Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech

Month: April 2018

  • Received COE Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award

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    Dr. Luther received the 2018 Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award in the College of Engineering.

  • Paper accepted for IJCAI 2018

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    Our paper on geolocating images using crowdsourcing and diagramming was accepted for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018) in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Luther will give the presentation. Congratulations to co-authors and Crowd Lab alumni Rachel Kohler and John Purviance!

  • Placed 3rd at 2018 VTURCS symposium

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    Congratulations to Crowd Lab undergraduate researcher Anne Hoang for winning 3rd place in the Faculty Choice category at the 2018 Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science (VTURCS) Symposium. There were 37 submissions including 22 capstone projects and 15 research projects. Anne also won 1st place in the Capstone category and 1st place in the…

  • Presentation accepted for Collective Intelligence 2018

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    Our preliminary work on the Civil War Photo Sleuth project, which combines crowdsourcing and face recognition technology to identify unknown American Civil War soldier photos, was accepted to ACM Collective Intelligence 2018 in the most competitive oral presentation category (32% acceptance rate). We’ll be traveling to Zurich, Switzerland to present this work. The extended abstract…

  • Preston Award for Best STEM Master’s Thesis

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    Congratulations to Crowd Lab alumna Rachel Kohler for winning the William Preston Society Award for Outstanding Master’s Thesis at Virginia Tech. The Preston Award recognizes the best original research with the potential to benefit all people. Rachel won in the STEM category, which includes any field of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics at VT. According…

  • Received ICTAS Junior Faculty Award

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    Dr. Luther received an Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Junior Faculty Award. The award includes a two-year, $80,000 grant to support his lab’s research on using crowdsourcing and computer vision to identify people in historical and modern photographs. The co-PI on the grant is Prof. Paul Quigley of Virginia Tech’s History department.…