Tuesday, May 18, 2010

咕碁


咕碁


身為一個男生,一位念理工科的阿宅,對於身邊所有訊息會習慣性地進行分析、組織、解釋、歸因和萃取資訊。學術上的磨練和天生愛胡思亂想的個性讓我對於發生在周遭的事物總能不帶情感地冷處理。但是對於遇到咕碁我就完全沒輒,不知道從甚麼時候開始,在咕碁身上放了很深很深的感情。

咕碁是一隻公貓,米克斯(土貓),一隻外表普通的橘子貓。

第一天從高雄接咕碁回來時,你還是一隻小小貓,窩在一個小貓籠裡,到家裡的第一天晚上,泡牛奶給你喝,雖然對於這陌生的環境還有兩個陌生的人類感到很害怕,還是很開心地把牛奶喝完,聽到你呼嚕呼嚕的聲音,有種說不出地滿足感。

那一天晚上要睡覺的時候,你開始聲嘶力竭地開始喵喵叫,跑到鐵櫃旁、洗衣機下方,喵嗚喵嗚地吵鬧,我明白你其實是在找你那害羞的兄弟,聽到你的哀傷的叫聲真的很不忍心,摸摸頭說咕碁乖乖,不知道過了幾個小時之後你才因為精疲力盡而慢慢安靜下來。隔天早上起床的時候,才幾坪大的房間卻不見一隻還跳不高的小小貓的蹤影,幾番折騰之後才終於在床板底下找到窩著角落的你,彷彿是找到了一個完全陰暗的地方才能夠好好地思念自己的家人。

接下來的幾個禮拜,開始進入每天睡眠不足的嚴重惡性循環,每到晚上便開始吵鬧不得安寧,早上六點非常準時地起床要吃早餐,沒準時給你吃的話就會來個抱頭踢踢踢不然就是在我肚子上踩來踩去。為了讓你晚上能夠安心入眠,買了一隻逗貓棒,睡前讓你盡情地運動,買給你的第一隻逗貓棒頂端是顆由彩色毛線所纏繞而成的大球,配上幾顆吊掛在旁邊的小金球,開始和你玩起外星人假想敵的遊戲,除了讓你進行撲抓短跑運動之外,還順道練習了跳高。

還是隻小小貓的你,對甚麼東西都很好奇,除了逗貓棒和玩具老鼠之外,對於古典力學和光電子學尤其有興趣,常常很倔強地硬是要趴在書上研究Maxwell電磁場方程式,儘管床邊有你最喜歡的暖氣,我想你當時只是想要找一個正當的理由陪在人身邊而已。

你知道嘛?我最喜歡你的純真與善良,有時另一隻貓貓做壞事被罰關籠子的時候,你總是有不知道那學來的義氣(艋舺還沒開拍阿),在籠外試圖想要幫其他貓貓解圍,貓籠打不開時就看看我,看看籠裡的貓貓,然後再看看我,喵嗚喵嗚地替別隻貓貓求情。遇到貓貓的洗澡日的時候,你總會被安排在最後一個洗,因為其他貓貓聽到洗澡這個字眼時就想盡辦法逃之夭夭,只有你,會在門外喵喵叫替在浴室裡頭慘叫中的貓貓求情。有好料的罐罐可以吃的時候絕對不會跟其他貓貓搶,而是很有禮貌地坐在一旁等著。晚上被我抓到身邊一起睡覺時,會耐心地等待一陣子,然後再躡手躡腳地不驚動正在睡覺的我到一旁自己玩耍或是睡覺,你這些貼心的舉動,其實我都曉得,我只是眼睛假裝閉著而已。

喜歡你的對這個世界的好奇心與專注。每次和你玩假想敵遊戲的時候,你那趴在地上準備出擊的模樣像極了一條蠕動的麻糬,一次沒撲抓到時,還會假裝不在意地走過去裝做沒這回事,然後找個掩蔽物躲起來再來一次(雖然你的大屁股還有興奮地搖來搖去的尾巴總是露了餡)。有一陣子天氣有些冷,買了個P牌的暖氣機,剛買來暖氣的時候,暖器運轉時有個微弱的藍光,當你坐在床上時,牆壁上便會出現一隻巨大的貓影,你還試圖在牆壁上尋找他的蹤跡。當窗外飛來一兩隻鴿子時,我從你看得出神的眼神可以體會到你的興奮,讓我學著用你的角度和視野去看世界。

儘管今年7月25號你就三歲了,你還是一直保有小時候的許多習慣。你是一隻很聰明又很有個性的貓貓,一直都是。不喜歡人家摸你肚子會用力地用後腳踢開。要幫你剪指甲時總要趁你正愛睏想睡覺時,不然你會一直唉唉叫(有時候明明就還沒剪到)。不喜歡被抱時就爬到我的肩膀上。不喜歡刷牙就偷偷地把牙刷刁走藏起來。早上鬧鐘太早響吵到你睡覺會假裝貓手滑了把鬧鐘推到地上,摔個稀巴爛。每一天早上看到我時就是到走到我面前伸個懶腰,然後跑到貓抓板區抓一抓預備等著我幫你打屁股。做錯事的時候會害怕地趕快跑去躲起來,每天要出門的時候會蹲在桌子旁看著我離開。

是你讓我看見了真正的天真良善,忠於本性不盲從的執著,讓我留意到街上還有很多未曾受關愛的流浪動物們。過完今年你的生日之後,我們就差不多年紀了,接下來你將以快四倍的速度往生命的終點奔去,儘管我再明白不過,我想我還是沒有辦法面對未來那一天的到來,我衷心地希望你可以再繼續陪我走好多好多年。

從很早之前我就沒有把你當作寵物,我們都是獨立的生命體。你是我的貓,而我是你的人。是貓就會有貓的樣子,所以我不希望你去學些握手、站立之類的把戲 (雖然你會開喇叭鎖解救正在洗澡的圈圈和QQ...)。也不用一定得溫馴地來撒嬌,你有你的個性、情緒和愛好,是我感到最驕傲的一點。我相信你是聽得懂的,所以每一句答應你的話,我都不會食言 。

咕碁晚安,我好喜歡你唷,每天晚上睡前我都會在你耳邊這麼跟你說。

演講心得整理


演講心得整理


Jia-Bin Huang
jbhuang0604@gmail.com


最近剛演講完,透過別人的建議以及自己發現了很多不足的地方,這些心得在這邊用列表的方式記錄下來,以免之後有其他演講的機會時又犯了相同的錯誤。

演講前

基本了解
  1. 聽眾的背景
  2. 演講的場合
  3. 演講時間長度
  4. 演講題目的定位
投影片準備
  1. 先定義結構,再整理細節
  2. Videos > Images > Words > Equations
  3. 抽象觀念必須有例子說明 
預演
  1. 計時
  2. 修改投影片
  3. 找出可能會不清楚的地方


演講中

儀態
  1. 服裝
  2. 姿態及肢體動作
  3. 眼神接觸

雷射筆
  1.  引導觀眾目光,避免隨意亂指或晃動造成干擾

演講重點
  1. 預告
  2. 主題
  3. 連結
  4. 回顧


單張投影片層面
  1. 使用縮寫前先定義 (除非觀眾都了解)
  2. 定義每個數學式
  3. 避免唸稿
  4. 如果沒有打算要說的內容就別放在投影片上
  5. 舉實例(以觀眾的角度)來理解觀念以及數學式


演講後
  1. 提供投影片slide以及相關資料

Monday, May 17, 2010

藝術的維度與貝氏分析 (The Dimensionality of Art and The Bayesian Analysis)


藝術的維度與貝氏分析 
(The Dimensionality of Art and The Bayesian Analysis)


Jia-Bin Huang
jbhuang0604@gmail.com


Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way to affect the senses or emotions. - Wikipedia

坐上往巴塞隆納的火車上,窗外快速閃過眼前的是美麗的南法風光,開始阿宅地思考起這一路上所看到各式各樣的藝術形態及其維度...

節奏       一維離散訊號 (discrete)
取樣頻率(sampling rate)由速度(每分鐘多少單位拍)以及拍子(e.g., 4/4拍,表示四分音符為一拍,一小節有四拍)來決定。

音樂           一維連續訊號 (continuous)

攝影和繪畫  二維               2D平面

雕塑              三維               3D歐式空間

建築              四維               3D 空間 + 1D 時間

電影              三維至五維   2D平面 + 1D時間 + 1D音樂 + 1D 深度 (立體電影)

舞蹈              五維               3D 空間 + 1D 時間 + 1D音樂

若是和視覺有關的藝術型態,考慮光線的變化時這些藝術型態的維度又增加了九維 (假設是Lambertian Reflectance和遠光源)。從上面的分類看來,似乎維度越低的藝術型態越能夠被大多數人所接受,也許是我們的大腦比較喜歡處理簡單的東西的緣故。

我們生活在一個高維度的世界,或者更精確地說,我們可以感知的維度遠比這些藝術形態存在的維度高,味覺嗅覺觸覺聽覺視覺還有複雜情感的維度,我們都是五千兆的精妙細胞所組合成的智慧個體。不管是哪一種藝術形態,都可以看成是藝術家們利用其超乎常人的感知能力,將自己的感覺和想要傳達的想法透過某種形式定義(e.g., 一份音樂的作品可以由樂譜定義),換句話說,藝術創造的過程是一種藝術家對於他/她所感受到的想像中的真實世界做降維(Dimensionality Reduction)的動作。

而當人們欣賞一件藝術的過程中,便是由這些低維的投影來試著回復高維的感知空間。舉例來說,當你聽一首歌時你也許會想起記憶中的某個畫面 (藉由一維的訊號在腦中重建二維的畫面),欣賞一張海邊的攝影作品時也許會憶起過去某個場景的對話,甚至可能還有海風吹拂臉龐鹹鹹的味覺和刺刺的觸覺。

所以如何定義"好"的藝術呢?

