Dan Claudiu Cireșan

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Interest

AI, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks
Computer Vision
GPGPU

Publications

Conference papers:
2011 2008 Under review:
Journal papers: Under review:
Technical Reports:
High-Performance Neural Networks for Visual Object Classification (IDSIA Technical Report, January 2011, published at IJCAI 2011)
Handwritten Digit Recognition with a Committee of Deep Neural Nets on GPUs (IDSIA Technical Report, March 2011)

Competitions

First place at Offline Chinese Character Recognition (task1: "Offline Chinese Character Recognition") at ICDAR 2011.
First place at The German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark (both phases) at IJCNN 2011. We were the only team with better than human performance.

NEW! Deep Neural Networks for Industry

Talks

Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, August 2011.

Current project

Neural Dynamics, EU project
Advisor: Juergen Schmidhuber

Past projects

Swiss CTI, Commission for Technology and Innovation, Project n. 9688.1 IFF: Intelligent Fill in Form (2009-2010)

Current work

using NNs to solve computer vision tasks in robotics, medicine, general 3D scene understanding
visual data mining
self adaptive NNs
improving the GPU NN framework
transfer learning

Results on various benchmark data sets (state of the art for: MNIST, NIST SD 19, NORB, CIFAR10, traffic signs, Chinese characters)

Contact


+41 (0)58 666 6710
IDSIA, Galleria 2, CH-6928 Manno-Lugano, Ticino - Switzerland

PhD Thesis

Recunoașterea șirurilor numerice scrise de mână. (in Romanian)
[Automatic recognition of handwritten numeral strings.] at "POLITEHNICA" University of Timișoara



PhD thesis

Goal

improve human life through scientific advancements