Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech

Author: Kurt Luther

  • Best Poster/Demo Award at HCOMP 2018

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    Congratulations to Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Vikram Mohanty and computer science major David Thames for winning the inaugural Best Poster/Demo Award at HCOMP 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland. Their poster/demo was titled, “Are 1,000 Features Worth A Picture? Combining Crowdsourcing and Face Recognition to Identify Civil War Soldiers.”

  • Beta release of Photo Sleuth software in Gettysburg

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    The Civil War Photo Sleuth team released a beta version of our software for identifying unknown Civil War photos at the 45th Civil War Artifact and Collectibles Show in Gettysburg, PA. Our table was set up next to our partners at Military Images Magazine. The team was excited to help dozens of attendees sign up for…

  • Poster presented at HCIC 2018

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    Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Sukrit Venkatagiri and postdoc Jacob Thebault-Spieker presented a poster on their research using crowdsourcing to analyze satellite imagery for geolocation purposes at the Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC 2018) conference in Watsonville, CA. The poster, seen below, was titled, “Verifying Truth from the Ground: Leveraging Human Strengths in the Image Geolocation Process“.

  • Welcome, Summer 2018 interns!

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    We are excited to welcome three undergraduate interns to the Crowd Lab’s Arlington location this summer. Their research is funded by the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program of the National Science Foundation. Aliza Camacho is a Computer Science and Anthropology double-major at Wellesley College. She will be working on the GroundTruth project. Ryan Russell…

  • Won Grand Prize in Microsoft Cloud AI Research Challenge

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    Congratulations to Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Vikram Mohanty and computer science major David Thames for winning the Grand Prize in the Microsoft Cloud AI Research Challenge. Their submission was titled, “Civil War Photo Sleuth” and the prize was $25,000.

  • The American Soldier in World War II launched on Zooniverse

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    On May 8, the anniversary of Victory in Europe (V-E) Day, we launched The American Soldier in World War II, a crowdsourced transcription project featured on the Zooniverse platform. This project is the result of a year-long collaboration between Virginia Tech’s History and Computer Science departments, University Libraries, the National Archives, and Zooniverse, with funding…

  • 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…