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Despoina Paschalidou
Autonomous Vision Doctoral Researcher Alumni
I am PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and ETH Zurich as part of the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems program. In particular, I am pursuing my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Geiger and Prof. Luc van Gool .
One of the most challenging tasks of Computer Vision is to endow computers with the ability to discover the underlying relationships between the objects in a scene. The large amount of available labeled data as well as the fast progress in deep learning has significantly advanced many Computer Vision tasks, such as object segmentation. optical flow estimation, action recognition etc. However, a truly intelligent system would ideally be able to infer high-level semantics underlying human actions such as motivation, intent and emotion. However, all human actions involve some uncertainty. To this end, I would like to either develop or to further enhance existing methodologies that incorporate such uncertainties. For now, I have worked on the 3D reconstruction task, by developing a model able to incorporate uncertainties in the image formation process.