Talks

Humans of AI, Interview by Devi Parikh, Nov., 2020

The Moon Camera, TUM Artificial Intelligence Series lecture, October, 2020.

Feathers, Wings, and the Future of Computer Vision Research, NeurIPS workshop on Shared Visual Representations in Human and Machine Intelligence, December, 2019.

What can we learn from hitting everything with a drumstick?  May 24, 2016, Technion, Israel

A big world of tiny motions, March, 2016, U. Mass. Amherst CICS Distinguished Lecture

How to write a good CVPR submission, Nov. 6, 2014, /sites/default/files/documents/cvprPapers.pdf

"Time's Arrow" talk, CVPR Workshop, Vision Meet Cognition, 2014    video

Finding the Visible in the Invisible, The New York Times, February 27, 2013 video.

Revealing Invisible changes in the World, NSF Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, November 30, 2012 video.

MIT CSAIL, March 4, 2012. The most important qualities for success in graduate school pdf of slides.

IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, January 26, 2012. Overview of Computational Photography (summarizing my favorite projects in this area, not just my own) pdf of slides.

International Conference on Computational Photography, March 28, 2011. Photographic stories over time pdf of slides. Pointer to Youtube video of this talk (using earlier version of slides than the pdf's posted here).

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), January 24, 2011. Where computer vision needs help from computer science pdf of slides.

Here is a video prepared to accept the test-of-time award for the paper below, describing the work in its context, in .mov format, or in .mpeg format. The paper: W. T. Freeman and M. Roth, Orientation histograms for hand gesture recognition, International Workshop on Automatic Face- and Gesture- Recognition, IEEE Computer Society, Zurich, Switzerland, June, 1995, pp. 296–301. Winner, 2013 Test-of-time award from Face and Gesture Recognition conference. MERL-TR94-03.