Svetlana Lazebnik, Professor, UIUC (Hybrid Event)

Speaker: Svetlana Lazebnik, Professor, Department of Computer Science, UIUC

Talk Title: Generative image models for virtual try-on and stylization

Abstract: This talk will survey some of my group’s current work, with a focus on generative models for virtual try-on and person image stylization. I will describe two virtual try-on systems, Dressing-in-Order and Street Try-On, one based on generative adversarial networks and the other on diffusion models, aimed at challenging scenarios like multi-garment try-on and in-the-wild try-on. I will also describe systems we have developed for exemplar-based stylization of images of faces and full-body humans.

Bio: Svetlana Lazebnik received a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois in 2006. After serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2007 to 2011, she returned as faculty to the University of Illinois, where she is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Her notable awards include the NSF CAREER Award (2008), Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow (2009), Sloan Research Fellow (2013), and IEEE Fellow (2021). Her CVPR 2006 paper on Spatial Pyramid Matching received the 2016 Longuet-Higgins Prize for a paper with a significant impact on computer vision. She served as Program Chair for ECCV 2012, ICCV 2019, and CVPR 2023. She is currently serving as an Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Computer Vision. Her main research themes include scene understanding, joint modeling of images and language, and applications of image generation.

BU Host: Bryan Plummer, Assistant Professor, Boston University

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BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), 665 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, United States