Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Your Google Fiber Account

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! While our customers’ security online is a top priority for us all year long, this is a great opportunity to make sure they understand how to protect themselves and their accounts as much as possible.

Here’s the best way to secure your Google Fiber account and how to confirm that it is a real Google Fiber representative you are talking to over chat or on the phone.

Secure from the start

When you first sign up for service with Google Fiber, you will be asked to set up a PIN code. This PIN is the primary means for authenticating your account when you call in to support. Authentication is required for almost any change of service, change in account, or to discuss any details of a past or current bill. You can change this PIN code at your convenience through the online support portal.

If you call into the Google Fiber support center, the customer service representative will ask you to provide your PIN code before they can answer certain questions or make almost any changes to your account.

Being confident in your Google Fiber interactions

There’s a lot out there about scams being run by people who want to compromise your accounts. Here’s how to know that you are talking to Google Fiber and not an imposter:

No Google Fiber employee or representative will ever ask you for your credit card number. In order to protect your information, all credit card and billing information is managed by the customer through the Google Fiber online “manage my account” options within their account.
Google Fiber support representatives may ask you to confirm your PIN code (see the paragraphs above).
You will never be asked for your social security number, bank account number or any other financial information. All billing is done via credit card.
You will never be asked to pay for anything with cash, check or any other non-credit card methods.

Your PIN is the key to making sure your account is secure. And now that you know what to look for, we hope you’ll feel even safer online.

(And in case you missed it last year, please check out our post on making your home WiFi network more secure, yet another way to add an extra layer of safety to your online life.)

Posted by Chris Roosenraad, Head of Security

Source: Google Fiber Blog

10 years of insights from Think with Google

The year is 2012. You and a record-setting 8 million people are watching live as skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks the speed of sound with his 24-mile fall to Earth. In another tab, PSY’s “Gangnam Style” plays for the umpteenth time. Later in the year, it will become the first YouTube video to hit 1 billion views. You’re doing all of this, of course, on your desktop, a device that still accounts for more than 90% of web traffic globally.

That same year, we introduced Think with Google to give readers insights into behavioral and cultural trends based on Google data.

So much has changed in the decade since. For one, there’s a much higher chance you’re reading this article on mobile, which now makes up almost 60% of global web traffic. In that time, Think with Google has charted the evolution of consumer behavior as new digital technologies have emerged.

To mark the 10-year anniversary of Think with Google, here’s a selection of insights that tell that story.

2012: The shift from TV to online video begins

The opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics drew a global TV audience of 900 million. By the time the Games were over, NBC declared it the most-watched television event in U.S. history.

But an important change was underway: As broadband access increased, people were ditching TV programs and heading online. In a 2012 Think with Google study, 44% of 13-to 24-year-olds said they spent more time watching online video than TV.

A young, fair-skinned person wearing sunglasses and casual clothing sits cross-legged while typing on their laptop. The text shows "44% of 13- to 24-year-olds spent more time watching online video than TV in 2012."

Source: Ipsos/Google, 2012 Teens and Twenty-Somethings research study, 2012.

2014: Multi-screen behavior moves mainstream

In 2010, when sports fans tuned into the World Cup, they were so glued to their TV screens that online searches, which tended to take place on desktop, plummeted.

Ahead of the 2014 World Cup, we drew on data from the Union of European Football Associations Champions League to make a prediction: “Second screening,” where fans tune into an event on a big screen while following along on mobile, was going mainstream. That prediction held up. In 2018, research revealed that 70% of adults looked at a second screen while watching TV.

2015: Micro-moments emerge

By 2015, long gone were the days where shoppers had to write a list before heading to the store. Instead, people were turning to their smartphones the second they wanted to do something, discover something or buy something.

We called these “micro-moments,” and they were becoming increasingly widespread. That year, 82% of smartphone users consulted their phone while in a store.

2017: Mobile speed becomes critical to success

In 2017, it took, on average, 22 seconds for a mobile webpage to load.

That might not sound like much, but according to Google research that year, it was enough to sink an online business. The research, which analyzed the landing pages of 900,000 mobile ads, found that as page load time went from one second to 10 seconds, the probability of a mobile visitor bouncing increased 123%.

