Dr. Adriana Kovashka receives NSF Career Award
Dr. Adriana Kovashka (assistant professor, CS) just received an NSF Career Award. Her project is looking into object detection, i.e., the task of recognizing object categories (e.g., dog, car) by learning from a dataset. Existing methods assume a dataset labeled meticulously by humans who draw boxes around objects in images and provide the category name. Dr. Kovashka's project explores a new form of more accessible (less expensive), but also noisier supervision akin to how children learn to name objects.