Papers covered in Previous Semesters
Computer Vision Seminar (ECE 904)


Fall 2010 Schedule

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

8/24

 Helmut Grabner, Jiri Matas, Luc Van Gool, Philippe Cattin.  Tracking the Invisible: Learning Where the Object Might Be, CVPR 2010.  video Stan Birchfield

2

8/31

 Charles Bibby and Ian Reid, Real-time Tracking of Multiple Occluding Objects using Level Sets, CVPR 2010 (CVPR 2010 poster videos) Stan Birchfield

3

9/7

 Antonio Torralba, "How many pixels make an image?", Visual Neuroscience, 2010 Vidya Murali

4

9/14

 S. Stalder, H. Grabner, and L. Van Gool, Beyond Semi-Supervised Tracking: Tracking Should Be as Simple as Detection, but not Simpler than Recognition, In Proceedings ICCV’09 WS on On-line Learning for Computer Vision, 2009. Sumod Mohan

5

9/21

 Bangpeng Yao and Li Fei-Fei, Modeling Mutual Context of Object and Human Pose in Human-Object Interaction Activities, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010. Ninad Pradhan

6

9/28

 Hui Kong, Jean-Yves Audibert, and Jean Ponce.  General Road Detection from A Single Image.  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Aug. 2010. Yinxiao Li

7

10/5

 Salzmann and Urtasun Combining Discriminative and Generative Methods for 3D Deformable Surface and Articulated Pose Reconstruction  CVPR 2010.  video (Bryan Willimon)

8

10/12

 Y. Li and S. Birchfield.  Image-Based Segmentation of Indoor Corridor Floors for a Mobile Robot, IROS 2010.
B. Willimon, S. Birchfield, and I. Walker.  Rigid and Non-Rigid Classification Using Interactive Perception, IROS 2010.  		 Bryan Willimon / Yinxiao Li

9

10/19

 [out of town]  

10

10/26

 Delage, E.  Honglak Lee  Ng, A.Y.  A Dynamic Bayesian Network Model for Autonomous 3D Reconstruction from a Single Indoor Image, CVPR 2006 Satyajeet Bhide

11

11/2

 [break]  

12

11/9

 Steve Gu and Ying Zheng and Carlo Tomasi.  Critical Nets and Beta-Stable Features for Image Matching, ECCV 2010. Salil Banerjee

13

11/16

Georg Klein and David Murray, Parallel Tracking and Mapping for Small AR Workspaces, ISMAR 2007

 Brian Peasley

14

11/23

 Jianguo Li, Eric Li, Yurong Chen, Li Xu, Yimin Zhang, Bundled Depth-Map Merging for Multi-View Stereo, CVPR 2010.  Video -- Dataset/Results -- Slides Bryan Willimon
15 11/30 Yiyan Wang, Yuexian Zou, Hang Shi, He Zhao.  Video Image Vehicle Detection System for Signaled Traffic Intersection.  HIS 2009. Nick Watts


Spring 2010 Schedule

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

1/12

 [out of town]  

2

1/19

 Jacob Goldberger, Sam Roweis, Geoff Hinton, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Neighbourhood Component Analysis, Neural Information Processing Systems 17 (NIPS'04). pp. 513-520. Sumod Mohan

3

1/26
Simei Gomes Wysoski, Lubica Benuskovaa and Nikola Kasabova.  Fast and adaptive network of spiking neurons for multi-view visual pattern recognition.  Neurocomputing, Volume 71, Issues 13-15, August 2008, Pages 2563-2575 		Kenneth Rice

4

2/2

 M. F. Tappen and W. T. Freeman. “Comparison of Graph Cuts with Belief Propagation for Stereo, using Identical MRF Parameters”. In Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Pages 900 - 907, 2003 Sumod Mohan

5

2/9

 Jian Sun, Weiwei Zhang, Xiaoou Tang, and Heung-Yeung Shum, Bi-directional Tracking using Trajectory Segment Analysis, ICCV 2005. Yujie Dong

6

2/16

 R. Fergus, Y. Weiss, and A. Torralba, Semi-supervised Learning in Gigantic Image Collections, Advances in Neural Information Processing
Systems, 2009.		 Vidya Murali

