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Finished Papers, Autumn 2007

  • December 12: Sancho: Ondrej Chum and Andrew Zisserman, An Exemplar Model for Learning Object Classes, CVPR 2007. [External link]
  • December 5: No robuddies this week, due to NIPS.
  • November 28: Per-Erik: The iCub Cognitive Humanoid Robot Research Platform [Home page][External link]
  • November 21: Jim Little: Jianxin Wu et al. A Scalable Approach to Activity Recognition based on Object Use, ICCV'07. [External link]
  • November 14:
    • David Meger: Silvio Savarese, Li Fei-Fei, 3D generic object categorization, localization and pose estimation, ICCV'07.
    • Pooyan: Li-Jia Li, Li Fei-Fei, What, where and who? Classifying events by scene and object recognition, ICCV'07.
  • November 7: ICCV'07 Highlights II
    • David Meger: DARPA challenge summary (not an ICCV paper)
    • Scott: How Good are Local Features for Classes of Geometric Objects, Michael Stark, Bernt Schiele
    • Per-Erik: A Rank Minimization Approach to Video Inpainting, Tao Ding, Mario Sznaier, Octavia Camps
    • Sancho: Vector Quantizing Feature Space with a Regular Lattice, Tinne Tuytelaars, Cordelia Schmid
    • Jim: Retrieving Actions in Movies, Ivan Laptev and Patrick Péres
  • October 31: ICCV'07 Highlights
    • David Lowe: PASCAL Workshop Summary
    • Kenji: Scene Summarization for Online Image Collections, Ian Simon, Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz
    • Wei-Lwun: Active Learning with Gaussian Processes for Object Categorization, Ashish Kapoor, Kristen Grauman, Raquel Urtasun, Trevor Darrell
    • Bob Woodham: Synthetic Aperture Tracking: Tracking through Occlusions, Neel Joshi, Shai Avidan, Wojciech Matusik and David Kriegman
  • October 24: Marius: Krystian Mikolajczyk, Jiri Matas. Improving SIFT for Fast Tree Matching by Optimal Linear Projection. ICCV07.
  • October 17: Sancho McCann: E. Nowak and F. Jurie, Learning Visual Similarity Measures for Comparing Never Seen Objects. CVPR07. [External link]
  • October 10: Matthew Dockrey: D. Hoiem, A. Stein, A. Efros, M. Hebert. Recovering Occlusion Boundaries from a Single Image. ICCV07. [External link]
  • October 3: Per-Erik: M. Perdóch J. Matas, S. Obdrzálek. Stable Affine Frames on Isophotes. ICCV07. [External link]
  • September 26: Kenji: P. Sabzmeydani and G. Mori. Detecting Pedestrians by Learning Shapelet Features. CVPR07. [External link]
  • September 19: David Meger: Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert. Semantic Modeling of Places using Objects. RSS07. [External link]

