Understanding Cultural Style Trends with Computer Vision w/ Kavita Bala - #410

Today we’re joined by Kavita Bala, the Dean of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Kavita, whose research explores the overlap of computer vision and computer graphics, joined us to discuss a few of her projects, including GrokStyle, a startup that was recently acquired by Facebook and is currently being deployed across their Marketplace features. We also talk about StreetStyle/GeoStyle, projects focused on using social media data to find style clusters across the globe. Kavita shares her thoughts on the privacy and security implications, progress with integrating privacy-preserving techniques into vision projects like the ones she works on, and what’s next for Kavita’s research. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/go/410.