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 2:30-3:30pm
Location: TTIC room 530
TTI is located at 6045 S. Kenwood Ave;
room 530 is on 5th floor (turn right from elevator)
Next meeting: May 2, 2012
Meeting calendar (agenda for future meetings is tentative)
July 13, 2011 | Devi Parikh (paper Baby Talk: Understanding and Generating Image Descriptions, G. Kulkarni, V. Premraj, S. Dhar, S. Li, Y. Choi, A. C. Berg and T. L. Berg, CVPR 2011, link to PDF) |
TBD |
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. |
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 |
April 8 | Learning to Extract Object Boundaries using Motion Cues, A.N. Stein, D. Hoiem, and M. Hebert, ICCV 2007. |
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 |
May 14 | Segment-based stereo matching using belief propagation and a self-adapting dissimilarity measure. Klaus, M. Sormann and K. Karner, ICPR 2006. Segmentation-based adaptive support for accurate stereo correspondence. F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, and L. Di Stefano, PSIVT 2007 |
Summer | break |
October 1 | SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features H. Bey, T. Tuytelaars, L. Van Gool, ECCV 2006 |
October 8 | Learning for Stereo Vision Using the Structured Support Vector Machine D. Huttenlocher and Y. Li, CVPR 2008 |
October 15 | Closing the Loop in Scene Interpretation D. Hoiem, A. A. Efros and M. Hebert, CVPR 2008 |
October 22 | In Defense of Nearest-Neighbor Based Image Classification Oren Boiman, Eli Shechtman and Michal Irani, CVPR 2008 |
October 29 | No meeting |
November 5 | Using Stuff to Find Things. G. Heitz, D. Koller, ECCV 2008 |
November 12 | A Deformable Local Image Descriptor H. Cheng, Z. Liu, N. Zheng and J. Yang, CVPR 2008 |
November 19 | No meeting (CVPR deadline) |
November 26 | Spectrally Optimal Factorization of Incomplete Matrices Pedro M. Q. Aguiar, João M. F. Xavier, Marko Stosic, CVPR 2008 |
December 3 | Non-negative Lighting and Specular Object Recognition, Sameer Shirdhonkar and David Jacobs, ICCV 2005 |
December 10 | No meeting (NIPS) |
December 17 | Unsupervised Learning of Visual Taxonomies E. Bart, I. Porteous, P. Perona and M. Welling, CVPR 2008 |
February 25, 2009 | Fixing Max-Product: Convergent Message Passing Algorithms for MAP LP-Relaxations A. Globerson and T. Jaakkola, NIPS 2007 |
March 4, 2009 | Spectral Hashing Y. Weiss, A. Torralba and R. Fergus, NIPS 2008 |
March 11, 2009 | TBD |
March 18, 2009 | Talk by Gilad Lerman (U. Minnesota): Multi-manifold data modeling via spectral curvature clustering |
March 25, 2009 | The Layout Consistent Random Field for Recognizing and Segmenting Partially Occluded Objects. J. Winn, J. Shotton, CVPR 2006 |
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 |
April 8, 2009 | A simple high performance approach to semantic segmentation. G. Csurka and F. Perronin , BMVC 2008 |
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. |
April 22, 2009 | 3D LayoutCRF for Multi-View Object Class Recognition and Segmentation. D. Hoiem, C. Rother, and J. Winn, CVPR 2007. |
April 29, 2009 | Beyond Sliding Windows: Object Localization by Efficient Subwindow Search" C. Lampert, M. Blaschko, and T. Hofmann, CVPR 2008. |
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 |
