Computer Vision News - October 2022

12 Congrats, Doctor! Oana Ignat completed her PhD in Computer Science at University of Michigan, where she was member of th e Language and Information Technologies Lab , advised b y Prof. R ada Mihalcea. Her research is at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision, using social media videos and their transcripts, to develop datasets and models for human action understanding. She is passionate about teaching and increasing diversity in Computer Science and AI, and has been a primary instructor for Discove r CS (EECS 198) , a class primarily designed for underrepresented minorities in CS. Oana wants to be involved in the AI4Good movement, applying AI in problems that have potential to improve the world. Fig 1. We explore how we can use multimodal (textual and visual) information from online narrated videos/ vlogs, to enable automatic models to learn about human daily actions.