[AI Seminar] AI Seminar sponsored by Apple -- Aayush Bansal

[Han Zhao]

Dear faculty and students:

We look forward to seeing you next Tuesday, Sep. 24th, at noon in *NSH
3305 *for our first AI Seminar this semester, sponsored by Apple. To learn
more about the seminar series, please visit the website
<http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
On Tuesday, Aayush Bansal will give the following talk:
*Title: Association and Imagination*

*Abstract: *When you see the sunset standing on Seine river in Paris, you
can trivially imagine it along the Monongahela in Pittsburgh. When you hear
something, you can easily imagine how someone would have said it. When you
think of an event from the past, you can relive every bit of it in your
imagination. Humans have remarkable abilities to associate different
concepts and create visual worlds far beyond what could be seen by a human
eye, including inferring the state of unobserved, imagining the unknown,
and thinking about diverse possibilities about what lies in the future.
These human powers require minimal instructions, and primarily relies on
observation and interaction with a dynamic environment. The simple tasks
from daily life that are trivial for humans to think and imagine have
remained challenging for machine perception and artificial intelligence.
The inability to associate and a lack of sense of imagination in machines
substantially restricts their applicability.

In this talk, I will demonstrate how thinking about association at various
levels of abstraction can lead to machine imagination. I will present
algorithms that enable association between different domains in an
unsupervised manner. This ability to associate allows automatic creation of
audio and visual content (images, videos, 4D space-time visualization of
dynamic events) that is also user-controllable and interactive. I will show
diverse user applications in audio-visual data retargeting, reconstruction,
synthesis, and manipulation. These applications are the first steps towards
building machines with a powerful audio-visual simulator that will enable
them to imagine complex hypothetical situations, and model the aspects of
their surroundings that is not easily perceived.

*Bio: *Aayush Bansal is a PhD candidate at the Robotics Institute of
Carnegie Mellon University. He is a recipient of Uber Presidential
Fellowship (2016-17), Qualcomm Fellowship (2017-18), and Snap Fellowship
(2019-20). The production houses such as BBC Studios and PBS are using his
research work to create documentaries and short movies. Various national
and international media such as NBC, CBS, France TV, and The Journalist
have extensively covered his work. More details are here
<http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb>.
-- 

*Han ZhaoMachine Learning Department*


*School of Computer ScienceCarnegie Mellon UniversityMobile: +1-*
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