Senior Research Scientist
Google Brain
Bio:
Oriol received a double degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain) in Mathematics and Telecommunication Engineering, and a Master in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego in 2009. In 2013, he finished his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Nelson Morgan, and was one of the 2011 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship recipients. Oriol is a Research Scientist at Google Brain, where he continues working on his areas interests, which include artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on machine learning, language, speech, and vision.
Title:
Deep Learning for Vision and Language
Abstract:
This past year, RNNs have seen a lot of attention as powerful models that are able to decode language from signals. In this talk, I'll review some recent successes on machine translation, image captioning, and beyond. The content of this talk regarding image captioning was recently featured in NYT, MIT Tech Review, BBC, ...