Tag: groundtruth

  • Presented at University of Maryland CASCI Seminar

    Dr. Luther gave an invited presentation at the Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information (CASCI) at the University of Maryland on November 19, 2019. The title of his presentation was, “Crowd Sleuths: Solving Mysteries with Crowdsourcing, Experts and AI.” The abstract was as follows: Professional investigators in fields such as journalism, law…

  • Presented at AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Work

    Dr. Luther gave an invited presentation at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Work on November 8, 2019. The title of his presentation was, “Solving AI’s last-mile problem with crowds and experts.” Dr. Luther’s position paper accompanying the presentation is available online. The abstract for the paper is as follows: Visual search tasks,…

  • Presented on photo sleuthing at The Washington Post

    Dr. Luther gave an invited presentation to an audience of engineers and journalists at The Washington Post on October 23, 2019. The title of his talk was, “Photo sleuthing: Helping investigators solve photo mysteries using crowdsourcing and AI.” The abstract for the talk was: Journalists, intelligence analysts, and human rights investigators frequently analyze photographs of…

  • Two posters/demos accepted for HCOMP 2019

    The Crowd Lab had two posters/demos accepted for AAAI HCOMP 2019! Both of these papers involved substantial contributions from our summer REU interns, who will be attending the conference at Skamania Lodge, Washington, to present their work. It’s QuizTime: A study of online verification practices on Twitter was led by Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Sukrit…

  • Two papers accepted for CSCW 2019

    The Crowd Lab had two papers accepted for the upcoming ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2019) conference in Austin, TX, USA, November 9-13, 2019. The conference had a 31% acceptance rate. Ph.D. student Sukrit Venkatagiri will be presenting “GroundTruth: Augmenting expert image geolocation with crowdsourcing and shared representations,” co-authored with Jacob…

  • Poster presented at HCIC 2018

    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“.