Reading Group 09/01/2012

Hi everyone,

The first reading group of 2012 will take place on the 9th of Januray at 2pm.
I will present the following paper from ICCV 2011:

A “ String of Feature Graphs ” Model for Recognition of Complex Activities in Natural Videos,

U. Gaur, Y. Zhu, B. Song, A. Roy-Chowdhury

The pdf can be found following this link:

www.ee.ucr.edu/~amitrc/iccv-SFG.pdf


Happy holidays!

Alex

For next monday, here is the paper.

SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features

(Herbert Bay, Andreas Ess, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc Van Gool)
in CVIU 2008 (first in ECCV2006)

• pdf: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~cgmsnoek/CS294/papers/bay-surf-cviu.pdf
• wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SURF
• SURF page: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~surf/

Rémi

Hi,

Romain will present the next reading group on the 5th of December (2pm as usual).

http://vision.stanford.edu/Datasets/OlympicSports/

http://vision.stanford.edu/documents/NieblesChenFei-Fei_ECCV2010.pdf

FYI, here is the updated list of speakers:

-Romain
-Rémi
-Alex
-Jagan
-Samira
-Kenneth
-Elie
-CC
-Vassil
-Stefan


Best regards,

Alex

Reading Group 21/11/2011

Hello everyone,

I will present the following paper next monday (21/11):

Hough-based Tracking of Non-rigid Objects
Martin Godec, Peter M. Roth, and Horst Bischof In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, 2011

The paper can and related material can be found here:
http://lrs.icg.tugraz.at/research/houghtrack/

Regards,
Stefan

RG 07/11/2011

Hi all,

Vassil will present the following paper next Monday at 2pm:

http://www.mmp.rwth-aachen.de/publications/pdf/horbert-person-segm-iccv11.pdf


Best,

Alex

Reminder RG at 2pm

Dear all,

Just a reminder: starting from today, reading groups will take place at 2pm.

See you in room 405 at 2pm then...

Best,

Alex

Reading Group 17/10/2011

Hi all,

Elie will present the next reading group (please see below).
As everybody seemed to agree with that, as of now, reading groups will take place at 2pm instead of 3pm.

Best regards,

Alex



(Post for Elie):
Hi,

I will present this paper at the reading group next week :

- G. Cinbis, J. Verbeek, C. Schmid. "Unsupervised metric learning for
face identification in TV video". Proceedings IEEE International
Conference on Computer Vision, November 2011. (to appear)

link : http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00611682/PDF/paper_express.pdf


I will briefly present some parts of the following paper as well :

- M. Everingham, J. Sivic, and A. Zisserman. "Taking the bite out of
automatic naming of characters in TV video". /Image and Vision
Computing/, vol. 27 (5), pages 545-559, 2009

link : http://www.di.ens.fr/~josef/publications/everingham08.pdf

Enjoy reading,
Elie.

Reading group time change

Hi all,

During our last Reading Group, we discussed about the possibility to change its time from 3pm to 2pm in the future.
If you have any objection with this suggestion, please let me know.

Thanks,

Best,

Alex

Reading group 03/10/2011

Hi everyone,

In the next reading group (03/10/2011), I will present this paper:

Stable Multi-Target Tracking in Real-Time Surveillance Video

The link is here:

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/ActiveVision/Publications/benfold_reid_cvpr2011/benfold_reid_cvpr2011.html

Enjoy.

CC.

RG 19/09/2011

Hello,

I am forwarding Kenneth's post for the next reading group:


For the next reading group I propose the following paper:"

Decision Tree Fields. Sebastian Nowozin, Carsten Rother, Shai Bagon, Toby
Sharp, Bangpeng Yao, and Pushmeet Kohli. ICCV 2011.

Found at:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/152645/DTF.pdf

Best,

Kenneth

Ps: if there is any objection, this paper also seems interesting:
"Optimal Landmark Detection using Shape Models and Branch and Bound"
(http://gravis.cs.unibas.ch/publications/2011/ICCV2011_Amberg.pdf)"

Paper for next monday

(Posting for Samira)

Hi,

I propose to read the following paper for the next reading group:

Beyond Actions: Discriminative Models for Contextual Group Activities,
Tian Lan, Yang Wang, Weilong Yang, and Greg Mori. NIPS 2010

Best,
Samira

http://scholar.google.ch/scholar?q=Beyond+Actions:+Discriminative+Models+for+Contextual+Group+Activities&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

reading group on 22nd August

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the late posting.

We will discuss the following paper in the next reading group.

Random Field Topic Model for Semantic Region Analysis in Crowded Scenes from Tracklets.

https://secure.idiap.ch/proceedings/cvpr2011/content/papers/0628.pdf

regards,
Jagan

Updated list of speakers

Hi all,

Here is the updated, ordered list of speakers for future reading groups:

-Jagan
-Samira
-Kenneth
-Elie
-CC
-Vassil
-Stefan
-Rémi
-Alex


Let me know if you have any problem with the order.