7

2/23

 L. Torresani and C. Bregler, Space-time tracking, ECCV 2002 Nikhil Rane

8

3/2

 Charles Bibby and Ian Reid, Robust Real-Time Visual Tracking using Pixel-Wise Posteriors, ECCV 2008 Brian Peasley

9

3/9

 K Schindler, L Van Gool, Action Snippets : How many frames does human action recognition require?, CVPR 2008 Ninad Pradhan

10

3/16

 [break]  

11

3/23

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

12

3/30

 Imran Saleemi, Khurram Shafique, and Mubarak Shah.  Probabilistic Modeling of Scene Dynamics for Applications in Visual Surveillance.  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 31(3), Aug 2009 Salil Banerjee

13

4/6

 Massimiliano Pontil and Alessandro Verri.  Support Vector Machines for 3D Object Recognition.  PAMI 1998 Bryan Willimon

14

4/13

 Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski.  Photo Tourism: Exploring Photo Collections in 3D.  SIGGRAPH 2006. 
 		 Xiaoxia Huang
15 4/20    


Fall 2009 Schedule

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

8/25

 Hiroshi Ishikawa, Exact Optimization for Markov Random Fields with Convex Priors, PAMI 2003 Stan Birchfield

2

9/1

 S. Roy, Stereo Without Epipolar Lines: A Maximum-Flow Formulation, IJCV 1999  

3

9/8

 Y. Boykov, O. Veksler, and R. Zabih. Markov random fields with efficient approximations. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages 648–655, 1998. Salil Banerjee

4

9/15

 Y. Boykov, O. Veksler, and R. Zabih. Fast approximate energy minimization via graph cuts. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision, pages 377–384, 1999. Ninad Pradhan

5

9/22

 Y. Boykov, O. Veksler, and R. Zabih. Fast approximate energy minimization via graph cuts. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 23(11):1222–1239, 2001. Xiaoxia Huang

6

9/29

 [out of town]  

7

10/6

 V. Kolmogorov and R. Zabih. Multi-camera scene reconstruction via graph cuts. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, 2002. Bryan Willimon

8

10/13

 [break]  

9

10/20

 V. Kolmogorov and R. Zabih. What energy functions can be minimized via graph cuts? IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 26(2):147–159, 2004. Sumod Mohan

10

10/27

 Zia Khan, Tucker Balch, and Frank Dellaert, MCMC-Based Particle Filtering for Tracking a Variable Number of Interacting Targets, PAMI 2005 Akshay Apte

11

11/3

 Z. Tu and S. Zhu, Image Segmentation by Data-Driven Markov Chain Monte Carlo, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24(5):657-673, 2002. Zhichao Chen

12

11/10

 R. Zabih and V. Kolmogorov. Spatially coherent clustering with graph cuts. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2004. Vidya Murali

13

11/17

 Y. Boykov and V. Kolmogorov.  An experimental comparison of min-cut/max- flow algorithms for energy minimization in vision, PAMI 2004 Stan Birchfield

14

11/24

 P. Kohli and P. H. S. Torr.  Dynamic Graph Cuts for Efficient Inference in Markov Random Fields, PAMI, 29(12):  2079-2088, December 2007. Xiaoxia Huang
15 12/1 Y. Y. Boykov and M.-P. Jolly Interactive graph cuts for optimal boundary & region segmentation of objects in N-D images, ICCV 2001  

 
Spring 2009 Schedule

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

1/13

 Chunming Li Chenyang Xu Changfeng Gui Fox, M.D.  Level set evolution without re-initialization: a new variational formulation, CVPR 2005 Stan Birchfield

2

1/20

 N. Passat, C. Ronse, J. Baruthio, J.P. Armspach, and C. Maillot, Cerebral Vascular Atlas Generation for Anatomical Knowledge Modeling and Segmentation Purpose, CVPR 2005. Trupti Patil

3

1/27

 Antonio Torralba, Kevin P. Murphy, William T. Freeman and Mark Rubin,
Context-based vision system for place and object recognition, ICCV 2003.		 Vidya Murali

4

2/3

 Antonio Torralba, Kevin P. Murphy, and William T. Freeman, Sharing Visual Features for Multiclass and Multiview Object Detection, PAMI 2007 Sumod Mohan

5

2/10

 Greg Mori, Serge Belongie, and Jitendra Malik, Efficient Shape Matching Using Shape Contexts, IEEE PAMI, 2005.   Nalin Pradeep

