CSE590V: Computer Vision Seminar

Autumn 2008, Mondays 9:30am CSE303

Faculty:

Brian Curless (curless@cs)
Steve Seitz (seitz@cs)
Linda Shapiro (shapiro@cs)

Organizers:

Sameer Agarwala (sagarwal@cs)
Eli Shechtman (elishe@cs)
Marta Penas Centeno (marta@cs)
Yasutaka Furukawa (furukawa@cs)

Important news:

Course Description

We are introducing a new computer vision seminar this quarter.This reading and discussion seminar will explore the state of the art  and recent research in the computer vision community. We will focus on papers from recent computer vision conferences. Participants will contribute to giving presentations, discussions and reviewing papers.

Schedule

The schedule is temporary and subject to changes.
Date Paper Presenters Reviewers
(review form)
Organizers
in charge
Presentation Files
09/29/2008
Organizational meeting


PPT slides
10/06/2008
We will cancell the seminar due to a visitor to the graphics/vision group.



10/13/2008
Human Vision
Organizers


(Gestalt) (Movie about a drawing) (Face)
10/20/2008
Fast and Compact Retrieval Methods in Computer Vision Part I
- D. Nister and H. Stewenius.
Scalable Recognition with a Vocabulary Tree. CVPR, 2006.
- Sivic, J. and Zisserman
Video Google: A Text Retrieval Approach to Object Matching in Videos. ICCV 2003
Rahul and Shawn
Ankit
Marta and Sameer
ppt
10/27/2008
Fast and Compact Retrieval Methods in Computer Vision Part II
A. Torralba, R. Fergus and Y. Weiss.
Small Codes and Large Image Databases for Recognition. CVPR 2008
Kenneth and Ryan
Shawn and Chloe
Eli and Marta
ppt
11/03/2008
Non-rigid surface reconstruction from a single video camera: Part I
Mathieu Salzmann, Raquel Urtasum, Pascal Fua. Local Deformation Models for Monocular 3D Shape Recovery. CVPR 2008
Pro and Hao
Ryan and Rahul
Yasu and Eli
zip-file
11/10/2008
Non-rigid surface reconstruction from a single video camera: Part II
Evan

Hao
Yasu and Sameer
pdf
11/17/2008
Hierarchical object categorization
Gregory Griffin and Pietro Perona, Learning and Using Taxonomies For Fast Visual Categorization. CVPR 2008
Chloe

Ian
Marta and Eli
pdf
11/24/2008
Slhouettes in Multi-View Stereo
Ian

Pro
Yasu
ppt
12/01/2008
QBPO/Fusion Flow/Second Order priors in stereo
Ankit

Evan
Sameer
pdf

List of proposed topics and papers

1. Human Vision

2. Fast and Compact Retrieval Methods in Computer Vision

Part I Part II

3. Locality Sensitive Hashing

Application:

4. Hierarchical and Tree-based Object Categorization - current "trends"

Scaling up with number of categories - Hierarchical categorization:
Trees replacing SVMs for fast categorization:

5. Non-rigid surface reconstruction from a single video camera

Part I Part II

6. Silhouettes in MVS or Multiple Hypothesis in MVS

6.a Silhouettes in MVS 6.b Multiple Hypothesis in MVS

7. Specular flow/ specular shape

8. QBPO/Fusion Flow/Second Order priors in stereo