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Jan 2026: Two abstract accepted for oral presentation at INSAR 2026

Two abstract accepted for oral presentation at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting ( INSAR 2026): X. Cao, V. Gunda, F. Ryan, H. Yang, H. Chua, and J.

Jan 2026: One paper accepted at ICLR 2026

One paper accepted for publication at the International Conference on Learning Representations ( ICLR 2026): O. Kara, T. C. Ozden, and J. M. Rehg. DiffVax: Optimization-Free Image Immunization Against Diffusion-Based Editing ( Project Page)

Dec 2025: CVEU Workshop proposal accepted at CVPR 2026

Our workshop proposal led by O. Kara and J. Kim for the 9th Workshop on AI for Creative Visual Content Generation, Editing, and Understanding (CVEU) has been accepted at CVPR 2026.

Sep 2025: Four papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025

Four papers accepted for publication at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems ( NeurIPS 2025): (spotlight) X. Li, Z. Wang, Z. Huang, and J. Rehg. Quantifying the Role of Image Cues in Single-Image 3D Generation.

Jan 2023: Jim is now Founder Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is the new director of the Health Care Engineering Systems Center at UIUC.

Apr 2022: Congrats to my Ph.D. students Fiona Ryan and Max Xu for both winning NSF Graduate Fellowships!

Aug 2020: Keynote talk at 8th Intl. Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR) @ ECCV 2020

Aug 2020: Two papers accepted at BMVC 2020

Two papers accepted for publication at the 31st British Machine Vision Conference ( BMVC 2020): (oral) M. Liu, X. Chen, Y. Zhang, Y. Li, & J. M. Rehg. Attention Distillation for Learning Video Representations ( Project Page) (poster) M.

Jul 2020: NIH Funded $5.9M mDOT Center to Advance Mobile Health Research

The NIH announced that it is funding a new biomedical technology research center (BTRC), called the mHealth Center for Discovery, Optimization & Translation of Temporally-Precise Interventions ( mDOT). The $5.9M center is among the first two BTRCs to be funded in mobile health.

Jul 2020: One paper accepted at ECCV 2020 for oral presentation

Feb 2020: Two papers accepted to CVPR 2020

Two papers accepted for publication at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ( CVPR 20): (poster) E. Chong, Y. Wang, N. Ruiz, and J. M. Rehg. Detecting Attended Visual Targets in Video ( Project Page) (poster) R.

Feb 2020: Jim attended the Workshop on the Use of Wearable and Implantable Devices in Health Research @ BIRS (Banff, Canada)

Exciting talks on future of mHealth and wearables research. Great to see my fellow MD2K members Dr. Susan Murphy and Dr. Zhenke Wu in attendance.

Sep 2019: One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2019

One paper accepted for publication at the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems ( NeurIPS 19): W. Liu, Z. Liu, J. M. Rehg, and L. Song. Neural Similarity Learning.

Aug 2019: One paper accepted at 3DV 2019

One paper accepted for publication at the International Conference on 3D Vision ( 3DV 2019): B. M. Smith, V. Chari, A. Agrawal, J. M. Rehg, and R. Sever. Towards Accurate 3D Human Body Reconstruction from Silhouettes.

Aug 2019: NSF Funded $1M award for AI technology to improve employment in autism

Georgia Tech is partnering with Vanderbilt University and Cornell in developing training and assessment tools to support neurodiverse individuals in obtaining employment. Projects include VR-based interview training, assessment of job skills, and assessment of nonverbal communication skills in interview settings.

Feb 2019: Four papers accepted at CVPR 2019

Four papers accepted for publication at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ( CVPR 2019): (oral, best paper finalist) S. Stojanov, S. Mishra, N. A. Thai, N.

Jul 2018: NSF funded $1.75M award to develop open source mHealth platform to accelerate research progress