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BIU learning club – Jack Hessel – The Case for Reasoning Beyond Recognition
October 23, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm IDT
Location:
Engineering building (1103), room 329
Title:
The Case for Reasoning Beyond Recognition
Abstract:
Algorithms that can jointly process modalities like images+text are needed for next generation search, accessibility, and robot interaction tools. Simply recognizing objects in images, however, is rarely sufficient; to truly be useful, machines must be capable of deeper commonsense inferences about sophisticated multimodal contexts. I’ll discuss our recent+ongoing work in three (related) directions beyond recognition: 1) visual temporal reasoning; 2) visual abductive reasoning; and 3) visual uncommonsense reasoning.
Speaker’s Short bio:
Jack Hessel is a Research Scientist at the Allen Institute for AI, whose work focuses on multimodal models and corpora. He earned his PhD from Cornell University in 2020, and has published work in various machine learning, language processing, and computer vision venues, e.g., NeurIPS, *ACL, CVPR, etc.