Tomasz Malisiewicz
Email: tomasz --at-- cmu.edu
Office: Smith Hall 236
Office Phone: (412) 268-3411
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
I am a third year PhD student at CMU's Robotics Institute
working with Alyosha
Efros under an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I am
interested in Computer Vision, especially the application of machine
learning techniques for detecting and segmenting objects in real scenes. I graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in May 2005 with Computer Science and Physics Majors and a Minor in Mathematics. At RPI I worked for several years with Charles Stewart on a variety of computer vision problems.
From February until May 2008 I will be at ENS Paris as part of the WILLOW Research Team.
Tomasz Malisiewicz, Alexei A. Efros. Recognition by Association via
Learning Per-exemplar Distances. In CVPR, June 2008.
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Tomasz Malisiewicz, Alexei A. Efros. Improving Spatial Support for Objects via Multiple Segmentations. In BMVC, September 2007. PDF
I believe that using large amounts of data and employing Machine Learning techniques is the future of computer vision. I am interested in unsupervised segmentation/recognition, semi-supervised learning, graphical models, and human vision.
When not pursuing scholarly endeavours, I enjoy playing guitar, snowboarding, skiing, mountain biking, running and reading fiction. The most influential book I ever read was Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. It made me rethink my scientific interests, and I decided that I wanted to study Computer Vision instead of becoming a theoretical physicist.
I also enjoy SCUBA Diving in warm crystal-clear waters; I obtained my SCUBA certification in Kona, Hawaii in 1998. I've visited many islands in the Caribbean such as: Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, USVI, BVI, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Martin, Dominica. I've also been to Hawaii and Costa Rica.