Papers covered in Previous Semesters of Computer Vision Seminar


Fall 2005 Schedule

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

8/24

Intro / overview

Stan Birchfield

2

8/31

 Thomas Serre, Lior Wolf, Tomaso Poggio, Object recognition with features inspired by visual cortex, CVPR 2005. Shrinivas Pundlik

3

9/7

Shai Avidan, Ensemble Tracking, CVPR 2005.

 Sriram Rangarajan

4

9/14

Antonio Torralba, Kevin P. Murphy, William T. Freeman, Sharing features: efficient boosting procedures for multiclass object detection, CVPR 2004  

 Nikhil Rane

5

9/21

 Dorin Comaniciu, Visvanathan Ramesh, Peter Meer, Kernel-Based Object Tracking, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(5):564-577, May 2003 Xiao Wang

6

9/28

 Kentaro Toyama, John Krumm, Barry Brumitt, Brian Meyers, Wallflower: Principles and Practice of Background Maintenance, ICCV 1999 Abhishek Aneja

7

10/5

 [cancelled for departmental meeting]  

8

10/12

 M. Bleyer and M. Gelautz, A layered stereo matching algorithm using image segmentation and global visibility constraints, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, 59:128-150, 2005.  (Earlier version in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 2997-3000, 2004) Brijesh Pillai

9

10/19

 Y. Ivanov, A. Bobick, and J. Liu, Fast Lighting Independent Background Subtraction, IJCV 2000
 		 Guang Zeng

10

10/26

 [cancelled]  

11

11/2

 Zhang H., Huang W., Huang Z., Li L., Affine Object Tracking with Kernel-based Spatial-Color Representation, CVPR 2005. Zhichao Chen

12

11/9

 Kidron E., Schechner Y., Elad M., Pixels that Sound, CVPR 2005.   Prashant Oswal

13

11/16

 Michael Siracusa, Louis-Philippe Morency, Kevin Wilson, John Fisher, and Trevor Darrell, A MultiModal Approach for Determining Speaker Location and Focus, ICMI 2003 Thomas Polon

14

11/23

 [break]  
15 11/30 Ahmed Elgammal, Ramani Duraiswami, and Larry S. Davis, Probabilistic Tracking in Joint Feature-Spatial Spaces, CVPR 2003
 		 Pramod Potluri

16

 12/7 Omar Javed, Zeeshan Rasheed, Orkun Alatas and Mubarak Shah, KNIGHTM:A Real Time Surveillance System for Multiple Overlapping and Non-Overlapping Cameras, The fourth International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2003), Baltimore, Maryland, 2003. Stan Birchfield

 

Spring 2005 Schedule

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

1/12

Intro / overview

Stan Birchfield

2

1/19

D. Burschka and G. Hager, Vision-Based Control of Mobile Robots. In Proceedings of ICRA2001, May 2001, Seoul, pages 1707-1713

 Zhichao Chen

3

1/26

Object Localization by Bayesian Correlation
by J.Sullivan, A.Blake, M.Isard, J.MacCormick, www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vdg/abstracts/iccv99-bayes.html 

Dongbin Lee

4

2/2

Alexei A. Efros, Volkan Isler, Jianbo Shi, Mirko Visontai, Seeing Through Water, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 17), 2004
 

 Brijesh Pillai

5

2/9

 Denis Wolf and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Online Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Dynamic Environments, ICRA 2004 Abhishek Aneja

6

2/16

 B. Wilburn, N. Joshi, V. Vaish, M. Levoy, and M. Horowitz, High Speed Video Using a Dense Camera Array, CVPR 2004 [ Images and movies: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/highspeedarray/index.html] Karl Rasche, Braga Natarajan

7

2/23

 Olga Veksler, Fast Variable Window for Stereo Correspondence using Integral Images, CVPR 2003 http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/olga/Papers/cvpr03-a.pdf Nikhil Rane

8

3/2

 Kevin Wilson, Neal Checka, David Demirdjian and Trevor Darrell, Audio-Video Array Source Separation for Perceptual User Interfaces, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series - Proceedings of the 2001 workshop on Perceptive user interfaces. Prashant Oswall

9

3/9

 Molton, Davison, and Reid, Parameterisation and probability in image alignment, ACCV 2004 http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/ActiveVision/Papers/molton_etal_accv2004/molton_etal_accv2004.pdf Xiao Wang

10

3/16

 D. R. Fischell and C. H. Coker, A speech direction finder.  ICASSP 1984. Rajitha Ganghishetty

11

3/23

[spring break]

  

12

3/30

David G. Lowe. Distinctive image features from scale-invariant keypoints. International
Journal of Computer Vision, 60(2):91–110, 2004.