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, 2009 | Object 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 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) |
August 19, 2009 | Memory-based Particle Filter for Face Pose Tracking Robust under Complex Dynamics Dan Mikami (NTT), Kazuhiro Otsuka (NTT), Junji YAMATO (NTT) |
August 26, 2009 | PatchMatch: 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, 2009 | A linear formulation of shape from specular flow (ICCV 2009) Guillermo D. Canas, Yuriy Yair Adato, Todd Zickler, Steven Gortler, Ohad Ben-Shahar 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 (CVPR 2009) Yimeng Zhang and Tsuhan Chen 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.) |
November 25, 2009 | Anat Levin and Yair Weiss. Learning to Combine Bottom-Up and Top-Down Segmentation (IJCV 2009) Speaker: Tamir Hazan |
December 2, 2009 | No meeting |
December 9, 2009 | No meeting |
December 16, 2009 | No meeting |
January 6, 20010 | Blaschko, M. B. and C. H. Lampert: Learning to Localize Objects with Structured Output Regression. (ECCV 2008) Speaker: Raquel Urtasun |
January 20, 20010 | Speaker: Greg Shakhnarovich |
January 27, 20010 | SVM-KNN: Discriminative Nearest Neighbor Classi cation for Visual Category Recognition (CVPR 2006) Hao Zhang, Alexander C. Berg, Michael Maire and Jitendra Malik Speaker: Allie Shapiro |
February 3, 2010 | Learning Globally-Consistent Local Distance Functions for Shape-Based Image Retrieval and Classification (ICCV 2007) Speaker: Payman Yadollahpour |
February 10, 2010 | Efficient Match Kernels between Sets of Features for Visual Recognition (NIPS 2009) Liefeng Bo and Cristian Sminchisescu Speaker: Liefeng Bo |
February 17, 2010 | Optimal Correspondences from Pairwise Constraints (ICCV 2009) Olof Enqvist, Klas Josephson, Fredrik Kahl Speaker: Sameer Sheorey |
February 24, 2010 | Semi-Automatic Stereo Extraction From Video Footage (ICCV 2009) M. Guttmann, L. Wolf and D. Cohen-Or Speaker: Nathan Ratliff |
March 3, 2010 | Learning Gaussian Conditional Random Fields for Low-Level Vision (CVPR 2007) Speaker: Hoang Trinh |
March 10, 2010 | ECCV submissions |
March 17, 2010 | Constrained Parametric Min Cuts for Automatic Object Segmentation (to appear at CVPR 2010) JoãCarreira, Cristian Sminchisescu, and Fuxin Li Object Recognition as Ranking Holistic Figure-Ground Hypotheses (to appear at CVPR 2010) Fuxin Li, JoãCarreira, and Cristian Sminchisescu Speaker: David McAllester |
March 24, 2010 | How far can you get with a modern face recognition test set using only simple features. Nicolas Pinto, James J DiCarlo and David D Cox. CVPR 2009 Why is Real-World Visual Object Recognition Hard? Nicolas Pinto, David D Cox and James J DiCarlo. PLoS Computation Biology, 2008 Speaker: Devi Parikh |
March 31, 2010 | Discriminative Models for Multi-Class Object Layout C. Desai, D. Ramanan, C. Fowlkes. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Kyoto, Japan, Sept. 2009. Speaker: Ross Girshick |
April 7, 2010 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 30(6):1068-1080, June 2008. Speaker: Tamir Hazan |
April 21, 2010 | Contextual Classification with Functional Max-Margin Markov Networks, D. Munoz, J. A. Bagnell, N. Vandapel, M. Hebert, CVPR 2009 |
April 28, 2010 | Unifying Discriminative Visual Codebook Generation with Classifier Training for Object Category Recognition, Liu Yan, Rong Jin, Rahul Sukthankar and Frederic Jurie, CVPR 2008 |
