Walter J. Scheirer

Curriculum Vitae

Postdoctoral Fellows

Daniel Moreira

Graduate Students

Sophia Abraham

Sreya Banerjee

Zachariah Carmichael

Samuel Grieggs

Jin Huang

Jeffery Kinnison

Derek Prijatelj

Brandon RichardWebster

Bingyu Shen

Rosaura Vidal Mata (Co-Advised with Kevin Bowyer)

William Theisen

Teaching

Spring 2020: CSE 40567/60567 Computer Security

Fall 2019: CSE 40171 Artificial Intelligence

Spring 2019: CSE 40567/60567 Computer Security

Fall 2018: CSE 40171 Artificial Intelligence

Spring 2018: CSE 40567/44567/60567 Computer Security

Spring 2017: CSE 40567/60567 Computer Security

Spring 2016: CSE 40567/60567 Computer Security

Fall 2015: CSE 40537/60537 Biometrics

Books

Quantitative Intertextuality: Analyzing the Markers of Information Reuse (Springer-Nature) with Christopher W. Forstall

Extreme Value Theory-based Methods for Visual Recognition (Morgan & Claypool Publishers)

Recent Publications (see all)

1. "Backdooring Convolutional Neural Networks via Targeted Weight Perturbations,"

   Jacob Dumford, Walter J. Scheirer,

   Proceedings of the IAPR/IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB),

   September 2020.

   [pdf] [talk]

   [bibtex]

   @inproceedings{Dumford20_IJCB,
   author = {Jacob Dumford and
   Walter J. Scheirer},
   title = {Backdooring Convolutional Neural Networks via Targeted Weight Perturbations},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the IAPR/IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)},
   year = {2020}
   }
   
2. "The Next Generation of Human-Drone Partnerships: Co-Designing an Emergency Response System,"

   Ankit Agrawal, Sophia Abraham, Benjamin Burger, Chichi Christine, Luke Fraser, John Hoeksema,
   Sara Hwang, Elizabeth Travnik, Shreya Kumar, Walter J. Scheirer, Jane Cleland-Huang, Michael Vierhauser,
   Ryan Bauer, Steve Cox,

   Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Honorable Mention Award),

   April 2020.

   [pdf]

   [bibtex]

   @misc{agrawal2020generation,
   title={The Next Generation of Human-Drone Partnerships: Co-Designing an Emergency Response System},
   author={Ankit Agrawal and Sophia Abraham and Benjamin Burger and Chichi Christine and Luke Fraser
   and John Hoeksema and Sara Hwang and Elizabeth Travnik and Shreya Kumar and Walter Scheirer and
   Jane Cleland-Huang and Michael Vierhauser and Ryan Bauer and Steve Cox},
   year={2020},
   eprint={2001.03849},
   archivePrefix={arXiv},
   primaryClass={cs.HC}
   }
   
3. "An AI Early Warning System to Monitor Online Disinformation, Stop Violence, and Protect Elections,"

   Michael Yankoski, Tim Weninger, Walter J. Scheirer,

   Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,

   March 2020.

   [pdf]

   [bibtex]

   @article{yankoski2020ai,
   title={An AI early warning system to monitor online disinformation, stop violence, and protect elections},
   author={Yankoski, Michael and Weninger, Tim and Scheirer, Walter},
   journal={Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists},
   month={March},
   year={2020},
   publisher={Taylor \& Francis}
   }
   
4. "Self-Driving Vehicles: Key Technical Challenges and Progress Off the Road,"

   Michael Milford, Samuel E. Anthony, Walter J. Scheirer,

   IEEE Potentials,

   January-February 2020.

   [pdf]

   [bibtex]

   @article{MilfordPotentials2020,
   author = {Michael Milford and
   Samuel E. Anthony and
   Walter J. Scheirer},
   title = {Self-Driving Vehicles: Key Technical Challenges and Progress Off the Road},
   journal = {IEEE Potentials},
   volume = {39},
   number = {1},
   month = {January-February},
   year = {2020}
   }
   
5. "PsyPhy: A Psychophysics Driven Evaluation Framework for Visual Recognition,"

   Brandon RichardWebster, Samuel E. Anthony, Walter J. Scheirer,

   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI),

   September 2019.

