Aron Yu
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” –Hebrews 11:1
Recent News
- JUL '19: Joined Home Depot's Visual AI team as a Data Scientist.
FEB '19: Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation.
FEB '19: Paper accepted into CVPR 2019.
SEP '17: Advanced to Ph.D. candidacy. Expected graduation Feb '19.
Education
- University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
M.S./Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (Aug '11 - May '19) - Rice University, Houston, TX
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (Aug '07 - May '11)
Publications
- Densifying Supervision for Fine-Grained Visual Comparisons
A. Yu and K. Grauman
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Special Issue on Generative Adversarial Networks for Computer Vision, Aug 2020.
[paper] [arxiv]
- Thinking Outside the Pool: Active Training Image Creation for Relative Attributes
A. Yu and K. Grauman
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, California, Jun 2019.
[paper] [supp] [arxiv] [poster] [code]
- Semantic Jitter: Dense Supervision for Visual Comparisons via Synthetic Images
A. Yu and K. Grauman
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Venice, Italy, Oct 2017.
[paper] [supp] [arxiv] [poster] [webpage]
- Fine-Grained Comparisons with Attributes
A. Yu and K. Grauman
Invited chapter, in Visual Attributes. R. Feris, C. Lampert, and D. Parikh, Editors. Springer, Mar 2017.
[pre-print]
- Just Noticeable Differences in Visual Attributes
A. Yu and K. Grauman
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Santiago, Chile, Dec 2015.
[paper] [supp] [poster] [webpage]
Email (work): aron [underscore] yu [at] homedepot [dot] com
Email (academic): aron [dot] yu [at] utexas [dot] edu