- November 15, 2025: The IU Alumni Magazine featured our work with Profs. Linda Smith and Chen Yu on using AI to understand child learning (and vice versa).
- October 25, 2025: Check out our two papers at ICCV 2025, on video representation learning and 3d point cloud enhancement.
- October 23, 2025: We're very pleased to collaborate on a new NSF grant on using AI to help students understand science diagrams.
- October 10, 2025:Patent awarded for a new technique for 3D reconstruction.
- October 1, 2025: IU film student Jack Bassett made a documentary about our IRIS social robot project!
- September 25, 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Xizi Wang for passing her dissertation defense!
- July 1, 2025: David is Associate Program Chair for AAAI 2026.
- June 17, 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Chuhua Wang for passing his dissertation defense!
- June 13, 2025: Congratulations to Hiroki Sato (plus Weslie Khoo, David Crandall, and Rita Patel) for winning the Dysphonia International Research Award!
- May 20, 2025: We presented two papers at CHI 2025, part of a strong showing from IU.
- May 15, 2025: CSCI B657 Computer Vision has a poster session every year, but this year IU wrote an article about it!
- April 24, 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Ishtiak Zaman for passing his dissertation defense!
- November 18, 2024: David was very honored to receive the Tracy M. Sonneborn award, and to give the Sonneborn Memorial Lecture.
- November 14, 2024: We were delighted to co-organize the IAS Symposium on Intelligence, an interdisciplinary workshop bringing together scholars from around the university.
- September 16, 2024: We were very pleased to host almost 200 people from 15 universities for the Midwest Computer Vision Workshop
- June 17, 2024: Check out three interesting papers at CVPR......
- April 30, 2024: We were very excited to demo our social robot to support older adults at the U.S. Senate's Robotics Showcase.
- March 18, 2024: We presented three papers at the ACM/IEEE Conference on Human Robot Interaction, collaborating with Prof. Selma Sabanovic's lab.
- February 20, 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Shujon Naha for passing his dissertation defense!
- October 15, 2023: David is a Program Chair for ICDL 2024, a unique interdisciplinary conference on learning in machines and humans. Consider submitting! Deadline is Dec. 15.
- October 1, 2023: David is Program Co-Chair for CVPR 2024, the premier annual computer vision conference. Paper registration deadline is Nov 3.
- July 12, 2023: We're excited to present our IRIS social robot at the United Nations AI for Good Summit in Geneva!
- July 5, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Sam Goree for passing his dissertation defense!
- May 1, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Weslie Khoo for receiving a prestigious USDA postdoc fellowship!
- April 4, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Zehua Zhang for passing his dissertation defense!
- March 20, 2023:New $4.4 million award to continue workforce development and research into trusted AI.
- December 14, 2023: David named a Distinguished Member of the ACM.
- September 1, 2022: David is very honored to be named inaugural director of the Luddy AI Center.
- June 17, 2022: We're delighted to be part of the Ego4D Consortium to collect the next generation egocentric dataset. Check out the website!
- July 29, 2021: We're very pleased to be part of the new $20 million NSF AI Institute on Engaged Learning!
- July 25, 2021: Three papers at CogSci using cameras to study child behavior: detecting joint attention,predicting whether a new object name will be learned, and modeling verb learning.
- July 1, 2021: David is named a Luddy Professor.
- June 30, 2021: Congratulations and a fond farewell to Dr. Md Alimoor Reza, who is joining Drake University as an Assistant Professor!
- June 21, 2021: We're very excited to present our (quite unusual) CVPR 2021 paper that investigates how vision researchers feel about changes in the field. Also check out the video!
- June 1, 2021:New $2.1 million award to collaborate with IU colleagues, Notre Dame, IUPUI, and the U.S. Navy on Trusted AI.
- April 1, 2021: Consider submitting a paper to our IJCAI workshop on Deep Learning, Case-Based Reasoning, and AutoML: Present and Future Synergies
- March 4, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Eman Hassan on passing her dissertation defense!
- January 28, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Bardia Doosti on passing his dissertation defense!
- January 3, 2021: We're presenting two interesting papers at WACV 2021 this week on recognizing people based on egocentric hand gestures, and part-based segmentation of novel objects
- October 23, 2020: New NSF grant to plan a Midwest AI Institute on Rural Health, Wellness, and Resilience.
- June 20, 2020: Check out our CVPR 2020 papers on hand/object pose estimation,video object segmentation, and color harmony modeling.
- May 1, 2020: Some of our work on studying the evolution of the web is featured in The Conversation!
- March 30, 2020: Congratulations to Sam Goree for winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
- March 3, 2020: Thanks to Google for a Faculty Research Award!
- January 21, 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Mingze Xu on a successful PhD defense!
- October 1, 2019: New grant from Office of Naval Research on explainable machine learning, in collaboration with Prof. David Leake.
