Events for week of April 6, 2026

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Suxia Cui CO-COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lujun Zhai TITLE: EFFECTIVE DATA AUGMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR SMALL OBJECT DETECTION ABSTRACT: Data augmentation remains the most effective method of improving object detection, particularly in scenes where small objects dominate and the annotated datasets are small. While geometric augmentation techniques such as flipping, cropping, and photometric augmentations [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Yonghui Wang TITLE: STRUCTURED REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR GENERALIZABLE DEEPFAKE VIDEO DETECTION ABSTRACT Deepfake video detection has become an important problem in multimedia forensics as modern generative models produce increasingly realistic facial manipulations. Although many existing detectors achieve strong performance on the datasets on which they are trained, their performance often degrades substantially [...]

Good afternoon  Please join us on Thursday, April 23, 2026, from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm for another great art exhibit here at the Northwest. The Northwest Houston Center Library would like to invite you to the Nature's Intelligence, A Photography Exhibit opening night reception. Click the link on the flyer or click the link below to [...]