我們可以將觀賞藝術作品的過程看成是一個Bayesian inference 的問題,藉由觀察到藝術家的感受在低維空間的投影(i.e., 藝術作品本身)還有本身對於藝術家感受的知識來重建當時藝術家想傳達的意境和感受,藝術作品本身的觀察即是所謂的Likelihood而後者是所謂的Prior。

以高中數學的貝式定理來描述:

P(F | A) = P(A | F) P(F) / P(A)

其中A表示Art,也就是藝術作品,F表示Feeling,為藝術家自身或想傳達的感受,P(F | A) 描述的是看到藝術作品A所產生情緒感受F的機率,而藝術家創作的過程是P(A | F),即是由他/她的感受F投影得到A的機率,最後P(F)是人們對於一般感受的Prior Knowledge。

所以"好"的藝術作品A,可以定義為人們可以藉由Prior P(F)和Likelihood P(A|F)來重建藝術家想要傳達的意境和感受F (i.e., 藝術家希望人們透過作品A得到的感受F_{people}和他/她心中所想的F_{artist}越像越好)。

透過Bayesian的分析,可以解釋兩點:

第一,藝術的主觀性,為什麼欣賞同樣一件藝術品時每個人會有不同的詮釋和感受?因為每個人的生命歷練和經驗都不同,對於感受的能力也截然不同,在Bayesian Analysis中就是所謂的Prior,如果Prior很強時,可能會主導整件藝術品的詮釋。比如說剛失戀的人可能聽到每首歌都是悲傷的,曾經令人快樂的場景和畫面都會勾起他/她的難過情緒。
而作品本身的定位(P(A|F))是否明確,則取決於藝術家的選擇,如果所要傳達的意境非常明顯,那麼大多數的人們都知道藝術家要說的東西(也就是由P(A|F)主導)。

第二,則是藝術的定義,人類能夠藉由低維投影的藝術作品,去還原當時藝術家要表達的感受的能力。在數學上這種問題稱為Inverse Problem,如果Prior越好,那麼便越能夠領略藝術家表達的意境,所以在生活中感受能力越強的人對於藝術欣賞越強烈。




References


[1] Bayesian brain, Wikipedia
[2] Is this a Unified Theory of the Brain?, New Scientists 2008
[3] Bayesian models of human inductive learning, ICML 2007 Lecture
[4] IdeasLab with MIT - Josh Tenenbaum

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010 Paper Categorization



Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010 Paper Categorization


Jia-Bin Huang
jbhuang0604@gmail.com



The list below is an example for the articles on "How to come up with new research ideas in computer vision?". This is a rough categorization of the accepted papers in CVPR 2010 based on their approaches to come up with new ideas. While each paper may fall into several categories, I just select one which I felt the most relevant to the work. You can find the description of the five categories from the articles (in Chinese) or the presentation slides (in English).




1.      Seek different dimensions


Concrete dimensions

Efficient Hierarchical Graph-Based Video Segmentation
Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han, Irfan Essa
Dynamic and Scalable Large Scale Image Reconstruction (PDF, project, videos)
Christoph Strecha, Timo Pylvanainen, Pascal Fua
Fast Image Alignment in the Fourier Domain (PDF, video)
Ahmed Ashraf, Simon Lucey, Tsuhan Chen
Multiview Constraints in Frequency Space and Camera Calibration from Unsynchronized Images
Hiroki Matsumoto, JUN SATO, Fumihiko Sakaue
Generating Sharp Panoramas from Motion-blurred Videos
Yunpeng Li, Sing Bing Kang, Neel Joshi, Steve Seitz, Dan Huttenlocher
Hybrid Shift Map for Video Retargeting
Yiqun Hu, Deepu Rajan
Towards Internet-scale Multi-view Stereo (videos)
Yasutaka Furukawa, Brian Curless, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski
Detecting and Parsing Architecture at City Scale from Range Data (PDF)
Alexander Toshev, Philippos Mordohai, Ben Taskar
Harvesting Large-Scale Weakly-Tagged Image Databases from the Web
Jianping Fan
Large-Scale Image Retrieval with Compressed Fisher Vectors
Florent Perronnin, Yan Liu, Jorge Sanchez, Herve Poirier
Robust Piecewise-Planar 3D Reconstruction and Completion from Large-Scale Unstructured Point Data
Anne-Laure Chauve, Patrick Labatut, Jean-Philippe Pons
Shaojie Zhuo, Terence Sim
Exploiting Hierarchical Context on a Large Database of Object Categories (PDF, Project)
Myung Jin Choi, Joseph Lim, Antonio Torralba
Face Recognition Based on Image Sets
Hakan Cevikalp, Bill Triggs
Warp Propagation for Video Resizing
Yuzhen Niu, Feng Liu, Xueqing Li, Michael Gleicher
iCoseg: Interactive Co-segmentation with Intelligent Scribble Guidance (PDF, project, video, dataset)
Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Tsuhan Chen, Jiebo Luo
Collect-Cut: Segmentation with Top-Down Cues Discovered in Multi-Object Images (PDF)
Yong Jae Lee, Kristen Grauman
Image Restoration and Disparity Estimation from an Uncalibrated Multi-Layered Image
Takahiro Yano, Masao Shimizu, Masatoshi Okutomi
Quasi-Dense 3D Reconstruction using Tensor-based Multiview Stereo
Tai-Pang Wu, Sai-Kit Yeung, Jiaya Jia, Chi-keung Tang
Spatial-Bag-of-Features
Yang Cao, Changhu Wang, Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Interest Seam Image
Xiao Zhang, Gang Hua, Lei Zhang, Heung-Yeung Shum
Coded Exposure Imaging for Projective Motion Deblurring (PDF, project, supplementary material, source code)
Yu-Wing Tai, Naejin Kong, Stephen Lin, Sung Yong Shin

Abstract dimensions

Single Image Depth Estimation From Predicted Semantic Labels (PDF)
Beyang Liu, Stephen Gould, Daphne Koller
Depth from Diffusion (PDF)
Changyin Zhou, Oliver Cossairt, Shree Nayar
Learning 3D Shape from a Single Facial Image via Non-linear Manifold Embedding and Alignment
Xianwang Wang, Ruigang Yang
Polynomial Shape from Shading
Ady Ecker, Allan Jepson
Estimating satellite attitude from pushboom sensors
Regis Perrier, Elise Arnaud, Peter Sturm, Mathias Ortner
Using Cloud Shadows to Infer Scene Structure and Camera Calibration (PDF)
Nathan Jacobs, Brian Bies, Robert Pless
Food Recognition Using Statistics of Pairwise Local Features (PDF)
Shulin Yang, Mei Chen, Dean Pomerleau, Rahul Sukthankar
Exploring Features in a Bayesian Framework for Material Recognition (PDF)
Ce Liu, Lavanya Sharan, Edward Adelson, Ruth Rosenholtz
Using Optical Defocus to Denoise
Qi Shan, Jiaya Jia, Sing Bing Kang, Zenglu Qin
Estimating demosaicing algorithms using image noise variance
Jun Takamatsu, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Tsukasa Ogasawara, Katsushi Ikeuchi
Refinement of Digital Elevation Models from Shadowing Cues
James Hogan, William Smith


2.      Combine more than two topics

Combine two methods

Combining Discriminative and Generative Methods for 3D Deformable Surface and Articulated Pose Reconstruction (PDF, project, videos)
Mathieu Salzmann, Raquel Urtasun
Object recognition by discriminative combinations of line segments and ellipses
Alex Chia, Deepu Rajan, Maylor Leung, Susanto Rahardja
Multi-Class Object Localization by Combining Local Contextual Interactions (PDF)
Carolina Galleguillos, Brian McFee, Gert Lanckriet
Online Semi-Supervised Multiple-Instance Boosting (PDF)
Cascade Object Detection with Deformable Part Models (PDF)
Pedro Felzenszwalb, Ross B. Girshick, David McAllester
AAM based Face Tracking with Temporal Matching and Face Segmentation (PDF)
Mingcai Zhou, Lin Liang, Jian Sun, Yangsheng Wang
Bimodal Gender Recognition from Face and Fingerprint
Xiong Li, Xu Zhao, Yun Fu, Yuncai Liu
Cascaded Pose Regression
Piotr Dollar, Peter Welinder, Pietro Perona
Super Resolution using Edge Prior and Single Image Detail Synthesis (PDF)
Yu-Wing Tai, Shuaicheng Liu, Michael Brown, Stephen Lin