Best regards,

Alex

Hi,
Sorry for this late posting.

I will present the following paper at the next reading group: "Automatic Adaptation of a Generic Pedestrian Detector to a Specific Traffic Scene"
Authors: Meng Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Xiaogang Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong);

You can find the pdf online or in the cvpr proceedings:
file:///remote/nas04/proceedings/cvpr2011/content/papers/1760.pdf

Rémi

RG 18/07/2011

Hi all,

I will present the paper "Multiobject Tracking as Maximum Weight Independent Set", by William Brendel, Mohamed Amer, Sinisa Todorovic (CVPR 2011) next Monday.

Best regards,

Alex

RG 04/07/2011

Hello everyone,

I will present the following paper at next Monday's reading group:

B. Liu, J. Huang, L. Yang, C. Kulikowsk, "Robust Tracking Using Local Sparse Apperance Model and K-Selection", CVPR 2011
http://pleiad.umdnj.edu/~lin/pdf/kselection_cvpr_final.pdf

Stefan

RG 20/06/2011

Hi all,

CC will present the following paper next Monday (20/06/2011):

/idiap/user/cchen/ROOT/RG/cameraready.pdf

Best regards,

Alex

RG 06/06/2011

Hi,

The paper Vassil will present on Monday, June 6 will be:
"Central Subspace Dimensionality Reduction Using Covariance Operators"
by Minyoung Kim and Vladimir Pavlovic (PAMI, vol.33, n.4, April 2011)

It is available through EPFL EZProxy:
http://bib-ezproxy.epfl.ch:2063/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5477423

The presentation will take place in room 106.

Best regards,

Alex

RG shift

Hi all,

As there is little time left before the next scheduled Reading Group (30/05/2011), I suggest to shift it to the following week (06/06/2011).
The speaker would be Vasil.
Let me know in case of any inconvenience.

Best regards,

Alex

RG 16/05/2011

Hi all,

Carl will be presenting the reading group on Monday 16 May. The paper is

 Gabriele Fanelli, Juergen Gall and Luc van Gool, ``Real Time Head
 Pose Estimation with Random Regression Forests'', CVPR, 2011.

There is some information, a video and a link to the PDF here:

 http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~gallju/projects/RFhead/RFhead.html

Regards,

Alex

RG 02/05/2011

Hi,

Kenneth will present the following paper next Monday:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/145347/BodyPartRecognition.pdf

Regards,

Alex

Next RG

Hi,

As next Monday is a holiday, we will have our reading group the following week (02.05.2011).
The presenter will be Kenneth.

Best,

Alex

RG 11/04/2011

Hi all,

Samira will present for the reading group on Monday:

Pictorial structures for object recognition, ijcv 2005

Best,

Alex

RG 28/03/2011

Hello,

I propose to discuss the following paper during our next reading group (28/03/2011):
"Multi-Target Tracking by On-Line Learned Discriminative Appearance Models"

http://iris.usc.edu/people/chenghak/download/Kuo_Huang_Nevatia_CVPR2010.pdf

Cheers,

Alex

next reading group

For the reading group on 14th March,

I propose to discuss the following paper:

" Decoupling Sparsity and Smoothness in the Discrete Hierarchical Dirichlet Process "

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/WangBlei2009b.pdf

cheers
Jagan

Paper for 2011-02-28

I propose that we talk about “Learning Compressible Models”:
http://www.autonlab.org/autonweb/19395.html

Rémi

PS: If I get enough votes for the following option, we can read this one: “Reading Tea Leaves: How Human Interpret Topic Models”

Reading group paper 14/02/2010

I propose to present the following paper (once more on tracking):

"PROST: Parallel Robust Online Simple Tracking", Santner, Leistner, Saffari, Pock, Bischof, In CVPR 2010
https://secure.idiap.ch/proceedings/cvpr2010/data/papers/1121.pdf

Stefan

Updated list of speakers

Hi all,

Here is the updated, ordered list of speakers for future reading groups:

-Stefan
-Rémi
-Alex
-Jagan
-Samira
-Kenneth
-Carl
-CC
-Vassil

Let me know if you have any problem with the order.

Best regards,

Alex

RG 31/01/2011

Dear all,

Vassil will present the following paper next Monday:

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/inference/rmhmc/

Best,

Alex

Reading group paper 17/01

Hi all,

Here is the paper that i will present in the next reading group.

http://cv.snu.ac.kr/publication/conf/2010/VTD_CVPR2010.pdf

(ps. on the group meeting yesterday i said i would present a "strange" paper on jointly learning scene structure and human tracking. i changed my mind afterwards. I will present this paper on tracking instead.)


CC

Next RG 17/01/2011

Hi,

Happy new year to everybody.
Just to inform you that the next reading group will take place on Monday 17th and CC will be the presenter.

Best regards,

Alex