{"601084":{"#nid":"601084","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Research Fellowships Offer Two Students Funding, Access to Adobe\u2019s Creative Cloud","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo School of Interactive Computing Ph.D. students, \u003Cstrong\u003EAbhishek Das\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EPatsorn Sangkloy\u003C\/strong\u003E, were selected as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/adoberesearch.ctlprojects.com\/fellowship\/previous-fellowship-award-winners\/\u0022\u003E2018 Adobe Research Fellows\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA total of eight were selected by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/adoberesearch.ctlprojects.com\/\u0022\u003EAdobe Research\u003C\/a\u003E from a highly competitive field of applicants in computer graphics, computer vision, human-computer interaction, machine learning, visualization, audio, natural language processing, and programming languages.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fellowship awards its selections $10,000 funding and an optional opportunity to intern at Adobe for summer 2018. They also are given a subscription to Adobe\u0026rsquo;s Creative Cloud service.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~psangklo\/\u0022\u003ESangkloy\u0026rsquo;s research\u003C\/a\u003E focuses on providing users with images that match with their intent based on line drawing sketch. This entails a handful of options:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn sketch-based image retrieval, the research suggests the ability to retrieve images based on association with a sketched query. In sketch-based image synthesis, an entirely new image is generated directly from the sketch input, where editing the sketch produces different generated results.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELastly, she and her collaborators are currently working with Adobe researchers to develop an image retrieval pipeline specifically designed for human images. Since drawing an entire body of a human is no easy feat, even for a professional artist, they explore the option of combining stick figures and\/or sparse sketch outlines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe is advised by Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJames Hays\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/abhishekdas.com\/\u0022\u003EDas\u0026rsquo; research\u003C\/a\u003E focuses on deep learning and its applications in building agents that can see, think, talk, and act. To this end, he was awarded the fellowship for his ongoing work on the following:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAgents that can hold free-form conversations about visual content and algorithms to train these agents without exhaustively collecting human-annotated datasets, via simulation or self-play;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAlgorithms to make these agents more interpretable;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAgents that can execute commands, including navigating and actively perceiving their environments to accomplish a task, like question-answering.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis was Das\u0026rsquo; second fellowship selection after also earning one from Snap Research for a similar proposal. He is advised by Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EDhruv Batra\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Interactive Computing students Abhishek Das and Patsorn Sangkloy earned fellowships that awards $10,000 funding and an optional opportunity to intern at Adobe for summer 2018."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2018-01-19 19:46:11","changed_gmt":"2018-01-19 19:46:11","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"601083":{"id":"601083","type":"image","title":"Adobe logo","body":null,"created":"1516391062","gmt_created":"2018-01-19 19:44:22","changed":"1516391062","gmt_changed":"2018-01-19 19:44:22","alt":"Adobe logo","file":{"fid":"229098","name":"Adobe.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Adobe.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Adobe.png","mime":"image\/png","size":96367,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Adobe.png?itok=J8cGf4To"}}},"media_ids":["601083"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/adoberesearch.ctlprojects.com\/fellowship\/previous-fellowship-award-winners\/","title":"Adobe Research Fellowship"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"176824","name":"adobe research"},{"id":"176750","name":"Abhishek Das"},{"id":"176825","name":"patsorn sangkloy"},{"id":"169167","name":"james hays"},{"id":"173615","name":"dhruv batra"},{"id":"176826","name":"adobe research fellowship"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edavid.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}