Laura Sevilla - Keynote speaker at BMVC 24
"Frontiers of Video Understanding"
The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) is the British Machine Vision Association's (BMVA) annual conference on machine vision, image processing, and pattern recognition. It is one of the major international conferences on computer vision and related areas held in the UK. With increasing popularity and quality, it has established itself as a prestigious event on the vision calendar.
Keynote speaker, Laura Sevilla (Lecturer in Image and Vision Computing, IPAB) presents on Wednesday, 27th November:
Talk Title: "Frontiers of Video Understanding"
Abstract: Video Understanding is a fundamental skill of intelligent systems. From autonomous robots to virtual assistants, understanding the world in motion is necessary to be able to move and interact with it. The last few years have seen amazing improvements in Video Understanding research. Still there is a remarkable gap between the almost uncanny performance of models in other modalities such as language and still images, and the performance of video. In this talk I will discuss what I believe are the current barriers for video, including efficiency, a tricky relationship with language and finding the right tasks. For each of these topics I will discuss both my recent work on them, as well as what I believe are interesting directions that I hope can be inspiring for the community.
Bio: Laura Sevilla is a Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Edinburgh where she funded and leads the Video Understanding Lab. Her work over the years has advanced the state-of-the-art in many aspects of video understanding, from optical flow, object tracking, video object segmentation, low-shot action classification, action detection, affordance estimation, video captioning and more. She has been the recipient of a Google Faculty Award in 2020 and Google Scholar Award in 2022, as well as other funding from companies such as Meta. She has served as Program Chair for BMVC in 2021 and as Area Chair for ECCV, ICCV, CVPR and AAAI. She's also done work on outreach through the series of Computer Vision for Global Challenges. She's also been elected as an ELLIS Scholar.
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The 35th British Machine Vision Conference
The 35th British Machine Vision Conference 2024: Keynotes