Laura Sevilla

I'm a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Informatics in the University of Edinburgh as of January 2019. 

My research focuses on motion in the visual world: what motion tells us about the properties, the state and the structure of the world, and how to estimate it. This broadly includes motion estimation, temporal representations, video understanding, high-level perceptual tasks that involve motion and the machine learning problems that all these problems pose.

Before I joined Edinburgh, I was a postdoc at Facebook Research, and before I was at the Max Planck Institute for Perceiving Systems. 

WHAT'S NEW? 

• If you're looking for a benchmark to test how good your model is at capturing temporal information in videos, try our new Temporal Dataset, featured in the Facebook AI blog. 
• Our paper describing FASTER was just accepted to AAAI '19! Congrats Linchao. FASTER maintains the accuracy of state-of-the-art in video classification while reducing an order of magnitude the computation time. 
• I'm co-leading with Yannis Kalantidis the very exciting CVPR Worksop on "Computer Vision for Global Challenges" , where we explore novel vision problems to humanitarian, development, and other global domains. Check our video below! 
• We're presenting the tiny DMC-Net for Action Recognition at CVPR '19. Everything you wanted in an action recognition network, for a fraction of the cost. 
• Kiyoon Kim and Shreyank Gowda to join the lab and start their PhD in September. 

I'm always looking for very motivated, independent and talented PhD students.