Combine two problems

A Probabilistic Framework for Joint Segmentation and Tracking
Chad Aeschliman, Johnny Park, Avi Kak
Harmony Potentials for Joint Classification and Segmentation (PDF)
Xavier Boix Bosch, Josep Gonfaus Sitjes, Joost Van de Weijer, Andrew Bagdanov, Joan Serrat Gual, Jordi Gonzalez Sabat
Heterogeneous Conditional Random Field: Realizing Joint Detection and Segmentation of Cell Regions in Microscopic Images
Jiyan Pan, Takeo Kanade
High Performance Object Detection by Collaborative Learning of Joint Ranking of Granule Features
Chang Huang, Ram Nevatia
Toward Coherent Object Detection And Scene Layout Understanding (PDF)
Yingze Bao, Min Sun, Silvio Savarese
Simultaneous Foreground, Background, and Alpha Estimation for Image Matting (PDF)
Bryan Price, Bryan Morse, Scott Cohen
Simultaneous surveillance camera calibration and foot-head homology estimation from human detections
Branislav Micusik, Tomas Pajdla
Generalized Simultaneous Registration and Segmentation
Pratim Ghosh, Mehmet Emre Sargin, B.S. Manjunath
Simultaneous Point Matching and 3D Deformable Surface Reconstruction (PDF)
Appu Shaji, Aydin Varol, Lorenzo Torresani, Pascal Fua
Simultaneous Pose, Correspondence and Non-Rigid Shape (PDF)
Jordi Sanchez, Jonas Ostlund, Pascal Fua, Francesc Moreno-Noguer
Simultaneous Searching of Globally Optimal Interacting Surfaces with Convex Shape Priors
Qi Song, Xiaodong Wu, Yunlong Liu, Mona Garvin, Milan Sonka
Monocular 3D pose estimation and tracking by detection (PDF)
Mykhaylo Andriluka, Stefan Roth, Bernt Schiele
Layered Object Detection for Multi-Class Segmentation (PDF)
Yi Yang, Sam Hallman, Deva Ramanan, Charless Fowlkes
Detecting and Sketching the Common
Shai Bagon, Or Brostovski, Meirav Galun, Michal Irani
Figure-Ground Segmentation Improves Handled Object Recognition in Egocentric Video (Abstract)
Xiaofeng Ren, Chunhui Gu
Part and Appearance Sharing: Recursive Compositional Models for Multi-View Multi-Object Detection
Leo Zhu, Yuanhao Chen, Antonio Torralba, William Freeman, Alan Yuille
Denoising vs. Deblurring: HDR Imaging Techniques Using Moving Cameras (PDF, project, videos, results)
Li Zhang, Alok Deshpande, Xin Chen
3D Curve Sketch: Flexible Curve-Based Stereo Reconstruction and Calibration
R. Fabbri, B. B. Kimia

Combine two areas





Reading Between The Lines: Object Localization Using Implicit Cues from Image Tags (PDF)





3.      Re-think the research directions

Re-formulate original problems

Beyond Active Noun Tagging: Modeling Contextual Interactions for Multi-Class Active Learning (PDF)
Behjat Siddiquie, Abhinav Gupta
Dense Interest Points
Free-Form Mesh Tracking : a Patch-Based Approach
Cedric Cagniart, Edmond Boyer, Slobodan Ilic
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Fine Surface Registration without Initial Motion Estimation (PDF)
Andrea Albarelli, Andrea Torsello, Emanuele Rodola

Provide insight to the problems via analysis

SUN Database: Large-scale Scene Recognition from Abbey to Zoo (PDF, project, results, datasets) - formely: Scene Classification and Detection with a Quasi-exhausitve Dataset
Jianxiong Xiao, James Hays, Krista A. Ehinger, Antonio Torralba, Aude Oliva
Secrets of optical flow estimation and their principles
Deqing Sun, Stefan Roth, Michael Black
What is an object? (PDF)
Bogdan Alexe, Thomas Deselaers, Vittorio Ferrari
Will person detection help bag-of-features action recognition?
Alexander Klaeser, Marcin Marszalek, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid
Analyzing Spatially-varying Blur (PDF)
Ayan Chakrabarti, Todd Zickler, William Freeman
Analysis of Light Transport in Scattering Media
Lightfield Analysis of Curved Mirrors: Reflect Your Perspective
Yuichi Taguchi, Amit Agrawal, Srikumar Ramalingam, Ashok Veeraraghavan
New Features and Insights for Pedestrian Detection (PDF)
Stefan Walk, Nikodem Majer, Konrad Schindler, Bernt Schiele
Noise-Optimal Capture for High Dynamic Range Photography (PDF, project, supplementary material, dataset)
Samuel Hasinoff, Fredo Durand, William Freeman
On the design of robust classifiers for computer vision
Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi, Nuno Vasconcelos, Vijay Mahadevan
A Study on Continuous Max-Flow and Min-Cut Approaches
Jing Yuan, Egil Bae, Xuecheng Tai
A Theory of Plenoptic Multiplexing (PDF, Project, movie, supplemental material, source code )
Performance Evaluation of Color Correction Approaches for Automatic Multi-view Image and Video Stitching
Wei Xu, Jane Mulligan
Automatic Point-based Facial Trait Judgments Evaluation
Mario Rojas, David Masip, jordi Vitria
Evaluation of Stereo Confidence Indoors and Outdoors
Xiaoyan Hu, Philippos Mordohai
The Role of Features, Algorithms and Data in Visual Recognition (PDF)
Devi Parikh, Larry Zitnick
Pushing the Envelope of Modern Methods for Bundle Adjustment (PDF, abstract)
Yekeun Jeong, David Nister, Drew Steedly, Richard Szeliski, In So Kweon



4.       Use powerful tools, find suitable problems

Calculus of variations

Variational Segmentation of Elongated Volumetric Structures
Christian Reinbacher, Thomas Pock, Christian Bauer, Horst Bischof
An Approach to Vectorial Total Variation based on Geometric Measure Theory (PDF)
Bastian Goldluecke, Daniel Cremers
Motion Estimation with Non-Local Total Variation Regularization
Manuel Werlberger, Thomas Pock, Horst Bischof
Multi-View Scene Flow Estimation: A View Centered Variational Approach
Tali Bahsa, Yael Moses, Nahum Kiryati

Dimensionality reduction

Cost-Sensitive Subspace Learning for Face Recognition
Jiwen Lu, Tan Yap-Peng
Image Atlas Construction via Intrinsic Averaging on the Manifold of Images
Yuchen Xie, Jeffrey Ho, Baba Vemuri
Putting Local Features on a Manifold
Marwan Torki, Ahmed Elgammal
Manifold Blurring Mean Shift Algorithms
Action Classification on Product Manifolds
Yui Man Lui, J Ross Beveridge, Michael Kirby
An Extension of Multifactor Analysis for Face Recognition Based on Submanifold Learning
Sung Won Park, Marios Savvides
Parametric Dimensionality Reduction by Unsupervised Regression
Miguel Carreira-perpinan, Zhengdong Lu
Sufficient Dimensionality Reduction for Visual Sequence Classification (PDF)
Alex Shyr, Raquel Urtasun, Michael Jordan
A Novel Riemannian Framework for Shape Analysis of 3D Objects (PDF)
Sebastian Kurtek, Eric Klassen, Anuj Srivastava, Zhaohua Ding
Large-Scale Image Categorization with Explicit Data Embedding
Florent Perronnin, Jorge Sanchez, Yan Liu
Spherical Embeddings for non-Euclidean Dissimilarities
Richard Wilson, Edwin Hancock, Robert Duin, Elzbieta Pekalska

Spectral clustering

Learning the Full Pairwise Affinities for Spectral Segmentation (PDF)
Tae Hoon Kim, Kyoung Mu Lee, Sang Uk Lee

Probabilistic graphical model

Topic-Regression Multi-Modal Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Image Annotation
Duangmanee Putthividhya, Hagai Attias, Srikantan Nagarajan
Building and Using a Semantivisual Image Hierarchy (PDF)
Li-Jia Li, Chong Wang, Yongwhan Lim, David Blei, Li Fei-Fei

Structured Prediction

Grouplet: a Structured Image Representation for Recognizing Human and Object Interactions (PDF)
Bangpeng Yao, Li Fei-Fei
Latent Hierarchical Structural Learning for Object Detection
Leo Zhu, Yuanhao Chen, Antonio Torralba, Alan Yuille, William Freeman
P-N Learning: Bootstrapping Binary Classifiers from Unlabeled Data by Structural Constraints
Zdenek Kalal, Jiri Matas, Krystian Mikolajczyk
Semantic Context Modeling with Maximal Margin Conditional Random Fields for Automatic Image Annotation
Yu Xiang, Xiangdong Zhou, Zuotao Liu, Tat-seng chuats, Chong-Wah Ngo
The Chains Model for Detecting Parts by Their Context (PDF, supplementary material)
Leonid Karlinsky, Michael Dinerstein, Daniel Harari, Shimon Ullman
Automatic discovery of meaningful object parts with latent CRFs (PDF, supplementary material)
Paul Schnitzspan, Stefan Roth, Bernt Schiele

Bilateral filtering

Correcting Over-Exposure in Photographs (PDF)
Dong Guo, Yuan Cheng, Terence Sim
Diffusion Filtering Without Parameter Tuning: Models and Inference Tools
Kai Krajsek, Hanno Scharr

