Vision Affiliate and Alum Co-Chair Workshop at ICCV

^{February 4, 2014}
Professors Kate Saenko, a researcher affiliated with the Vision Group, and Brian Kulis, an alum, were among the co-chairs of the First International Workshop on Visual Domain Adaptation and Dataset Bias (VISDA) in December. The workshop focused on the challenges that arise when the data used to train a computer vision machine have different properties from the data the model is used on. This may happen, for example, with an application used to analyze pictures taken on a smart phone has been trained on annotations from sources such as amazon.com. The workshop was held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in Sydney, Australia. Saenko is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell; Kulis, who was at ICSI from 2009 to 2011, is now an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Ohio State University.