Pablo Sala
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
About
me
I graduated in 2002 with a Licentiate in Computer Science degree from the Departamento de Computación of the Universidad de
Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a M.Sc. in Computer Science degree in 2004 from the University of Toronto.
I am currently a PhD student in computer vision in the University of Toronto under the supervision of Sven Dickinson.
In 2006, I did an internship in Microsoft Research working
for Gavin Jancke.
I developed robust methods to read two-dimensional barcodes under challenging
imaging conditions, which is the foundation of what eventually became Microsoft Tag.
Research
Interests
During my masters,
I worked on the interesting problem of visual robot navigation. In my PhD, I am
concentrating on the challenging problem of generic object recognition. Rather than
assuming an object-level shape prior, as in the currently popular object
detection paradigm, I am revisiting the classic formulation of this problem,
which assumes that objects can be formed by the composition of a small number
of intermediate-level shape parts recoverable from a single image through
perceptual mechanisms. Armed
with new segmentation techniques, new shape representations, and new machine
learning algorithms, and focusing not
only on the contour grouping problem but also on the contour abstraction
problem, I hope to make new progress on the important problem of
recovering from a 2-D image a set of qualitative 3-D volumetric parts making up
the scene’s objects.
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