Adobe UMass Edge Workshop - Archived

Adobe researchers and practitioners getting together with UMass Amherst researchers to discuss and collaborate on edge technologies.

Questions? Contact us at laflamme@cs.umass.edu

 

Day 1
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
11am - 1:30pm EST

Day 1 Microsoft Teams Link

Time Description
11:00 – 11:20 EST Adobe (Welcome)
Edge Vision and Goals for the Workshop
Shriram Revankar & Vishy Swaminathan
11:20 – 11:35 EST AI on the Edge Using Specialized Edge Computing
Prashant Shenoy
11:35 – 11:50 EST Poisoning Attacks on Federated Learning
Amir Houmansadr
11:50 – 12:00 EST

Breakout/ Q&A
12:00 – 12:15 EST Adobe On-Device Strategy
David Son, Sr. PM
12:15 – 12:30 EST An Edge-assisted Architecture for Closed Loop mHealth Systems
Jeremy Gummeson
12:30 – 12:45 EST Profiling-free configuration adaption for video analytics
Lixin Gao
12:45 – 01:00 EST

Research Lightning Talks/Demos (Edge/Real-time/AR/VR demos)

  • Edge Compatible Slate Recommendations
  • Model Compression for Deployment 
  • Data Drift Detection
01:00 – 01:30 EST Parallel Breakout sessions (Connect / share ideas)
Research and architecture challenges, interesting use cases in:
(A) Edge assisted Content Experiences
(B) In-the-moment marketing leveraging the Edge

Day 2
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
11am - 1:30pm EST

Day 2 Microsoft Teams Link

 

Time Description
11:00 – 11:05 ESTAdobe – Welcome & Recap
Vishy Swaminathan
11:05 – 11:20 ESTEdge Computing Research at the UMass LIDS lab
Ramesh Sitaraman
11:20 – 11:35 ESTExperience Edge
Trent Davies, Sr. Principal Architect
11:35 – 11:50 ESTToward efficient edge-based deep learning
Hui Guan
11:50 – 12:00 EST

Breakout/Q&A

12:00 – 12:15 ESTSecure human-centric design for collaborative mixed-reality technology
Fatima Anwar
12:15 – 12:30 ESTA Software Architecture for Edge-based Super-Resolution for 360 Video Streaming
Michael Zink
12:30 – 12:50 EST

Research Lightning Talks (Edge/Real-time/AR/VR demos): 

  • Edge-assisted digitally augmented live video
  • Continuous Experience Optimization at the Edge
  • Real-time Retrieval
  • Preserving Server-Side Privacy in On-Device Models
12:50 – 01:15 EST

Learnings/Panel Discussion – Future of Edge Computing
Moderator: Saptho Nair, Principal Scientist, Adobe

01:15 – 01:30 ESTClosing Remarks
Shriram Revankar & Vishy Swaminathann