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How can we tell that a video is playing backwards? People's motions look wrong when the video is played backwards--can we develop an algorithm to distinguish forward from backward video? Similarly, can we tell if a video is sped-up? We have developed algorithms to distinguish forwards from backwards video, and fast from slow. Training algorithms for these tasks provides a self-supervised task that facilitates human activity recognition. We'll show these results, and applications of these unsupervised video learning tasks, including a method to change the timing of people in videos.
William T. Freeman (MIT)
Professor
William T. Freeman is the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) there. He was the Associate Department Head of EECS from 2011 - 2014. Since 2015, he has also been a research manager in Google Research in Cambridge, MA. His current research interests include mid-level vision and computational photography. Previous research topics include steerable filters and pyramids, orientation histograms, the generic viewpoint assumption, color constancy, computer vision for computer games, motion magnification, and belief propagation in networks with loops. He received outstanding paper awards at computer vision or machine learning conferences in 1997, 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2019, and test-of-time awards for papers from 1990, 1995 and 2005. He shared the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Physics for a consulting role with the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, which reconstructed the first image of a black hole. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAI. In 2019, he received the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award, the highest award in computer vision. He is active in the program or organizing committees of computer vision, graphics, and machine learning conferences. He was the program co-chair for ICCV 2005, and for CVPR 2013. He holds over 50 patents.