Sparse representation

Automatic Image Annotation Using Group Sparsity (Project)
Shaoting Zhang, Junzhou Huang, Yuchi Huang, Dimitris Metaxas
Estimation of Image Bias Field with Sparsity Constraints (PDF)
Yuanjie Zheng, James Gee
RASL: Robust Alignment by Sparse and Low-rank Decomposition for Linearly Correlated Images (PDF)
Yigang Peng, Arvind Balasubramanian, John Wright, Ma Yi
Supervised Translation-Invariant Sparse Coding (PDF)
Jianchao Yang, Kai Yu, Thomas Huang
Visual Classification with Multi-Task Joint Sparse Representation
Xiao-Tong Yuan, Shuicheng Yan
Learning Shift-Invariant Sparse Representation of Actions (PDF)
Local Features Are Not Lonely - Laplacian Sparse Coding for Image Classification
Shenghua Gao, Wai-Hung Tsang, Liang-Tien Chia, Peilin Zhao
Locality-constrained Linear Coding for Image Classification (PDF)
Jinjun Wang, Jianchao Yang, Kai Yu, Fengjun Lv
On Growth and Formlets: Sparse Multi-Scale Coding of Planar Shape (PDF)
          Timothy Oleskiw, James Elder, Gabriel Peyr
Sparse Representation using Nonnegative Curds and Whey
Yanan Liu, Fei Wu, Zhihua Zhang, Yueting Zhuang, Shuicheng Yan
The Multiscale Competitive Code via Sparse Representation for Palmprint Verification (PDF)
Wangmeng Zuo, Zhouchen Lin, Zhenhua Guo, David Zhang
Deconvolutional Networks
           Matthew Zeiler, Dilip Krishnan, Graham Taylor, Rob Fergus
Increasing depth resolution of Electron Microscopy of Neural circuits using Sparse Tomographic reconstruction (PDF)
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Alex Genkin, Shiv Vitaladevuni, Lou Scheffer, Shan Xu, Harald Hess, Graham Knott, Dmitri Chklovskii
People Location: Let's Sparse it Up!
Alexandre Alahi, Laurent Jacques, Yannick Boursier, Pierre Vandergheynst
Sparsity Model for Robust Optical Flow Estimation at Motion Discontinuities
Xiaohui Shen, Ying Wu
Efficient Computation of Robust Low-Rank Matrix Approximations in the Presence of Missing Data using the $L_1$ Norm
Anders Eriksson
Classification and Clustering via Dictionary Learning with Structured Incoherence
Pablo Sprechmann, Ignacio Ramirez, Guillermo Sapiro
Robust video denoising using low rank matrix completion (PDF)
Hui Ji, Chaoqiang Liu, Zuowei Shen, Yuhong Xu
Cascaded L1-norm Minimization Learning (CLML) Classifier for Human Detection
Ran Xu, Baochang Zhang, Qixiang Ye, jian bin Jiao
GPCA with Denoising: A Moments-Based Convex Approach
Necmiye Ozay, Mario Sznaier, Constantino Lagoa, Octavia Camps
Visual Tracking Decomposition (PDF, project, video)
Junseok Kwon, Kyoung Mu Lee


5.       Add appropriate adjectives

Linear <=> Nonlinear

Linear View Synthesis Using a Dimensionality Gap Light Field Prior (PDF)
Anat Levin, Fredo Durand
Multilinear Feature Extraction and Classification of Multi-Focal Images, With Applications in Nematode Taxonomy
Min Liu, Amit Roy-Chowdhury
Multilinear Pose and Body Shape Estimation of Dressed Subjects from Image Sets
N. Hasler, H. Ackermann, B. Rosenhahn, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel
Admissible Linear Map Models of Linear Cameras (PDF)
Guillaume Batog, Xavier Goaoc, Jean Ponce
Energy Minimization for Linear Envelope MRFs (PDF)
Pushmeet Kohli, M. Pawan Kumar
Optimal HDR Reconstruction with Linear Digital Cameras (PDF)
Miguel Granados Velasquez, Boris Ajdin, Michael Wand, Christian Theobalt, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hendrik Lensch

Generative <=> Discriminative

A generative perspective on MRFs in low-level vision (PDF, supplementary material)
Discriminative Clustering for Image Co-segmentation (PDF)
Armand Joulin, Francis Bach, Jean Ponce
Discriminative K-SVD for Dictionary Learning in Face Recognition
Qiang Zhang, Baoxin Li
Multi-Target Tracking by On-Line Learned Discriminative Appearance Models
Cheng-Hao Kuo, Chang Huang, Ram Nevatia
Learning a Hierarchy of Discriminative Space-Time Neighborhood Features for Human Action Recognition (PDF)
Adriana Kovashka, Kristen Grauman
$ell_p$ Norm Multiple Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis for Object and Image Categorisation
Fei Yan, Krystian Mikolajczyk, Mark Barnard, hongping cai, Josef Kittler
Bayes Optimal Kernel Discriminant Analysis
Di You, Aleix Martinez
Many-to-one Contour Matching for Describing and Discriminating Object Shape
Praveen Srinivasan, Qihui Zhu, Jianbo Shi
Pareto Discriminant Analysis (PDF, Project)

Supervised <=> (Un/Semi)-supervised

Semi-supervised Hashing for Scalable Image Retrieval (PDF)
Jun Wang, Sanjiv Kumar, Shih-Fu Chang
Multimodal semi-supervised learning for image classication (PDF, Project)
Matthieu Guillaumin, Jakob Verbeek, Cordelia Schmid
Connecting Modalities: Semi-supervised Segmentation and Annotation of Images Using Unaligned Text Corpora (PDF)
Richard Socher, Li Fei-Fei
Exploiting Simple Hierarchies for Unsupervised Human Behavior Analysis (PDF)
Fabian Nater, Helmut Grabner, Luc Van Gool
Unsupervised Discovery of Co-occurrence in Sparse High Dimensional Spaces
Ondrej Chum, Jiri Matas
Unsupervised Discovery of Facial Events
Feng Zhou, Fernando De la Torre, Jeff Cohn
Unsupervised Detection and Segmentation of Identical Objects (PDF)
Minsu Cho, Kyoung Mu Lee
An automatic unsupervised classification of MR images in Alzheimer's disease
Xiaojing Long, Chris Wyatt
Talking Pictures: Temporal Grouping and Dialog-Supervised Person Recognition (PDF, supplementary material)
Probabilistic Models for Supervised Dictionary Learning
Xiaochen Lian, Zhiwei Li, Changhu Wang, Lei Zhang
The Phase Only Transform for unsupervised surface defect detection
Dror Aiger, Hugues Talbot
Towards Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation by Means of Multiple Instance and Multitask Learning (PDF)
Alexander Vezhnevets, Joachim Buhmann
Visual Tracking via Weakly Supervised Learning from Multiple Imperfect Oracles
Bineng Zhong, Hongxun Yao, Sheng Chen, Xiaotong Yuan, Shaohui Liu
Weakly-Supervised Hashing in Kernel Space
Yadong Mu, Jialie Shen, Shuicheng Yan
Discovering Image Categories by Information Projection and Cluster Sampling
Dengxin Dai, Tianfu Wu, Song-Chun Zhu

Space/Time Heavy <=> Efficient

Efficient Additive Kernels via Explicit Feature Maps (PDF)
Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman
Efficient Extraction of Human Motion Volumes by Tracking (PDF)
Juan Carlos Niebles, Bohyung Han, Li Fei-Fei
Efficient Filter Flow for Space-Variant Multiframe Blind Deconvolution (PDF, video)
Michael Hirsch, Suvrit Sra, Bernhard Schölkopf, Stefan Harmeling
Efficient Histogram-Based Sliding Window (PDF)
Efficient Piecewise Learning for Conditional Random Fields (PDF)
Efficient image segmentation with a reference distribution
Ismail Ben Ayed, Hua-mei Chen, Kumaradevan Punithakumar, Shuo Li
Efficiently Selecting Regions for Scene Understanding (PDF)
M. Pawan Kumar, Daphne Koller
Fast Approximate Energy Minimization with Label Costs (PDF, code)
Andrew Delong, Anton Osokin, Hossam Isack, Yuri Boykov
Fast Global Optimization of Curvature (PDF)
Noha El-Zehiry, Leo Grady
Fast Globally Optimal 2D Human Detection with Loopy Graph Models (PDF)
Tai-Peng Tian, Stan Sclaroff
Fast Matting Using Large Kernel Matting Laplacian Matrices (PDF)
Kaiming He, Jian Sun, Xiaoou Tang
Fast Polygonal Integration and Its Application in Extending Haar-like Features to Improve Object Detection (PDF, supplementary material)
Minh-Tri Pham, Viet-Dung Hoang, Tat-Jen Cham, Yang Gao
Fast Sparse Representation with Prototypes
Jia-Bin Huang, Ming-Hsuan Yang
Fast and Robust Object Segmentation with the Integral Linear Classifier (PDF)
David Aldavert, Arnau Ramisa, Ricardo Toledo, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras
Fast pattern matching using orthogonal Haar transform
Wanli Ouyang, Renqi Zhang, Cham Wai-Kuen
A Steiner Tree approach to efficient object detection (PDF)
Olga Russakovsky, Quoc Le, Andrew Ng
An Efficient Divide-and-Conquer Cascade for Nonlinear Object Detection (PDF, implementation)
Compact Projection: Simple and Efficient Near Neighbor Search with Practical Memory Requirements (PDF)
Kerui Min, Linjun Yang, John Wright, Lei Wu, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yi Ma
Efficient Action Spotting based on a Spacetime Oriented Structure Representation (PDF, project, video)
Konstantinos Derpanis, Mikhail Sizintsev, Kevin Cannons, Richard Wildes
Model Globally, Match Locally: Efficient and Robust 3D Object Recognition (Abstract)
B. Drost, Markus Ulrich, N. Navab, S. Ilic
Ray Markov Random Fields for Image-Based 3D Modeling: Model and Efficient Inference
Shubao Liu, David Cooper
Global and Efficient Self-Similarity for Object Classification and Detection (PDF)
Thomas Deselaers, Vittorio Ferrari
A Square-Root Sampling Approach to Fast Histogram-Based Search
Huang-Wei Chang, Hwann-Tzong Chen
Transform Coding for Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High Dimensions
Jonathan Brandt
Improving the Efficiency of Hierarchical Structure-and-Motion
Riccardo Gherardi, Michela Farenzena, Andrea Fusiello
Sublinear Time Directional Chamfer Matching
Ming-Yu Liu, Oncel Tuzel, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Rama Chellappa
Scalable Active Matching (PDF)
Ankur Handa, Margarita Chli, Hauke Strasdat, Andrew Davison
Scalable Face Image Retrieval with Identity-Based Quantization and Multi-Reference Re-ranking (PDF)
Zhong Wu, Qifa Ke, Jian Sun, Heung-Yeung Shum
A Constant-Space Belief Propagation Algorithm for Stereo Matching (PDF)
Qingxiong Yang, Liang Wang, Narendra Ahuja
Rapid Face Recognition Using Hashing (PDF)
Qinfeng Shi, Hanxi Li, Chunhua Shen
Rapid Selection of Reliable Templates for Visual Tracking (Abstract)
N. Alt, S. Hinterstoisser, N. Navab
Rapid and accurate developmental stage recognition of C. elegans from high-throughput image data
Amelia White, Huey-Ling Kao, Patricia Cipriani, Brandon Lees, Davi Geiger, Kris Gunsalus, Fabio Piano
Real Time Motion Capture using a Single Time-Of-Flight Camera (PDF)
Varun Ganapathi, Christian Plagemann, Sebastian Thrun, Daphne Koller