   [pdf]

   [bibtex]

   @article{RichardWebsterPsyPhy2019,
   author = {Brandon RichardWebster and
   Samuel E. Anthony and
   Walter J. Scheirer},
   title = {PsyPhy: {A} Psychophysics Driven Evaluation Framework for Visual Recognition},
   journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)},
   volume = {41},
   number = {9},
   month = {September},
   year = {2019}
   }
   
6. "A Neurobiological Evaluation Metric for Neural Network Model Search,"

   Nathaniel Blanchard, Jeffery Kinnison, Brandon RichardWebster, Pouya Bashivan,
   Walter J. Scheirer,

   Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),

   June 2019.

   [pdf]

   [bibtex]

   @InProceedings{Blanchard19,
   author = {Nathaniel Blanchard and
   Jeffery Kinnison and
   Brandon RichardWebster and
   Pouya Bashivan and
   Walter J. Scheirer},
   title = {A Neurobiological Evaluation Metric for Neural Network Model Search},
   booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
   year = {2019},
   }
   
7. "Image Provenance Analysis at Scale,"

   Daniel Moreira, Aparna Bharati, Joel Brogan, Allan Pinto, Michael Parowski,
   Kevin Bowyer, Patrick Flynn, Anderson Rocha, Walter J. Scheirer,

   IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP),

   December 2018.

   [pdf] [dataset] [code]

   [bibtex]

   @article{MoreiraProvenance2018,
   author = {Daniel Moreira and
   Aparna Bharati and
   Joel Brogan and
   Allan da Silva Pinto and
   Michael Parowski and
   Kevin W. Bowyer and
   Patrick J. Flynn and
   Anderson Rocha and
   Walter J. Scheirer},
   title = {Image Provenance Analysis at Scale},
   journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)},
   volume = {27},
   number = {12},
   year = {2018}
   }
   
8. "Flexible Learning-Free Segmentation and Reconstruction for Neuronal Circuit Tracing,"

   Ali Shahbazi, Jeffery Kinnison, Rafael Vescovi, Ming Du, Robert Hill, Maximilian Joesch,
   Marc Takeno, Hongkui Zeng, Nuno da Costa, Jaime Grutzendler, Narayanan Kasthuri,
   Walter J. Scheirer,

   Scientific Reports,

   September 2018.

   [pdf] [code]

   [bibtex]

   @article {Shahbazi278515,
   author = {Shahbazi, Ali and
   Kinnison, Jeffery and
   Vescovi, Rafael and
   Du, Ming and
   Hill, Robert and
   J{\"o}sch, Maximilian and
   Takeno, Marc and
   Zeng, Hongkui and
   da Costa, Nuno Ma{\c c}arico and
   Grutzendler, Jaime and
   Kasthuri, Narayanan and
   Scheirer, Walter J.},
   title = {Flexible Learning-Free Segmentation and Reconstruction for Neuronal Circuit Tracing},
   journal = {Scientific Reports}
   volume = {8},
   number = {14247},
   year = {2018},
   }
   
9. "Visual Psychophysics for Making Face Recognition Algorithms More Explainable,"

   Brandon RichardWebster, So Yon Kwon, Christopher Clarizio, Samuel E. Anthony,
   Walter J. Scheirer,

   Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV),

   September 2018.

   [pdf]

   [bibtex]

   @InProceedings{RichardWebesterFace2018,
   author = {Brandon RichardWebster and
   So Yon Kwon and
   Christopher Clarizio and
   Samuel E. Anthony and
   Walter J. Scheirer},
   title = {Visual Psychophysics for Making Face Recognition Algorithms More Explainable},
   booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
   year = {2018}
   }