Per-Erik Forssén, PhD

I am no longer at UBC. Here is a link to my current affiliation.

Until December 2007 I was a post-doctoral fellow at UBC working with Prof. Jim Little,
at the Department of Computer Science, in the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence, LCI,
in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Research Interests

• Computer Vision
  I am mainly interested in computer vision algorithms that are applicable to robotics. I have recently done work on region shape descriptors which I presented at ICCV'07, and also the MSCR feature detector which I presented at CVPR'07. Earlier work includes the CCF feature detector, and the blob feature detector.
• Active Perception and Learning
  I believe that learning is an essential component of seeing systems. Learning becomes even more interesting when it is embodied, because this allows the system to act, and when acting we can make use of the knowledge that we caused something. Most recent work in this category is within the Curious George project, and the robotic eye model project. Earlier I have done work on active object appearance learning, and active learning of saccades via motion prediction.
• Developmental Robotics
  How to learn on several scales (both time and abstraction), and how to incorporate knowledge from animal behaviour studies (ethology) and cognitive psychology into robotic systems also interest me.

Scientific Output

• Publication list
• My slides from the 525 class are here.
• Software available for download.
• The robotic eye model project page.

Misc. links

• Curious George, winner of the 2007 Semantic Robot Vision Challenge.
• The Robuddies reading group.
• The SMRT reading group.
• My blob features put to use in the COMETS project.
• Bend Sinister, my favourite Vancouver band.
• More information can be found at my old webpage.

Contact

Email:	perfo AT cs.ubc.ca
Address:	Department of Computer Science
	University of British Columbia
	#201-2366 Main Mall
	Vancouver, BC
	Canada V6T 1Z4