Computer Vision Reading Group

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We read and discuss papers in the areas of computer vision and machine learning. If you would like to join this group, please send email to: yjlee0222 at mail dot utexas dot edu.

Regular Meeting Time & Place

The Computer Vision reading group will meet in ACES 3.408, 5:00pm-6:00pm on every other Thursday.

Next Scheduled Meetings

Date	Time	Place	agenda
10/08/2009	5:00PM	ACES 3.408	C. Desai, D. Ramanan, and C. Fowlkes. Discriminative Models for Multi-class Object Layout, ICCV 2009.

Past Meetings

Date	Time	Place	agenda
09/24/2009	5:00PM	ACES 3.408	M. Guillaumin, T. Mensink, J. Verbeek, and C. Schmid. TagProp: Discriminative Metric Learning in Nearest Neighbor Models for Image Auto-annotation, ICCV 2009.
09/10/2009	5:00PM	ACES 3.408	S. Zhang, Q. Tian, G. Hua, Q. Huang, and S. Li. Descriptive Visual Words and Visual Phrases for Image Applications, MM 2009.
08/14/2009	1:00PM	ENS 32NEA	B. Babenko, S. Branson, and S. Belongie. Similarity Metrics for Categorization: from Monolithic to Category Specific, ICCV 2009.
07/24/2009	1:00PM	ENS 32NEA	J. J. Lim, P. Arbelaez, C. Gu, and J. Malik. Context by Region Ancestry, ICCV 2009.
07/10/2009	1:00PM	ENS 32NEA	O. Chum, M. Perdoch, and J. Matas. Geometric min-Hashing: Finding a (Thick) Needle in a Haystack, CVPR 2009.
05/22/2009	4:00PM	ACES 6.442	H. Jegou, M. Douze, and C. Schmid. On the Burstiness of Visual Elements, CVPR 2009.
05/08/2009	4:00PM	ACES 6.442	C. Gu, J. J. Lim, P. Arbelaez, and J. Malik. Recognition using Regions, CVPR 2009.
04/24/2009	4:30PM	ACES 6.442	C. H. Lampert, H. Nickisch, and S. Harmeling. Learning To Detect Unseen Object Classes by Between-Class Attribute Transfer, CVPR 2009.
04/10/2009	4:00PM	ACES 6.442	G. Wang, D. Hoiem, and D.A. Forsyth. Building Text Features for Object Image Classification, CVPR 2009.
03/27/2009	4:00PM	ACES 6.442	S. Bagon, O. Boiman, and M. Irani. What is a Good Image Segment? A Unified Approach to Segment Extraction, ECCV 2008.
03/13/2009	4:00PM	ACES 6.442	Z. Stone, T. Zickler, and T. Darrell. Autotagging Facebook: Social Network Context Improves Photo Animation, Workshop on Internet Vision 2008.
02/27/2009	4:00PM	ACES 6.442	S. Gould, J. Rodgers, D. Cohen, G. Elidan, and D. Koller. Multi-Class Segmentation with Relative Location Prior, IJCV 2008.
02/13/2009	4:00PM	ACES 6.442	L. Elazary, and L. Itti. Interesting Objects are Visually Salient, Journal of Vision 2008.
01/30/2009	4:00PM	ACES 6.442	J. Hays, and A.A. Efros. Scene completion using millions of photographs, SIGGRAPH 2007.
12/04/2008	4:00PM	ACES 5.444	G. Heitz and D. Koller. Learning Spatial Context: Using Stuff to Find Things, ECCV 2008.
11/06/2008	4:00PM	ACES 5.444	S. Vijayanarasimhan and K. Grauman. Multi-Level Active Prediction of Useful Image Annotations for Recognition, NIPS 2008.
10/23/2008	4:00PM	ACES 5.444	J. Yuan and Y. Wu. Context-Aware Clustering, CVPR 2008.
09/25/2008	4:00PM	ACES 5.444	N. Morsillo, C. Pal, and R. Nelson. Mining the web for visual concepts, Technical Report 2008.
09/11/2008	4:00PM	ACES 5.444	A. Gupta and L. Davis. Beyond nouns: Exploiting prepositions and comparators for learning visual classifiers, ECCV 2008.
08/20/2008	3:00PM	ACES 5.116	M. Maire, P. Arbelaez. C. Fowlkes, and J. Malik. Using Contours to Detect and Localize Junctions in Natural Images, CVPR 2008.
08/06/2008	3:00PM	ACES 5.116	J. Hays and A. Efros. IM2GPS: estimating geographic information from a single image, CVPR 2008.
07/23/2008	3:00PM	ACES 5.116	J. Shotton, M. Johnson, and R. Cipolla. Semantic Texton Forests for Image Categorization and Segmentation, CVPR 2008.
07/09/2008	4:15PM	ACES 5.116	C. Lampert, M. Blaschko, and T. Hofmann. Beyond Sliding Windows: Object Localization by Efficient Subwindow Search, CVPR 2008.
05/28/2008	3:00PM	ACES 5.116	P. Felzenszwalb, D. McAllester, and D. Ramanan. A Discriminatively Trained, Multiscale, Deformable Part Model, CVPR 2008.
04/23/2008	3:00PM	ACES 5.116	S. Wong and R. Cipolla. Extracting Spatiotemporal Interest Points using Global Information, ICCV 2007.
04/09/2008	3:00PM	ACES 5.116	D. Mackay. Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods C. Andrieu, N. De Freitas, A. Doucet, and M. Jordan. An Introduction to MCMC for Machine Learning, Machine Learning 2003. Z. Khan, T. Balch, and F. Dellaert. An MCMC-based Particle Filter for Tracking Multiple Interacting Targets, ECCV 2004.
03/26/2008	3:00PM	ACES 5.116	Tutorial on Markov Chain Monte Carlo
03/12/2008	3:00PM	ACES 5.116	P. Jain, B. Kulis, and K. Grauman. Fast Image Search for Learned Metrics, CVPR 2008.
02/27/2008	3:00PM	ACES 5.116	J. Verbeek and B. Triggs. Scene Segmentation with CRFs Learned from Partially Labeled Images, NIPS 2008.
02/13/2008	3:00PM	ACES 5.116	O. Boiman and M. Irani. Detecting Irregularities in Images and in Video, IJCV 2008.
01/30/2008	3:00PM	ACES 3.116	A.N. Stein, D. Hoiem, and M. Hebert. Learning to Extract Object Boundaries using Motion Cues, ICCV 2007.
11/19/2007	4:30PM	ACES 5.116	T. Quack, V. Ferrari, B. Leibe, and L. Van Gool. Efficient Mining of Frequent and Distinctive Feature Configurations, ICCV 2007.
11/05/2007	4:30PM	ACES 5.116	A. Rabinovich, A. Vedaldi, C. Galleguillos, E. Wiewiora, S. Belongie. Objects in Context, ICCV 2007.
10/22/2007	4:30PM	ACES 5.116	R. Bekkerman and J. Jeon. Multi-modal Clustering for Multimedia Collections, CVPR 2007.
10/08/2007	4:30PM	ACES 5.116	A. Frome, Y. Singer, F. Sha, J. Malik. Learning Globally-Consistent Local Distance Functions for Shape-Based Image Retrieval and Classification, ICCV 2007.
09/24/2007	4:30PM	ACES 5.116	M. Marszałek and C. Schmid, Semantic Hierarchies for Visual Object Recognition, CVPR 2007.
09/10/2007	4:30PM	ACES 2.444	M. Leordeanu, M. Hebert, R. Sukthankar, Beyond Local Appearance: Category Recognition from Pairwise Interactions of Simple Features, CVPR 2007.