2018: Video gets interactive

We’ve all seen people with their heads buried in their phones, unaware of what’s happening around them. Maybe that’s why the internet has long had an unfair reputation as an isolating experience.

But YouTube data from 2018 revealed an emerging trend that would explode just a few years later: the rise of video as an interactive, social experience. For example, we saw a huge interest in videos that encouraged viewers to do something — study, clean, read — at the same time as a YouTube creator and their followers.

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2020: Online resources become a lifeline

No amount of Search data could have predicted what would happen in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered offices, stores and schools.

Many people used the stay-at-home mandates to develop new skills. YouTube data revealed that globally, videos with variations of “beginner” in the title earned more than 7 billion views.

2021: Virtual experiences stay put

If anyone thought the changes brought on by the pandemic were temporary, Search data from 2021 suggested otherwise.

While people were understandably eager to go back to IRL experiences, virtual social events never fully went away. Around the world in 2021, we saw a 90% year-on-year increase in searches containing the term “watch party.”

2022: What’s coming next

Now, here we are in 2022. We’re continuing to crunch the numbers and share trends. We’re shedding light on evolving consumer behavior. And we’re sharing the lessons Google is learning, in real time, on topics ranging from inclusion to privacy. In an industry that has changed so much over the past decade, and will continue to do so, insights like these are crucial — and we’ll be here to keep sharing them.

Source: The Official Google Blog

I said when I visited in 2019 that it was important to refocus national and global attention on this site, and I’m glad we achieved our purpose. For even though this place of active worship and art is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and priceless cultural asset, it is in danger of destruction. Flooding and heavy rain due to climate change, along with a number of other risks to conservation, threaten the groves’ survival.

This is why CyArk and the Adunni Olorisha Trust / Osun Foundation partnered with Google Arts & Culture to digitize the shrines and surroundings at Osun Osogbo Sacred Grove – and to tell the stories of its spiritual, artistic and cultural significance. In 2019, the grove’s Busanyin Shrine was wrecked in a flood; the 3D imagery captured in the early phases of the project were among the last images to be taken of the site before it was destroyed. So while this project may not stop the impact of flooding or the activities of land grabbers, it will ensure that future generations can see it as it is today.

“CyArk's work in Osogbo has been a true collaboration between Nigerian government officials, local NGOs, the community of Osogbo and His royal highness Jimoh Oyetunji Olanipekun Larooye II, who have partnered with CyArk and are working together to share the stories of Osogbo with a wider audience.” - Kacey Hadick, Director of Programs and Development, CyArk.

Although this flood was a devastating loss, it reinforces the importance of using a variety of tools to preserve the world’s cultural and spiritual places, from digital documentation to on-site restoration work. And this project highlights the broad spectrum of preservation that, in this case, can help protect a rich Yoruba cultural heritage – through 3D models, Street View, archival and contemporary photographs, video and audio interviews and written stories.

Olufemi A. Akinsanya Akinsanya is Chair of the Save Our Art! Save Our Heritage! Campaign. He says, “We want to expose the world to this incredible Yoruba heritage and art treasure, introduce the remarkable artists of the New Sacred Art Movement who saved it from destruction in the 1960’s and champion the next generation who are preserving it now.”

While a virtual experience of the site can never replace the real thing, we invite you to get lost in the Sacred Grove of Osun Osogbo and experience its art, culture, and preservation like never before on Google Arts & Culture.

This work forms part of the Google Arts & Culture Heritage on the Edge project, which tells of how people around the world are using technology to help protect cultural sites against the effects of climate change.

Google Arts & Culture and CyArk have collaborated with cultural heritage site managers to carry out similar digitization training sessions. Learn more about the stories of five other cultural sites impacted by climate change in Scotland, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Peru and Rapa Nui.

Posted by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Federal Republic of Nigeria

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Source: Official Google Africa Blog

Squiz Kids partners with Google to help students build media literacy skills

Image: Newshounds by Squiz Kids in the classroom

This week, UNESCO’s Media Literacy Week is focused on nurturing trust in media and information. There’s no better time to educate and empower people to be confident consumers of media than at school, which is why Squiz Kids has partnered with the Google News Initiative to roll out its media literacy program ‘Newshounds’ to primary schools across New Zealand.

