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Computer Vision Student Seminar
The Computer Vision Student Seminar at the University of Maryland College Park is a student-run series of talks given by current graduate students for current graduate students.
Description[edit]
The purpose of these talks is to:
- Encourage interaction between computer vision students;
- Provide an opportunity for computer vision students to be aware of and possibly get involved in the research their peers are conducting;
- Provide an opportunity for computer vision students to receive feedback on their current research;
- Provide speaking opportunities for computer vision students.
Format[edit]
- An hour-long weekly meeting, consisting of one 20-40 minute talk followed by discussion and food.
- The talks are meant to be casual and discussion is encouraged.
- Topics may include current research, past research, general topic presentations, paper summaries and critiques, or anything else beneficial to the computer vision graduate student community.
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Schedule Summer 2011[edit]
All talks take place Thursdays at 4pm in AVW 3450.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| June 9 | Vlad Morariu | Multi-Agent Event Recognition in Structured Scenarios |
| June 16 | Ajay Mishra | A Vision System to Extract "Simple" Objects in a Purely Bottom-Up Fashion |
| June 23 | (no meeting, CVPR) | |
| June 30 | Dikpal Reddy | |
| July 7 | Raghuraman Gopalan | |
| July 14 | ||
| July 21 | Kaushik Mitra | |
| July 28 | Carlos Castillo | |
| August 4 | ||
| August 11 | ||
| August 18 | ||
| August 25 |
Talk Abstracts[edit]
Multi-Agent Event Recognition in Structured Scenarios[edit]
Speaker: Vlad Morariu -- Date: June 9, 2011
I will present a framework for the automatic recognition of complex multi-agent events in settings where structure is imposed by rules that agents must follow while performing activities. Given semantic spatio-temporal descriptions of what generally happens (i.e., rules, event descriptions, physical constraints), and based on video analysis, the framework determines the events that occurred. Knowledge about spatio-temporal structure is encoded using first-order logic using an approach based on Allen's Interval Logic, and robustness to low-level observation uncertainty is provided by Markov Logic Networks (MLN). The main contribution is that the framework integrates interval-based temporal reasoning with probabilistic logical inference, relying on an efficient bottom-up grounding scheme to avoid combinatorial explosion. Applied to one-on-one basketball, the framework detects and tracks players, their hands and feet, and the ball, generates event observations from the resulting trajectories, and performs probabilistic logical inference to determine the most consistent sequence of events.
A Vision System to Extract "Simple" Objects in a Purely Bottom-Up Fashion[edit]
Speaker: Ajay Mishra -- Date: June 16, 2011
Human perception, being active, is inextricably linked to visual fixation. Despite the obvious importance of fixation, it has not become an integral part of computer vision/robotics algorithms so far. To incorporate fixation and attention in a computer vision framework, we have proposed a new segmentation framework that takes a fixation point (i.e a single point) inside a "simple" object as its input and outputs the region corresponding to that object. We have also designed a new attentional mechanism that utilizes the concept of neural border-ownership to automatically select the fixation points inside different "simple" objects in the scene. All of this together creates a fully automatic system that outputs only the regions corresponding to the "simple" objects without knowing the actual number or the size of the objects in the scene.
Using these regions, instead of rectangular patches of fixed sizes, to analyze the content of a scene will result in better performance (in terms of accuracy and robustness to noise) for high-level vision algorithms such as object recognition, object manipulation, and action analysis. A variety of experimental results will conclude the talk.
A live demo with a robot is a possibility.
Also, to understand the role of fixation in perception, I recommend taking the psychophysical test available at http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mishraka/fixationExperiment.php
Current Seminar Series Coordinators[edit]
Emails are at umiacs.umd.edu.
| Anne Jorstad, jorstad@ | (student of Professor David Jacobs) |
| Sameh Khamis, sameh@ | (student of Professor Larry Davis) |
| Sima Taheri, taheri@ | (student of Professor Rama Chellappa) |
| Ching Lik Teo, cteo@ | (student of Professor Yiannis Aloimonos) |
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