Currently Proposed Papers

A.I. Comport, E. Malis and P. Rives.
Accurate Quadrifocal Tracking for Robust 3D Visual Odometry, ICRA 2007.
Lu, Z. and Carreira-Perpinan, M.A. and Sminchisescu, C.
People Tracking with the Laplacian Eigenmaps Latent Variable Model, NIPS 2007.
Settles, B. and Craven, M. and Ray, S.
Multiple-Instance Active Learning, NIPS 2007.
Li-Jia Li, Li Fei-Fei
What, where and who? Classifying events by scene and object recognition, ICCV 2007.
Blei, D.M. and McAuliffe, J.D.
Supervised topic models, NIPS 2007.
Komodakis, N. and Tziritas, G.
Approximate Labeling via Graph Cuts Based on Linear Programming, PAMI 2007.
Y. Pritch, A. Rav-Acha, and S. Peleg
Non-Chronological Video Synopsis and Indexing, PAMI, to appear Nov. 2008.
Hui Fang and John C. Hart
Detail Preserving Shape Deformation in Image Editing, SIGGRAPH 2007.
X. Wang, E. Grimson
Spatial Latent Dirichlet Allocation, NIPS 2007.
Tiberio Caetano, Li Cheng, Quoc Le, Alex Smola
Learning Graph Matching, ICCV 2007.
Sebastian Nowozin, Koji Tsuda, Takeaki Uno, Taku Kudo, and Gökhan Bakir
Weighted Substructure Mining for Image Analysis, CVPR 2007.
Friedrich Fraundorfer, Henrik Stewénius, and David Nistér
A Binning Scheme for Fast Hard Drive Based Image Search, CVPR 2007.
J. J. Kivinen, E. B. Sudderth, and M. I. Jordan
Learning multiscale representations of natural scenes using Dirichlet processes, ICCV 2007.
B. Leibe, N. Cornelis, K. Cornelis, and L. Van Gool,
Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis from a Moving Vehicle , CVPR 2007.
R. Urtasun and T. Darrell,
Discriminative Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models for Classification, ICML 2007.
Rajat Raina, Alexis Battle, Honglak Lee, Benjamin Packer and Andrew Y. Ng,
Self-taught learning: Transfer learning from unlabeled data, ICML 2007.
Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski,
Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D, SIGGRAPH 2006.

Current Participants

Prof. Kristen Grauman
Yong Jae Lee
Tuyen Huynh
Prateek Jain
JaeChul Kim
Sungju Hwang
Adriana Kovashka
Andrew Dreher
Srivatsan Ramanujam
Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan
Josh Harguess
Gautam Muralidhar