IEEE WACV/WMVC and SBIR  2008

 

Sunday, January 6, 2008

6pm- 9pm  Registration Desk: Copper Conference Center - upper level -Bighorn 3

6pm-9pm  Computer Room - Bighhorn 3

 

WACV - Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision

Monday, January 7,  2008

10:00am - 10:00 pm  -- Computer room and registration desk ..................Bighorn 3

 

2:30-2:55  Snack break ...... Kokopelli Trail Hallway

 

2:55-3:00 - Opening remarks - Prof. Terrance Boult .... ~Bighorn 1

3:00-4:00 Session I-1: Scene Representation ......Bighorn 1

·         Flexible Edge Arrangement Templates for Object Detection, Yan Li, Yanghai Tsin, Yakup Genc, Takeo Kanad

·         A Novel Thresholding Approach to Background Subtraction, Li-hao Jia, Yi-kun Liu

·         Channel Segmentation using Confidence and Curvature-Guided Level Sets on Noisy Seismic Images, Benjamin Kadlec

4:00-4:20pm Break - coffee.....Kokopelli Trail Hallway

 

4:20-5:00pm Invited Talk: Sharathchandra Pankanti IBM, T.J. Watson : Towards (Almost) General Purpose Vision System

 

5:00-6:00pm Session I-3: Cameras - Bighorn 1

·         Qualitative Assessment of Video Stablilization and Mosaicking Systems, Chao Zhang, Prakash Chockalingam

·         Online/Realtime Structure and Motion for General Camera Models, Gerald Schweighofer, Sinisa Segvic, Axel Pinz

·         Cata-Fisheye Camera for Panoramic Imaging, Gurunandan Krishnan, Shree Nayar

 

6:00-7:30pm Dinner Buffet (included) and Poster Session ................Kokopelli Trail Hallway

1)      A Hierarchical Scheme for Rapid Video Copy Detection, Xiao Wu, Sheng Tang, Tian Xia, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhang

2)      Variational Transform Invariant Mixture of Probabilistic PCA, Jilin Tu, Yun Fu, Alexandar Ivanovic, Thomas Huang, Li Fei-Fei

3)      INSPEC2T: Inexpensive SPEctrometer Color Camera Technology, Walter Scheirer, Shane Kirkbride, Terry Boult

4)      Urban building recognition during significant temporal variations, Giang Phuong Nguyen A Hierarchical Scheme for Rapid Video Copy Detection, Xiao Wu, Sheng Tang,, Hans Jorgen Andersen, Morten Friesgaard Christensen

5)      EAVA: A 3D Emotive Audio-Visual Avatar, Hao Tang, Yun Fu, Jilin Tu, Thomas Huang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

6)      Single View Metrology: A Practical Example, Paulo Mendonca, Robert Kaucic

7)      An Innovative Model of Tempo and Its Application in Action Scene Detection for Movie Analysis, Anan Liu, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhang, Sheng Tang, Yan Song, Zhaoxuan Yang

8)      Intraoperative Visualization of Anatomical Targets in Retinal Surgery, Ioana Fleming, Sandrine Voros, Balazs Vagvolgyi, Zach Pezzementi, James Handa, M.D., Russell Taylor, Gregory Hager

9)      Distributed Visual Processing for a Home Visual Sensor Network, Kwangsu Kim, Gerard Medioni

10)   Interactive Portrait Art, Ning Ye, Terence Sim

11)   Color Enhancement in Image Fusion, Chao Zhang, Azhar Sufi

 

7:30-8:30pm Session I-2: Tracking ........Bighorn 1

·         Tracking Down Under: Following the Satin Bowerbird, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Ryan Farrell, Yuan Cheng Luo, David Jacobs, Ramani Duraiswami, Larry Davis

·         Tracking and Segmentation of Highway Vehicles in Cluttered and Crowded Scenes, Goo Jun, J. K. Aggarwal, and Muhittin Gokmen

·         Localization and Segmentation of A 2D High Capacity Color Barcode, Devi Parikh, Gavin Jancke

8:30-8:50pm Coffee Break .....Kokopelli Trail Hallway

 

8:50pm-9:50pm Session I-4 VISN  ......... Bighorn 1

·         Toward Fully Automatic Geo-Location and Geo-Orientation of Static Outdoor Cameras, Nathan Jacobs, Nathaniel Roman, Robert Pless

·         Self Calibrating Visual Sensor Networks, Khurram Shafique, Asaad Hakeem, Omar Javed, Niels Haering

·         Recovering Social Networks From Massive Track Datasets, Christopher Connolly, Brian Burns, Hung Bui

 

 

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

10:00am - 10:00 pm  -- Computer room and registration desk  .............Bighorn 3

 

2:30-3:00  Snack break ....... Kokopelli Trail Hallway

3:00-4:20pm Session II-1: Biometrics 1 ....... Bighorn 1

·         Adaptive Fusion of Gait and Face for Human Identification in Video, Xin Geng, Liang Wang, Ming Li, Qiang Wu, Kate Smith-Miles

