Look, Listen and Learn

We consider the question: what can be learnt by looking at and listening to a large number of unlabelled videos? There is a valuable, but so far untapped, source of information contained in the video itself -- the correspondence between the visual and the audio streams, and we introduce a novel "Audio-Visual Correspondence" learning task that makes use of this. Training visual and audio networks from scratch, without any additional supervision other than the raw unconstrained videos themselves, is shown to successfully solve this task, and, more interestingly, result in good visual and audio representations. These features set the new state-of-the-art on two sound classification benchmarks, and perform on par with the state-of-the-art self-supervised approaches on ImageNet classification. We also demonstrate that the network is able to localize objects in both modalities, as well as perform fine-grained recognition tasks.Comment: Appears in: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 201

Look, Listen and Learn - A Multimodal LSTM for Speaker Identification

Speaker identification refers to the task of localizing the face of a person who has the same identity as the ongoing voice in a video. This task not only requires collective perception over both visual and auditory signals, the robustness to handle severe quality degradations and unconstrained content variations are also indispensable. In this paper, we describe a novel multimodal Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture which seamlessly unifies both visual and auditory modalities from the beginning of each sequence input. The key idea is to extend the conventional LSTM by not only sharing weights across time steps, but also sharing weights across modalities. We show that modeling the temporal dependency across face and voice can significantly improve the robustness to content quality degradations and variations. We also found that our multimodal LSTM is robustness to distractors, namely the non-speaking identities. We applied our multimodal LSTM to The Big Bang Theory dataset and showed that our system outperforms the state-of-the-art systems in speaker identification with lower false alarm rate and higher recognition accuracy.Comment: The 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16

CLIMATE EMERGENCY: THE CHALLENGES OF FEELING, BEING, THINKING AND LIVING TOGETHER ON THIS TRAVEL ON PLANET EARTH/ EMERGÊNCIA CLIMÁTICA: OS DESAFIOS DE SENTIR, ESTAR, PENSAR E VIVER JUNTOS NESTE PERCURSO NO PLANETA TERRA - EDITORIAL

Reflecting on Our Time“Stop to think about, stop to look around, stop to listen to the other, think carefully, look carefully, and listen carefully; stop to feel the other, feel carefully; dwelling on details, stop hearing your opinion, stop judging, stop your willing, stop with automatic actions, because you need to improve attention and tenderness, open your eyes and ears, talk about what happens to us, learn with no hurry, listen to the others, cultivate the art of getting together, be very quiet, be patient and give yourself some time and space (Jorge LARROSA, 2002, p.24. Our tradution)

Columns Fall 2007

Features the article A Look at Creation . Ten pages devoted to exploring our origins. Find out how students and faculty interact with the elements of creation in our opening feature, 7 Days: 6,000 Years Later. Learn how Southern studies the topic of creation in Old Debate Studied in New Ways,\u27 and listen to biology professors share their viewpoints in The Creation Question and What About Dinosaurs?https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/alumni_newsletter/1163/thumbnail.jp

STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN TO WHAT YOUR DATA IS TELLING YOU!

Join us for a ride on the Data Train where you will STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN to what your data is telling you and use the information to develop a process of continuous improvement in your after-school program to be an effective co-collaborator of closing the achievement gap. This workshop will provide information and strategies to be used in K – 12. Participants will learn the importance of data analysis in afterschool. Participants will learn how to work with regular day school professionals in determining what data sources to use. Participants will be able to analyze sample data and develop an action plan. Participants will develop a process of continuous improvement which utilizes student data

Physical Miseducation: How Public Schooling in the US is Harmful to Students’ Bodily Well-Being

This paper explores the history of physical education in the United States, as well as a general look into how public schooling affects how kids learn about and come to view their bodies. Theory and research by Michel Foucault, Elias Norbert, and Katy Bowman form the theoretical framework for this essay, and accounts of visits to a local elementary school to observe PE also grounds the work in present-day experiences. The work concludes that public schools in the US improperly teach students about how to listen to and care for their bodies

Scheduling a Closer Look: A Brief Introduction to the Work of Records Management

In Scheduling a closer look, SJSU iSchool alumna and University of Cincinnati Digital Archivist/ Records Manager, Eira Tansey, introduces students to the exciting field of Records Management. Listen to/watch Eira\u27s presentation to learn more about records selection, retention, and how understanding records management can make you a better archivist!https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/saasc_events/1006/thumbnail.jp

A Matter of Balance

IMPACT. 1: Participants report: More control over factors that lead to falls. Increased exercise and activity levels. Fewer falls. Feeling comfortable talking about their fear of falling. Plan to continue exercising. -- 2. 98% of participants would recommend A Matter of Balance to their friends and loved ones. -- 3. "I seem to be more aware of every situation for my safety. I now 'stop, look and listen' to my surroundings." -- Participant.OSU PARTNERS: College of Education and Human Ecology; College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental SciencesCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: Ohio Department of Aging; County Senior ServicesPRIMARY CONTACT: Carmen Irving ([email protected])A Matter of Balance is an evidence-based program designed to help older adults manage concerns about falls and increase physical activity. A Matter of Balance is conducted in eight two-hour sessions and uses group discussion, problem-solving strategies, videos and gentle physical exercise. Older adults learn positive coping methods to reduce their fear of falling and remain active and independent