 Sriram Rangarajan, Shrinivas Pundlik

13

4/6

 Alvy Ray Smith and James F. Blinn. Blue Screen Matting. SIGGRAPH 1996 Sunil Guduru

14

4/13

 Hua Zhong; Jianbo Shi; Visontai, M.  Detecting unusual activity in video. CVPR 2004, Volume 2, pages 819-826 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/9183/29134/01315249.pdf?tp=&arnumber=1315249&isnumber=29134 Pramod Potluri
15 4/20 Anat Levin, Dani Lischinski and Yair Weiss, Colorization using Optimization, SIGGRAPH 2004 Li Yu

16

 4/27 Alex Rav-Acha, Shmuel Peleg, Two motion-blurred images are better than one, Pattern Recognition Letters 26 (2005) pp. 311–317  Guang Zeng

 

Fall 2004 Schedule

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

8/18

Intro / overview

Stan Birchfield

2

8/25

Nicholas Molton, Andrew Davison and Ian Reid, Locally Planar Patch Features for Real-Time Structure from Motion, BMVC 2004

Abhishek Aneja

3

9/1

Mark A. Paskin, Thin Junction Tree Filters for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, IJCAI 2003 [or technical report, U. C. Berkeley, 2002]

Zhichao Chen

4

9/8

[STB out of town]

 

5

9/15

V. de Silva and J. B. Tenenbaum. Global versus local methods in nonlinear dimensionality reduction . Neural Information Processing Systems 15 (NIPS'2002), pp. 705-712, 2003  [pdf]

Haripriya Ganta

6

9/22

R. Pajak, Use of two-dimensional matched filters for estimating a length of blood vessels newly created in angiogenesis process, Opto-Electronics Review, 11(3), 237-241, 2003

Guang Zeng

7

9/29

A. Mitiche, R. Feghali, A. Mansouri, Motion Tracking as Spatio-Temporal Motion Boundary Detection, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol 43, No. 1, pp. 39-50, 2003

Braga Natarajan

8

10/6

Scholkopf, Smola, and Muller, Nonlinear Component Analysis as a Kernel Eigenvalue Problem, Neural Computation 10, 1299-1319, 1998.

Pinky Tejwani

9

10/13

Olga Veksler, Fast Variable Window for
Stereo Correspondence using Integral Images, CVPR 2003

Andy Neff

10

10/20

Ting Yu, Ying Wu, Collaborative Tracking of Multiple Targets, CVPR 2004

Pramod Potluri

11

10/27

T. Darrell, A radial cumulative similarity transform for robust image correspondence, CVPR 1998

Charly Hermanson

12

11/3

Ho, Lee, Yang, Kriegman, Visual tracking using learned linear subspaces, CVPR 2004

Sunil Guduru

13

11/10

paper under review

Sriram Rangarajan

14

11/17

paper under review

Shrinivas Pundlik

15

11/24

 

Rajitha Gangishetty

 

Spring 2004 Schedule

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

1/9

Intro / overview

Stan Birchfield

2

1/16

D. Beyer et al., A Real-time Computer Vision System for Measuring Traffic Parameters, CVPR 1997
[or journal version, Transportation Research: Part C, 6(4):271-288, 1998]

Shrinivas Pundlik

3

1/23

M. J. Black and D. J. Fleet, Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion discontinuities, ICCV 1999
[or journal version, Int. J. of Computer Vision, 38(3):231-245, July 2000]

Sriram Rangarajan

4

1/30

Robert T. Collins, Mean-shift blob tracking through scale space, CVPR 2003

Manish Shiralkar

5

2/6

Ce Wang, Scott Griebel, Michael Brandstein, Robust Automatic Video-Conferencing With Multiple Cameras And Microphones, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2000

