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Jia-Bin Huang, assistant professor of ECE and DAC faculty member[/caption]

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.