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

Michael Noukhovitch mnoukhov at gmail.com
Ven 17 Aou 10:30:11 EDT 2018


sorry, change in streaming link:
https://mila.bluejeans.com/9010777275/webrtc

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 11:06 AM Michael Noukhovitch <mnoukhov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>> Want to meet the speaker? Sign up here
>> <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/selfsched?sstoken=UVBVTVF0X25Nd09LfGRlZmF1bHR8ZWQ5MmNlYWMxODI4OWVkNmUzNGU3OTE4ZDExMGI0YTk>
>> ☕ 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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