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Thursday, May 9, 2019 3:45 pm - 3:45 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence (Affective Computing) — Automatic Group-Level Emotion Recognition using Deep Learning

Aarti Malhotra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

We investigate a deep learning approach to classify emotions in group-level photos into three categories: (1) positive; (2) neutral; and (3) negative. 

photo of Professor Srinivasan Keshav, PhD candidate Christian Gorenflo, Professor Lukasz Golab
Thursday, May 2, 2019

Speeding up a blockchain to meet real-world speeds and needs

Blockchain technology creates digital ledgers that record sequential exchanges of information, commonly called transactions. To improve performance, transactions are batched into blocks before they are added to the ledger. Each new block contains a hash value which, like a mugshot, acts as an identifier and proof of the previous state of the ledger.