Hand-designed <=> Learning-based

Face Recognition with Learning-based Descriptor (PDF)
Zhimin Cao, Qi Yin, Jian Sun, Xiaoou Tang
Far-Sighted Active Learning on a Budget for Image and Video Recognition (PDF)
Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan, Prateek Jain, Kristen Grauman
Learning Appearance in Virtual Scenarios for Pedestrian Detection
Francisco Marin Tur, David Vazquez, David Geronimo, Antonio M. Lopez
Learning Kernels for Normalized Cuts: Convex Relaxations and applications
Lopamudra Mukherjee, Vikas Singh, Jiming Peng, Chris Hinrichs
Learning Mid-Level Features For Recognition (PDF)
Y-Lan Boureau, Francis Bach, Yann LeCun, Jean Ponce
Learning from Interpolated Images using Neural Networks for Digital Forensics (PDF)
Yizhen Huang, Na Fan
Learning to Recognize Shadows in Monochromatic Natural Images (PDF)
Jiejie Zhu, Kegan Samuel, Syed Zain Masood, Marshall Tappen
Optimizing One-Shot Recognition with Micro-Set Learning (PDF)
Kevin Tang, Marshall Tappen, Rahul Sukthankar, Christoph H. Lampert
Safety in Numbers: Learning Categories from Few Examples with Multi Model Knowledge Transfer (PDF)
Tatiana Tommasi, Francesco Orabona, Barbara Caputo
YouTubeCat: Learning to Categorize Wild Web Videos
Zheshen Wang, Ming Zhao, Yang Song, Sanjiv Kumar, Baoxin Li
Tracking the Invisible: Learning Where the Object Might be (PDF, supplementary material)
H. Grabner, J. Matas, L. Van Gool, P. Cattin
Visual Event Recognition in Videos by Learning from Web Data (PDF)
Lixin Duan, Dong Xu, Wai-Hung Tsang, Jiebo Luo
Boosting for Transfer Learning with Multiple Auxiliary Domains
Gianfranco Doretto, Yi Yao
Boundary Learning by Optimization with Topological Constraints (PDF, Supplementary material)
Viren Jain, Benjamin Bollmann, Bobby Kasthuri, Ken Hayworth, Richard Schalek, Juan Carlos Tapia, Daniel Berger, Mark Richardson, Kevin Briggman, Moritz Helmstaedter, Winfried Denk, Jeff Lichtman, Sebastian Seung
Data Fusion through Cross-modality Metric Learning using Similarity-Sensitive Hashing
Michael Bronstein, Alexander Bronstein, Nikos Paragios, Fabrice Michel
Removal of 3D Face Expressions: A Learning-based Approach
Song Han, Gang Pan, Yuting Zhang

Single scale <=> Multi-scale

Scale-Hierarchical 3D Object Recognition in Cluttered Scenes (PDF)
Prabin Bariya, Ko Nishino
Vessel Scale Selection using MRF Optimization (PDF)
Hengameh Mirzaalian, Ghassan Hamarneh
DARTs: Efficient scale-space extraction of DAISY keypoints
David Marimon, Arturo Bonnin, Tomasz Adamek, Roger Gimeno

Single step <=> Progressive

Efficient Joint 2D and 3D Palmprint Matching with Alignment Refinement
Wei Li, Lei Zhang, david Zhang, Guangming Lu, Jingqi Yan

Batch processing <=> Online processing

An Online Approach: Learning-Semantic-Scene-by-Tracking and Tracking-by-Learning-Semantic-Scene
Xuan Song, Xiaowei Shao, Huijing Zhao, Jinshi Cui, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Hongbin Zha
Online Multiclass LPBoost (PDF, source code)
Online Multiple Instance Learning with No Regret
Li Mu, James Kwok, Lu Bao-liang
Online Visual Vocabulary Pruning Using Pairwise Constraints (PDF)
Pavan K. Mallapragada, Rong Jin, A. K. Jain
PROST: Parallel Robust Online Simple Tracking (PDF, project, videos, dataset)
Visual Tracking via Incremental Self-tuning Particle Filtering on the Affine Group
Min Li, Wei Chen, Kaiqi Huang, Tieniu Tan
Model Evolution: An Incremental Approach to Non-Rigid Structure from Motion (PDF, project, video)
Shengqi Zhu, Li Zhang, Brandon Smith
Online-Batch Strongly Convex Multi Kernel Learning (PDF)
Francesco Orabona, Jie Luo, Barbara Caputo

Fixed <=> Adaptive

Adaptive Pose Priors for Pictorial Structures (PDF, project)
Benjamin Sapp, Chris Jordan, Ben Taskar
Optical Flow Estimation with Adaptive Convolution Kernel Prior on Discrete Framework
Kyong Joon Lee, Dongjin Kwon, Il Dong Yun, Sang Uk Lee
Parallel Graph-cuts by Adaptive Bottom-up Merging (PDF)
Jiangyu Liu, Jian Sun
Visual Object Tracking using Adaptive Correlation Filters (PDF, videos)
David Bolme, J Ross Beveridge, Bruce Draper, Yui Man Lui
Abrupt Motion Tracking via Adaptive Stochastic Approximation Monte Carlo Sampling
Xiuzhuang Zhou, yao Lu
Adaptive Action Detection
Liangliang Cao, Zicheng Liu, Thomas Huang
Adaptive Generic Learning for Face Recognition from a Single Sample per Person
Yu Su, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, wen Gao
Adaptive Linear Predictors for Real-Time Tracking (Abstract)
S. Holzer , S. Ilic, N. Navab
Multiple Dynamic Models for Tracking the Left Ventricle of the Heart from Ultrasound Data using Particle Filters and Deep Learning Architectures (PDF)
Gustavo Carneiro, Jacinto Nascimento
Spike Train Driven Dynamical Models for Human Actions (PDF, project)
Michalis Raptis, Kamil Wnuk, Stefano Soatto
Dynamical Binary Latent Variable Models for 3D Human Pose Tracking (PDF)
Graham Taylor, Leonid Sigal, David Fleet, Geoffrey Hinton
Learning Weights for Codebook in Image Classification
Hongping Cai, Krystian Mikolajczyk, Fei Yan
Improving web-image search results using query-independent classifiers (Project)
Josip Krapac, Moray Allan, Jakob Verbeek, Frédéric Jurie
Multi-Task Warped Gaussian Process for Personalized Age Estimation
Yu Zhang, Dit-Yan Yeung
Personalization of Image Enhancement (PDF)
Sing Bing Kang, Ashish Kapoor, Dani Lischinski
Improving State-of-the-Art OCR through High-Precision Document-Specific Modeling (PDF)
Andrew Kae, Gary Huang, Erik Learned-miller, Carl Doersch
Making specific features less discriminative to improve point-based 3D object recognition (PDF, dataset)
Edward Hsiao, Alvaro Collet, Martial Hebert

Parametric <=> Non-parametric

A Globally Optimal Data-Driven Approach for Image Distortion Estimation (PDF, project, videos, results)
Nonparametric Higher-Order Learning for Interactive Segmentation (PDF)
Tae Hoon Kim, Kyoung Mu Lee, Sang Uk Lee
Nonparametric Label-to-Region by Search
Xiaobai Liu, Shuicheng Yan, Jiebo Luo
Contour People: A Parameterized Model of 2D Articulated Human Shape
Oren Freifeld, Alex Weiss, Silvia Zuffi, Michael Black
Data Driven Mean-Shift Belief Propagation For non-Gaussian MRFs (PDF)
Minwoo Park, Somesh Kashyap, Bob Collins, Yanxi Liu

Global <=> Local

Global Gaussian Approach for Scene Categorization using Information Geometry
Hideki Nakayama, Tatsuya Harada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Global Optimization for Estimating a BRDF with Multiple Specular Lobes
Chanki Yu, Yongduek Seo, Sang-Wook Lee
Globally Optimal Pixel Labeling Algorithms for Tree Metrics (PDF)
Pedro Felzenszwalb, Gyula Pap, Eva Tardos, Ramin Zabih
Real-Time Vehicle Global Localisation with a Single Camera in Dense Urban Areas: Exploitation of Coarse 3D City Models
Pierre Lothe, Steve Bourgeois, Eric Royer, Michel Dhome, Sylvie Naudet Collette
Exploiting Global Connectivity Constraints for Reconstruction of 3D Line Segment from Images (Project)
A. Jain, C. Kurz, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel
Gesture Recognition by Learning Local Motion Signatures (PDF)
Mohamed-Becha Kaaniche, Francois Bremond
Object Matching with a Locally Affine-Invariant Constraints (PDF, videos)
Hongsheng Li, Edward Kim, Xiaolei Huang, Lei He
Randomized Hybrid Linear Modeling by Local Best-fit Flats
Teng Zhang, Arthur Szlam, Yi Wang, Gilad Lerman
Stratified Learning of Local Anatomical Context for Lung Nodules in CT Images
Dijia Wu, Le Lu, Jinbo Bi, Yoshihisa Shinagawa, Kim Boyer, Arun Krishnan, Marcos Salganicoff
Support Vector Regression for Multi-View Gait Recognition based on Local Motion Feature Selection
Worapan Kusakunniran, Qiang Wu, Jian Zhang, Hongdong Li
Tracking with Local Spatio-Temporal Motion Patterns in Extremely Crowded Scenes (PDF, video 1, video 2, video 3)
Louis Kratz, Ko Nishino
Aggregating local descriptors into a compact image representation (PDF, project)
Hervé Jégou, Matthijs Douze, Cordelia Schmid, Patrick Pérez
Non-Rigid Structure from Locally-Rigid Motion (PDF, project, video, supplementary Material)
Jonathan Taylor, Allan Jepson, Kyros Kutulakos
The Automatic Design of Feature Spaces for Local Image Descriptors using an Ensemble of Non-linear Feature Extractors (PDF)
  
