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Dartmouth Hosts New England Computer Vision Workshop

  • Graduate student Sarah Friday presents poster at NECV 2023

    Graduate student Sarah Friday, Guarini, presents poster at NECV 2023. (Pic. credit: Wei-Cheng Wu)

  • NECV 2023 Organizers

    Assistant Professor SouYoung Jin introduces the team that organized the workshop. (Pic. credit: Katie Lenhart)

  • Ziang Ren gives oral presentation

    Dartmouth graduate student Ziang Ren gives an oral presentation. (Pic. credit: Katie Lenhart)

  • Conference audience

    Participants enjoy talks at Cummings Hall (Pic. credit: Katie Lenhart)

  • Xinran Han presents her research

    Oral presentation by Harvard PhD student Xinran Han (Pic. credit: Katie Lenhart)

  • Gustavo Perez presents a talk

    Gustavo Perez, UMass Amherst PhD student, presents his research. (Pic. credit: Katie Lenhart)

  • Questions from the audience at NECV 2023

    Speakers field questions from the audience. (Pic. credit: Katie Lenhart)

  • Poster session at ECSC

    Poster session hosted in the ECSC building. (Pic. credit: Wei-Cheng Wu)

  • Poster session underway at NECV 2023

    A total of forty poster were presented at NECV 2023. (Pic. credit: Wei-Cheng Wu)

The 7th edition of the New England Computer Vision workshop brought together researchers in computer vision and related areas for a full day of student presentations and posters at Dartmouth on Dec. 1.

Graduate students presented oral research talks in various sessions throughout the day at Cummings Hall and participated in a post-lunch poster presentation session at the Class of 1982 Engineering and Computer Science Center.

"While most presentations were focused on computer vision, each was vastly diverse based on techniques, data, and use cases," says PhD student Dhawal Sirikonda, who presented results from past research work as a Masters' student in India in what was his first ever public talk.

"As a first-year graduate student, NECV allowed me to meet and interact with researchers from different universities in New England at various stages in their careers," he said.

More than 100 researchers from 11 universities and industry research labs in New England attended this year's event, which was organized by Computer Science Assistant Professors SouYoung Jin and Adithya Pediredla and Associate Professor Yu-Wing Tai.

"We all learned quite a lot on a broad range of topics in computer vision," says Pediredla, who was also a first-time attendee at the workshop.

Tai, one of newest members of the computer science faculty, says organizing the workshop helped him quickly acquaint himself with the area and establish a connection with other New England researchers.

The full diversity of research in the field of computer vision was on display at the poster session, said Wenjun Liu, a graduate student who volunteered at the workshop.

"Some posters covered purely theoretical aspects using mathematical functions to recover objects by calculating shaded surfaces, others described applications, for example, that generate 3D furniture models based on descriptions of an environment provided to a large language model, and others were collaborations with other fields such as brain science," says Liu.

A total of 40 posters were presented and judged by a group of faculty from multiple universities, the best poster, Inferring the Future by Imagining the Past, was awarded a top-of-the-line consumer GPU sponsored by NVIDIA.

Jin, who was an active student participant in past NECV workshops, is thrilled to have had the opportunity to organize the event at Dartmouth this year. "I eagerly anticipate the day when one of our participants takes the lead in organizing a future edition," she says.

Workshop sponsors include Dartmouth CS, Neukom Institute, Dartmouth Arts & Sciences - Office of the Science Division, and NVIDIA.