Spring, 2007 - Computer Vision Research Group Meeting

Meetings are on Thursdays at 4:00 PM in room 303.

Date	Speaker	Topic
2/15/07	Initial Meeting	Initial Meeting
2/22/07	Jerod Weinman	Jerod’s Research – Character Rec. in Signs with Sparse BP
3/1/07	Vidit Jain	Visual Vocabularies Frederic Jurie and Bill Triggs, “Creating Efficient codebooks for visual recognition”
3/8/07	Adam Williams	Jianbo Shi, Carlo Tomasi, “Good Features to Track” & S. N. Sinha, J. Frahm, M. Pollefeys, Y. Genc, "GPU-based Video Feature Tracking And Matching"
3/15/07	Guest Speaker	Lance Williams – University of New Mexico "Towards a Computational Theory of Illusory Contours."
3/22/07	Spring Break	No meeting
3/29/07	Walker Duhon	W. Duhon, J.J.Weinman and E. Learned-Miller “Persistent Backgrounding in a Humanoid Torso Robot" IEEE ICRA.
4/5/07	Marwan Mattar	M. Marengoni, A. Hanson, S. Zilberstein, and E. Riseman. Decision Making and Uncertainty Management in a 3D Reconstruction System IEEE PAMI.
4/12/07	No meeting	ICCV Deadline
4/19/07	Chris Pal	Bayes Nets, MRFs, CRFs and Learning CRFs for Stereo.
4/26/07	Stephen Murtagh	Active Learning with Images
5/3/07	Shichao Ou	Learning about Humans through Interaction

Fall, 2006 - Computer Vision Research Group Meeting

Meetings are on Thursdays at 3:45 PM in room 203.

Date	Speaker	Topic
9/7/06		Initial Meeting
9/14/06	Moe (Marwan) Mattar	D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, and M. Hebert, "Putting Objects in Perspective"
9/21/06	D. Walker Duhon	Backgrounding with BiSight
	Adam Williams	Fall Detection
9/28/06		No meeting due to concurrent talk by Dr. Jay Corbett (Google)
10/5/06		Meeting to decide schedule for semester
10/12/06	Piyanuch (Pla) Silapachote	S. Lazebnik, C. Schmid, and J. Ponce, "Beyond Bag of Features: Spatial Pyramid Matching for Recognizing Natural Scene Categories"
10/19/06	Anna Grishkan	S.G. Narasimhan and S.K. Nayar, "Enhancing Resolution Along Multiple Imaging Dimensions Using Assorted Pixels"
10/26/06	Howard Schultz	Estimating Depth Uncertainty
11/2/06	Jerod Weinman	Joint Feature Selection for Object Detection and Recognition
11/9/06	Andres Corrada-Emmanuel	Stupid Tricks with Random Guess Detectors: Proving that Building One Detector On Top of Another is Computationaly Cheaper Than Building Two Detectors
11/16/06	Paul Dickson	Automatic Identification and Storate of Significant Points in a Computer-based Presentation
11/23/06		Thanksgiving, no meeting
11/30/06	D. Walker Duhon	Survey of Background Subtraction, from Wallflower: Principles and Practice of Background Maintenance
12/9/06	Vidit Jain	Clustering Face Images Using a Hyper-Feature Based Topic Model
	Gary B. Huang	Joint Face Alignment with Congealing

Spring, 2006 - Computer Vision Research Group Meeting

Date	Speaker	Topic
Feb. 16	Paul Dickson	Handwritten Document Analysis (1) Ming Ye, Herry Sutanto, Sashi Raghupathy, Chengyang Li and Michael Shilman Grouping Text Lines in Freeform Handwritten Notes (2) Michael Shilman, and Paul Viola Learning Non-Generative Grammatical Models for Document Analysis
Feb. 23	Moe (Marwan) Mattar	Object Recognition Fergus, R. , Fei-Fei L. , Perona, P. and Zisserman, A. Learning Object Categories from Google's Image Search
March 2	Pla (Piyanuch) Silapachote	Object Recognition Arthur R. Pope and David G. Lowe, Probabilistic models of appearance for 3-D object recognition
March 9	Adam Williams
March 16	Bruce Draper	Guest Lecture Biologically Inspired Object Recognition
March 23	Spring Break
April 30	Walker Duhon	MCMC Methods David MacKay’s Book Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms First Part of Chapter 29
April 6	Vidit Jain	MCMC Methods David MacKay’s Book Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms Second Part of Chapter 29
April 13	Michael Ross	MCMC Methods (Andrieu, de Freitas, Doucet, & Jordan), pages 11-16 3.2 (annealing) and 3.4 (Gibbs sampler)