TTI-Chicago Vision Seminar

A weekly discussion group dedicated to topics related to computational vision and vision science. A mix of papers, brainstorming, and guest speakers.


Time: Wednesday 1-2:30pm 
Location: TTI-C room 526
              TTI is located at 6045 S. Kenwood Ave;
              room 526 is on 5th floor (turn right from elevator)

Next meeting: November 25, 2009

Anat Levin and Yair Weiss. Learning to Combine Bottom-Up and Top-Down Segmentation. IJCV 2009


Meeting calendar (agenda for future meetings is tentative)

November 25, 2009
Speaker: Tamir Hazan
Anat Levin and Yair Weiss. Learning to Combine Bottom-Up and Top-Down Segmentation. IJCV 2009
December 2, 2009
Break (from vision workshop the previous day)
December 9, 2009
Speaker: Allie Shapiro
December 16, 2009
Speaker: Liefeng Bo
December 23, 2009
Speaker: Raquel Urtasun




Previous meetings (more recent at the bottom):


March 18, 2008
3-D depth reconstruction from a single still image, Ashutosh Saxena, Sung H. Chung, and Andrew Y. Ng. In the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2007.
link to PDF
March 25
Learning 3-D Scene Structure from a Single Still Image, Ashutosh Saxena, Min Sun, and Andrew Y. Ng. In ICCV workshop on 3D Representation for Recognition (3dRR-07), 2007
link to PDF
April 8
Learning to Extract Object Boundaries using Motion Cues, A.N. Stein, D. Hoiem, and M. Hebert, ICCV 2007.
link to PDF
April 23
Combining Region and Edge Cues for Image Segmentation in a Probabilistic Gaussian Mixture Framework
Rotem, O.; Greenspan, H.; Goldberger, J., CVPR 2007

April 30
No meeting
May 7
Toward a Theory of Shape from Specular Flow
Y. Adato, Y. Vasilyev, Ohad Ben-Shahar, T. Zickler, ICCV 2007
link to PDF
May 14
Segment-based stereo matching using belief propagation and a self-adapting dissimilarity measure.
Klaus, M. Sormann and K. Karner, ICPR 2006.
link to PDF

Segmentation-based adaptive support for accurate stereo correspondence.
F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, and L. Di Stefano, PSIVT 2007
link to PDF
 
Summer
break
October 1
SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features
H. Bey, T. Tuytelaars, L. Van Gool, ECCV 2006
link to PDF
October 8
Learning for Stereo Vision Using the Structured Support Vector Machine
D. Huttenlocher and Y. Li, CVPR 2008
link to PDF

October 15

Closing the Loop in Scene Interpretation

D. Hoiem, A. A. Efros and M. Hebert, CVPR 2008
link to PDF
October 22In Defense of Nearest-Neighbor Based Image Classification
Oren Boiman, Eli Shechtman and Michal Irani, CVPR 2008
link to PDF
October 29
No meeting
November 5
Using Stuff to Find Things.
G. Heitz, D. Koller, ECCV 2008
link to PDF
November 12
A Deformable Local Image Descriptor
H. Cheng, Z. Liu, N. Zheng and J. Yang, CVPR 2008
link to PDF

November 19No meeting (CVPR deadline)
November 26
Spectrally Optimal Factorization of Incomplete Matrices
Pedro M. Q. Aguiar, João M. F. Xavier, Marko Stosic, CVPR 2008
link to PDF
December 3
Non-negative Lighting and Specular Object Recognition,
Sameer Shirdhonkar and David Jacobs, ICCV 2005
link to PDF (paper)
link to PDF (Tech report)
December 10
No meeting (NIPS)
December 17
Unsupervised Learning of Visual Taxonomies

E. Bart, I. Porteous, P. Perona and M. Welling, CVPR 2008

Link to PDF
February 25, 2009
Fixing Max-Product: Convergent Message Passing Algorithms
for MAP LP-Relaxations

