Fall 2008 Courses

Research Interests

I am interested in visual learning, especially inducing properties of the environment, i.e. what are relevant features? what is an appropriate model of reasoning for a visual task? Typically this involves bringing many sources of information to bear on a problem and using them in a unified fashion.

More details may be found in my research projects or publications

Happenings

Paper "A Discriminative Semi-Markov Model for Robust Scene Text Recognition" accepted for publication at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2008 [paper]
Paper "Efficiently Learning Random Fields for Stereo Vision with Sparse Message Passing" accepted for publication at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2008. [paper] [poster]
Gave an invited talk at University of Rochester on probabilistic models for scene text recognition
Presented talk at NESCAI 2008 on robust scene text recognition [paper], [slides], [poster].
Defended my dissertation on "Unified Detection and Recognition for Reading Text in Scene Images." Here is the final document, and the seminar slides.
Presented a talk at ICDAR 2007 on fast lexicon integration for scene text recognition. (Slides here, without animations.)
Presented a session on "Leading Discussions in Science Labs" at the UMass Center for Teaching's TA orientation. (Slides, which were not actually used due to projector malfunction, are here.)

Contact

Address:	Jerod Weinman
	Department of Computer Science
	1116 8th Ave
	Grinnell College
	Grinnell, IA 50112

Email:

Office:	Noyce '49 Science Center 3825

Phone:	641-269-9812
Fax:	641-269-4285

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