May 05, 2010 | Learning Optimized MAP Estimates in Continuously-Valued MRF Models, Kegan G., G. Samuel, Marshall F. Tappen, CVPR 2009 |
May 12, 2010 | Visual Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning, Boris Babenko, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Serge Belongie, CVPR 2009 |
May 19, 2010 | Part and Appearance Sharing: Recursive Compositional Models for Multi-View Multi-Object Detection, Long Zhu, Yuanhao Chen, Antonio Torralba, William Freeman, Alan Yuille, CVPR 2010 |
May 26, 2010 | Reading Between The Lines: Object Localization Using Implicit Cues from Image Tags, Sung Ju Hwang and Kristen Grauman, CVPR 2010 |
June 02, 2010 | no meeting (NIPS deadline on Thu) |
June 09, 2010 | Ross presents his upcoming work in CVPR. |
June 16, 2010 | no meeting (due to CVPR conference) |
June 23, 2010 | Ian presents work on "region-based object proposals". |
June 30, 2010 | On Detection of Multiple Object Instances using Hough Transforms, Olga Barinova, Victor Lempitsky, and Pushmeet Kohli, CVPR 2010 |
July 07, 2010 | Learning Low-Level Vision, William Freeman Egon Pasztor, and Owen Carmichael |
July 14, 2010 | Object Detection via Object Boundary Structure Segmentation, Alexander Toshev, Ben Taskar, and Kostas Daniilidis, CVPR 2010 |
July 21, 2010 | Using Contours to Detect and Localize Junctions in Natural Images, Michael Maire, Pablo Arbelaez, Charless Fowlkes, and Jitendra Malik, CVPR 2008 |
July 28, 2010 | Efficient Computation of Robust Low-Rank Matrix Approximations in the Presence of Missing Data using the L1 Norm, Aders Eriksson and Anton van den Hengel, CVPR 2010 |
August 04, 2010 | A Tensor-Based Algorithm for High-Order Graph Matching, Olivier Duchenne, Francis Bach, Inso Kweon, Jean Ponce, CVPR 2009 |
August 11, 2010 | Learning a Probabilistic Model Mixing 3D and 2D Primitives for View Invariant Object Recognition, Wenze Hu, Song-Chun Zhu, CVPR 2010 |
August 18, 2010 | Convolutional Learning of Spatio-temporal Features, Graham Taylor, Rob Fergus, Yann LeCun and Christoph Bregler, ECCV 2010 |
August 25, 2010 | Detecting People Using Mutually Consistent Poselet Activations, Lubomir Bourdev, Subhransu Maji, Thomas Brox, Jitendra Malik, ECCV 2010 (to appear) |
September 01, 2010 | A Shape-Based Object Class Model for Knowledge Transfer, Michael Stark, Michael Goesel, Bernt Schiele, ICCV 2009 |
September 08, 2010 | no meeting (Rosh Hashanah) |
September 15, 2010 | Multiresolution Models for Object Detection, Dennis Park, Deva Ramanan, and Charless Fowlkes, ECCV 2010, link to PDF |
September 22, 2010 | RASL: Robust Batch Alignment of Images by Sparse and Low-Rank Decomposition, Yigang Peng, Arvind Ganesh, John Wright, Wenli Xu, and Yi Ma, CVPR 2010, link to PDF, link to project page |
September 29, 2010 | Classification and Clustering via Dictionary Learning with Structured Incoherence and Shared Features, I. Ramirez, P. Sprechmann, G. Sapiro, CVPR 2010, link to PDF |
October 06, 2010 | Block World Revisited: Image Understanding Using Qualitative Geometry and Mechanics, Abhinav Gupta, Alexei A. Efros, and Martial Hebert, ECCV 2010, link to PDF, project page |
October 13, 2010 | Beyond Active Noun Tagging: Modeling Contextual Interactions for Multi-Class Active Learning, Behjat Siddiquie and Abhinav Gupta, CVPR 2010, link to PDF |
