Curriculum Vitae
Siddharth Narayanaswamy
Department of Psychology
Stanford University
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October 17, 2014
http://iffsid.com
450 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Tel: +1 765-409-6947
v Education
PhD — Electrical & Computer Engineering
Thesis Title: Compositionality in Vision and Language
Advisor: Jeffrey Mark Siskind
Bachelor of Engineering — Electronics and Communication
Aug 2008 – Mar 2014
Purdue University, USA
Aug 2004 – Aug 2008
Anna University, India
v Experience
Postdoctoral Associate, Psychology
Advisor: Noah Goodman
Apr 2014 – present
Stanford University, USA
PhD Student, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Advisor: Jeffrey Mark Siskind
Aug 2008 – Mar 2014
Undergraduate Research Project
Supervisor: Muniyandi Manivannan
May 2007 – Aug 2008
Purdue University, USA
IIT-Madras, India
Part-Time Instructor
The Princeton Review (Manya Education Pvt. Ltd.)
Oct 2007 – Aug 2008
Undergraduate Research Intern
Doors and Gates Pvt.Ltd.
May 2007 – Sep 2007
Chennai, India
Chennai, India
v Refereed Journal Publications
Dec 2012
J2
Seeing Unseeability to See the Unseeable
N. Siddharth, A. Barbu, and J. M. Siskind
Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS), 2:77–94
http://papers.iffsid.com/siddharth2012unseeability.pdf
Dec 2012
J1
Simultaneous Object Detection, Tracking, and Event Recognition
A. Barbu, N. Siddharth, A. Michaux, and J. M. Siskind
Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS), 2:203–20
http://papers.iffsid.com/barbu2012objectsTackingEvents.pdf
v Journal Publications in Review
The Compositional Nature of Event Representations in the Human Brain
A. Barbu, N. Siddharth, C. Xiong, J. J. Corso, C. D. Fellbaum, C. Hanson, S. J. Hanson,
S. H´elie, E. Malaia, B. A. Pearlmutter, J. M. Siskind, T. M. Talavage, and R. B. Wilbur
Nature Neuroscience
In review
A Compositional Framework for Grounding Language Inference, Generation, and
Acquisition in Video
H. Yu, N, Siddharth, A. Barbu, and J. M. Siskind
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
In review
Saying What You’re Looking For: Linguistics Meets Video Search
A. Barbu, N. Siddharth, and J. M. Siskind
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
In review
v Refereed Conference Publications
C9
Seeing is Worse than Believing: Reading Peoples Minds Better than
Computer-Vision Methods Recognize Actions
A. Barbu, D. P. Barrett, N. Siddharth, C. Xiong, J. J. Corso, C. D. Fellbaum, C. Hanson, S.
J. Hanson, S. H´elie, E. Malaia, B. A. Pearlmutter, J. M. Siskind, T. M. Talavage, and R. B.
Wilbur
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
pp. 612–627
http://papers.iffsid.com/barbu2014fmriAction.pdf
C8
Seeing What You’re Told: Sentence-Guided Activity Recognition in Video
N. Siddharth, A. Barbu, and J. M. Siskind
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
pp. tbd
http://papers.iffsid.com/siddharth2014sentence.pdf
Jun 2013
C7
Recognizing Human Activities from Partially Observed Videos
Y. Cao, D. Barrett, A. Barbu, N. Siddharth, H. Yu, A. Michaux, Y. Lin, S. Dickinson,
J. M. Siskind, and S. Wang
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
pp. 2658–2665
http://papers.iffsid.com/cao2013partiallyObserved.pdf
Dec 2012
C6
Seeing Unseeability to See the Unseeable
N. Siddharth, A. Barbu, and J. M. Siskind
Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS)
2:77–94
conference presentation associated with [J2]
http://papers.iffsid.com/siddharth2012unseeability.pdf
Dec 2012
C5
Simultaneous Object Detection, Tracking, and Event Recognition
A. Barbu, N. Siddharth, A. Michaux, and J. M. Siskind
Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS)
2:203–220
conference presentation associated with [J1]
http://papers.iffsid.com/barbu2012objectsTackingEvents.pdf
Aug 2012
C4
Video In Sentences Out
A. Barbu, A. Bridge, Z. Burchill, D. Coroian, S. Dickinson, S. Fidler, A. Michaux, S. Mussman, N. Siddharth , D. Salvi, L. Schmidt, J. Shangguan, J. M. Siskind, J. Waggoner, S.
