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SUMMARY:Computer Vision - Professor Andrew Blake\, Samsung AI Research Cen
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DTSTART:20190301T173000Z
DTEND:20190301T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Can we trust the judgement of machines that see? Computer visi
 on is being entrusted with ever more critical tasks: from access control b
 y face recognition\, to diagnosis of disease from medical scans and  hand-
 eye coordination for surgical and nuclear decommissioning robots\, and now
  to taking control of motor vehicles.\n\n \n\nThe latest technologies for 
 visual decision-making use neural networks\, transmitting signals from inp
 ut to output in many stages\, where the signals at intermediate stages are
  not easily interpreted. This makes it harder to understand and therefore 
 trust the decisions. Moreover\, it has been shown that decisions from neur
 al networks can often be reversed surprisingly easily -  by so-called "adv
 ersarial" counterexamples\, suggesting a certain fragility in a network's 
 operation. How sure can we be that the computer makes good visual judgemen
 ts and decisions? \n\nAndrew Blake is a pioneer in the development of the 
 theory and algorithms that make it possible for computers to behave as see
 ing machines. He is especially interested in segmentation as optimisation\
 , in visual tracking as probabilistic inference\, and in real-time\, 3D vi
 sion. He trained in mathematics and electrical engineering in Cambridge UK
  and at MIT\, and studied for a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence at th
 e University of Edinburgh. He was an academic for 18 years\, in Edinburgh 
 and Oxford\, ultimately as Professor of Information Engineering at Oxford 
 University. He joined Microsoft in 1999 to found the Computer Vision group
  in Cambridge\, before becoming Director of Microsoft’s Cambridge Labora
 tory in 2010 and a Microsoft Distinguished Scientist.   \nCurrently he is 
 a consultant in Artificial Intelligence. In particular he is Chairman of S
 amsung’s AI Research Centre SAIC in Cambridge.  He is consultant and Sci
 entific Adviser to the FiveAI autonomous driving company\, and serves as a
 n adviser to Siemens.\nIn 2010\, he was elected to the council of the Roya
 l Society and was appointed to the board of the EPSRC in 2012. He was Dire
 ctor at The Alan Turing Institute 2015-18. He has been Honorary Professor 
 of Machine Intelligence at the University of Cambridge since 2007 and is a
  Fellow of Clare Hall. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engine
 ering since 1998 and Fellow of the Royal Society since 2005.\nHe twice won
  the prize of the European Conference on Computer Vision\, with R. Cipolla
  in 1992 and with M. Isard in 1996\, and was awarded the IEEE David Marr P
 rize (jointly with K. Toyama) in 2001. The Royal Academy of Engineering aw
 arded him their Silver Medal in 2006\, and in 2007 he received the Institu
 tion of Engineering and Technology Mountbatten Medal (previously awarded t
 o computer pioneers Maurice Wilkes and Tim Berners-Lee\, amongst others.) 
 He was named a Distinguished Researcher in Computer Vision by the IEEE in 
 2009. In 2011\, with colleagues at Microsoft Research\, he received the Ro
 yal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Gold Medal for the machine learning a
 t the heart of the Microsoft Kinect 3D camera.  \nExactly 80 years after E
 instein\, in 2014\, he gave the Gibbs lecture at the Joint Mathematics Mee
 tings – the 6th British scientist to do so in 90 years. The BCS awarded 
 him its Lovelace Medal and prize lecture in 2017. He holds honorary doctor
 ates at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sheffield.\n
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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