Gerald Friedland Explained

Gerald Friedland (born 1978, Berlin) is a Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services and an adjunct professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley.[1] [2]

Education

Gerald Friedland completed his Masters and Doctorate degrees in computer science from Free University of Berlin in 2002 and 2006, respectively.[3] His PhD advisor was Raúl Rojas. He then moved to the International Computer Science Institute where he completed his a postdoc under Nelson Morgan before continuing to be a research scientist and group leader there.[4] He then worked as a Principal Data Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab before co-founding Brainome, Inc.[5] He is a faculty fellow of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science where he has been running a discussion group[6] since 2018, understanding the implications of using information theory as universal tool for modeling. This resulted in a book published in 2024.[7]

Career

Friedland is a computer scientist specializing in the processing and analysis of multimedia data and machine learning.[8] He is mostly known as the original author of the widely used "Simple Interactive Object Extraction" image and video segmentation algorithm,[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] created as part of his PhD thesis,[17] [18] and as the co-author of a textbook on Multimedia Computing.[19] He also led the initiative to create and release the YFCC100M corpus (see also: List of datasets for machine learning research),[20] [21] [22] the largest freely available research corpus of consumer-produced videos and images. He co-founded the field of geolocation estimation for images and videos, sometimes also referred to as placing.[23] [24] [25] Friedland also frequently uncovers privacy risks in multimedia publishing practice[26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] and heads the development of the teachingprivacy.org[34] portal which provides educational materials for use in US high-schools as part of the AP Computer Science Principles and the Code.org initiative. Friedland is also the co-creator of MOVI, an open-source speech recognition board that allows the creation of cloudless voice interfaces[35] for Internet of things devices.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gerald Friedland | EECS at UC Berkeley.
  2. Web site: Gerald Friedland.
  3. Web site: Refubium - Suche.
  4. Web site: Error.
  5. Web site: Brainome launches product to optimize machine learning development process. ZDNet.
  6. Web site: Entropy discussion group. 23 August 2019.
  7. Friedland, Gerald "Information-Driven Machine Learning: Data Science as an Engineering Discipline", Springer-Nature, January 2024.
  8. [Google Scholar]
  9. Web site: Algorithm - What are the standard techniques for removing a segmentation (Such as a human or bird) from a video?.
  10. Web site: SIOX.
  11. Web site: Using GIMP's Foreground select tool. 31 August 2013.
  12. Web site: Paintshopprotutorials.co.uk .
  13. Web site: Kutout - an application for cutting out images | Hook - Labs . 2017-07-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170724111553/http://labs.byhook.com/2010/03/30/kutout/ . 2017-07-24 . dead .
  14. Web site: Fiji plugin based on the SIOX project to segment color images: Fiji/Siox_Segmentation. GitHub. June 2019.
  15. Web site: SIOX: Simple Interactive Object Extraction.
  16. Shoou Jiah Yiu, Gerald Friedland: "Method and system for identifying objects in images" US Patent Application US20170132469A1
  17. Gerald Friedland: "Adaptive Audio- und Videoverarbeitung für elektronische Kreidetafelvorlesungen", Freie Universitaet Berlin, October 2006. http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/diss/receive/FUDISS_thesis_000000002354
  18. Gerald Friedland: "Adaptive Audio and Video Processing for Electronic Chalkboard Lectures", Lulu Publishing,, December 2006. 2016 reprint:, Lambert Publishing, November 2016.
  19. Friedland, Gerald and Jain, Ramesh "Multimedia Computing", Cambridge University Press, October 2014.
  20. Bart Thomee, David A. Shamma, Gerald Friedland, Benjamin Elizalde, Karl Ni, Douglas Poland, Damian Borth, Li-Jia Li. "YFCC100M: The New Data in Multimedia Research". Communications of the ACM, Vol. 59 No. 2, Pages 64-73
  21. YFCC100M: YFCC100M
  22. http://mmcommons.org The Multimedia Commons
  23. Gerald Friedland, Oriol Vinyals, and Trevor Darrell: "Multimodal Location Estimation", in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2010), Florence, Italy, October 2010, pp. 1245-1251.
  24. Choi, Jaeyoung, Friedland, Gerald "Multimodal Location Estimation of Videos and Images", Springer Publishing October 2014
  25. Nils Peters, Howard Lei, Gerald Friedland: "Room identification using acoustic features in a recording", US Patent US20140161270A1
  26. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/technology/personaltech/12basics.html Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where you Live
  27. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/celebrity-stalking-online-photos-videos-give-location/story?id=11443038 Tips to Turn Off Geo-Tagging on Your Cell Phone
  28. http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/could-you-fall-victim-to-crime-simply-by-geotagging-location-info-to-your-photos/#ixzz4UdkEU4Ny Could you fall victim to crime simply by geotagging location info to your photos?
  29. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/technology/personaltech/ways-to-avoid-email-tracking.html Ways to Avoid Email Tracking
  30. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/05/19/police-worn-camera-that-can-reduce-crime.html BodyWorn, the police-worn camera that aims to reduce crime
  31. http://www.ibtimes.com/paris-isis-attacks-tech-industry-says-anti-terror-back-doors-would-make-us-less-safe-2190020 Paris ISIS Attacks: Tech Industry Says 'Anti-Terror' Back Doors Would Make US Less Safe
  32. https://www.wired.com/2016/04/long-form-voice-transcription/ Why our Crazy Smart AI still sucks at Transcribing our Speech
  33. https://www.wired.com/2017/04/trint-multi-voice-transcription Transcribing Audio Sucks—So Make Machines Like Trint Do It
  34. Web site: Teaching Privacy.
  35. Gerald Friedland Bertrand Irissou: Method of facilitating construction of a voice dialog interface for an electronic system, US Patent Application US15382163.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Gerald Friedland".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.