Squiz Kids, a daily news podcast for 8-12yos, has developed Newshounds by Squiz Kids as a plug-and-play media literacy teaching resource comprising eight x 10 minute podcasts and accompanying in-classroom activities, packaged up in an engaging board-game style format.

Squiz-E the Newshound takes primary-aged kids on a media literacy journey, teaching them to understand the myriad forms of media to which they’re exposed every day and recognise the multiple agendas that drive them. Underpinning it all are exercises that give kids the skills to identify misinformation and disinformation.

“Kids today have more information coming at them on a daily basis than at any other time in history,” said Squiz Kids Director Bryce Corbett. “We created Newshounds to make kids critical consumers of media - to teach them to stop, think and check before believing everything they come across on the internet. Teachers and parents alike know it’s important to teach their children media literacy, but few know where to start. By partnering with Google, it’s hoped that Newshounds starts conversations with adults that help kids recognise online fact from fiction.”

The partnership with Google will allow classrooms across New Zealand to access the Newshounds media literacy program for free from this week.

The Manaiakalani Education schools in Tāmaki Makaurau have been running a pilot of the programme in their classrooms over the past few months, and they’ve found students were engaged by the content, and most importantly, were transferring these concepts to other areas of learning when they were online.

Listeners, readers and viewers are incredibly powerful in the fight against misinformation - the more they demand quality information, the higher chance facts have to win the battle. But those audiences need support.

Understanding the many complex elements that go into deciding what is fact and what is a falsehood starts at an early age, which is why we’re so proud to work with Squiz Kids to launch Newshounds in New Zealand schools. This partnership builds on our efforts to build a sustainable, diverse and innovative news ecosystem.

Teachers are invited to create a free account at newshounds.squizkids.com.au - and start their class on the path to media literacy.

Post content Posted by Uma Patel, Google News Lab Lead.

Source: Google New Zealand Blog

Android Dev Summit ‘22: Here’s how to tune in!

Posted by Yasmine Evjen, Community Lead, Android Developer Relations

Android Dev Summit is about to kick off at 9AM PT on Monday October 24, so it’s time to tune in! You can watch the livestream on developers.android.com, on YouTube, or right below:

Whether you’re tuning in online or–for the first time since 2019–joining in person at locations around the world, it’s your opportunity to learn from the source, about building excellent apps across devices. We just dropped information on the livestream agenda, technical talks, and speakers — so start planning your schedule!

Here’s what you can expect: we’re kicking things off at 9am PT with the Android Dev Summit keynote, where you’ll hear about the latest in Modern Android Development, innovations in our core platform, and how to take advantage of Android’s momentum across devices, including wearables and large screens. And right after the keynote, at 9:50 AM PT, we’ll be broadcasting live the first of three tracks: Modern Android Development (MAD)!

Modern Android Development Track @ Android Dev Summit October 24, 2022 at 9:00 AM PT
Agenda 9:00 AM Keynote, 9:50 AM Custom Layouts and Graphics in Compose, 10:10 AM Making Apps Blazing Fast with Baseline Profiles, 10:30 State of the Art of Compose Tooling, 10:50 State Holders and State Production in the UI Layer, 11:10 AM 5 ways Compose Improves UI Testing, 11:15 AM 5 Android Studio Features You Don't Want to Miss, 11:30 AM Pre-recorded MAD Technical Talks, 12:20 PM Where to Hoist that State in Compose, 12:25 PM Material You in Compose Apps, 12:30 PM PM Compose Modifiers Deep Dive, 12:50 Practical Room Migrations, 12:55 PM Type Safe, Multi-Module Best Practices with Navigation, 1:00 PM What's New in Android Build, 1:20 PM From Views to Compose: Where Can I Start?, 1:25 PM Test at Scale with Gradle Managed Devices, 1:35 PM MAD #AskAndroid. Broadcast live on d.android.com/dev-summit & YouTube.

Then, ADS continues into November, with two more tracks. First, on November 9, ADS travels to London where we’ll broadcast all of the Form Factors, read the full list of talks here.

