{"id":2311,"date":"2018-05-30T16:11:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T23:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:54:53","slug":"albu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/2018\/05\/30\/albu\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Lecture: Visual Recognition of Symbolic and Natural Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.27.4&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;]<a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2373\/2018\/05\/BrownBag.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2314 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2373\/2018\/05\/BrownBag.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>June 6, 2018, 12:15pm-1:15pm<\/p>\n<p>Title: Visual Recognition of Symbolic and Natural Patterns<br \/>\nSpeaker: Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/engineering\/ece\/faculty-and-staff\/home\/faculty\/branzan-albualexandra.php\">Alexandra Branzan Albu<\/a>, UVic Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering &amp; Computer Science<\/p>\n<p>Join DHSI and UVic Libraries to hear about computer-assisted pattern recognition during this special lunchtime talk<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: Image-based object recognition is a visual pattern recognition problem; one may characterize visual patterns as either symbolic or natural. Symbolic patterns evolved for human communication; they include but are not limited to text, forms, tables, graphics, engineering drawings etc. Symbolic patterns vary widely in terms of size, style, language, alphabet and fonts; however, literate humans can easily compensate for this variability and instantly recognize most symbolic patterns. On the other hand, natural patterns characterize images of physical structures; they often lack the intrinsic discriminability and structure of symbolic patterns, and vary widely in terms of pose, perspective, and lighting.<\/p>\n<p>This talk will explore similarities and differences in approaches designed for recognizing visual and symbolic patterns, and will address the following questions via examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the distinctive characteristics of natural patterns? What dimensions of variability can we infer?<\/li>\n<li>What are the distinctive characteristics of symbolic patterns? What dimensions of variability can we infer?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dr. Alexandra Branzan Albu<\/strong> is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and cross-listed with Computer Science. Her research interests are related to image analysis, computer vision, and visual computing. She is actively pursuing outreach activities dedicated to increasing the women&#8217;s presence in electrical engineering and computer science.<br \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_post_nav prev_text=&#8221;%title&#8221; next_text=&#8221;%title&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243; global_module=&#8221;4392&#8243;][\/et_pb_post_nav][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.27.4&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;]June 6, 2018, 12:15pm-1:15pm Title: Visual Recognition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}