Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra’s Work in AI Featured in Newsweek
Dhruv Batra (left) and Devi Parikh (right) are developing Visual Question Answering Capability for computers. Visual machine perception requires powerful computation capability. The team shares 500- core CPU cluster, each an order of magnitude more powerful than a laptop, and a GPU cluster.
DAC faculty members and assistant professors of ECE, Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra’s project on Learning Common Sense through Visual Abstractions was featured in Newsweek. The article focuses on an artificial intelligence algorithm they trained to understand and predict visual humor, representing a major development towards creating “common sense” machines. Read more about Devi and Dhruv’s algorithm here.