Form Factors Track @ Android Dev Summit November 9, 2022
Sessions: Deep Dive into Wear OS App Architecture, Build Better Uls Across Form Factors with Android Studio, Designing for Large Screens: Canonical Layouts and Visual Hierarchy Compose: Implementing Responsive UI for Large Screens, Creating Helpful Fitness Experiences with Health Services and Health Connect, The Key to Keyboard and Mouse Support across Tablets and ChromeOS Your Camera App on Different Form Factors, Building Media Apps on Wear OS, Why and How to Optimize Your App for ChromeOS.
Broadcast live on d.android.com/dev-summit & YouTube.

Then, on November 14, we’ll broadcast our Platform, you can check out the talks here.

Platform Track @ Android Dev Summit November 14, 2022
Sessions: Migrate Your Apps to Android 13, Presenting a High-quality Media Experience for all Users, Improving Your Social Experience Quality with Android Camera, Building for a Multilingual World Everything About Storage on Android, Migrate to Play Billing Library 5: More flexible subscriptions on Google Play, Designing a High Quality App with the Latest Android Features, Hardware Acceleration for ML on-device, Demystifying Attestation, Building Accessibility Support for Compose.
Broadcast live on d.android.com/dev-summit & YouTube.

Burning question? #AskAndroid to the rescue!

To cap off each of our live streamed tracks, we’ll be hosting a live Q&A – #AskAndroid - for each track topic, so you can get your burning questions answered live by the team who built Android. Post your questions to Twitter or comment in the YouTube livestream using #AskAndroid, for a chance to have your questions answered on the livestream.

We’re so excited for this year’s Android Dev Summit, and we’re looking forward to connecting with you!

Source: Android Developers Blog

Google at ECCV 2022

Posted by Shaina Mehta, Program Manager, Google

Google is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022), a premier forum for the dissemination of research in computer vision and machine learning (ML). This year, ECCV 2022 will be held as a hybrid event, in person in Tel Aviv, Israel with virtual attendance as an option. Google has a strong presence at this year’s conference with over 60 accepted publications and active involvement in a number of workshops and tutorials. We look forward to sharing some of our extensive research and expanding our partnership with the broader ML research community.

Registered for ECCV 2022? We hope you’ll visit our on-site or virtual booths to learn more about the research we’re presenting at ECCV 2022, including several demos and opportunities to connect with our researchers. Learn more about Google's research being presented at ECCV 2022 below (Google affiliations in bold).

Organizing Committee

Program Chairs include: Moustapha Cissé

Awards Paper Committee: Todd Zickler

Area Chairs include: Ayan Chakrabarti, Tali Dekel, Alireza Fathi, Vittorio Ferrari, David Fleet, Dilip Krishnan, Michael Rubinstein, Cordelia Schmid, Deqing Sun, Federico Tombari, Jasper Uijlings, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Todd Zickler

Accepted Publications

NeuMesh: Learning Disentangled Neural Mesh-Based Implicit Field for Geometry and Texture Editing
Bangbang Yang, Chong Bao, Junyi Zeng, Hujun Bao, Yinda Zhang, Zhaopeng Cui, Guofeng Zhang

Anti-Neuron Watermarking: Protecting Personal Data Against Unauthorized Neural Networks
Zihang Zou, Boqing Gong, Liqiang Wang

Exploiting Unlabeled Data with Vision and Language Models for Object Detection
Shiyu Zhao, Zhixing Zhang, Samuel Schulter, Long Zhao, Vijay Kumar B G, Anastasis Stathopoulos, Manmohan Chandraker, Dimitris N. Metaxas

Waymo Open Dataset: Panoramic Video Panoptic Segmentation
Jieru Mei, Alex Zhu, Xinchen Yan, Hang Yan, Siyuan Qiao, Yukun Zhu, Liang-Chieh Chen, Henrik Kretzschmar

PRIF: Primary Ray-Based Implicit Function
Brandon Yushan Feng, Yinda Zhang, Danhang Tang, Ruofei Du, Amitabh Varshney

