Rob Fergus of The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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LUNCHTIME GUEST SPEAKER 9/21/07
Rob Fergus
Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
Friday, Sept. 21st
12:00-2pm
Conference Room 442
In my talk I’ll give an overview of my research in Computer Vision
and Computational Photography. I’ll then describe some of the things
I’m interested in work on now that I’m at NYU. I’ll focus of some
areas which are might provide scope for collaboration with the ITP
program.
Bio:
Rob Fergus joins the Courant Institute as an Assistant Professor of
Computer Science. He earned an M.Eng degree from the University of
Cambridge, U.K. (2000), an M.Sc from Caltech (2002) and a D.Phil from
the University of Oxford, U.K. (2005). Before coming to NYU, he was a
postdoc at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.
Dr. Fergus’s research is in the field of Computer Vision, with links
to Computer Graphics and Machine Learning. Specific areas of interest
include object recognition, computational photography and problems in
low-level vision.
For more details, please see my website:
http://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus
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Interactive Telecommunications Program
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