Finished Papers, Spring 2007

  • July 24: No seminar due to AAAI07 Conference.
  • July 17: David Meger: AAAI practise talk (20mins):
    • Hybrid Inference for Sensor Network Localization Using a Mobile Robot. Dimitrios Marinakis, David Meger, Ioannis Rekleitis, and Gregory Dudek. [External link]
  • July 10: Best-of-CVPR part II
    • Ruben: Robust Real-Time Visual SLAM Using Scale Prediction and Exemplar Based Feature Description. Denis Chekhlov et al.
    • Per-Erik: Saliency Detection: A Spectral Residual Approach. Xiaodi Hou and Liqing Zhang.
    • Nicolas: Trajectory Series Analysis based Event Rule Induction for Visual Surveillance. Zhang Zhang et al.
    • Sancho: An Exemplar Model for Learning Object Classes. Ondrej Chum and Andrew Zisserman.
    • Marius: City-Scale Location Recognition. Grant Schindler et al.
    • David L: Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis from a Moving Vehicle. Bastian Leibe et al.
    • Tristram: Objects in Action: An Approach for Combining Action Understanding and Object Perception. Abhinva Gupta and Larry S. Davis
  • July 3: Best-of-CVPR part I
    • Per-Erik:Learning local Image Descriptors, Simon A. J. Winder, Matthew Brown.
    • Sancho:Semantic Hierarchies for Visual Object Recognition, Martin Marszalek and Cordelia Schmid.
    • David L:Object Retrieval with Large Vocabularies and Fast Spatial Matching, James Philbin et al.
    • Kenji:Detecting Pedestrians by Learning Shapelet Features, Payam Sabzmeydani and Greg Mori.
    • Scott:Beyond Local Appearance: Category Recognition from Pairwise Interactions of Simple Features, Marius Leordenau and Martial Hebert and Rahul Sukthankar.
  • June 26: Talk by Simon Prince: Latent identity variables for face recognition: from distance based methods to probabilistic inference.
  • June 19: Yaroslav Litus (from SFU): The frugal feeding problem: Energy-efficient, multi-robot, multi-place rendezvous. ICRA07 [External link]
  • June 12: Video: Yair Weiss and Bill Freeman, What makes a good model of natural images? CVPR07 [External link]
  • June 5: Per-Erik: C. Balkenius and B. Johansson, Anticipatory Models in Gaze Control: A Developmental Model. Cognitive Processing [External link]
  • May 29: No seminar due to CRV/GI/AI/IS Precarn in Montreal.
  • May 22: CRV practice talks (20mins each):
    • Kevin Murphy: Figure-ground segmentation using a hierarchical conditional random field. CRV07 [link]
    • Per-Erik Forssén: Learning Saccadic Gaze Control via Motion Prediction. CRV07 [link]
  • May 15: Nando: Timothy H. Chung and Joel W. Burdick, A Decision-Making Framework for Control Strategies in Probabilistic Search.ICRA'07 [External link]
  • May 8: Per-Erik: Jiri Matas and Jan Sochman, Wald's Sequential Analysis for Time-constrained Vision Problems.ICRA'07, workshop [External link]
  • May 1: Wei-Lwun: Master's thesis presentation. Title: Tracking and Recognizing Actions of Multiple Hockey Players using the Boosted Particle Filter. NB! This seminar is at 11.30
  • April 24: Jim: Thorsten Spexard et al.,BIRON, where are you?, IROS'06. [External link]
  • April 17: David Meger: Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert, Data driven MCMC for Appearance-based Topological Mapping, RSS'05. [External link]
  • April 3: Jim: Benjamin Kupiers et al., Local metrical and global topological maps in the Hybrid Spatial Semantic Hierarchy. ICRA'04. [External link]
  • Mar 27: Sancho: Rob Fergus et al., Removing Camera Shake from a Single Photograph. SIGGRAPH'06. [External link]
  • Mar 20:Per-Erik: D. Kragic and M. Björkman, Strategies for object manipulation using foveal and peripheral vision. IEEE ICVS'06. [External link]
  • Mar 13:Julia: Dirk Walther and Christof Koch, Modeling attention to salient proto-objects. Neural Networks 2006. [External link]
  • Mar 6:Nando: Stephen Gould et al., Peripheral-Foveal Vision for Real-time Object Recognition and Tracking in Video. To appear in IJCAI-07 [External link]
  • Feb 27: Per-Erik: O. Chum and J. Matas. Geometric Hashing with Local Affine Frames. CVPR'06 [PDF in IEEE Xplore]
  • Feb 20: Maryam: User Adaptive Image Ranking for Search Engines, NIPS'06 workshop talk
  • Feb 13: David Lowe: Jianguo Zhang, Marczalek, Svetlana Lazebnik, Cordelia Schmid. Local features and kernels for classification of texture and object categories: a comprehensive study. Beyond Patches, CVPR'06 workshop [External link]
  • Feb 6: This week's topic was the Semantic Robot Vision Challenge.
  • Jan 30:Kenji: Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür and Robert E.Schapire. Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding. Speech Communication 2005. [External link]
  • Jan 23: Per-Erik: P. Moreels and P. Perona. Evaluation of Features Detectors and Descriptors based on 3D objects. ICCV'05 [External link]
  • Jan 16: Julia: C. Laporte and T. Arbel. Efficient discriminant viewpoint selection for active Bayesian recognition. IJCV 2006 [External link]

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