A. Globerson and T. Jaakkola, NIPS 2007
link to PDF
March 4, 2009
Spectral Hashing
Y. Weiss, A. Torralba and R. Fergus, NIPS 2008
link to PDF,   
Project page
March 11, 2009
TBD
March 18, 2009
Talk by Gilad Lerman (U. Minnesota):
Multi-manifold data modeling via spectral curvature clustering
abstract
March 25, 2009
The Layout Consistent Random Field for Recognizing and Segmenting Partially Occluded Objects.
J. Winn, J. Shotton, CVPR 2006
link to PDF
April 1, 2009
A "Shape Aware" Model for semi-supervised Learning of Objects and its Context
Abhinav Gupta, Jianbo Shi and Larry S. Davis, NIPS 2008
link to PDF
April 8, 2009
A simple high performance approach to semantic segmentation.
G. Csurka and F. Perronin , BMVC 2008
link to PDF
April 15, 2009
Visual Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity using a
Combination of Multiscale Local Image Decoders.
Miyawaki et al., Neuron 60, 915–929, December 11, 2008.
link to PDF (journal site)
link to PDF of supplemental document
April 22, 2009
3D LayoutCRF for Multi-View Object Class Recognition and Segmentation.
D. Hoiem, C. Rother, and J. Winn, CVPR 2007.
link to PDF

April 29, 2009
Beyond Sliding Windows: Object Localization by Efficient Subwindow Search"
C. Lampert, M. Blaschko, and T. Hofmann, CVPR 2008.
link to PDF
May 6, 2009
no meeting (Illinois Computer Vision Workshop on Thu)
May 13, 2009
no meeting (Steve Young distinguished lecture series talk)
May 20, 2009

A Polynomial-Time Bound for Matching and Registration with Outliers,

Carl Olsson, Olof Enqvist, Fredrik Kahl. CVPR 2008

link to PDF

July 8, 2009

Nonparametric Scene Parsing: Label Transfer via Dense Scene Alignment

Liu, Yuen and Torralba (CVPR 2009, best student paper award)

July 15, 2009

Understanding and evaluating blind deconvolution algorithms            

Best paper (honorable mention), CVPR 2009

Anat Levin (MIT & Weizmann Institute), Yair Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Fredo Durand (MIT), Bill Freeman (MIT & Adobe)
July 22, 2009

Geometric min-Hashing: Finding a (Thick) Needle in a Haystack

Ondrej Chum (Czech Technical University), Michal Perdoch (Czech Technical University), Jiri Matas (Czech Technical University)

July 29, 2009Object Detection using a Max-Margin Hough Transform

Subhransu Maji (University of California, Berkeley), Jitendra Malik (University of California, Berkeley)

August 5, 2009 Class-Specific Hough Forests for Object Detection
Project Page with code

J. Gall and V. Lempitsky, CVPR 2009
August 12, 2009

Visual Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning

Boris Babenko (University of California, San Diego), Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), Serge Belongie (University of California, San Diego)

Project webpage

August 19, 2009
August 26, 2009PatchMatch: A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing.
C. Barnes, E. Shechtman, A. Finkelstein, D. Goldman, SIGGRAPH 2009.
September 2, 2009

What is a Good Nearest Neighbors Algorithm for Finding Similar Patches in Images?

N. Kumar, L. Zhang, and S. K. Nayar, ECCV 2008

September 30, 2009A linear formulation of shape from specular flow
Guillermo D. Canas, Yuriy Yair Adato, Todd Zickler, Steven Gortler, Ohad Ben-Shahar, ICCV 2009
Speaker: Sameer Sheorey
October 7, 2009
Image Completion Using Efficient Belief Propagation via Priority Scheduling and Dynamic Pruning, Nikos Komodakis and Georgios Tziritas
Speaker: Nathan Ratliff
October 14, 2009
Efficient Kernels for Identifying Unbounded-Order Spatial Features
Yimeng Zhang and Tsuhan Chen, CVPR 2009
Speaker: Devi Parikh
October 21, 2009
Multiple Kernels for Object Detection
Andrea Vedaldi, Varun Gulshan, Manik Varma and Andrew Zisserman (ICCV 2009)
Speaker: David McAllester
October 28, 2009
On Feature Combination for Multiclass Object Classification (ICCV 2009)
Gehler, P. V. and S. Nowozin
Speaker: Greg Shakhnarovich
November 4, 2009
Poselets: Body Part Detectors Trained Using 3D Human Pose Annotations (ICCV 2009)
Lubomir Bourdev, Jitendra Malik
Speaker: Ross Girshick
November 11, 2009
CVPR submission presentations
November 18, 2009
CVPR submission presentations (contd.)


Paper pool:


   papers from CVPR 2008 (PDFs available on TTI-C Intranet):

Papers from CVPR 2009 (PDFs available on TTI-C Intranet):



Contact: Devi Parikh, dparikh@tti-c.org