Pierre-Etienne Martin - Bridging the Technological Gap
Please join us for this seminar with Pierre-Etienne Martin. The talk will be in Bourne LT2 from 1-2pm, followed by Meet the Speaker in the Alice Room from 2-3pm.
Summary: In this talk, I will outline my multifaceted role in the Department of Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. My responsibilities span from coordination and supervision to hands-on research and practical applications. Over the course of an hour, you'll gain insights into what being a PostDoc in a transdisciplinary field entails. More importantly, I aim to illuminate how Computer Vision can be a powerful tool in understanding both human and non-human minds. We'll explore its application in diverse areas, such as quantifying children's daily experiences and measuring arousal in apes using thermal imagery.
Personal Bio: Pierre-Etienne Martin is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher and Tech Development Coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, within the Comparative Cultural Psychology department. He received his M.S. degree in 2017 from the University of Bordeaux, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, and the Autonomous University of Madrid through the Image Processing and Computer Vision Erasmus Master program. He obtained his PhD, which was labeled European, from the University of Bordeaux in 2020, focusing on the topic of video detection and classification using Convolutional Neural Networks. He now applies and develops computer vision tools with the aim of better understanding both human and non-human animal minds.
Host: Sarah Papworth
