ECE 893-5 Computer Vision Seminar
Fall 2005

In this course we review recent research publications related to visual detection, recognition, and tracking of people (or other objects), visual motion analysis, visual reconstruction, stereo vision, acoustic localization, robotic sensing, and other related topics. Each week we meet to discuss one paper from the recent literature.  Students should read the paper beforehand and prepare questions and comments in order to participate fully in the discussion.  In addition, students are encouraged to volunteer to lead the discussion at least once during the semester.  All students are welcome to attend, whether or not they are signed up for the course. (For details on how to get credit, see the bottom of this page.)

Here are some miscellaneous computer vision resources.


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


Potential future papers

Administrivia

Instructor: Stan Birchfield, 207-A Riggs Hall, 656-5912, email: stb at clemson
Meetings: 4 - 5 pm Wednesdays, 223 Riggs Hall

To receive the 1-hour credit, students must

One absence is allowed per semester, as well as five late summaries. (The summaries are checked once per week, so five late summaries could be five separate summaries each of which is one week late, or it could be one summary that is five weeks late, or any combination thereof.) you lead the discussion.) One absence is allowed per semester, as well as five late summaries. (The summaries are checked once per week, so five late summaries could be five separate summaries each of which is one week late, or it could be one summary that is five weeks late, or any combination thereof.)