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Kristen Grauman

 

Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor

Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow

 

Department of Computer Sciences

University of Texas at Austin

 

 

 

 

 

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, where I lead the Computer Vision Research Group.  I received my Ph.D. from MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (2006). 

           

Curriculum vitae

 

        Research

 

My research interests are in computer vision and machine learning.  In general, the goal of computer vision is to develop the algorithms and representations that will allow a computer to autonomously analyze visual information.   I am especially interested in learning and recognizing visual object categories, inferring object properties such as shape or pose from images, and methods for content-based image retrieval and visual search.

 

In recent work we have developed techniques that integrate computational theory and machine learning to provide efficient, effective solutions to vision problems.  We are interested in ways to leverage the often incomplete and even evolving information that surrounds visual content.  Algorithms that are both highly efficient and require minimal human supervision are critical, if we are to scale recognition and image retrieval to the level where they can accommodate the vast amount of visual data that is already available.

                                                                                                                                                                                           

Publications page

 

Vision and learning reading group page

 

 

Graduate students

 

Yong Jae Lee

Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan

Jaechul Kim

 

        Teaching

 

                        CS 378: Computer Vision (Fall 2009)                 

 

CS 395T: Visual Recognition and Search (Spring 2009)

 

                        CS 378: Computer Vision (Fall 2008)                 

 

                        AAAI 2008 Tutorial on Visual Recognition, co-taught with Bastian Leibe (July 2008) 

 

                        CS 395T: Visual Recognition and Search (Spring 2008)

 

                        CS 378 / 395T: Computer Vision (Fall 2007)

                       

                        CS 395T: Object Recognition (Spring 2007)

 

                        Introduction to Computer Science, for the Women’s Technology Program (MIT, Summer 2005)

 

        Contact information

 

 

                        Email:             grauman – at sign – cs dot utexas dot edu [best way to reach me]

 

                        Office:            CSA 114

 

                        Phone:           (512) 471-9521

 

                        Address:        Department of Computer Sciences

                                                1 University Station C0500           

                                                Taylor Hall 2.124

                                                University of Texas at Austin        

                                                Austin, TX 78712-1188

 

                                   

        Note to prospective students

 

If you are a prospective student interested in computer vision research at UT-Austin, please read about our graduate admissions process.  Unfortunately, I am not always able to respond to emails about applications to our graduate program.  If you are applying to the CS department and are interested in my research group, please state this specifically in your statement of purpose.