LoRD: Local 4D Implicit Representation for High-Fidelity Dynamic Human Modeling
Boyan Jiang, Xinlin Ren, Mingsong Dou, Xiangyang Xue, Yanwei Fu, Yinda Zhang

k-Means Mask Transformer (see blog post)
Qihang Yu^*, Siyuan Qiao, Maxwell D Collins, Yukun Zhu, Hartwig Adam, Alan Yuille, Liang-Chieh Chen

MaxViT: Multi-Axis Vision Transformer (see blog post)
Zhengzhong Tu, Hossein Talebi, Han Zhang, Feng Yang, Peyman Milanfar, Alan Bovik, Yinxiao Li

E-Graph: Minimal Solution for Rigid Rotation with Extensibility Graphs
Yanyan Li, Federico Tombari

RBP-Pose: Residual Bounding Box Projection for Category-Level Pose Estimation
Ruida Zhang, Yan Di, Zhiqiang Lou, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Xiangyang Ji

GOCA: Guided Online Cluster Assignment for Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning
Huseyin Coskun, Alireza Zareian, Joshua L Moore, Federico Tombari, Chen Wang

Scaling Open-Vocabulary Image Segmentation with Image-Level Labels
Golnaz Ghiasi, Xiuye Gu, Yin Cui, Tsung-Yi Lin^*

Adaptive Transformers for Robust Few-Shot Cross-Domain Face Anti-spoofing
Hsin-Ping Huang, Deqing Sun, Yaojie Liu, Wen-Sheng Chu, Taihong Xiao, Jinwei Yuan, Hartwig Adam, Ming-Hsuan Yang

DualPrompt: Complementary Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning
Zifeng Wang^*, Zizhao Zhang, Sayna Ebrahimi, Ruoxi Sun, Han Zhang, Chen-Yu Lee, Xiaoqi Ren, Guolong Su, Vincent Perot, Jennifer Dy, Tomas Pfister

BLT: Bidirectional Layout Transformer for Controllable Layout Generation
Xiang Kong, Lu Jiang, Huiwen Chang, Han Zhang, Yuan Hao, Haifeng Gong, Irfan Essa

V2X-ViT: Vehicle-to-Everything Cooperative Perception with Vision Transformer
Runsheng Xu, Hao Xiang, Zhengzhong Tu, Xin Xia, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Jiaqi Ma

Learning Visibility for Robust Dense Human Body Estimation
Chun-Han Yao, Jimei Yang, Duygu Ceylan, Yi Zhou, Yang Zhou, Ming-Hsuan Yang

Are Vision Transformers Robust to Patch Perturbations?
Jindong Gu, Volker Tresp, Yao Qin

PseudoAugment: Learning to Use Unlabeled Data for Data Augmentation in Point Clouds
Zhaoqi Leng, Shuyang Cheng, Ben Caine, Weiyue Wang, Xiao Zhang, Jonathon Shlens, Mingxing Tan, Dragomir Anguelov

Structure and Motion from Casual Videos
Zhoutong Zhang, Forrester Cole, Zhengqi Li, Noah Snavely, Michael Rubinstein, William T. Freeman

PreTraM: Self-Supervised Pre-training via Connecting Trajectory and Map
Chenfeng Xu, Tian Li, Chen Tang, Lingfeng Sun, Kurt Keutzer, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Alireza Fathi, Wei Zhan

Novel Class Discovery Without Forgetting
Joseph K J, Sujoy Paul, Gaurav Aggarwal, Soma Biswas, Piyush Rai, Kai Han, Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Hierarchically Self-Supervised Transformer for Human Skeleton Representation Learning
Yuxiao Chen, Long Zhao, Jianbo Yuan, Yu Tian, Zhaoyang Xia, Shijie Geng, Ligong Han, Dimitris N. Metaxas

PACTran: PAC-Bayesian Metrics for Estimating the Transferability of Pretrained Models to Classification Tasks
Nan Ding, Xi Chen, Tomer Levinboim, Soravit Changpinyo, Radu Soricut

InfiniteNature-Zero: Learning Perpetual View Generation of Natural Scenes from Single Images
Zhengqi Li, Qianqian Wang^*, Noah Snavely, Angjoo Kanazawa^*

Generalizable Patch-Based Neural Rendering (see blog post)
Mohammed Suhail^*, Carlos Esteves, Leonid Sigal, Ameesh Makadia

