Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on a Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with Walter Scheirer.
About the speaker:
Walter Scheirer is the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His research is primarily focused around the problem of recognition, including the representations and algorithms supporting solutions to it. He is particularly interested in features and learning-based methods that apply to both vision and language, thus breaking away from the persistent compartmentalization of recognition tasks. This has led to some interesting, and often unconventional approaches that can be applied to a broad set of areas including computer vision, machine learning, human biometrics, and the digital humanities. Specifically, his work is looking at open set recognition, extreme value theory models for visual recognition, biologically inspired learning algorithms, and stylometry.
About the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age
Housed in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age supports study and research into the possibilities for human flourishing in contemporary society. The activities of the Forum combine philosophical reflection on human nature and the human good with practical reflection on the possibilities for living well, and for designing tools that contribute to human flourishing, in a world shaped by digital technology. Learn more: https://philosophy.illinois.edu/academics/illinois-forum-human-flourishing-digital-age