at gmail.com
Mar 14 Aou 11:06:07 EDT 2018


For those wishing to meet with Abhishek:

It seems that he will only be available until 1:30pm, so if you're keen to
meet, there will be a group that will go out to lunch together after the
talk. Please stay after the talk and join!

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 4:54 PM Michael Noukhovitch <mnoukhov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This week we have *Abhishek Das * from * Georgia Tech (and currently
> interning at FAIR Montreal) * giving a talk on *August 17 2018* at *10:30*
> in room *AA3195*
>
> Will this talk be streamed <https://mila.bluejeans.com/809027115/webrtc>?
> yes
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> ☕ talk ->🚶to 3195
> Michael
>
> *TITLE* Connecting Vision and Language to Actions
>
> *KEYWORDS *language understanding, VQA, embodied agents
>
> *ABSTRACT*
> Building intelligent agents that possess the ability to perceive the rich
> visual environment around us, communicate this understanding in natural
> language to humans and other agents, and execute actions in a physical
> environment, is a long-term goal of Artificial Intelligence. In this talk,
> I will present some of my recent work at various points on this spectrum in
> connecting vision and language to actions; from Visual Dialog (CVPR17,
> ICCV17, HCOMP17) -- where we develop models capable of holding free-form
> visually-grounded natural language conversation towards a downstream goal
> and ways to evaluate them -- to Embodied Question Answering (CVPR18) --
> where we augment these models to actively navigate in simulated
> environments and gather visual information necessary for answering
> questions.
>
> *BIO*
> Abhishek Das is a Computer Science PhD student at Georgia Institute of
> Technology, advised by Dhruv Batra, and working closely with Devi Parikh.
> He is interested in deep learning and its applications in building agents
> that can see (computer vision), talk (language modeling), act
> (reinforcement learning), and reason. He is a recipient of an Adobe
> Research Fellowship and a Snap Research Fellowship. He has held internship
> positions at Queensland Brain Institute (Winter 2013, Winter 2014),
> Virginia Tech (Fall 2015) and Facebook AI Research (Summer 2017, Winter
> 2018, Summer 2018). He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology
> Roorkee in 2015 with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
>
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