LESS: Label-Efficient Semantic Segmentation for LiDAR Point Clouds
Minghua Liu, Yin Zhou, Charles R. Qi, Boqing Gong, Hao Su, Dragomir Anguelov

The Missing Link: Finding Label Relations Across Datasets
Jasper Uijlings, Thomas Mensink, Vittorio Ferrari

Learning Instance-Specific Adaptation for Cross-Domain Segmentation
Yuliang Zou, Zizhao Zhang, Chun-Liang Li, Han Zhang, Tomas Pfister, Jia-Bin Huang

Learning Audio-Video Modalities from Image Captions
Arsha Nagrani, Paul Hongsuck Seo, Bryan Seybold, Anja Hauth, Santiago Manen, Chen Sun, Cordelia Schmid

TL;DW? Summarizing Instructional Videos with Task Relevance & Cross-Modal Saliency
Medhini Narasimhan^*, Arsha Nagrani, Chen Sun, Michael Rubinstein, Trevor Darrell, Anna Rohrbach, Cordelia Schmid

On Label Granularity and Object Localization
Elijah Cole, Kimberly Wilber, Grant Van Horn, Xuan Yang, Marco Fornoni, Pietro Perona, Serge Belongie, Andrew Howard, Oisin Mac Aodha

Disentangling Architecture and Training for Optical Flow
Deqing Sun, Charles Herrmann, Fitsum Reda, Michael Rubinstein, David J. Fleet, William T. Freeman

NewsStories: Illustrating Articles with Visual Summaries
Reuben Tan, Bryan Plummer, Kate Saenko, J.P. Lewis, Avneesh Sud, Thomas Leung

Improving GANs for Long-Tailed Data Through Group Spectral Regularization
Harsh Rangwani, Naman Jaswani, Tejan Karmali, Varun Jampani, Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan

Planes vs. Chairs: Category-Guided 3D Shape Learning Without Any 3D Cues
Zixuan Huang, Stefan Stojanov, Anh Thai, Varun Jampani, James Rehg

A Sketch Is Worth a Thousand Words: Image Retrieval with Text and Sketch
Patsorn Sangkloy, Wittawat Jitkrittum, Diyi Yang, James Hays

Learned Monocular Depth Priors in Visual-Inertial Initialization
Yunwen Zhou, Abhishek Kar, Eric L. Turner, Adarsh Kowdle, Chao Guo, Ryan DuToit, Konstantine Tsotsos

How Stable are Transferability Metrics Evaluations?
Andrea Agostinelli, Michal Pandy, Jasper Uijlings, Thomas Mensink, Vittorio Ferrari

Data-Free Neural Architecture Search via Recursive Label Calibration
Zechun Liu^*, Zhiqiang Shen, Yun Long, Eric Xing, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Chas H. Leichner

Fast and High Quality Image Denoising via Malleable Convolution
Yifan Jiang^*, Bartlomiej Wronski, Ben Mildenhall, Jonathan T. Barron, Zhangyang Wang, Tianfan Xue

Concurrent Subsidiary Supervision for Unsupervised Source-Free Domain Adaptation
Jogendra Nath Kundu, Suvaansh Bhambri, Akshay R Kulkarni, Hiran Sarkar,
Varun Jampani, Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan

Learning Online Multi-Sensor Depth Fusion
Erik Sandström, Martin R. Oswald, Suryansh Kumar, Silvan Weder, Fisher Yu, Cristian Sminchisescu, Luc Van Gool

Hierarchical Semantic Regularization of Latent Spaces in StyleGANs
Tejan Karmali, Rishubh Parihar, Susmit Agrawal, Harsh Rangwani, Varun Jampani, Maneesh K Singh, Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan

RayTran: 3D Pose Estimation and Shape Reconstruction of Multiple Objects from Videos with Ray-Traced Transformers
Michał J Tyszkiewicz, Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis, Stefan Popov, Vittorio Ferrari

Neural Video Compression Using GANs for Detail Synthesis and Propagation
Fabian Mentzer, Eirikur Agustsson, Johannes Ballé, David Minnen, Nick Johnston, George Toderici