·         Locally Adjusted Robust Regression for Human Age Estimation, Guodong Guo, Yun Fu, Thomas Huang, Charles Dyer

·         Multi-pose Face Detection with Asymmetric Haar Features, Geovany Ramirez, Olac Fuentes

·         Iris Extraction Based on Intensity Gradient and Texture Difference, Guodong Guo, Mike Jones

4:20-4:40pm Coffee Break  .... Kokopelli Trail Hallway

 

4:40-5:40pm Session II-2: Biometrics 2  ..... Bighorn 1

·         Recognition of Human Actions using an Optimal Control Based Motor Model, Sumitra Ganesh, Ruzena Bajcsy

·         Mosaicfaces: a discrete representation for face recognition, Jania Aghajanian, Simon Prince

·         Background Subtraction for Temporally Irregular Dynamic Textures, Gerald Dalley, Joshua Migdal, W. Eric L. Grimson

 

5:40-7:10pm Dinner Buffet (included) and Posters 2 ..................... Kokopelli Trail

1)           A Computer Vision based Whiteboard Capture System, Richard Xu

2)           Object Categorization Based on Kernel Principal Component Analysis of Visual Words, Kazuhiro Hotta

3)           Explanation-Based Object Recognition, Geoffrey Levine, Gerald DeJong

4)           Geometric Blur in Human Pose Estimation, Chen Bo, Nhan Nguyen, Greg Mori

5)           Fast and Fully Automatic Ear Detection Using Cascaded AdaBoost, Syed Islam, Mohammed Bennamoun

6)           Real-time Robust Mapping for an Autonomous Surface Vehicle using an Omnidirectional Camera, Xiaojin Gong, Bin Xu, Caleb Reed, Chris Wyatt, Daniel Stilwell

7)           Learning Optimal Compact Codebook for Efficient Object Categorization, Teng Li

8)           Cascading Trilinear Tensors for Face Authentication, Greg Wagner, Eric Sinzinger

9)           Image Rendering Based on a Spatial Extension of the CIECAM02, Olivier Tulet, Mohamed-Chaker Larabi, Christine Fernandez-Maloigne

10)        Robust Human Pose Recognition Using Unlabelled Markers, Yi Wang, Gang Qian

11)        Online character recognition using regression techniques, Nirup Reddy, Kandan R, Shashi S, Suresh Sundaram, Ramakrishnan

12)        Event-Driven Visual Sensor Networks: Issues in Reliability, Alexandra Czarlinska, Deepa Kundur

13 )       Location-based Services using Image Search, Pieter-Paulus Vertongen, IT University, Copenhagen Kong, HK, and Dan Witzner Hansen, Technical University of Denmark

 

7:10-8:30pm Session II-3, Surveillance ...... Bighorn 1

·         A vision-based system for the automatic detection and extraction of road map information, Charalambos Poullis, Suya You, Ulrich Neumann

·         A non parametric approach for modeling interferometric SAR imagery and applications, Kuntal Sengupta

·         An Efficient Active Camera Model for Video Surveillance, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, James W. Davis

·         Likelihood Map Fusion for Visual Object Tracking, Zhaozheng Yin, Fatih Porikli, Robert Collins

8:30-8:50pm Coffee Break .......... Kokopelli Trail

 

8:50-9:50pm Session II-4 3-D........... Bighorn 1

·         Robust 6DOF Motion Estimation for Non-Overlapping Multi-Camera Systems, Brian Clipp, Jan-Michael Frahm, Marc Pollefeys, Jae-Hak Kim, Richard Hartley

·         Segmentation of Salient Regions in Outdoor Scenes Using Imagery and 3-D Data, Gunhee Kim, Daniel Huber, Martial Hebert

·         Color Photometric Stereo for Albedo and Shape Reconstruction, Osamu Ikeda

WMVC - Workshop on Motion and Video Computing

 

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

10:00am - 10:00 pm  -- Computer room and registration desk .......................Bighorn 3

 

2:00-3:00  Posters/Snack break ...... Ptarmigan Room

 

3:00- 4:20 Talks ................ Bighorn 1

 

3:00 Using Inactivity to Detect Unusual behavior, Patrick Dickinson, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom

3:20 Learning Motion Patterns in Surveillance Video using HMM Clustering, Eran Swears Kitware, Inc, Anthony Hoogs , Kitware, Inc, and G. Amitha Perera, GE Global Research

3:40 Space-Time Shapelets for Action Recognition, Dhruv Batra, Carnegie Mellon University, Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, and Rahul Sukthankar, Intel Research Pittsburgh

4:00 Recognition of High-level Group Activities Based on Activities of Individual Members, Michael Ryoo, the University of Texas at Austin, and J. K. Aggarwal, the University of Texas at Austin

4:20-4:35 Coffee Break  ...... Kokopelli Trail Hallway

4:35-5:45 Invited Talk: Statistical and Structural Inference Methodologies for Pattern Recognition in Videos
Prof. Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland

5:45-7:40 Dinner Buffet (included) and  posters                       ...............Ptarmigan Room (lower level)

1)           Optimal Multi-View Fusion of Object Locations, Aswin Sankaranarayanan, University of Maryland, College Park, and Rama Chellappa, Univ. of Maryland.

