讲座时间：2024年3月25日10:00-11:30

讲座地点：西土城校区教三136长年报告厅

主 讲 人：Prof. Yi-Zhe Song

主 持 人：马占宇 教授

Abstract:

Humans sketch, from historic times in caves, to the time being by scribbling on phones and tablets. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) learns to see and perceive the world around us (aka computer vision), understanding how humans sketch plays an important and fundamental role in casting insights into the human visual system, and in turn informing AI model designs. This talk is all about sketches, summarising over a decade of research from the SketchX Research Lab at the University of Surrey. By the end, it hopes to convey how sketch research can inform the future of AI, both in terms of fundamental theory and applications that could revolutionise the status quo.

Bio:

Yi-Zhe Song is a Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey, where he leads the SketchX Lab. SketchX Lab has been honoured with a Best Paper Award Candidate at CVPR’23 and a Best Paper Award at BMVC’15. The lab’s vision is to understand how seeing can be explained by drawing, that is, how a better understanding of human sketch data can lead to insights about how human visual systems operate. He is an Associate Editor for two of the most significant journals in computer vision and machine learning – IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). He is the forthcoming Director of the UKRI CDT on Digital Media Inclusion, and serves as a Co-Director of Surrey’s People-Centred AI Institute (PAI), UK’s leading AI research centre with 50+ core academics and 130+ AI Fellows. He is also the Turing Academic Lead for Surrey at the Alan Turing Institute (ATI). He founded and currently leads the MSc in AI programme at Surrey, having previously established an MSc in AI program at Queen Mary University of London.