- September 27, 2019: David will speak about computer vision research at IU Research Unplugged, celebrating IU's 200th anniversary.
- August 1, 2019: New grant from NSF with Linda Smith and Chen Yu, "Visual category learning by toddlers provides new principles for teaching rapid generalization."
- June 27, 2019: New contract to collaborate with Dzyne on satellite image analysis.
- May 1, 2019: New contract to collaborate with ETRI on depth map prediction using deep learning.
- April 9, 2019: Congratulations to Katie Spoon for an IU Provost's Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research, an NCWIT Award, and an NSF GRF! Check out her research project.
- January 25, 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Chenyou Fan on a successful PhD defense!
- January 15, 2019: David is pleased to be named a Grant Thornton Scholar for 2019-2020.
- December 6, 2018: Check out our NeurIPS 2018 paper on toddler-inspired visual object learning.
- October 29, 2018: Thanks to all who participated in OurCS (aka HelloResearch) this weekend; we had a great time working with such talented students! More info in our SIGCSE 2019 paper.
- September 12, 2018: We're looking for new faculty in Machine Learning, especially those who are broadly interested in potential connections with human learning. Consider applying!
- September 1, 2018: A trio of new papers on egocentric cameras: predicting gaze (BMVC), segmenting and identifying people and camera wearers (ECCV), and estimating head motion (ICMI).
- August 13, 2018: Welcome to new postdoc Md Alimoor Reza!
- July 19, 2018: Congratulations Dr. Jangwon Lee for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
- May 30, 2018:New contract with Purdue and the Indiana Innovation Institute on computer vision to help protect the microelectronics supply chain.
- April 3, 2018: Congratulations to lab intern Abraham Oliver on winning best 12th grade project at the Indiana State Science Fair!
- March 29, 2018: Congratulations to Dr. Tian (Linger) Xu on a successful PhD defense!
- February 15, 2018: Co-organizing Third ICWSM workshop on The Social Web for Environmental and Ecological Monitoring. Please consider submitting!
- January 24, 2018: New contract from NASA on quantifying lymphatic function using computer vision, with Dawn Kernagis (IHMC) and Eva Sevick (TMC).
- December 5, 2017: Co-organizing second CVPR workshop on The Bright and Dark Sides of Computer Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Privacy and Security. Consider submitting a paper!
- November 1, 2017: We have openings for postdoc researchers -- please contact David for more information!
- October 20, 2017: Two fun remote sensing papers: 3d reconstruction of ice bed surfaces (at ICIP) and combining ground and satellite images to make maps (at ICCV).
- September 1, 2017: Thanks to Google for sponsoring a new project investigating the limits of current computer vision technology.
- August 23, 2017: IU is hiring faculty in the general area of Machine and Human Learning. Consider applying!
- July 22, 2017: Check out our CVPR paper on associating wearable (egocentric) video with third-person video!
- July 21, 2018: Congratulations to Jangwon Lee and Michael Ryoo for winning Best Paper at the CVPR Deep Learning for Robotic Vision Workshop.
- June 26, 2017: How has visual design on the web changed over time? Two new papers use expert surveys and computer vision to help find out.
- June 10, 2017: How can developmental psychology inform computer vision, and vice-versa? Check out the talks from our Workshop on Egocentric Vision: From Science to Real-World Applications.
- May 20, 2017: David is very honored for the IU Trustees Teaching Award. But the credit goes to great IU students who make teaching fun -- thanks everyone!
- April 28, 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Johnson on a successful dissertation defense!
- March 20, 2017: Co-organizing WebSci workshop on The Social Web for Environmental and Ecological Monitoring. Deadline is May 1. Please consider submitting!
- February 15, 2017: Co-organizing CVPR workshop on The Bright and Dark Sides of Computer Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Privacy and Security. Consider submitting a paper or abstract!
- January 11, 2017: Very excited to lead the CS part of a new $2.5 million award to study interdisciplinary connections between human and machine learning!
- December 15, 2016: Co-editing special issue on Egocentric Vision and Lifelogging Tools in the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. Please consider submitting a manuscript!
- December 7, 2016: Check out our NeurIPS 2016 paper on training diverse networks using multiple choice learning.
- October 15, 2016: Robert Pless and I are CVPR 2017 tutorial co-chairs. Please consider submitting a proposal!
- October 8, 2016: Could wearable cameras narrate our lives? Our "DeepDiary" paper at ECCV EPIC is a first step.
- August 22, 2016:Best paper award at ICDL-Epirob 2016 on wearable cameras to study infant word learning, with Sven Bambach and Profs. Linda Smith and Chen Yu.
- August 10, 2016: What may machine learning reveal about infant learning? Check out ourCogSci 2016 paper!
- August 22, 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Sven Bambach on successfully defending his dissertation to earn two PhDs, in Computer Science and Cognitive Science!
- July 30, 2016: We've moved! Come visit our new lab (and my new office) at 611 N Park Ave (one block west of Informatics West).