6

2/17

 Lecture:  "An Algorithm for Searching an Alternative Hypothesis Space Using a Variation of MAX-SAT", by Dr. Christopher Griffin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, from 3:30-4:30 in 100-A Riggs  

7

2/24

 Alauddin Bhuiyan, Baikunth Nath, Joselito Chua and Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, Blood Vessel Segmentation from Color Retinal Images Using Unsupervised Texture Classification, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2007 (ICIP 2007) Uttara Thakre

8

3/3

 Pedro F. Felzenszwalb and Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Efficient Graph-Based Image Segmentation, International Journal of Computer Vision, Volume 59, Number 2, September 2004. (off-campus link) Stan Birchfield

9

3/10

 Lukas Zebedin and Joachim Bauer and Konrad F. Karner and Horst Bischof, Fusion of Feature- and Area-Based Information for Urban Buildings Modeling from Aerial Imagery, ECCV 2008 Peng Xu

10

3/17

 [break]  

11

3/24

 [out of town]  

12

3/31

 G. J. Brostow, R. Cipolla, Unsupervised Bayesian Detection of Independent Motion in Crowds, CVPR 2006 Pavan Yalamanchili

13

4/7

 Vedaldi, A. and Soatto, S., Local Features, All Grown Up, CVPR 2006 Prakash C.

14

4/14

 S. Sanjay Gopal and Thomas J. Hebert, Bayesian Pixel Classification Using Spatially Variant Finite Mixtures and the Generalized EM Algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1998. Shrinivas Pundlik
15 4/21 A.C. Murillo,  J. Kosecka,  J.J. Guerrero, C. Sagues, Visual door detection integrating appearance and shape cues, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 56 ,  Issue 6  (June 2008) Pages 512-521. Zhichao Chen

 

Fall 2008 Schedule

 

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

8/26

 Thomas Brox, Andres Bruhn, and Joachim Weickert, Variational Motion Segmentation with Level Sets, ECCV 2006

Stan Birchfield

2

9/2

 A.B. Ashraf, S. Lucey, and T. Chen, Learning Patch Correspondences for Improved Viewpoint Invariant Face Recognition, CVPR 2008.   Manish Shiralkar

3

9/9

 Alper Yilmaz, Xin Li, and Mubarak Shah, Contour-Based Object Tracking with Occlusion Handling in Video Acquired Using Mobile Cameras, PAMI 26(11), 2004 Wayne Ryan

4

9/16

 Dileep George and Jeff Hawkins, A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Invariant Pattern Recognition in the Visual Cortex, IJCNN 2005
 		 Sumod Mohan

5

9/23

 Changki Min and Gerard Medioni, Tensor Voting Accelerated by Graphics
Processing Units (GPU), ICPR 2006.		 Trupti Patil

6

9/30

 A. Sarti, R. Malladi, and J.A. Sethian, Subjective Surfaces: A Geometric Model for Boundary Completion, IJCV 46(3), 201-221, 2002. Nikhil Rane

7

10/7

 N. Vlassis and A. Likas, A Greedy EM Algorithm for Gaussian Mixture
Learning, Neural Processing Letters, 2002		 Prakash C

8

10/14
B. Daubney, D. Gibson, N. Campbell, Real-time pose estimation of articulated objects using low-level motion, CVPR 2008.		 Shrinivas Pundlik

9

10/21

 A. Torralba, R. Fergus, and W. T. Freeman, 80 Million Tiny Images: A Large Data Set for Nonparametric Object and Scene Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.30, no.11, pp.1958-1970, Nov. 2008 Vidya Murali

10

10/28

 Manish P. Shiralkar and Robert J. Schalkoff, Multiple-Class Spatiotemporal Flow Estimation Using a Modified Neural Gas Algorithm, submitted to Optical Engineering Manish Shiralkar

11

11/4

 [break]  

12

11/11

 W. J. Ryan, D. L. Woodard, A. T. Duchowski, and S. T. Birchfield, Adapting Starburst for Elliptical Iris Segmentation, Proceedings of the IEEE Second International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), Washington, D.C., September 2008. Wayne Ryan

13

11/18

 A. Adam, E. Rivlin, and I. Shimshoni, Robust Fragments-based Tracking using the Integral Histogram, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2006 Nalin Pradeep