2)           Integrated Detection and Tracking for Multiple Moving Objects using Data-Driven MCMC Data Association Qian Yu, USC, and Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California.

3)           Fast Body Posture Estimation using Volumetric Features, Michael Van den Bergh, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Esther Koller-Meier, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Luc Van Gool, ETH Zurich.

4)           Estimating Gait Phase using Low-Level Motion, Ben Daubney, University of Bristol, UK, and Neill Campbell, University of Bristol, UK.

5)           Steepest Descent For Efficient Covariance Tracking Ambrish Tyagi, Ohio State University, James Davis, Ohio State University, and Gerasimos Potamianos, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

6)           Detecting Semantic Group Activities Using Relational Clustering, Anthony Hoogs, Kitware, Inc., Stephen Bush, GE Global Research Center, Glen Brooksby, GE Global Research, A. G. Amitha Perera, GE Global Research, US, Mark Dausch, GE Global Research, and Nils Krahnstoever, General Electric Global Research.

7)           Incorporating Long-Term Observations of Human Actions for Stable 3D People Tracking, Daisuke Sugimura, University of Tokyo, Yoshinori Kobayashi, the University of Tokyo, Yoichi Sato, Tokyo University, and Akihiro Sugimoto, National Institute of Informatics.

8)           Online, Real-time Tracking and Recognition of Human Actions, Pradeep Natarajan, University of Southern California.

9)           Pedestrian Tracking by Associating Tracklets using Detection Residuals, Vivek Kumar Singh, USC, Bo Wu, USC, and Ramakant Nevatia, USC.

10)       Model generation for robust object tracking based on temporally stable regions, Prithviraj Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, IN, Axel Pinz, TU Graz, AT, and Somnath Sengupta, IIT Kharagpur, IN.

11)       Optimal shape from motion estimation with missing and degenerate data, Manuel Marques, Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, PT, and Joao Paulo Costeira, I.S.T. - Technical U. Lisbon / I.S.R. Lisbon, PT.

12)       Event based Tracking Evaluation Metric, Daniel Roth, ETH Zurich, CH, Esther Koller-Meier, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH, Daniel Rowe Computer Vision Center-UAB, ES, Thomas Moeslund, Aalborg University, DK, and Luc Van Gool, ETH Zurich, CH.

13)       Segmentation of Video Sequences using Spatial-temporal Conditional Random Fields, Lei Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Qiang Ji Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

14)       Fast construction of object correspondence in stereo camera system: an example to human face capturing system, Fai Chan, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK, Jiansheng Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK, and Yiu Sang Moon, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK

 

7:40-8:40 Â  Talks............... Bighorn 1

7:40 Spatial-Temporal correlations for unsupervised action classification, Silvio Savarese, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Andrey Del Pozo, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Juan Carlos Niebles, Princeton University, and Li Fei-Fei, Princeton University




8:00 Location-specific Transition Distributions for Tracking, Nathan Jacobs, Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Dixon, Washington University, and Robert Pless , Washington University in St.Louis




8:20 Robust Object Tracking based on Detection with Soft Decision, Bo Wu, USC , Li Zhang, USC, Vivek Kumar Singh, USC, and Ramakant Nevatia, USC.




8:40-8:55pm  Coffee Break ........ Kokopelli Trail

 

8:55-9:55pm - Talks ............... Bighorn 1

8:55 Face Pose Estimation From Video Sequence Using Dynamic Bayesian Network Shahrel Suandi, University Sains Malaysia, Shuichi Enokida, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, and Toshiaki Ejima, Kyushu Institute of Technology




9:15 Two-Frames Accurate Motion Segmentation Using Tensor Voting and Graph-Cuts, Thang Dinh, University of Southern California, and Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California




9:35 A Context-Based Tracker Switching Framework, Ambrish Tyagi, Ohio State University, and James Davis, Ohio State University

 

SBIR Workshop

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

10:00am - 10:00pm - Computer room and registration desk  ...............Bighorn 3

2:30-3:00 - Pre-meeting Snack Break .... Ptarmigan Room (lower level)

 

3:00 - 4:00 SBIR Workshop Starts with SBIR/STTR Program Overview .... Bighorn 2

4:20-4:35 - Coffee Break  ..... Kokopelli Trail Hallway

4:35 - 6:00  SBIR/Topic Selection, Starting the Proposal  ..........Bighorn 2

6:00-7:00 - Dinner Buffet (included) .. Ptarmigan (lower level)

7:00- 8:40 - Proposal Writing.  Budget Preparation/Accounting ............... Bighorn 2

8:40- 8:55 - Coffee Break .......Kokopelli Trail Hallway

8:55 - 10:00 - Intellectual Property and Teaming .... Bighorn 2

 

Thank you for attending!