Z-invariant

Efficient Rotation Invariant Object Detection using Boosted Random Ferns
Michael Villamizar, Alberto Sanfeliu, Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Juan Andrade-Cetto
Fast invariant descriptors based on moments of image features
Gianfranco Doretto, Yi Yao
Global and Local Isometry-Invariant Descriptor for 3D Shape Comparison and Partial Matching
Huai-Yu Wu
Learning 3D Action Models from a few 2D videos for View Invariant Action Recognition
Pradeep Natarajan, Vivek Singh, Ram Nevatia
Learning a Probabilistic Model Mixing 3D and 2D Primitives for View Invariant Object Category Recognition
Wen Ze Hu, Song-Chun Zhu
Modeling Pixel Process with Scale Invariant Local Patterns for Background Subtraction in Complex Scenes
Shengcai Liao, Guoying Zhao, Vili Kellokumpu, Matti Pietikäen, Stan Li
Chaotic Invariants of Lagrangian Particle Trajectories for Anomaly Detection in Crowded Scenes (PDF)
                Shandong Wu
Posture Invariant Surface Description and Feature Extraction
Stefanie Wuhrer, Zouhour Ben Azouz, Chang Shu
Scale-Invariant heat kernel signatures for non-rigid shape recognition (PDF)
Michael Bronstein, Iasonas Kokkinos
Unified Real-Time Tracking and Recognition with Rotation-Invariant Fast Features (PDF)
Gabriel Takacs, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Sam Tsai, David Chen, Radek Grzeszczuk, Bernd Girod
Unsupervised Learning of Invariant Features Using Video (PDF)
David Stavens, Sebastian Thrun
Robust Relevance Vector Machine Regression
Kaushik Mitra, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Rama Chellappa
3D Morphable Model Construction for Robust Ear and Face Recognition
John Bustard, Mark Nixon
Pose-Robust Albedo Estimation from a Single Image
Soma Biswas, Rama Chellappa
A theory of phase-sensitive rotation invariance with spherical harmonic and moment-based representations (PDF)
Ramakrishna Kakarala, Dansheng Mao
Robust Order-based Methods for Feature Description
Raj Gupta, Anurag Mittal, Harshal Patil

Z-aware

Context-Aware Saliency Detection (PDF, Abstract)
Stas Goferman, Lihi Zelnik-Manor, Ayellet Tal
Object-Graphs for Context-Aware Category Discovery (PDF, project)
A Content-Aware Image Prior (PDF)
Taeg Sang Cho, Neel Joshi, Larry Zitnick, Sing Bing Kang, Richard Szeliski, William Freeman
Content-Aware Ranking for Visual Search
Bo Geng, Linjun Yang, Chao Xu, Xian-Sheng Hua
Multi-Cue Pedestrian Classification with Partial Occlusion Handling
Markus Enzweiler, Angela Eigenstetter, Bernt Schiele, Dariu Gavrila
Real-time Tracking of Multiple Occluding Objects using Level Sets
Charles Bibby, Ian Reid
Context-Constrained Hallucination for Image Super-Resolution (abstract)
Jian Sun, Jiejie Zhu, Marshall Tappen
Outlier Removal Using Duality (PDF)
Carl Olsson, Anders Eriksson, Richard Hartley
Towards Semantic Embedding in Visual Vocabulary
R.-R. Ji, Hongxun Yao, Xiaoshuai Sun
What Helps Where - And Why? Semantic Relatedness for Knowledge Transfer (PDF)
Marcus Rohrbach, Michael Stark, Gyö Szarvas, Bernt Schiele, Iryna Gurevych
Modeling Mutual Context of Object and Human Pose in Human-Object Interaction Activities (PDF)
Bangpeng Yao, Li Fei-Fei
Discontinuous Seam-Carving for Video Retargeting
Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han, Irfan Essa

Z-preserving

Motion Detail Preserving Optical Flow Estimation
Li Xu, Jiaya Jia, Yasuyuki Matsushita
SPEC Hashing: Similarity Preserving algorithm for Entropy-based Coding (PDF)
Ruei-Sung Lin, David Ross, Jay Yagnik
SVM for Edge-Preserving Filtering (PDF)
Qingxiong Yang, Shengnan Wang, Narendra Ahuja


