Posted by Rahul Sukthankar, Research Scientist


More than 1800 participants showed up to discuss their research at this year’s International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’12), held in Providence, RI last month. The main conference consisted of three eventful -- and exhausting -- days of talks and poster sessions, supplemented by an additional three days of tutorials and workshops.

This year, I found the CVPR posters to be especially energizing: poster presenters were mobbed by huge crowds that prompted the authors to start early and give encore performances through breaks and into subsequent sessions. Live demos and videos on laptops and tablets were increasingly common and allowed the audience to get a closer look at the research.

Here is a small sampling of papers (both oral and poster) that I particularly enjoyed:
The best paper prize this year (sponsored by Google) was awarded to Y. Dai, H. Li, and M. He for their paper, “A Simple Prior-free Method for Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion Factorization”; the best student paper award went to M. Hoai and F. De la Torre for their work on “Max-Margin Early Event Detectors”. 

Research at Google was very active at CVPR '12: 

For me, the best part of CVPR was talking with graduate students about their work: at the doctoral consortium, during poster sessions and at the Google booth (where interesting demos and swag drew large crowds).

Since becoming a part of Research at Google last year, I’ve been particularly excited about the idea of training spatiotemporally localized object and action detectors from lots of video, with minimal human supervision -- a goal that seemed both technically and computationally infeasible until recently. It’s great to see that many in the CVPR community share my belief that we’re now ready to learn from large-scale video and we’ve decided to organize a AAAI Spring Symposium on this topic. 

Next year’s CVPR will be held in Portland, OR. I look forward to seeing many of you there!

M. Grundmann and V. Kwatra present the YouTube video stabilization demo

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By Anthony F. Voellm (aka Tony the @p3rfguy / G+) and Emily Bedont

On Wednesday, October 24th, while sitting under the Solar System, 30 software engineers from the Greater Seattle area came together at Google Kirkland to partake in the first ever Test Edition of Ship Wars. Ship Wars was created by two Google Waterloo engineers, Garret Kelly and Aaron Kemp, as a 20% project.

September 15 marked the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month and the start of our third year celebrating the Hispanic community through events and community outreach initiatives. Googlers from our Corporate Social Responsibility Team, Diversity & Inclusion Team, Engineering Industry Team, the Hispanic Googler Network (HGN), and our Community Partners worked together to host 20+ events focused on this year’s theme of Latinos in Technology.

We kicked things off at the U.S.

Michel Benard, University Relations Manager

Last week we held our fifth Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Faculty Summit in London, bringing together 94 of EMEA’s foremost computer science academics from 65 universities representing 25 countries, together with more than 60 Googlers.

Posted by Aaron Kemp, Software Engineer

Eight months after its inception in the Google Waterloo Office, Ships Wars has reached the Silicon Valley.  On Thursday, September 13th, Google San Francisco and the Wallet team welcomed 25 local programmers to show off their skills as they coded their own spacecraft to do battle in a virtual universe.
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Posted by Kabita Komal and Amy Yeung, University Programs Team

This past July, our Engineering University Programs team had the pleasure of hosting a unique new organization known as Girls Who Code (GWC) in the Google New York office. GWC is an organization working to educate, inspire and equip 13- to 17-year old girls with the skills and resources to pursue opportunities in technology and engineering.
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Posted by Dan Russell, Uber Tech Lead, Search Quality & User Happiness

If you missed Power Searching with Google a few months ago or were unable to complete the course the first time around, now’s your chance to sign up again for our free online course that aims to empower our users with the tools and knowledge to find what they’re looking for more quickly and easily.

Posted by Peter Norvig, Director of Research

On July 26th, Google's 2012 Faculty Summit hosted computer science professors from around the world for a chance to talk and hear about some of the work done by Google and by our faculty partners. One of the sessions was a panel on Online Education.
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Posted by Andrea Held, University Relations

In the last 10 years, we’ve seen a major transition from stand-alone applications that run on desktop computers to applications running in the cloud. Unfortunately, many computer science students don’t have the opportunity to learn and work in the cloud due to a lack of resources in traditional undergrad programs. Without this access students are limited to the resources their school can provide.
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Posted by Rahul Sukthankar, Research Scientist

More than 1800 participants showed up to discuss their research at this year’s International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’12), held in Providence, RI last month. The main conference consisted of three eventful -- and exhausting -- days of talks and poster sessions, supplemented by an additional three days of tutorials and workshops.
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Posted by Craig Rubens, People Operations Communications team

Now that Google I/O has concluded, the parachutes have been repacked, hundreds of pounds of snacks have all been eaten and the Moscone Center has fewer robots prowling its hallways.

But Google I/O is much more than just announcements, giveaways and demos.

Google I/O, our annual developer conference, begins in just two days, and this year, we’re bringing you more than 130 technical sessions, 20 code labs and 155 Sandbox partners. If you’re not here in San Francisco, you can still sign up for one of our 350+ I/O Extended events around the world or tune in to I/O Live to watch the live stream from wherever you are. This year’s conference kicks off on June 27 with the first day’s keynote at 9:30 a.m.

Posted by Jim Keller, Software Engineer

Next week, Google will join the Internet speed community at the Velocity 2012 conference in Santa Clara, California. This will be our fifth year at the O’Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference. We hope to see you there as we introduce the latest in faster web browsing and exchange and advance ideas to speed up the web.

From the client to the backend, Google is accelerating the web experience.
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Posted by Mark Lentczner, Software Engineer, Security Research

A number of us from Google attended this year’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, held May 20-23 (known as the “Oakland” conference, despite being held in San Francisco this year). The three day, single track main conference featured some of the best work in Security and Privacy, and spanned from pure research to state-of-the-industry reports.

Posted by Tomer Sharon, User Experience Researcher

Students, professionals, and executives looking to stay on the bleeding edge of accessibility will be heading to Addison, Texas, from May 31 - June 2 for the annual Big Design Conference. Googlers will also be in attendance to present research and share experiences and best practices surrounding accessibility technologies at Google.

Posted by Kathy Baxter, Sr. UX Researcher & Infrastructure Manager

More than 60 Googlers descended on Austin, TX May 5-10 for CHI—probably the best CHI I’ve attended in the last 12 years! Each year, it’s exciting to see Google continuing to offer contributions to the CHI community through research and volunteer efforts.

Posted by Prabhakar Raghavan, Vice President of Engineering 

More than forty members of Google’s technical staff gathered in Lyon, France in April to participate in the global dialogue around the state of the web at the World Wide Web conference (WWW) 2012. A decade ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin applied their research to an information retrieval problem and their work—presented at WWW in 1998—led to the invention of today’s most popular search engine.

Researchers at Google have enormous potential to impact the experience of Google users, which means it’s of enormous importance for us to conduct Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Grounded in user behavior understanding and real-use iteration, Google’s HCI researchers invent, design, build and trial real-scale interactive systems in the real world, often exploring areas where products and features may not yet exist.
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Nearly one hundred guests from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Boston joined Googlers for a fascinating technical talk Wednesday, March 21 at our Cambridge office. Google Cambridge partnered with the local chapter of SWE to showcase some of the incredible work women at Google are accomplishing and showcase the Cambridge office. Women from all areas of engineering joined us: academia, industry professionals and local students.

PyCon 2012 was held in Santa Clara, which was particularly convenient for many of the dozens of participants who work at Google, whose headquarters is a few miles away in Mountain View.  The location was obviously convenient for others too; instead of the anticipated 1500 attendees the conference drew well over 2200, and hundreds of them stayed for the development sprints.
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