Combining Vision & Language in AI perception and the era of LLMs & LMMs | Dr. Yezhou Yang

Dr. Yezhou Yang is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University and director of Active Perception Group at ASU. He has research interests in Cognitive Robotics and Computer Vision, and understanding human actions from visual input, and grounding them by natural language. Prior to joining ASU, he completed his PhD from University of Maryland and his postdoctoral at Computer Vision Lab and Perception and Robotics Lab.
Timestamps of the conversation
00:01:02 Introduction
00:01:46 Interest in AI
00:17:04 Entry in Robotics & AI Perception
00:20:59 Combining vision & language to improve robot perception
00:23:30 End-to-end learning vs traditional knowledge graphs
00:28:28 What do LLMs learn?
00:30:30 Nature of AI research
00:36:00 Why vision & language in AI?
00:45:40 Learning vs Reasoning in neural networks
00:53:05 Bringing AI to general crowd
01:00:10 Transformers in Vision
01:08:54 Democratization of AI
01:13:42 Motivation for research: theory or application?
01:18:50 Surpassing human intelligence
01:25:13 Open challenges in computer vision research
01:30:19 Doing research is a privilege
01:35:00 Rejections, tips to read & write good papers
01:43:37 Tips for AI enthusiasts
01:47:35 What is a good research problem?
01:50:30 Dos and Don'ts in AI research
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[@MoTopiwala]

Excited to listen to this conversation! I've attended Prof. Yang's course before and I adore his humble demeanor

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[@AIBrewingWithNik]

Major Takeaway: You cannot wait to talk about your research and present to others. That's why you want results, performance, paper, publication and acceptance. Its how you enjoy the process of Research.