In 2014, I completed my PhD in
Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego, advised by
Serge Belongie. My research interests are in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, and human computation.
I completed my Bachelor of Science in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008, minoring in both Computer Science and Mathematics. As an undergraduate, I did research on hand tracking and gesture recognition with Thomas Huang.
Currently, I am a Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead Manager at Google.
- C. Wah, S. Maji, S. Belongie. "Learning Localized Perceptual Similarity Metrics for Interactive Categorization". Human-Machine Communication for Visual Recognition and Search (HMCV) Workshop. Zurich, Switzerland. September 2014.
- C. Wah, G. Van Horn, S. Branson, S. Maji, P. Perona, S. Belongie. "Similarity Comparisons for Interactive Fine-Grained Categorization". Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Columbus, OH, USA. June 2014. [www] [pdf]
- C. Wah, G. Van Horn, S. Branson, S. Maji, P. Perona, S. Belongie. "Similarity Comparisons for Interactive Fine-Grained Categorization". Workshop on Computer Vision and Human Computation. Columbus, OH, USA. June 2014.
- S. Branson, G. Van Horn, C. Wah, P. Perona, S. Belongie. "The Ignorant Led by the Blind: A Hybrid Human–Machine Vision System for Fine-Grained Categorization". International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), February 2014. [www] [pdf]
- C. Wah, S. Belongie. "Attribute-Based Detection of Unfamiliar Classes with Humans in the Loop". Second Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC). Portland, OR, USA. June 2013.
- W. Di, C. Wah, A. Bhardwaj, R. Piramuthu, N. Sundaresan. "Style Finder: Fine-Grained Clothing Style Recognition and Retrieval". Third IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Vision. Portland, OR, USA. June 2013. [pdf]
- C. Wah, S. Belongie. "Attribute-Based Detection of Unfamiliar Classes with Humans in the Loop". Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Portland, OR, USA. June 2013. [www] [pdf]
- C. Wah, S. Branson, P. Perona, S. Belongie. "Multiclass Recognition and Part Localization with Humans in the Loop". International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2011. [www] [pdf]
- C. Wah, S. Branson, P. Welinder, P. Perona, S. Belongie. "Birds-200: A Dataset For Fine-Grained Visual Categorization". First Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC). Colorado Springs, CO, June 2011.
- C. Wah, S. Branson, P. Perona, S. Belongie. "Interactive Localization and Recognition of Fine-Grained Visual Categories". First Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC). Colorado Springs, CO, June 2011.
- C. Wah. "Crowdsourcing and Its Applications in Computer Vision." UCSD CSE Research Exam. May 2011. [report] [slides]
- S. Branson, C. Wah, B. Babenko, F. Schroff, P. Welinder, P. Perona, S. Belongie. "Visual Recognition with Humans in the Loop". European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). Heraklion, Crete, Sept. 2010. [www] [pdf]
- C. Wah. "Attribute Inference Through Paired Comparisons". UCSD ECE 273 Report. June 2010. [course]
- C. Wah. "Parking Space Vacancy Monitoring". UCSD CSE 190a Report. March 2009. [report] [course]
- H. Gomes, E. McQuinn, C. Wah. "A Language for Interactive LED Visualization". UCSD CSE 231 Project. Dec. 2009. [slides] [course]
- C. Wah, S. Branson, P. Welinder, P. Perona, S. Belongie. "The Caltech-UCSD Birds-200-2011 Dataset". Caltech Computation & Neural Systems Technical Report CNS-TR-2011-001. 2011. [www] [pdf]
- P. Welinder, S. Branson, T. Mita, C. Wah, F. Schroff, S. Belongie, P. Perona. "Caltech-UCSD Birds 200". Caltech Computation & Neural Systems Technical Report CNS-TR-2010-001. 2010. [www] [pdf]
- Program Committee Member: FGVC 2013, 2015, 2017; HMCV 2014
- Invited Reviewer for various conferences, publications and workshops (2013-present) including: ICCV, IJCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, BMVC, WACV
