Adriana Kovashka

Adriana Kovashka, an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, dives into her research on visual commonsense and robust visual reasoning. She discusses the interplay between media studies and machine learning, using examples like public service announcements to highlight the complexity of interpretation. Adriana elaborates on the pitfalls in visual question answering datasets and the innovations in weakly supervised object detection. She also shares insights into practical AI applications, emphasizing the need for common sense in assistive technologies.