01/08/2014 -
AUSTIN, Texas — Three faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to receive Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers.
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09/24/2013 -
THE DAILY TEXAN
Researchers at the University are working to perfect a computer algorithm designed to summarize first-person perspective films, with the hope of aiding the elderly and memory-impaired.
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09/23/2013 -
With video sharing expected to leap, researchers at the University of Texas are training computers to digest such videos into a nutshell version for easier viewing... Read the full Wall Street Journal Article.
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09/15/2013 -
allvoices
Computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin say that a day will come when computers will automatically give short video digests of a day in our lives, kind of like a video journal.
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09/03/2013 -
The race is on to develop tools to help sift through the vast quantities of video that are being produced by wearable camera technology like Google Glass and Looxcie.
The researchers are working to develop tools to help make sense of the vast quantities of video that are going to be produced by wearable camera technology like Google Glass and Looxcie.
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07/19/2013 -
At the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Ray Mooney delivered the keynote talk on language learning, and it was very well received. Peter Stone was selected to be one of the co-chairs of next year's conference.
Also, Peter Stone and his student, Daniel Urieli, won PowerTAC, the Trading Agent Competition on electricity markets.
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07/03/2013 -
Kristen Grauman has earned the 2013 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researcher Award. The award is given to a researcher within seven years of their Ph.D. Kristen received the award at this year's annual IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). CVPR is considered, together with the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), the top level conference in computer vision.
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02/28/2013 -
The Department of Computer Science's very own Kristen Grauman, who serves as Associate Professor, was recently awarded the Computers and Thought Award by the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). This award is given to scientists that are making outstanding contributions in the field of artificial intelligence. Kristen was recognized for her work in recognition and search problems in computer vision.
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08/21/2012 -
Assistant Professor Kristen Grauman has earned a Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.
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03/28/2012 -
Associate Professor Kristen Grauman is one of 26 winners selected by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) as a 2012 Young Investigator Award recipient. From a diverse pool of more than 350 candidates of university and college faculty who have attained tenure-track positioning the past five years, 26 winners were selected. ONR YIP awardees are selected based upon the merit of their research and potential contributions for game-changing advances for the Navy and Marine Corps.
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