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Neural Visual AI Lab in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University is led by Dr. Ehsan Elhamifar. Our research focuses on computer vision, machine learning and AI. Current research in the lab includes long video understanding, egocentric vision, virtual AI assistants, procedural task learning, low-shot, weakly- and self-supervised learning, fine-grained recognition, adversarial attacks and defenses, and structured video summarization.


Research Projects

Long Video Understanding

       


Studying temporal action segmentation, action progress prediction and error recognition methods in long videos by capturing long-range temporal dependencies.

Egocentric Vision

       


Designing efficient methods for understanding procedures, actions and object states in egocentric videos, particularly for streaming videos.

Virtual AI Assistants

       


Developing virtual (AR) AI assistants that can help people with various skill levels in their daily tasks.

Video Generation Models

       


Building generative AI models that can capture complexities of actions and scenes.

Learning with Less Labels

   


Studying zero-shot, few-shot, weakly-supervised and self-supervised learning methods for video and image understanding.

Fine-Grained Recognition

   


Developing methods that can distinguish visually similar actions or objects, especially for human-object interaction.

Adversarial Attacks

   


Studying vulnerability of deep learning and generative AI models to adversarial attacks and developing effective defense mechanisms.

Video Summarization

   


Developing scalable video summarization methods that handle structured dependencies in long and complex videos with minimum/no supervision.


Sponsors


  • Research in MCADS Lab is supported by the following organizations.


ONR DARPA ARO NSF