From the Humanities Newsroom – Ziyan Xie
Machine vision through a humanist’s lens
Throughout his time at UCLA, Ziyan Xie has delved deeply into questions about human–computer interaction.
Xie, a German and cognitive science major who will graduate next week, has explored the subject in an undergraduate seminar he taught, at a German university and through his latest research project, which will culminate in an interactive documentary about the history of computer vision.
That project, funded by a scholarship from the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, explores “machine vision,” technology in which cameras and sensors capture visual information to help people — or, increasingly, AI-powered machines — detect motion or identify humans and objects.