6.       Unclassified papers (to be updated...)

A New Texture Descriptor Using Multifractal Analysis in Multi-orientation Wavelet Pyramid (PDF)
Yong Xu, Xiong Yang, Haibin Ling, Hui Ji
Anomaly Detection in Videos Using Mixtures of Dynamic Textures
Vijay Mahadevan, Weixin Li, Viral Bhalodia, Nuno Vasconcelos
Building Reconstruction using Manhattan-World Grammars (PDF)
Bundled Depth-Map Merging for Multi-View Stereo
Common Visual Pattern Discovery via Spatially Coherent Correspondences
Liu Hairong, Shuicheng Yan
Detecting Text in Natural Scenes with Stroke Width Transform
Boris Epshtein, Eyal Ofek, Yonatan Wexler
Disambiguating Visual Relations Using Loop Constraints (PDF)
Christopher Zach, Manfred Klopschitz, Marc Pollefeys
Estimating Camera Pose from a Single Urban Ground-View Omnidirectional Image and a 2D Building Outline Map (PDF)
Tat-Jen Cham, Arridhana Ciptadi, Wei-Chian Tan, Minh-Tri Pham, Liang-Tien Chia
Hybrid Multi-view Reconstruction by Jump-Diffusion (PDF)
Florent Lafarge, Renaud Keriven, Mathieu Bredif, Hoang Hiep Vu
Isoperimetric Cut on a Directed Graph
Mo Chen, Ming Liu, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang
Measuring Visual Saliency by Site Entropy Rate
Wei Wang, Yizhou Wang
Minimum length in the tangent bundle as a model for curve completion
Guy Ben-Yosef, Ohad Ben Shahar
Multi-View Structure Computation from Graph Rigidity
Hongdong Li
Non-uniform Deblurring for Shaken Images (PDF)
Oliver Whyte, Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman, Jean Ponce
Object Separation In X-Ray Image Sets (PDF)
Geremy Heitz, Gal Chechik
On Detection of Multiple Object Instances using Hough Transforms (PDF)
Olga Barinova, Victor Lempitsky, Pushmeet Kohli
Parallel and Distributed Graph Cuts by Dual Decomposition (PDF)
Piecewise Planar and Non-Planar Stereo for Urban Scene Reconstruction (PDF, project, video)
David Gallup, Jan-Michael Frahm, Marc Pollefeys
Probabilistic Temporal Inference on Reconstructed 3D Scenes (PDF, videos)
Grant Schindler, Frank Dellaert
Proximate Sensing: Inferring What-Is-Where From Georeferenced Photo Collections
Daniel Leung, Shawn Newsam
Rectifying rolling shutter video from hand-held devices (PDF, project, videos, supplementary material)
Per-Erik Forssen, Erik Ringaby
Rectilinear Parsing of Architecture in Urban Environment
Peng Zhao, Tian Fang, Honghui Zhang, Jianxiong Xiao, Long Quan, Qinping Zhao
Segmentation of Building Facades Using Procedural Shape Priors (PDF)
Olivier Teboul, Loic Simon, Panagiotis Koutsourakis, Nikos Paragios
Self-calibrating Photometric Stereo (PDF)
Boxin Shi, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Yichen Wei, Chao Xu, Ping Tan
Temporal Causality for the Analysis of Visual Events ()
Karthir Prabhakar, Sangmin Oh, Ping Wang, Gregory Abowd, James Rehg
Tiered Scene Labeling with Dynamic Programming (PDF)
Pedro Felzenszwalb, Olga Veksler
What's going on? Discovering Spatio-Temporal Dependencies in Dynamic Scenes (PDF)
Daniel Kuettel, Michael Breitenstein, Luc Van Gool, Vittorio Ferrari
"Lattice Cut" - Constructing superpixels using layer constraints (PDF)
Alastair Moore, Simon Prince
3D Model Based Vehicle Classification in Aerial Imagery
Saad Khan, Hui Cheng, Harpreet Sawhney, Dennis Matthies
3D Reconstruction of Glossy Surfaces Using Stereo Cameras and Projector-Display
Masaki Yamazaki, Gang Xu
3D Scene Priors for Road Detection
Jose M. Alvarez, Theo Gevers, Antonio M. Lopez
3D Shape Correspondence by Isometry-Driven Greedy Optimization (PDF, PPT)
Yusuf Sahillioglu, Yucel Yemez
3D Shape Scanning with a Time-of-Flight Camera
Christian Theobalt, Yan Cui, Sebastian Schuon, Sebastian Thrun, Derek Chan
Bidirectional relighting for 3D-aided 2D Face Recognition - formely: 3D-aided 2D Face Recognition
George Toderici, George Passalis, Stefanos Zafireiou, Georgios Tzimiropoulos, Maria Petrou, Theoharis Theoharis, Ioannis Kakadiaris
A Diffusion Approach to Seeded Image Segmentation (PDF)
Juyong Zhang, Jianmin Zheng, Jianfei Cai
A Framework for Ultra High Resolution 3D Imaging (PDF)
Zheng Lu, Yu-Wing Tai, Moshe Ben-Ezra, Michael Brown
A Hough Transform-Based Voting Framework for Action Recognition (PDF)
Angela Yao, Juergen Gall, Luc Van Gool
A Novel Markov Random Field Based Deformable Model for Face Recognition
Shu Liao, Albert C.S. Chung
A Shape-Driven MRF Model for the Segmentation of Organs in Medical Images
Deepak Chittajallu, Ioannis Kakadiaris
A Spatially Varying PSF-based Prior for Alpha Matting (PDF)
Christoph Rhemann, Carsten Rother, Pushmeet Kohli, Margrit Gelautz
A probabilistic image jigsaw puzzle solver (PDF, project)
Taeg Sang Cho, Shai Avidan, William T. Freeman
ABSORB: Atlas Building by Self-Organized Registration and Bundling
Hongjun Jia, Guorong Wu, Qian Wang, Dinggang Shen
ARISTA - Image Search to Annotation on Billions of Web Photos
Xin-Jing Wang, Ming Liu, Lei Zhang, Yi Li, Wei-Ying Ma
Accurate 3D Face Reconstruction from Weakly Calibrated Wide Baseline Images
Yuping Lin, Gerard Medioni, Jongmoo Choi
Action Unit Detection with Segment-based SVMs (PDF)
Tomas Simon, Nguyen Minh, Fernando De la Torre, Jeff Cohn
An Eye for an Eye: A Single Camera Gaze-Replacement Method
Lior Wolf, Ziv Freund, Shai Avidan
An Object-Dependent Hand Pose Prior from Sparse Training Data (PDF)
Henning Hamer, Juergen Gall, Thibaut Weise, Luc Van Gool
Anatomical Parts-Based Regression Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (PDF)
Swapna Joshi, Karthikeyan Shanmugavadivel, B.S. Manjunath, Scott Grafton, Kent Kiehl
Asymmetric Region-to-Image Matching for Comparing Images with Generic Object Categories (PDF)
Jaechul Kim, Kristen Grauman
Attribute-Centeric Recognition for Cross-category Generalization
Ali Farhadi, Ian Endres, Derek Hoiem
Authority-Shift Clustering: Hierarchical Clustering by Authority Seeking on Graphs (PDF)
Minsu Cho, Kyoung Mu Lee
Automatic Attribution of Ancient Roman Imperial Coins
Ognjen Arandjelovic
Beyond Trees: MRF Inference via Outer-Planar Decomposition (PDF)
Dhruv Batra, Andrew Gallagher, Devi Parikh, Tsuhan Chen
Breaking the interactive bottleneck in multi-class classification with active selection and binary feedback (PDF)
Ajay Joshi, Fatih Porikli, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
CRAM: Compact Representation of Actions in Movies (PDF, video)
Calibration-free gaze sensing using saliency maps (PDF)
Yusuke Sugano, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Yoichi Sato
Clinical Decision Support using Shape-based Similarity Retrieval of Doppler Images
Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Pavan Turaga, David Beymer, Fei Wang, Arnon Amir, Kilian Pohl, Hayit Greenspan
Clustering Dynamic Textures with the Hierarchical EM Algorithm (PDF)
Antoni Chan, Emanuele Coviello, Gert Lanckriet
Co-clustering of Image Segments Using Convex Optimization Applied to EM Neuronal Reconstruction
Shiv Vitaladevuni, Ronen Basri
Comparative object similarity for improved recognition with few or no examples (PDF)
Gang Wang, David Forsyth, Derek Hoiem
Compression of Surface Registration using Beltrami Coefficients
Lok Ming Lui
Consensus Photometric Stereo
Tomoaki Higo, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Katsushi Ikeuchi
Constrained Parametric Min Cuts for Automatic Object Segmentation (PDF)
JoãCarreira, Cristian Sminchisescu, Fuxin Li
Convex Shape Decomposition (PDF)
Liu Hairong, Longin Jan Latecki, Liu Wenyu
Covering Trees and Lower-bounds on Quadratic Assignment (PDF)
Julian Yarkony, Charless Fowlkes, Alex Ihler
Delineating Trees in 2D Images and 3D Image Stacks
German Gonzalez, Engin Turetken, Francois Fleuret, Pascal Fua
Dense Non-rigid Surface Registration Using High-Order Graph Matching (PDF)
Yun Zeng, Chaohui Wang, Yang Wang, Xianfeng Gu, Dimitris Samaras, Nikos Paragios
Diffeomorphic Sulcal Shape Analysis for Cortical Surface Registration
Shantanu Joshi, Ryan Cabeen, Anand Joshi, Roger Woods, Arthur Toga
Direct Image Alignment of Projector-Camera Systems with Planar Surfaces (PDF)
Samuel Audet, Masatoshi Okutomi, Masayuki Tanaka
Discrete minimum ratio curves and surfaces
Fred Nicolls, Phil Torr
Dominant Orientation Templates for Real-Time Detection of Texture-Less Objects (Abstract, videos)
S. Hinterstoisser, V. Lepetit, S. Ilic, P. Fua, N. Navab
Dynamic
Surface Matching by Geodesic Mapping for 3D Animation Transfer
Tony Tung, Takashi Matsuyama
Dynamic Texture Recognition based on Distributions of Spacetime Oriented Structure (PDF, project, supplementary material)
Konstantinos Derpanis, Richard Wildes
Linked Edges as Stable Region Boundaries (PDF)- formely: Edges as Stable Component Tree Region Boundaries
Michael Donoser, Hayko Riemenschneider, Horst Bischof
Egomotion using assorted features
Vivek Pradeep, Jongwoo Lim
Estimating Optical Properties of Layered Surfaces Using the Spider Model
Tetsuro Morimoto, Robby Tan, Rei Kawakami, Katsushi Ikeuchi
Exploiting Monge Structures in Optimum Subwindow Search
Senjian An, Patrick Peursum, Wanquan Liu, Svetha Venkatesh, Xaioming Chen
Exploring Facial Expression with Compositional Features
Peng Yang, Qingshan Liu, Metaxas Dimitris
Facial Point Detection using Boosted Regression and Graph Models
Michel Valstar, Brais Martinez, Xavier Binefa, Maja Pantic
Factorization towards a Classifier
Qiang Chen, Shuicheng Yan, Tian Tsong Ng
Finding Dots: Segmentation as Popping out Regions from Boundaries (PDF)
Elena Bernardis, Stella Yu
Finding Image Distributions on Active Curves
Ismail Ben Ayed, Amar Mitiche, Mohamed Ben Salah, Shuo Li
Finding Meaning on YouTube: Tag Recommendation, Category Discovery and their Implications in Browsing and Search
George Toderici, Hrishikesh Aradhye, Marius Pasca, Luciano Sbaiz, Jay Yagnik
Finding Nemo: Deformable Object Class Modelling using Curve Matching
Mukta Prasad, Andrew Fitzgibbon
Free-Shape Subwindow Search for Object Localization (PDF)
Zhiqi Zhang, Yu Cao, Dhaval Salvi, Kenton Oliver, Jarrell Waggoner, Song Wang
Geo-location estimation from two shadow trajectories (PDF, project)
Lin Wu, Xiaochun Cao
