Christopher Funk

I am a PhD Candidate in the Laboratory for Perception, Action and Cognition (LPAC) at Penn State university advised by Professor Yanxi Liu.  My main interests are in Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Psychology.  Specifically in

   -  understanding deep learning, especially about vision related tasks

   -  computational symmetry (such as wallpaper patterns, reflection and rotation symmetry) with  machine learning

   -  human perception of symmetry

   -  reCAPTCHAs

 

I helped out with CVPR 2017 with the paper matching, pluralism detection, organizing, and a lot more.  Check out these interactive graphs I made using D3 for visualizing the paper areas by accepted papers:

    -   Primary Areas

    -   Secondary Areas

 

Before Penn State, I got my masters in Computer Science from PACE university working with Professor D. Paul Benjamin.

    - Creating cognitive architectures and building predictive physics simulations validated with real world examples.

 

Beyond Planar Symmetry:

Modeling human perception of reflection and rotation symmetries in the wild [Project Page] [PDF]

    Christopher Funk and Yanxi Liu

    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  2017

 

2017 ICCV Challenge: Detecting Symmetry in the Wild [Challenge Website]

    Christopher Funk, Seungkyu Lee, Martin R. Oswald, Stavros Tsogkas, Wei Shen, Andrea Cohen, Sven Dickinson, and Yanxi Liu

    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Workshop 2017

 

4D Model-based Spatiotemporal Alignment of Scripted Taiji Quan Sequences [PDF]

    Jesse Scott, Robert T. Collins, Christopher Funk, Yanxi Liu

    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Workshop 2017

 

Symmetry reCAPTCHA [Project Page] [PDF]

    Christopher Funk and Yanxi Liu

    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)  2016

 

LabelMe Symmetry: a tool for human symmetry perception [Project Page]

    Christopher Funk and Yanxi Liu

    Vision Sciences Society (VSS) 2016