Andrei Barbu

Advisees

Nazar Ilamanov - UROP
Houssam Kherraz - UROP
David Mayo - Graduate Student
Battushig Myanganbayar - UROP

Projects

Grounded language acquisition
Grounded question answering
Investigating neural signals underlying language processing in the human brain
Multi-sentence event recognition
Objects and hands in context

Publications

Y. - L. Kuo, Barbu, A., and Katz, B., “Deep sequential models for sampling-based planning”, in International Conference on Intelligent Robots, 2018.
C. Ross, Barbu, A., Berzak, Y., Myanganbayar, B., and Katz, B., “Grounding language acquisition by training semantic parsers using captioned videos”, in Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2018.
R. Paul, Barbu, A., Felshin, S., Katz, B., and Roy, N., “Temporal Grounding Graphs for Language Understanding with Accrued Visual-Linguistic Context”, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), Melbourne, Australia, 2017.
Y. Berzak, Barbu, A., Harari, D., Katz, B., and Ullman, S., “Language and Vision Ambiguities (LAVA) Corpus”. 2016.
Y. Berzak, Huang, Y., Barbu, A., Korhonen, A., and Katz, B., “Anchoring and Agreement in Syntactic Annotations”. 2016.
Y. Berzak, Barbu, A., Harari, D., Katz, B., and Ullman, S., “Do You See What I Mean? Visual Resolution of Linguistic Ambiguities”. 2016.
B. Katz and Barbu, A., “A look back at the June 2016 BMM Workshop in Sestri Levante, Italy”. 2016.
H. Yu, Siddharth, N., Barbu, A., and Siskind, J. Mark, “A Compositional Framework for Grounding Language Inference, Generation, and Acquisition in Video”. 2015.
Y. Berzak, Barbu, A., Harari, D., Katz, B., and Ullman, S., “Do You See What I Mean? Visual Resolution of Linguistic Ambiguities”, in Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Lisbon, Portugal. , 2015.
A. Barbu, Barrett, D., Chen, W., Siddharth, N., Xiong, C., Corso, J. J., Fellbaum, C. D., Hanson, C., Hanson, S. José, Helie, S., Malaia, E., Pearlmutter, B. A., Siskind, J. Mark, Talavage, T. Michael, and Wilbur, R. B., “Seeing is worse than believing: Reading people’s minds better than computer-vision methods recognize actions”, in Computer Vision – ECCV 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8693, Zurich, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 612–627.
N. Siddharth, Barbu, A., and Siskind, J. Mark, “Seeing what you're told, sentence guided activity recognition in video”, Appeared at CVPR. IEEE, 2014.
N. Siddharth, Barbu, A., and Siskind, J. Mark, “Seeing What You’re Told: Sentence-Guided Activity Recognition In Video.”. 2014.
A. Barbu, Barrett, D. P., Chen, W., Siddharth, N., Xiong, C., Corso, J. J., Fellbaum, C. D., Hanson, C., Hanson, S. José, Helie, S., Malaia, E., Pearlmutter, B. A., Siskind, J. Mark, Talavage, T. Michael, and Wilbur, R. B., “The Compositional Nature of Event Representations in the Human Brain”. 2014.
N. Siddharth, Barbu, A., and Siskind, J. Mark, “Seeing What You’re Told: Sentence-Guided Activity Recognition In Video”, in CVPR, Columbus, Ohio, 2014.
N. Amir, Besold, T. R., Camoriano, R., Erdogan, G., Flynn, T., Gillary, G., Gomez, J., Herbert-Voss, A., Hotan, G., Kadmon, J., Linderman, S. W., Liu, T. T., Marantan, A., Olson, J., Orchard, G., Pal, D. K., Pasquale, G., Sanders, H., Silberer, C., Smith, K. A., de Briton, C. Stein N., Suchow, J. W., Tessler, M. H., Viejo, G., Walker, D., Wehbe, L., Barbu, A., Isik, L., Mackevicius, E., and Meroz, Y., “Abstracts of the 2014 Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer Course”. 2014.
A. Barbu, Barrett, D. P., Chen, W., Siddharth, N., Xiong, C., Corso, J. J., Fellbaum, C. D., Hanson, C., Hanson, S. José, Helie, S., Malaia, E., Pearlmutter, B. A., Siskind, J. Mark, Talavage, T. Michael, and Wilbur, R. B., “Seeing is Worse than Believing: Reading People’s Minds Better than Computer-Vision Methods Recognize Actions”. 2014.