On Research Leave

I am on a research leave from Grinnell College during the spring 2012 semester. I will be a visiting research scientist in the University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Computer Science.

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

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Happenings

Released the Matlab factor graph toolbox under the GNU General Public License.
Grinnell College Department of Computer Science selected as a 2011-2012 CUDA Teaching Center.
Gave an invited talk, "Robust Scene Text Recognition," at the 2011 University of Iowa Computing Conference.
Manuscript "On Learning Conditional Random Fields for Stereo: Exploring Model Structures and Approximate Inference" accepted for publication in the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). [paper]
Chapter "Large-Scale Machine Learning" included in the book GPU Gems Emerald Edition (Morgan Kaufmann). [paper]
Paper "Typographical Features for Scene Text Recognition" accepted for publication at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2010. [paper] [slides]
Hosted two Birds-of-a-Feather sessions at the 2010 SIGCSE Symposium, "Imaging College Educators" and "Teaching Social and Ethical Issues in CS0 and Beyond."
Awarded an NVIDIA Professor Partnership Grant for proposal "GPU Computing in the Classroom and Directed Undergraduate Research."
Paper "Scene Text Reading Using Similarity and a Lexicon with Sparse Belief Propagation" accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Analysis (PAMI) special issue on Graphical Models in Computer Vision. [paper]
Paper "A Discriminative Semi-Markov Model for Robust Scene Text Recognition" accepted for publication at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2008. [paper] [poster]
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 a paper and 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]
Presented a session on "Leading Discussions in Science Labs" at the UMass Center for Teaching's TA orientation. [slides]

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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