- July 20, 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Stefan Lee on his dissertation defense!
- July 13, 2016: New contract to collaborate with NSWC Crane on analyzing images of microelectronic devices!
- July 1, 2016: Promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure).
- June 27, 2016: Interested in improving diversity of your deep networks? Check out this talk by my student Stefan Lee at a CVPR tutorial.
- June 12, 2016: Check out our book chapter on landmark recognition in a new book on geolocalization.
- May 26, 2016: Grant from the IU Social Science Research Commons to investigate applications of computer vision to geography, with Prof. Tom Evans. Thanks SSRC!!
- March 29, 2016: Congratulations to senior Ben Newman on winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
- February 12, 2016: Our new CHI 2016 paper on detecting computer screens to enhance lifelogger privacy is a CHI best paper honorable mention!
- January 15, 2016: I'm co-organizing an International Workshop on the Social Web for Environmental and Ecological Monitoring at ICWSM 2016. Short and long papers due Feb 20. Consider submitting!
- December 1, 2015: Check out our paper on mining Flickr data for monitoring impact on protected natural areas in Ecological Applications.
- September 15, 2015: New ICCV 2015 paper on hand recognition in first person video. Check out the video spotlight!
- August 1, 2015: Welcome to new IU faculty member Prof. Michael Ryoo! Check out his interesting work on vision and robotics.
- May 26, 2015: Congratulations Dr. Mohammed Korayem on a successful dissertation defense!
- April 20, 2015:ICCP paper on mining architectural elements in Google Street View. Check out the demo!
- April 15, 2015: Two CHI papers on privacy challenges and opportunities of wearable cameras.
- January 1, 2015: Recent and upcoming papers: WACV paper on geo-informative attributes, Signal Processing article on pose recognition, ICIP paper on ice layer detection.
- December 18, 2014: New NSF grant to study privacy in first-person cameras, with Apu Kapadia and Denise Anthony. Check out the video!.
- October 28, 2014: New NSF grant to help build high-performance computing libraries for computer vision and other applications (with G. Fox, J. Qiu, and others).
- September 30, 2014: An article in Fast Company about our first-person camera privacy Ubicomp paper.
- September 8, 2014: Looking for a faculty job? Our school is hiring in Interactive and Intelligent Systems (as well as several other areas).
- August 22, 2014: Congratulations Dr. Haipeng Zhang on a successful dissertation defense!
- August 6, 2014: Check out our redesigned lab website, including a nice new overview of our projects!
- July 21, 2014: Congratulations Dr. Kun Duan on a successful dissertation defense!
- June 28, 2014:Best paper award at CVPR Workshop on Egocentric Vision.
- May 1, 2014: Papers appearing this summer: multimodal clustering at CVPR, first-person hand tracking at CVPR EgoVision, parent-child attention at CogSci, lifelogging privacy at UbiComp and UPSIDE.
- February 18, 2014:Google Research Award to study privacy in first-person cameras, with Apu Kapadia.
- February 8, 2014: Our EMBO paper on science funding featured in Science.
- January 30, 2014: Our PlaceAvoider paper featured in MIT Tech Review and elsewhere.
- January 1, 2014:PAMI paper on 3D reconstruction.
- December 9, 2013:Best paper award at ICCV Workshop on CV for Converging Perspectives.
- October 1, 2013: New Air Force Office of Scientific Research contract to study cloud robotics, with G. Fox and K. Hauser.
- May 2, 2013:New IU Collaborative Research Grant to use first-person cameras to study parent interactions with deaf children (with Houston, Smith, Pisoni, Bergeson-Dana, Yu).
- March 25, 2013: Awarded NSF CAREER grant.
- January 1, 2013: Awarded IU Faculty Research Support Program (FRSP) grant for studying privacy in first-person cameras, with Apu Kapadia.
- October 3, 2013: Our PlaceRaider paper on opportunistic 3d reconstruction featured in New Scientist, The Atlantic, MIT Tech Review, among others.
- September 12, 2012: Awarded NSF EAGER grant with Chris Raphael, to study optical music recognition.
- June 15, 2012:Communications of the ACM paper on social photo mining (with Noah Snavely).
- May 5, 2012: Our WWW 2012 paper on using Flickr to study ecology featured in New Scientist.
- April 11, 2012: Awarded subcontract from ObjectVideo to participate in the IARPA Finder program.
- September 12, 2011:Awarded IU Faculty Research Support Program grant to use first-person cameras for studying autistic and typically-developing children, with Chen Yu.
- June 22, 2011: Our paper on 3d reconstruction won runner-up best paper at CVPR 2011!
- December 21, 2010: Our PNAS paper on inferring social ties from geo-tags featured in New Scientist and BBC World Service.
- August 24, 2010:Awarded grant from the IU D2I Center for mining social media for ecology.
- August 1, 2010: Joining the faculty of Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing!
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