Paris Machine Learning Meetup #7: Machine Vision: VMX, Atheer One and VLAD

From [1]

The Paris Machine Learning Meetup #7 will take place this coming wednesday Januray 15th. It will feature at least three presentations. Two of them will be made by people offsite and will focus on two crowdfunding campaigns that have a Machine Learning component. If everything goes well, we'll continue on experimenting with these off-site presentations. We've asked the meetupers to watch the videos first so they have questions ready for our speakers. Here is a draft program:

• Tomasz Malisiewicz: VMX Project: Teach your computer how to see 
• Allen Yang:  Atheer One: What it feels like to have superpowers! 
• Patrick Perez , From image to descriptors and back again

Abstract: The context of this presentation is visual search, with a specific focus on retrieving images similar to a query image. I will first discuss one corner stone of such large-scale systems: aggregation of local descriptors (typically SIFTs) into a fixed-sized image signature. I shall present "Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors" (VLAD) which offers a powerful alternative to popular "Bag-of-Word" (BoF) approach. Combined with an efficient indexing system, VLAD can lead to a memory footprint as compact as 16 bytes per image with good approximate search performance. I will then touch upon risks of visual information leakage in such image search systems, showing that human-understandable reconstruction of an image can be obtained from the sparse set of its local descriptors, and no other side information.

The Paris Machine Learning on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6400776

To take part in the meetup, please register on Meetup.com, join the Paris ML group and go to this page.

The archives for the previous meetings can be found here.

[1] Reconstructing an image from its local descriptors by Philippe Weinzaepfel, Herve Jegou, Patrick Perez as featured here on Nuit Blanche


Organizers: Franck Bardol, Frederic Dembak, Igor Carron

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