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June 19 - 25, 2021
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CVPR 2021

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The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is the premier annual computer vision event comprising a main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. This year’s event will be fully virtual.

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CVPR 2021 Fourth Workshop on Computer Vision for Fashion, Art and Design
June 18
Amazon Speakers: Michael Black (Distinguished Amazon Scholar), Javier Romero

Website: https://sites.google.com/zalando.de/cvfad2021/home
Scalable and explainable outfit generation
Alexander Lorbert, David Neiman, Arik Poznanski, Eduard Oks, Larry Davis
2021
Computer vision
Localized triplet loss for fine-grained fashion image retrieval
Antonio D’Innocente, Nikhil Garg, Yuan Zhang, Loris Bazzani, Michael Donoser
2021
Computer vision
CVPR 2021 Women in Computer Vision Workshop
June 19
Amazon is proud to be a Gold sponsor of this year's workshop

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/wicv/
CVPR 2021 Workshop on Learning to Generate 3D Shapes and Scenes
June 25
Workshop website: https://learn3dg.github.io/
From real to synthetic and back: Synthesizing training data for multi-person scene understanding
Igor Kviatkovsky, Nadav Bhonker, Gérard Medioni
2021
Computer vision
CVPR 2021 Workshop on Learning from Unlabled Videos
June 20
This workshop aims to promote comprehensive discussion around this emerging topic. We invite researchers to share their experiences and knowledge in learning from unlabeled videos and to brainstorm brave new ideas that will potentially generate the next breakthrough in computer vision.

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Academics at Amazon Presents: Computer Vision at Amazon
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How is Amazon using computer vision to innovate on behalf of customers? The recorded session of the panel features Amazon Scholars and Visiting Academics sharing how they leverage their computer expertise and apply their research at Amazon. Moderated by Academic Program Manager, Lindsey Weil, this panel provides insight into ways academics can partner with Amazon in this domain.
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Srinath Sridhar
Amazon Visiting Academic
Assistant Professor at Brown University
Thomas Brox
Amazon Scholar
Zhuowen Tu
Amazon Scholar
Professor at UC San Diego
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Meet our Consumer Science team
During the annual conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), three Amazon scientists from the company's Consumer Science team held a virtual discussion about their work in computer vision.

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US, VA, Arlington
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US, WA, Seattle
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US, CA, Los Angeles
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US, WA, Seattle
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US, CA, Palo Alto
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