Google Faculty Research Award supports work in detecting human-object interaction in images and videos
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Jia-Bin Huang, assistant professor of ECE and DAC faculty member
Jia-Bin Huang, assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, has received a Google Faculty Research Award to support his work in detecting human-object interaction in images and videos.
The Google award, which is in the Machine Perception category, will allow Huang to tackle the challenges of detecting two aspects of human-object interaction: modeling the relationship between a person and relevant objects/scene for gathering contextual information and mining hard examples automatically from unlabeled but interaction-rich videos. Click here to read more about Jia-Bin’s Google Award.