14

11/25

 Ashutosh Saxena, Min Sun, Andrew Y. Ng, Make3D: Learning 3-D Scene Structure from a Single Still Image, To appear in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2008. Sumod Mohan
15 12/2 J. Sivic, B. Russell, A.A. Efros, A. Zisserman, and B. Freeman, Discovering Objects and Their Location in Images, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005), October, 2005 Nikhil Rane


Spring 2008 Schedule

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

1/15

 Seon Joo Kim, Jan-Michael Frahm and Marc Pollefeys, Joint Feature Tracking and Radiometric Calibration from Auto-Exposure Video, ICCV 2007

Stan Birchfield

2

1/22

 D. M. Gavrila and S. Munder, Multi-cue pedestrian detection and tracking from a moving vehicle, IJCV 2007 Shrinivas Pundlik

3

1/29

 Yang Cheng, Andrew Johnson and Larry Matthies, MER-DIMES: A Planetary Landing Application of Computer Vision, CVPR 2005 Trupti Patil

4

2/5

 O. Boiman M. Irani, Detecting Irregularities in Images and in Video, IJCV 74(1):17-31, 2007 Phillip Martin

5

2/12

 N. Ohnishi and A. Imiya, Corridor Navigation and Obstacle
Avoidance using Visual Potential for Mobile Robot, Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV '07), 131-138, 2007		 Vidya Murali

6

2/19

 Todd Templeton, David Hyunchul Shim, Christopher Geyer, and S. Shankar
Sastry, Autonomous Vision-based Landing and Terrain Mapping
Using an MPC-controlled Unmanned Rotorcraft, ICRA 2007
 		 Ninad Pradhan

7

2/26

 Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir, Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing, SIGGRAPH 2007 Anirudh Singh

8

3/4

 Yunqiang Chen, Yong Rui, and Thomas S. Huang, Multicue HMM-UKF for Real-Time Contour Tracking, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 28(9), Sept. 2006 Heng Liu

9

3/11

 Robert Collins, Yanxi Liu, and Marius Leordeanu, On-Line Selection of Discriminative Tracking Features, PAMI, 2005 Nikhil Rane

10

3/18

 [break]  

11

3/25

 Qiaoping Zhang and Isabelle Couloigner, Benefit of the angular texture signature for the separation of parking lots and roads on high resolution multi-spectral imagery, Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 27, Issue 9 (July 2006) Pages 937-946 Guang Zeng

12

4/1

 I. Matthews, T. Ishikawa, and S. Baker, The Template Update Problem, PAMI, 26(6):810-815, 2004 Prakash C.

13

4/8

 Zhaozheng Yin and R.Collins, Spatial Divide and Conquer with Motion Cues
for Tracking through Clutter, vol. 1, pages 570-577, CVPR 2006		 Nalin S.

14

4/15

 B. Wu and R. Nevatia, Detection and Tracking of Multiple, Partially Occluded Humans by Bayesian Combination of Edgelet based Part Detectors, IJCV 2007 Zhichao Chen
15 4/22 John Daugman, Probing the Uniqueness and Randomness of IrisCodes: Results From 200 Billion Iris Pair Comparisons, Proceedings of the IEEE, Nov. 2006 Wayne Ryan


Fall 2007 Schedule

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

8/27

 D. Marr and T. Poggio, Cooperative Computation of Stereo Disparity, Science, v. 194, pp. 283-287, Oct. 1976

Stan Birchfield

2

9/3

 [break]  

3

9/10

 Thomas B. Sebastian, Philip N. Klein and Benjamin B. Kimia, On Aligning Curves, PAMI, Vol. 25, No. 1, January 2003   Neeraj
Kanhere

4

9/17

 Josh Wills, Sameer Agarwal, and Serge Belongie, A feature based approach for dense segmentation and estimation of large disparity motion, IJCV 2006   Shrinivas
Pundlik

5

9/24

 K. Choo and D. J. Fleet,  People tracking using hybrid Monte Carlo filtering, ICCV 2001 Kenneth Rice

6

10/1

 O. Jenkins and M. Mataric, A Spatio-temporal Extension to Isomap Nonlinear Dimension Reduction. Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2004), July 4-8, 2004, Banff, Alberta, Canada Nikhil Rane

7

10/8

 M. Plumpe, T. Quatier, and D. Reynolds, Modeling of the Glottal Flow Derivative Waveform with Application to Speaker Identification, IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, 7(5), 1999
 		 Trupti Patil