Exploring Fine-Grained Audiovisual Categorization with the SSW60 Dataset
Grant Van Horn, Rui Qian, Kimberly Wilber, Hartwig Adam, Oisin Mac Aodha, Serge Belongie

Implicit Neural Representations for Image Compression
Yannick Strümpler, Janis Postels, Ren Yang, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

3D Compositional Zero-Shot Learning with DeCompositional Consensus
Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Evin Pınar Örnek, Yongqin Xian, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

FindIt: Generalized Localization with Natural Language Queries (see blog post)
Weicheng Kuo, Fred Bertsch, Wei Li, AJ Piergiovanni, Mohammad Saffar, Anelia Angelova

A Simple Single-Scale Vision Transformer for Object Detection and Instance Segmentation
Wuyang Chen^*, Xianzhi Du, Fan Yang, Lucas Beyer, Xiaohua Zhai, Tsung-Yi Lin, Huizhong Chen, Jing Li, Xiaodan Song, Zhangyang Wang, Denny Zhou

Improved Masked Image Generation with Token-Critic
Jose Lezama, Huiwen Chang, Lu Jiang, Irfan Essa

Learning Discriminative Shrinkage Deep Networks for Image Deconvolution
Pin-Hung Kuo, Jinshan Pan, Shao-Yi Chien, Ming-Hsuan Yang

AudioScopeV2: Audio-Visual Attention Architectures for Calibrated Open-Domain On-Screen Sound Separation
Efthymios Tzinis^*, Scott Wisdom, Tal Remez, John Hershey

Simple Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Vision Transformers
Matthias Minderer, Alexey Gritsenko, Austin C Stone, Maxim Neumann, Dirk Weißenborn, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Aravindh Mahendran, Anurag Arnab, Mostafa Dehghani, Zhuoran Shen, Xiao Wang, Xiaohua Zhai, Thomas Kipf, Neil Houlsby

COMPOSER: Compositional Reasoning of Group Activity in Videos with Keypoint-Only Modality
Honglu Zhou, Asim Kadav, Aviv Shamsian, Shijie Geng, Farley Lai, Long Zhao, Ting Liu, Mubbasir Kapadia, Hans Peter Graf

Video Question Answering with Iterative Video-Text Co-tokenization (see blog post)
AJ Piergiovanni, Kairo Morton^*, Weicheng Kuo, Michael S. Ryoo, Anelia Angelova

Class-Agnostic Object Detection with Multi-modal Transformer
Muhammad Maaz, Hanoona Abdul Rasheed, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Ming-Hsuan Yang

FILM: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion (see blog post)
Fitsum Reda, Janne Kontkanen, Eric Tabellion, Deqing Sun, Caroline Pantofaru, Brian Curless

Compositional Human-Scene Interaction Synthesis with Semantic Control
Kaifeng Zhao, Shaofei Wang, Yan Zhang, Thabo Beeler, Siyu Tang

Workshops

LatinX in AI
Mentors include: José Lezama
Keynote Speakers include: Andre Araujo

AI for Creative Video Editing and Understanding
Keynote Speakers include: Tali Dekel, Negar Rostamzadeh

Learning With Limited and Imperfect Data (L2ID)
Invited Speakers include: Xiuye Gu
Organizing Committee includes: Sadeep Jayasumana

International Challenge on Compositional and Multimodal Perception (CAMP)
Program Committee includes: Edward Vendrow

Self-Supervised Learning: What is Next?
Invited Speakers include: Mathilde Caron, Arsha Nagrani
Organizers include: Andrew Zisserman

3rd Workshop on Adversarial Robustness In the Real World
Invited Speakers include: Ekin Dogus Cubuk
Organizers include: Xinyun Chen, Alexander Robey, Nataniel Ruiz, Yutong Bai

AV4D: Visual Learning of Sounds in Spaces
Invited Speakers include: John Hershey

Challenge on Mobile Intelligent Photography and Imaging (MIPI)
Invited Speakers include: Peyman Milanfar

Robust Vision Challenge 2022
Organizing Committee includes: Alina Kuznetsova

Computer Vision in the Wild
Challenge Organizers include: Yi-Ting Chen, Ye Xia
Invited Speakers include: Yin Cui, Yongqin Xian, Neil Houlsby

