Interclass Transfer: why learning to recognize many objects is easier than learning to recognize just one

Workshop Organizers

Andras Ferencz University of California at Berkeley 545 Soda Hall Berkeley, CA USA 94720 email: ferencz@cs.berkeley.edu phone: +1 (510) 642-9940	Andras Ferencz was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1975. He graduated with Honors in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1997 and worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center before starting the Ph.D. program. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in the spring of 2005. His thesis work focused on applying machine learning to object recognition. He is currently a research scientist at Mobileye Vision Technologies.
Michael Fink The Hebrew University Center for Neural Computation Jerusalem, Israel 91940 email: fink@cs.huji.ac.il phone: +972 (2) 658-5880	Michael Fink is a Ph.D. student at the Center for Neural Computation in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on multiclass recognition processes in humans and machines.
Shimon Ullman Weizmann Institute of Science Faculty of Math. and Computer Science Rehovot 76100, Israel email: shimon.ullman@weizmann.ac.il phone: +972 (8) 934-2894	Shimon Ullman is the Samy and Ruth Cohn Professor of Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. He received the Bs.C. degree summa cum laude in mathematics, physics and biology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel in 1973 and the Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. Professor Ullman is the head of the Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Prior to his current position, Prof. Ullman was a Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science at M.I.T. and a member of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory there. His research interests include human vision, computer vision, and the modeling of information processing in the visual cortex. He is the authors of the books 'The Interpretation of Visual Motion' (MIT Press, 1979) and 'High-level Vision: Object Recognition and Visual Cognition' (MIT Press, 1996). Professor Ullman has also been involved in industrial applications of computer vision, in particular in the area of automatic visual inspection, and was one of the founders of Orbotech, currently a publicly NASDQ traded company.

Confirmed and Tentative Participants

William T. Freeman (tentative) Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Erik Learned-Miller University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Fei-Fei Li University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Jitendra Malik University of California at Berkeley

Kevin Murphy University of British Columbia

Pietro Perona (tentative) California Institute of Technology

Antonio Torralba Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daphna Weinshall The Hebrew University of Jerusalem