AASS Seminar - Minds. Media. Moving Images. Part II

The research centre AASS arranges a seminar with Mehul Bhatt, AASS, Örebro University.

Abstract

This talk will focus on highlighting recent work and potentials for mixed-methods research and pedagogy involving Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, and Media Studies.  I will cover two main aspects:

1. outreach  /  the relevance of artificial intelligence for communications and cognitive media studies, entertainment etc; the focus here will be on visual perception research in the context of visuo-auditory narrative media such as narrative film, virtual  /  immersive content.
2. foundations  /  recent (and outward looking) efforts aimed at operationalising "deep (visuo-spatial) semantics", which we defineas: the existence of systematic formalisation and declarative programming methods supporting reasoning capabilities involving query answering, inductive (relational) learning, non-monotonic abductive inference pertaining to primitives of space and motion.  The focus here - motivated by an integration of Vision and AI - will be on   highlighting the development of domain-independent methods for   commonsense reasoning about space, action, and change (with general,   semantically-driven KR languages rooted in logic programming).

Demo: For (1-2), I will present demonstrations from ongoing large-scale experiments involving eye-tracking and semantic video understanding; the backdrop of this will be the films of Wes Anderson (and his obsession with symmetry). Time permitting, I might show how developed methods seamlessly translate to other traditional application settings in cognitive robotics, smart environments etc.