Self-Supervised Learning for Next-Generation Industry-Level Autonomous Driving (SSLAD)
Organizers include: Fisher Yu

Responsible Computer Vision
Organizing Committee includes: Been Kim
Invited Speakers include: Emily Denton

Cross-Modal Human-Robot Interaction
Invited Speakers include: Peter Anderson

ISIC Skin Image Analysis
Organizing Committee includes: Yuan Liu
Steering Committee includes: Yuan Liu, Dale Webster
Invited Speakers include: Yuan Liu

Observing and Understanding Hands in Action
Sponsored by Google

Autonomous Vehicle Vision (AVVision)
Speakers include: Fisher Yu

Visual Perception for Navigation in Human Environments: The JackRabbot Human Body Pose Dataset and Benchmark
Organizers include: Edward Vendrow

Language for 3D Scenes
Invited Speakers include: Jason Baldridge
Organizers include: Leonidas Guibas

Designing and Evaluating Computer Perception Systems (CoPe)
Organizers include: Andrew Zisserman

Learning To Generate 3D Shapes and Scenes
Panelists include: Pete Florence

Advances in Image Manipulation
Program Committee includes: George Toderici, Ming-Hsuan Yang

TiE: Text in Everything
Challenge Organizers include: Shangbang Long, Siyang Qin
Invited Speakers include: Tali Dekel, Aishwarya Agrawal

Instance-Level Recognition
Organizing Committee: Andre Araujo, Bingyi Cao, Tobias Weyand
Invited Speakers include: Mathilde Caron

What Is Motion For?
Organizing Committee: Deqing Sun, Fitsum Reda, Charles Herrmann
Invited Speakers include: Tali Dekel

Neural Geometry and Rendering: Advances and the Common Objects in 3D Challenge
Invited Speakers include: Ben Mildenhall

Visual Object-Oriented Learning Meets Interaction: Discovery, Representations, and Applications
Invited Speakers include: Klaus Greff, Thomas Kipf
Organizing Committee includes: Leonidas Guibas

Vision with Biased or Scarce Data (VBSD)
Program Committee includes: Yizhou Wang

Multiple Object Tracking and Segmentation in Complex Environments
Invited Speakers include: Xingyi Zhou, Fisher Yu

3rd Visual Inductive Priors for Data-Efficient Deep Learning Workshop
Organizing Committee includes: Ekin Dogus Cubuk

DeeperAction: Detailed Video Action Understanding and Anomaly Recognition
Advisors include: Rahul Sukthankar

Sign Language Understanding Workshop and Sign Language Recognition, Translation & Production Challenge
Organizing Committee includes: Andrew Zisserman
Speakers include: Andrew Zisserman

Ego4D: First-Person Multi-Modal Video Understanding
Invited Speakers include: Michal Irani

AI-Enabled Medical Image Analysis: Digital Pathology & Radiology/COVID19
Program Chairs include: Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen
Workshop Partner: Google Health

Visual Object Tracking Challenge (VOT 2022)
Technical Committee includes: Christoph Mayer

Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics
Technical Committee includes: Maja Mataric

Human Body, Hands, and Activities from Egocentric and Multi-View Cameras
Organizers include: Francis Engelmann

Frontiers of Monocular 3D Perception: Implicit x Explicit
Panelists include: Pete Florence

Tutorials

Self-Supervised Representation Learning in Computer Vision
Invited Speakers include: Ting Chen

Neural Volumetric Rendering for Computer Vision
Organizers include: Ben Mildenhall, Pratul Srinivasan, Jon Barron
Presenters include: Ben Mildenhall, Pratul Srinivasan

New Frontiers in Efficient Neural Architecture Search!
Speakers include: Ruochen Wang

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10 years of insights from Think with Google

2012: The shift from TV to online video begins

2014: Multi-screen behavior moves mainstream

2015: Micro-moments emerge

2017: Mobile speed becomes critical to success

2018: Video gets interactive

2020: Online resources become a lifeline

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2022: What’s coming next

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Chrome Stable for iOS Update

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Chrome Stable for iOS Update

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Preserving one of Nigeria’s last sacred groves

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Squiz Kids partners with Google to help students build media literacy skills

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