October 20, 2010 | Image Classification using Super-Vector Coding of Local Image Descriptors, Xi Zhou, Kai Yu, Tong Zhang, and Thomas Huang, ECCV 2010, link to PDF |
October 27, 2010 | Non-uniform Deblurring for Shaken Images, Oliver Whyte, Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman, Jean Ponce, CVPR 2010, link to PDF |
November 03, 2010 | Review CVPR submissions |
November 10, 2010 | no meeting (due to CVPR deadline) |
November 17, 2010 | Cascaded Models for Articulated Pose Estimation, B. Sapp, A. Toshev, B. Taskar, ECCV 2010, link to PDF |
November 24, 2010 | Depth-Encoded Hough Voting for Joint Object Detection and Shape Recovery, M. Sun, G. Bradski, B. Xu, S. Savarese, ECCV 2010, link to PDF |
December 01, 2010 | Harmony Potentials for Joint Classification and Segmentation, J. Gonfaus, X. Boix, J. Weijer, A. Bagdanov, J. Serra, J. Gonzalez, CVPR 2010, link to PDF |
December 07, 2010 | no meeting (NIPS) |
December 15, 2010 | Bilinear Kernel Reduced Rank Regression for Facial Expression Synthesis, D. Huang, F. De La Torre, ECCV 2010, link to PDF |
January 12, 2011 | Stacked Hierarchical Labeling, D. Munoz, J. Bagnell, M. Hebert, ECCV 2010, link to PDF |
January 19, 2011 | Self-calibrating Photometric Stereo, B. Shi, Y. Matsuchita, Y. Wei, C. Xu, P. Tan, CVPR 2010, link to PDF) |
January 26, 2011 | Object-Graphs for Context-Aware Category Discovery, Y. J. Lee, K. Grauman, CVPR 2010, link to PDF |
February 02, 2011 | no meeting (ICML paper deadline) |
February 09, 2011 | Graph Cut Based Inference with Co-occurrence Statistics, L. Ladicky, C. Russell, P. Kohli, P. Torr, ECCV 2010, link to PDF |
February 23, 2011 | Hidden-state Conditional Random Fields, A. Quattoni, S. Wang, L. Morency, M. Collins, T. Darrell, PAMI 2007, link to PDF |
March 02, 2011 | no meeting |
March 16, 2011 | recap of ICCV 2011 papers |
March 23, 2011 | Object Segmentation by Long Term Analysis of Point Trajectories, Thomas Brox and Jitendra Malik, ECCV 2010, link to PDF |
April 06, 2011 | On Dual Decomposition and Linear Programming Relaxations for Natural Language Processing, A. Rush, D. Sontag, M. Collins, T. Jaakkola, EMNLP 2010, link to PDF |
April 13, 2011 | Large-Scale Live Active Learning: Training Object Detectors with Crawled Data and Crowds, S. Vijayanarasimhan and K. Grauman, CVPR 2011, link to PDF |
April 20, 2011 | Alex & Tamara Berg present their works. |
April 27, 2011 | Super-Resolution from a Single Image, D. Glasner, S. Bagon, M. Irani, ICCV 2009, link to PDF, project page |
May 18, 2011 | Biased Normalized Cuts, S. Maji, N. Vishnoi, J. Malik, CVPR 2011, link to PDF |
June 15, 2011 | Interative Quantization: A Procrustean Approach to Learning Binary Codes, Y. Gong and S. Lazebnik, CVPR 2011, link to PDF |
June 29, 2011 | Kernelized Structural SVM Learning for Supervised Object Segmentation, L. Bertelli, T. Yu, D. Vu, B. Gokturk, CVPR 2011, link to PDF |
July 06, 2011 | Compact Hashing with Joint Optimization of Search Accuracy and Time, J. He, R. Radhakrishnan, S. Chang, C. Bauer, link to PDF |
Paper pool:
Papers from CVPR 2008 (PDFs available on TTI-C Intranet):
Papers from CVPR 2009 (PDFs available on TTI-C Intranet):
Papers from CVPR 2010: (PDFS available on TTI-C Intranet):
Visit the TTI-C Intranet link to the CVPR 2010 Program.
Contact: Payman Yadollahpour, pyadolla@ttic.edu