Kristen

Kristen Grauman

Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor

Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow

Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin



CV         Publications         Code           Data        

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

Our Synthesis Lecture on Visual Object Recognition is now available:  Visual Object Recognition, Kristen Grauman and Bastian Leibe, Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, April 2011, Vol. 5, No. 2, Pages 1-181.

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, and scalable methods for content-based retrieval and visual search.

Large amounts of interconnected visual data (images, videos) are readily available---but we don’t yet have the tools to easily access and analyze them.  My group’s research aims to remove this disparity, and transform how we retrieve and evaluate visual information.  This requires robust methods to recognize objects, actions, and scenes, and to automatically organize and search images and videos based on their content.  Key research issues that we are exploring are scalable search for meaningful similarity metrics, unsupervised visual discovery, and cooperative learning between machine and human vision systems.
                                                                                                                                                                                      
Vision and learning reading group page

Publications page with links to code, slides, and project pages.  Or, sorted [by year]  [by topic].

Code download page

Datasets download page




Graduate Students
Yong Jae Lee
Jaechul Kim
Adriana Kovashka
Sung Ju Hwang
Chao-Yeh Chen


Graduated Students Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan Ph.D. (2011), Bert Kay Dissertation Award from the Dept of CS.   Now at Google.
Jeff Donahue, B.S., Turing Scholars Honors Thesis (2011).   Now a Ph.D. student at UC-Berkeley.
Andy Luong, B.S., Turing Scholars Honors Thesis (2011), Best Undergraduate Thesis Award.   Now an M.S. student at UT-Austin.




Professional Service Area Chair: CVPR 2009, ICCV 2009, ICCV 2011, ECCV 2012, ACCV 2012
Journal Editorial Board: IJCV
Program Committee / Reviewer: CVPR 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012; ICCV 2007; ECCV 2008, 2010; NIPS 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010





Teaching
CS 395T Visual Recognition (Fall 2011) -- a Diversity course for CS PhD students
CS 376: Computer Vision (Spring 2011)
CS 395T: (Special Topics in) Computer Vision : Object Recognition (Spring 2010)
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
Email:
grauman, at sign, cs dot utexas dot edu (best way to contact me)
Campus office:
ACES 3.446
Phone:
512-471-9521
Mailing address:
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin       
1616 Guadalupe, Suite 2.408       
Austin, TX 78701
Campus mail:
Mail code D9500



Funding
Office of Naval Research
National Science Foundation
DARPA Computer Science Study Group
DARPA
Microsoft Research
Google Research
Henry Luce Foundation




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.  It is not necessary to contact me.  Unfortunately, I am not 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 in your statement of purpose.