Engineer leads effort to develop computer systems that can see better than humans
Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 07:00
in Mathematics & Economics
"Deep learning" is the task at hand for Vijaykrishnan Narayanan and his multidisciplinary team of researchers who are developing computerized vision systems that can match—and even surpass—the capabilities of human vision. Narayanan, professor of computer science and engineering and electrical engineering, and his team received a $10 million Expeditions in Computing award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) last fall to enhance the ability of computers to not only record imagery, but to actually understand what they are seeing—a concept that Narayanan calls "deep learning."