Pictures from ICSI BEARS Open House

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

ICSI held its annual open house on Thursday, February 14 in conjunction with the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium. Group directors gave overviews of their groups' work, and researchers demonstrated their latest results in network measurement and security, multimedia analysis, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and speech and audio analysis. Here are photos from the event:

Lunch before open house   Audio and Multimedia Group Director Gerald Friedland discussing his group's work
Attendees from industry and academia meet with ICSI's senior researchers at lunch before the open house.   Gerald Friedland, director of the Audio and Multimedia Group, discusses his group's work
Artificial Intelligence Group Director Srini Narayanan discussing his group's work   Speech Group Director Steven Wegmann discussing his group's work
Srini Narayanan, director of the Artificial Intelligence Group, discusses MetaNet, a system able to understand metaphors in four languages.   Steven Wegmann, director of the Speech Group, discusses his group's work.
Daniel Goehring demonstrates DPM-based realtime object recognition  
Daniel Goehring, a visiting scholar supported by the DAAD in the Audio and Multimedia Group, demonstrated DPM-based realtime object detection.   Ekaterina Gonina, an affiliated researcher in the Audio and Multimedia Group, demonstrates her work in optimizing multimedia analysis techniques to reduce energy consumption.
Luke Gottlieb demonstrates methods for finding skilled Mechanical Turk participants to manually annotate where random videos from the Web were shot.   Jisup Hong demonstrates the MetaNet project, which is building a system to automatically understand metaphors in four languages.
Luke Gottlieb of the Audio and Multimedia Group demonstrates methods for finding skilled Mechanical Turk participants to manually annotate where random videos from the Web were shot.   Jisup Hong demonstrates the MetaNet project, which is building a system to automatically understand metaphors in four languages.
Korbinian Riedhammer demonstrates his interactive lecture browser
Korbinian Riedhammer, a visiting scholar supported by the DAAD in the Speech Group, demonstrates an interactive lecture browser.