8

10/15

 [break]  

9

10/22

 D. Zhang, W. Kong, J. You and M. Wong, Online Palmprint Identification, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(9):1041-1050, Sept. 2003 Guang Zeng

10

10/29

 T. Brox, A. Bruhn, N. Papenberg, J. Weickert, High Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping, In Proc. 8th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), vol 4, pp.25-36, May 2004 Vidya Murali

11

11/5

 [canceled]  

12

11/12

 Z. Chen and S. T. Birchfield, Person Following with a Mobile Robot Using Binocular Feature-Based Tracking, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego, California, October 2007 Zhichao Chen

13

11/19

 Huang, K., Wang, L., Tan, T., and Maybank, S. A real-time object detecting and tracking system for outdoor night surveillance. Pattern Recogn. 41(1):432-444,  Jan. 2008. Yingyun Mao

14

11/26

 Steven Mills, Kevin Novins, Motion Segmentation in Long Image Sequences, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) pages 162-171, 2000 Trupti Patil
15 12/3 J. Sun et al., Low resolution character recognition by dual eigenspace and synthetic degraded patterns, Proceeding of the 1st ACM workshop on hardcopy document processing, Washington, DC, pp.15-22, November 2004 Kenneth Rice


Spring 2007 Schedule
 

Week

Date

Paper

Discussion leader

1

1/16

F. Porikli, O. Tuzel, and P. Meer, Covariance Tracking using Model Update Based on Lie Algebra, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2006

Stan Birchfield

2

1/23

 H. Grabner and H. Bischof, On-line boosting and vision, CVPR 2006

Stan Birchfield

3

1/30

 Margrit Betke, Esin Haritaoglu and Larry S. Davis, Real-time multiple vehicle detection and tracking from a moving vehicle, Machine Vision and Applications, 12(2):69-83, September 2000 Guang Zeng

4

2/6

 Ramos, F.T., Upcroft, B., Kumar, S. & Durrant-Whyte, H.F., A Bayesian Approach for Place Recognition, IJCAI Workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics (RUR-05), 2005 

    
 

    
    Vidya Murali
  

  

    
    
5

    
    
2/13

    
    Omar Javed, Saad Ali and Mubarak Shah, Online Detection and Classification of Moving Objects Using Progressively Improving Detectors, CVPR 2005
    
    Neeraj Kanhere
  

  

    
    
6

    
    
2/20

    
	Chang Huang, Haizhou Ai, Yuan Li, and  Shihong Lao,
  
  Vector Boosting for Rotation Invariant Multi-View Face Detection, ICCV 
  2005, pages 446 - 453
    
    
Stan Birchfield

  

  

    
    
7

    
    
2/27

    
    Ramos, F.T., Nieto, J.I. and Durrant-Whyte, H.F. 'Recognising and Modelling
Landmarks to Close Loops in Outdoor SLAM' In Proceedings IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2007		
    
    Vidya Murali
  

  

    
    
8

    
    
3/6

    
    Radu Stoica, Xavier Descombes and Josiane Zerubia, A Gibbs Point Process for Road Extraction from Remotely Sensed Images. International Journal of Computer Vision, 57(2): 121-136, May 2004
    
    Guang Zeng
  

  

    
    
9

    
    
3/13

    
    Martin Persson, Mats Sandvall, and Tom Duckett, “Automatic 
    building detection from aerial images for mobile robot mapping”, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on 
    Computational Intelligence in Robotics
    and
    Automation, pages 273-278, June 
     2005.  (grayscale version)
    
    Vidya Murali
  

  

    
    
10

    
    
3/20

    
    [break]
    
     
  

  

    
    
11

    
    
3/27

    
    Todd Schoepflin and Daniel Dailey, Dynamic Camera Calibration of Roadside Management Cameras for Vehicle Speed Estimation, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 4(2), June 2003
 		
    
    Neeraj Kanhere
  

  

    
    
12

    
    
4/3

    
    P. Felzenszwalb and D. Huttenlocher, Efficient belief propagation for early vision, CVPR 2004
    
    Stan Birchfield
  

  

    
    
13

    
    
4/10

    
    N. Vlassis and A. Lika, A Greedy EM Algorithm for Gaussian Mixture Learning, Neural Processing Letters, 2002
    Stan Birchfield
  

