Tamara Lee Berg is a tenured associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill[1] and a research scientist manager at Facebook AML/FAIR.
Tamara Berg | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Thesis | Exploiting Words and Pictures (2007) |
| Doctoral advisor | David A. Forsyth |
| Website | www |
Education
editBerg obtained her PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 as a member of the Berkeley Computer Vision Group. She was an assistant professor at Stony Brook University from 2008 to 2013 before joining University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2013.[1]
Research
editBerg's research interests are at the boundary of computer vision and natural language processing. In particular, she focuses on understanding the connections between vision and language, for example, to automatically identify people in news photographs, for generating natural language descriptions for images, or for recognising clothing and style.[2]
Selected awards and honours
edit- 2019 Mark Everingham Prize[3][4][5]
- 2013 Marr Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision[6]
- 2011 National Science Foundation Career Award[7]
Personal life
editBerg is married to fellow computer vision researcher Alexander Berg.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b "UNC - Tamara Berg". Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Website Tamara Berg". Retrieved 11 March 2020.
- ^ "PAMI Mark Everingham Prize for Contributions to the Computer Vision Community". Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "News Mark Everingham Prize 2019". Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Labeled Faces in the Wild creators and Anil Jain each honored for biometrics contributions". 4 December 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Marr Prize - ICCV Best Paper Award". Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "NSF Awards". Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ Berg, Tamara. "Tamara L Berg". Tamara L Berg. Retrieved 14 July 2022.