Wang, J. Wei, Y. Yin and Z. Zhang
Twenty-Eighth Conference on Uncertainity in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
pp. 102–112
http://papers.iffsid.com/barbu2012videoSentences.pdf
May 2011
C3
A Visual Language Model for Estimating Object Pose and Structure in a
Generative Visual Domain
N. Siddharth, A. Barbu, and J. M. Siskind
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
pp. 4854–4860
http://papers.iffsid.com/siddharth2011VisualLanguage.pdf
Sep 2014
June 2014
C2
Learning Physically-Instantiated Game Play Through Visual Observation
A. Barbu, N Siddharth, and J. M. Siskind
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
pp. 1879–1886
http://papers.iffsid.com/barbu2010RobotGames.pdf
C1
Design of a Do-It-Yourself VR Based Laparoscopic Simulator
N. Siddharth, M. Manivannan, S. Devasahayam, and G. Mathew
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR17)
May 2010
Jan 2009
v Patent Applications
P1
Grounded Language Learning from Video Described with Sentences
A. Barbu, N. Siddharth, H. Yu, and J. M. Siskind
US Provisional Application 61/835,541
Jun 2013
v Technical Reports
Sep 2013
T3
Saying What You’re Looking For: Linguistics Meets Video Search
A. Barbu, N. Siddharth, and J. M. Siskind
arXiv:1309.5174
[submitted for review at AAAI 2014]
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.5174v1
Jun 2013
T2
The Compositional Nature of Verb and Argument Representations in the
Human Brain
A. Barbu, N. Siddharth, C. Xiong, J. J. Corso, C. D. Fellbaum, C. Hanson, S. J. Hanson,
S. H´elie, E. Malaia, B. A. Pearlmutter, J. M. Siskind, T. M. Talavage, and R. B. Wilbur
arXiv:1306.2293
[extended version in review at Nature Neuroscience]
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.2293v1
Apr 2012
T1
Large-Scale Automatic Labeling of Video Events with Verbs Based on
Event-Participant Interaction
A. Barbu, N. Siddharth, H. Yu, and J. M. Siskind
arXiv:1204.3616
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.3616v1
v Talks
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Computation Seminar University of Birmingham
Sep 2013
COGS Research Seminar University of Sussex
Oct 2013
Computing Research Colloquia University of Leeds
Oct 2013
IPAB Workshop University of Edinburgh
Oct 2013
Machine Learning and Perception Seminar Microsoft Research – Cambridge
Oct 2013
Robotics Research Group Seminar Oxford University
Oct 2013
v Professional Society Membership
Student Member, IEEE
Mar 2005 – present
v Referee Activity
AAAI
NIPS
CVPR
PAMI
ICRA
ICDL
PRL
v Personal
Native English, Tamil, and Hindi
v Other Activities
Primary Operator — 3T MRI Scanner - InnerVision West - Purdue
v References
Tony Cohn
Professor of Automated Reasoning
School of Computing
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
England
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Larry Davis
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
Room 3301, A.V. Williams Building
College Park, MD 20742, USA
+1 301-405-6718
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Sven Dickinson
Professor and Department Head
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G4
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Stephen Jos´
e Hanson
Full Professor
RUBIC, Psychology Department
Rutgers University
Room 324, Smith Hall, 101 Warren Street
Newark, NJ 07102, USA
+1 973-353-5440
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Jeffrey Mark Siskind
Associate Professor
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Purdue University
465 Northwestern Avenue
West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
+1 765-496-3197
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Ronnie Wilbur
Professor
Audiology & Speech Sciences
Purdue University
Heavilon Hall, Room B-11, 500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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