Geodesic Graph Cut for Interactive Image Segmentation (PDF)
Brian Price, Bryan Morse, Scott Cohen
Geodesic Star Convexity for Interactive Image Segmentation (PDF)
Varun Gulshan, Carsten Rother, Antonio Criminisi, Andrew Blake, Andrew Zisserman
Geometric Properties of Multiple Reflections in Catadioptric Camera with Two Planar Mirrors
Xianghua Ying, Kun Peng, Ren Ren, Hongbin Zha
Gradient-directed High Dynamic Range Imaging
Wei Zhang, Cham Wai-Kuen
Group MRF for fMRI Activation Detection
Bernard Ng, Rafeef Abugharbieh, Ghassan Hamarneh
Group Motion Segmentation Using a Spatio-Temporal Driving Force Model
Ruonan Li, Rama Chellappa
Growing semantically meaningful models for visual SLAM
Alexander Flint, Christopher Mei, David Murray
High-Resolution Modeling of Moving and Deforming Objects Using Sparse Geometric and Dense Photometric Measurements (PDF, project, movie)
Yi Xu, Daniel Aliaga
Highly Accurate Boundary Detection and Grouping
Iasonas Kokkinos
Human Identity Recognition in Aerial Images (PDF, project, dataset, source code)
Omar Oreifej, Ramin Mehran, Mubarak Shah
Illumination Compensation Using Order Consistency
Vasu Parameswaran
Image Retrieval via Probabilistic Hypergraph Ranking
Yuchi Huang, Qingshan Liu, Shaoting Zhang, Dimitris Metaxas
Image Webs: Computing and Exploiting Connectivity in Image Collections (PDF, project, videos)
Implicit Hierarchical Boosting for Multi-view Object Detection
Xavier Perrotton, Marc Sturzel, Michel Roux
Ink-Bleed Reduction using Functional Minimization
Grani Adiwena Hanasusanto, Michael Brown, Zheng Wu
Integrated Pedestrian Classification and Orientation Estimation
Markus Enzweiler, Dariu Gavrila
Line Matching Leveraged By Point Correspondences
Bin Fan, Fuchao Wu, Zhanyi Hu
Live Dense Reconstruction with a Single Moving Camera (PDF)
Local Deformation Profile for Cross-Expression Motion-Based Face Recognition
Ning Ye, Terence Sim
Localizing Non-Overlapping Surveillance Cameras under the L-Infinity Norm
Branislav Micusik, Roman Pflugfelder
Lymph Node Detection in 3-D Chest CT using a Spatial Prior Probability
Johannes Feulner, Kevin Zhou, Martin Huber, Joachim Hornegger, Comaniciu Dorin, Alexander Cavallaro
Making Boltzmann Machines Sharper by Using Dissatisfied Covariance Constraints
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Geoffrey Hinton
Masked FFT Registration
Dirk Padfield
Metric-Induced Optimal Embedding for Intrinsic 3D Shape Analysis
Rongjie Lai, Yonggang Shi, Kevin Scheibel, Scott Fears, Roger Woods, Arthur Toga, Tony Chan
Model-Based Respiratory Motion Compensation for Image-Guided Cardiac Interventions
Matthias Schneider, Hari Sundar
Modeling and Estimating Persistent Motion with Geometric Flows
Dahua Lin, Eric Grimson, John Fisher
Monocular SLAM with Locally Planar Landmarks via Geometric Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering on Lie groups (PDF, video)
Junghyun Kwon, Kyoung Mu Lee
Morphable Reflectance Fields for Enhancing Face Recognition (PDF)
Morphological Snakes (PDF, project)
Luis Alvarez, Luis Baumela, Pedro Henriquez, Pablo Marquez-Neila
Motion Fields to Predict Play Evolution in Dynamic Sport Scenes
Kihwan Kim, Matthias Grundmann, Ariel Shamir, Iain Matthews, Jessica Hodgins, Irfan Essa
Moving Vistas: Exploiting Motion for Describing Scenes (PDF)
Nitesh Shroff, Pavan Turaga, Rama Chellappa
Multi-Structure Model Selection via Kernel Optimization
Tat-Jun Chin, David Suter, Hanzi Wang
Multi-Target Tracking of Time-varying Spatial Patterns (PDF)
Jingchen Liu, Yanxi Liu
Multi-View Object Class Detection With a 3D Geometric Model (PDF)
Joerg Liebelt, Cordelia Schmid
Multi-domain, Higher Order Level Set Scheme for 3D Image Segmentation on the GPU
Ojaswa Sharma, Qin Zhang, Françs Anton, Chandrajit Bajaj
Multiple Object Detection by Sequential Monte Carlo and Hierarchical Detection Network
Michal Sofka, Jingdan Zhang, Kevin Zhou, Comaniciu Dorin
Multisensor-Fusion for 3D Full-Body Human Motion Capture (dataset)
Gerard Pons-Moll, Andreas Baak, Thomas Helten, Meinard Mueller, Hans-Peter Seidel, Bodo Rosenhahn
Natural Gradients for Deformable Registration (Abstract)
Darko Zikic, Ali Kamen, Nassir Navab
Neuron Geometry Extraction by Perceptual Grouping in ssTEM images
Verena Kaynig, Thomas Fuchs, Joachim Buhmann
Novel Observation Model for Probabilistic Object Tracking
Dawei Liang, Qingming Huang, Hongxun Yao, Shuqiang Jiang, wen Gao
Object Cut: Complex 3D Object Reconstruction through Line Drawing Separation
Tianfan Xue, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang
Object Detection via Boundary Structure Segmentation (PDF)
Alexander Toshev, Ben Taskar, Kostas Daniilidis
Object Recognition as Ranking Holistic Figure-Ground Hypotheses (PDF)
Fuxin Li, JoãCarreira, Cristian Sminchisescu
Object-to-Object Color Transfer: Optimal Flows and SMSP Transformations (PDF)
Daniel Freedman, Pavel Kisilev
One-Shot Multi-Set Non-rigid Feature-Spatial Matching
Marwan Torki, Ahmed Elgammal
Optimal Coded Sampling for Temporal Super-Resolution (PDF)
Amit Agrawal, Mohit Gupta, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Srinivasa Narasimhan
Optimizing Kd-trees for Scalable Visual Descriptor Matching
You Jia, Jingdong Wang, Gang Zeng, Xian-Sheng Hua
Pareto-optimal Dictionaries for Signatures (PDF)
M. Calonder, V. Lepetit, P. Fua
Person Re-Identification by Symmetry-Driven Accumulation of Local Features
Michela Farenzena, Loris Bazzani, Alessandro Perina, Vittorio Murino, Marco Cristani
Player Localization Using Multiple Static Cameras for Sports Visualization
Raffay Hamid, Ramkrishan Kumar, Matthias Grundmann, Kihwan Kim, Irfan Essa, Jessica Hodgins
Point-Based Non-Rigid Surface Registration with Accuracy Estimation
Hidekata Hontani, Wataru Watanabe
Probabilistic 3D Occupancy Flow with Latent Silhouette Cues (PDF)
Li Guan, Jean-Sebastien Franco, Edmond Boyer, Marc Pollefeys
Recognizing Human Actions from Still Images with Latent Poses
Weilong Yang, Yang Wang, Greg Mori
Reconstruction of Display and Eyes from a Single Image
Dirk Schnieders, Xingdou Fu, Kwan-Yee Wong
Recovering Fluid-type Motions Using Navier-Stokes Potential Flow (PDF)
Feng Li, Liwei Xu, Philippe Guyenne, Jingyi Yu
Recovering Thin Structures via Nonlocal-Means Regularization with Application to Depth from Defocus
Paolo Favaro
Rectification of figures and photos in document images using bounding box interface
Hyung Il Koo, Nam Ik Cho
Regenerative Morphing (PDF, project, video)
Relaxing the 3L algorithm for an accurate implicit polynomial fitting (PDF)
Angel Sappa, Mohammad Rouhani
Removing Rolling Shutter Wobble (PDF)
Simon Baker, Eric Bennett, Sing Bing Kang, Richard Szeliski
Robust Classification of Objects, Faces, and Flowers Using Natural Image Statistics (PDF)
Christopher Kanan, Garrison Cottrell
Scene Understanding by Statistical Modeling of Patterns from Optical Flow
Imran Saleemi
Search Strategies for Multiple Landmark Detection by Submodular Maximization
David Liu, Kevin Zhou, Comaniciu Dorin
Segmenting Video Into Classes of Algorithm-Suitability (PDF, project, supplementary material, video)
Semantic Label Propagation in Video Sequences
Vijay Badrinarayanan, Fabio Galasso, Roberto Cipolla
Sensor Saturation in Fourier Multiplexed Imaging (PDF, movie, project)
Shape and Refractive Index Recovery from Single-View Polarisation Images
Cong Phuoc Huynh, Antonio Robles-Kelly, Edwin Hancock
Sign Ambiguity Resolution for Phase Demodulation in Interferometry with Application to Prelens Tear Film Analysis
Dijia Wu, Kim Boyer
Silhouette Transformation based on Walking Speed for Gait Identification
Yasushi Makihara, Akira Tsuji, Yasushi Yagi
Spatialized Epitome and Its Applications
Xinqi Chu, Shuicheng Yan, Liyuan Li, Kap Luk Chan, Thomas Huang
Specular Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Reflection Correspondences (PDF)
Aswin Sankaranarayanan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Oncel Tuzel, Amit Agrawal
Upsampling Range Data in Dynamic Environments (PDF, project, videos, dataset, implementations) - formely: Super-Resolution of Range Data in Dynamic Environments Using a Gaussian Framework
Surface Color Estimation Based on Inter- and Intra-Pixel Relationships in Outdoor Scenes
Shun Hirose, Tsuyoshi Suenaga, Kentaro Takemura, Rei Kawakami, Jun Takamatsu, Tsukasa Ogasawara
Surface Extraction from Binary Volumes with Higher-Order Smoothness (PDF)
Surface Stereo with Soft Segmentation (PDF)
Michael Bleyer, Carsten Rother, Pushmeet Kohli
Tag-based Web Photo Retrieval Improved by Batch Mode Re-Tagging (PDF)
Lin Chen, Dong Xu, Wai-Hung Tsang, Jiebo Luo
Taxonomic Classification for Web-based Videos
Yang Song, Ming Zhao, Jay Yagnik, Xiaoyun Wu
Curious Snakes: A Minimum-Latency Solution to the Cluttered Background Problem in Active Contours (PDF) - formely: The Cluttered Background Problem for Active Contours: A Minimum-Latency Solution
Ganesh Sundaramoorthi, Stefano Soatto, Anthony Yezzi
Total Bregman Divergence and its Applications to Shape Retrieval
Meizhu Liu, Baba Vemuri, Shun-ichi Amari, Frank Nielsen
Tracking People Interacting with Objects (PDF)
Hedvig Kjellstrom, Michael Black, Danica Kragic
Trajectory Matching from Unsynchronized Videos
Han Hu, Jie Zhou
Transductive Segmentation of Live Video with Non-stationary Background
Zhong Fan, Qin Xueying, Peng Qunsheng
Triangulation Made Easy
Peter Lindstrom
Two Perceptually Motivated Strategies for Shape Classification (PDF)
Andrew Temlyakov, Brent Munsell, Jarrell Waggoner, Song Wang
Unified Graph Matching in Euclidean Spaces (PDF)
Julian McAuley, Teofilo de Campos, Tiberio Caetano
Use Bin-Ratio Information for Category and Scene Classification (PDF)
Nianhua Xie, Haibin Ling, Weiming Hu, Xiaoqin Zhang
Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Wide Field-of-View Aerial Video
Jianjian Xiao, Hui Cheng, Harpreet Sawhney, Feng Han
Visual Recognition and Detection Under Bounded Computational Resources (PDF)
Visual Recognition using Mappings that Replicate Margins
Lior Wolf, Nathan Manor
Warping Background Subtraction (PDF)
Teresa Ko, Stefano Soatto, Deborah Estrin