Gerald Friedland (born 1978, Berlin) is an adjunct professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the

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. He also maintains an affiliation with the

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Education

Gerald Friedland completed his Masters and Doctorate degrees in computer science from

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in 2002 and 2006, respectively. His PhD advisor was

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. He then moved to the

where he completed his a postdoc under

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before continuing to be a research scientist and group leader there. He then worked as a Principal Data Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab before co-founding Brainome, Inc. He is a faculty fellow of the

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where he has been running a discussion group since 2018, understanding the implications of using information theory as universal tool for modeling.

Career

Friedland is a

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

specializing in the processing and analysis of

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to tradition ...

data and machine learning. He is mostly known as the original author of the widely used "

Simple Interactive Object Extraction Simple interactive object extraction (SIOX) is an algorithm for extracting foreground objects from color images and videos with very little user interaction. It has been implemented as "foreground selection" tool in the GIMP (since version 2.3.3), ...

" image and video segmentation algorithm, created as part of his PhD thesis, and as the co-author of a textbook on Multimedia Computing. He also led the initiative to create and release the YFCC100M corpus (see also:

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), the largest freely available research corpus of consumer-produced videos and images. He co-founded the field of geolocation estimation for images and videos, sometimes also referred to as ''placing''. Friedland also frequently uncovers privacy risks in multimedia publishing practice and heads the development of the teachingprivacy.org portal which provides educational materials for use in US high-schools as part of the

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and the

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initiative. Friedland is also the co-creator of MOVI, an

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

speech recognition Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the m ...

board that allows the creation of cloudless voice interfacesGerald Friedland Bertrand Irissou: Method of facilitating construction of a voice dialog interface for an electronic system, US Patent Application US15382163. for

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devices.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Friedland, Gerald 1978 births Living people German electrical engineers German computer scientists Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty German expatriates in the United States Free University of Berlin alumni