Rajitha Gangishetty

6

2/13

J. B. Tenenbaum, V. de Silva, and J. C. Langford, "A Global Geometric Framework for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction", Science, 290(5500):2319-2323, 2000
 

Guang Zeng

7

2/20

Alexei A. Efros, Alexander C. Berg, Greg Mori and Jitendra Malik, "Recognizing Action at a Distance'', ICCV 2003

Yi Jiang

8

2/27

Shaogang Gong, Stephen McKenna and John J. Collins, An Investigation into Face Pose Distributions, FAGR 1996

Haripriya Ganta

9

3/5

Kass, Witkin, and Terzopoulos, Snakes:  Active Contour Models, IJCV 1(4):321-331, 1988

Amar Subramanya

10

3/12

S. Birchfield and C. Tomasi, Depth discontinuities by pixel-to-pixel stereo, ICCV 1998
[or journal version, IJCV 35(3), 1999]

Braga Natarajan

11

3/19

[spring break]

 

12

3/26

Horn B. K. P., Schunk B. G.: Determining Optical Flow. MIT, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in Computer Vision Principles, 481-497.  (local copy)

Sunil Guduru

13

4/2

M. Ruzon and C. Tomasi, Color Edge Detection with the Compass Operator, CVPR 1999

Subhash

14

4/9

J. Chen, W. E. Dixon, D. M. Dawson, and M. McIntire, Homography-Based Visual Servo Tracking Control of a Wheeled Mobile Robot, IROS 2003

Jian Chen

15

4/16

A. Davison, Real-Time Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping with a Single Camera, ICCV 2003
 

Abhishek Aneja

 
Fall 2003 Schedule

Date Paper(s) Discussion leader(s)
8/29/03 intro / overview Stan Birchfield
9/5/03 Rowley, Baluja, and Kanade, Neural-network based face detection, CVPR, 1996; or
Rowley, Baluja, and Kanade, Neural-network based face detection, PAMI, 20(1):23-38, 1998		 Bragad Natarajan
9/12/03 Viola and Jones, Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features, CVPR 2001;
[optional background reading: Freund and Schapire, A short introduction to boosting, JJSAI, 1999]		 Amar Subramanya
9/19/03 Shi and Tomasi, Good features to track, CVPR 1994;
[optional background reading:  Lucas and Kanade, An iterative image registration technique with an application to stereo vision , IJCAI 1981		 Stan Birchfield
9/26/03 Wang and Adelson, Representing moving images with layers, TIP, 3(5):625-637, 1994 Raghu Kumaran
10/3/03 Brostow and Essa, Motion Based Decompositing of Video, ICCV 1999 Guang Zeng
10/10/03 Schodl and Essa, Depth layers from occlusions, CVPR 2001;
[optional background reading:  minimum description length (MDL) web site]		 Yi Jiang
10/17/03 C. Tomasi and T. Kanade, Shape and Motion from Image Streams under Orthography: a Factorization Method, IJCV, 9(2): 137-154, 1992; or
C. Tomasi and T. Kanade, Factoring Image Sequences into Shape and Motion, Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Visual Motion, 1991; or
C. Tomasi and T. Kanade, Shape and Motion Without Depth, ICCV 1990
 		 Stan Birchfield
10/24/03 Haritaoglu, Harwood, and Davis, W4:  Who?  When?  Where?  What?  A real time system for detecting and tracking people, FAGR 1998 Sunil Guduru
10/31/03 Jepson, Fleet, and El-Maraghi,  Robust Online Appearance Models for Visual Tracking, CVPR 2001 Shrinivas Pundlik
11/7/03 Birchfield and Tomasi, Multiway cut for stereo and motion with slanted surfaces, ICCV 1999;
[optional background reading:  Boykov, Veksler, Zabih, Markov random fields with efficient approximations, CVPR 1998]		 Stan Birchfield
11/14/03 W. T. Freeman and E. H. Adelson, The design and use of steerable filters, PAMI 13(9):891-906, 1991 Sriram Rangarajan
11/21/03 Tommasini et al., Making Good Features Track Better, CVPR 1998 Vikram Iyengar