Papers covered in Previous Semesters of Computer Vision Seminar


Spring 2006 Schedule

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

1/11

Intro / overview

Stan Birchfield

2

1/18

 N. K. Kanhere, S. J. Pundlik, and S. T. Birchfield, Vehicle Segmentation and Tracking from a Low-Angle Off-Axis Camera, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Diego, California, June 2005   Neeraj Kanhere

3

1/25

 W.E.L. Grimson,C. Stauffer, R. Romano, L. Lee, Using adaptive tracking to classify and monitor activities in a site, CVPR 1998 Nikhil Rane
(slides)

4

2/1

 Nikos Paragios and Rachid Deriche, Geodesic Active Contours and Level Sets for the Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects, PAMI, 22(3):266-280, March 2000 Shrinivas Pundlik

5

2/8

 Horprasert, Harwood, Davis, A robust background subtraction and shadow detection, ACCV 2000 Joshua Hughes

6

2/15

 Hammadi Nait-Charif & Stephen J. McKenna, Head Tracking and Action Recognition in a Smart Meeting Room, PETS 2003 Nikhil Rane
(slides)

7

2/22

 Louka Dlagnekov and Serge Belongie, Recognizing Cars, UCSD CSE Tech Report CS2005-0833 Akshay Katrekar

8

3/1

 Etienne Grossmann, Amit Kale, Christopher Jaynes, Towards Interactive Generation of "Ground Truth" in Background Subtraction from Partially Labeled Examples, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, Beijing China, October 2005. Guang Zeng

9

3/8

 Ahmed Elgammal, David Harwood, Larry Davis, Non-parametric Model for Background Subtraction. ECCV, 2000 Prashant Oswal

10

3/15

 Hwann-Tzong Chen, Tyng-Luh Liu. Real-time tracking using trust-region methods. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 26(3): 397-402, 2004. Zhichao Chen

11

3/22

 [break]  

12

3/29

 H. Schneiderman, T. Kanade. A Statistical Method for 3D Object Detection Applied to Faces and Cars, CVPR 2000. Ronnie Dasgupta

13

4/5

 Sivic, J. , Schaffalitzky, F. and Zisserman, A. Object Level Grouping for Video Shots Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Prague, Czech Republic, 2004 Thomas Polon

14

4/12

 Mike Montemerlo, Perspectives on Autonomous Desert Driving (talk on DARPA Grand Challenge), Part I  
15 4/19 Mike Montemerlo, Perspectives on Autonomous Desert Driving (talk on DARPA Grand Challenge), Part II  

16

 4/26 Z. Chen and S. Birchfield, Qualitative Vision-Based Mobile Robot Navigation, ICRA 2006. Zhichao Chen


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