  

    
    
14

    
    
4/17

    
    Fatih Porikli, Jie Shao and Hide Maehara, "Heli-Tele: Road Extraction from Helicopter Video", Proc IAPR Conf. on Machine Vision Applications, May 2005
    
    Guang Zeng
  

  

    
    15
    
    4/24
    
    C. Steger, An Unbiased Detector of Curvilinear Structures, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 113-125, 1998. (tech report at citeseer)
    
    Guang Zeng
 

  

  

    
    
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   Fall 2006 Schedule







  

    
    
Week

    
    
Date

    
    
Paper

    
    
Discussion leader

  

  

    
    
1

    
    
8/29

    
    
Pantelis Elinas, Robert Sim, and James J. Little, 
    σSLAM: Stereo Vision SLAM Using the Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filter and 
    a Novel Mixture Proposal Distribution,  ICRA 2006.

    
    
Stan Birchfield

  

  

    
    
2

    
    
9/5

    
    [STB out of town]
    
     
  

  

    
    
3

    
    
9/12

    
    Changjiang Yang, Ramani Duraiswami and Larry Davis,
    Fast 
    multiple object tracking via hierarchical particle filter, ICCV 2005
    
    Neeraj Kanhere
  

  

    
    
4

    
    
9/19

    
    Ulrich and Nourbakhsh,
    Appearance based 
    obstacle detection with monocular color vision, AAAI 2000 
    
    Shrinivas Pundlik
  

  

    
    
5

    
    
9/26

    
    Fatih Porikli, Road 
    Extraction by Point-wise Gaussian Models,
    SPIE AeroSense Technologies and Systems for Defense and Security, volume 
    5093, pages 758--764, 2003. 
    
    Guang Zeng
  

  

    
    
6

    
    
10/3

    
	Antonio Criminisi, Geoff Cross, Andrew Blake, and Vladimir Kolmogorov,
  
  Bilayer Segmentation of Live Video, CVPR 2006
    
    Shrinivas Pundlik
  

  

    
    
7

    
    
10/10

    
    Andres Bruhn, Joachim Weickert,and Christoph Schnorr,
    
    Lucas/Kanade Meets Horn/Schunck: Combining Local and Global Optic Flow 
    Methods, IJCV 61(3):211-231, 2005
    
    Stan Birchfield
  

  

    
    
8

    
    
10/17

    
    M. Agrawal, K. Konolige and L. Iocchi,
    Real-time detection of independent motion using stereo, IEEE Workshop on 
    Motion and Video Computing (WACV/MOTION'05), vol. 2,  pp. 207-214, 2005
    

 		
    
    Zhichao Chen
  

  

    
    
9

    
    
10/24

    
    I.
    Laptev, H. Mayer, T. Lindeberg, W. Eckstein, C. Steger, A. Baumgartner,
    Automatic 
    extraction of roads from aerial images
    based on scale space and snakes, Machine Vision and Applications 12:23–31, 2000 
    
    Guang Zeng
  

  

    
    
10

    
    
10/31

    
    S. Segvic, A. Remazeilles, and F. Chaumette,
    Enhancing the 
    point feature tracker by adaptive modelling of the feature support, ECCV 
    2006 
    
    Stan Birchfield
  

  

    
    
11

    
    
11/7

    
    [break]
    
     
  

  

    
    
12

    
    
11/14

    
    M. P. Kumar, P. H. S. Torr, and A. Zisserman,
  
  Learning Layered Motion Segmentations of Video, ICCV 2005
    
    Neeraj Kanhere
  

  

    
    
13

    
    
11/21

    
    Paul Viola, Michael Jones,
    
    Rapid object detection using a boosted cascade of simple features, CVPR 
    2001

 		
    Zhichao Chen
  

  

    
    
14

    
    
11/28

    
    I. Matthews, T. Ishikawa, and S. Baker, The
    Template 
    Update Problem, BMVC, 2003; Journal version in PAMI, 26(6):810-815, 2004
    
    Stan Birchfield
  

  

    
    15
    
    12/5
    
    J. Melo, A. Naftel, A. Bernardino, and J. Santos­Victor, ``Detection 
    and 

    classification of highway lanes using vehicle motion trajectories,'' 
    IEEE 

    Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 7(2):188-200, 2006. 		
    
    Stan Birchfield
  

  

    
    
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   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