2021-22 Peebles Memorial Lecture in Information Technology

The 2021-22 Peebles Memorial Lecture in Information Technology was presented by Dr. David Crandall on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, in conjunction with the Research Services Expo in the Herman B Wells Library at Indiana University Bloomington. Dr. Crandall, Luddy School of Informatics and Computing Professor of Computer Science and Director of IU's Center for Machine Learning, presented "Computers That See: The Past, Present, and Future of Computer Vision".

Abstract: Computer vision is a key part of Artificial Intelligence and has been studied for decades, but creating machines that can actually understand the visual world around them has been an elusive goal. Despite many exciting advances over the last few years, computers still pale in comparison to the visual recognition abilities of even small children. In this talk, I review some of the history of computer vision, talk about the current state of the field, and speculate about the path forward.

Bio: Dr. David Crandall received the Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University in 2008, and the M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer science and engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in 2001. He worked as a postdoctoral associate at Cornell from 2008 to 2010, and as a research scientist at Eastman Kodak Company from 2001 to 2003.

Dr. Crandall's main research interest is computer vision, the area of computer science that tries to design algorithms that can "see". He is particularly interested in visual object recognition and scene understanding. He also is interested in problems that involve analyzing and modeling large amounts of uncertain data, like mining data from the web and from online social networking sites.

Watch Dr. Crandall's lecture (via YouTube).