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2010

Visibility Maps for Improving Seam Carving

Mansfield, A., Gehler, P., Van Gool, L., Rother, C.

In Media Retargeting Workshop, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), september 2010 (inproceedings)

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2010

Mansfield, A., Gehler, P., Van Gool, L., Rother, C. Visibility Maps for Improving Seam Carving In Media Retargeting Workshop, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), september 2010 (inproceedings)

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A 2D human body model dressed in eigen clothing

Guan, P., Freifeld, O., Black, M. J.

In European Conf. on Computer Vision, (ECCV), pages: 285-298, Springer-Verlag, September 2010 (inproceedings)

Abstract

Detection, tracking, segmentation and pose estimation of people in monocular images are widely studied. Two-dimensional models of the human body are extensively used, however, they are typically fairly crude, representing the body either as a rough outline or in terms of articulated geometric primitives. We describe a new 2D model of the human body contour that combines an underlying naked body with a low-dimensional clothing model. The naked body is represented as a Contour Person that can take on a wide variety of poses and body shapes. Clothing is represented as a deformation from the underlying body contour. This deformation is learned from training examples using principal component analysis to produce eigen clothing. We find that the statistics of clothing deformations are skewed and we model the a priori probability of these deformations using a Beta distribution. The resulting generative model captures realistic human forms in monocular images and is used to infer 2D body shape and pose under clothing. We also use the coefficients of the eigen clothing to recognize different categories of clothing on dressed people. The method is evaluated quantitatively on synthetic and real images and achieves better accuracy than previous methods for estimating body shape under clothing.

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Guan, P., Freifeld, O., Black, M. J. A 2D human body model dressed in eigen clothing In European Conf. on Computer Vision, (ECCV), pages: 285-298, Springer-Verlag, September 2010 (inproceedings)

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Analyzing and Evaluating Markerless Motion Tracking Using Inertial Sensors

Baak, A., Helten, T., Müller, M., Pons-Moll, G., Rosenhahn, B., Seidel, H.

In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV Workshops), September 2010 (inproceedings)

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Baak, A., Helten, T., Müller, M., Pons-Moll, G., Rosenhahn, B., Seidel, H. Analyzing and Evaluating Markerless Motion Tracking Using Inertial Sensors In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV Workshops), September 2010 (inproceedings)

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Trainable, Vision-Based Automated Home Cage Behavioral Phenotyping

Jhuang, H., Garrote, E., Edelman, N., Poggio, T., Steele, A., Serre, T.

In Measuring Behavior, August 2010 (inproceedings)

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Jhuang, H., Garrote, E., Edelman, N., Poggio, T., Steele, A., Serre, T. Trainable, Vision-Based Automated Home Cage Behavioral Phenotyping In Measuring Behavior, August 2010 (inproceedings)

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Decoding complete reach and grasp actions from local primary motor cortex populations

(Featured in Nature’s Research Highlights (Nature, Vol 466, 29 July 2010))

Vargas-Irwin, C. E., Shakhnarovich, G., Yadollahpour, P., Mislow, J., Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P.

J. of Neuroscience, 39(29):9659-9669, July 2010 (article)

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Vargas-Irwin, C. E., Shakhnarovich, G., Yadollahpour, P., Mislow, J., Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P. Decoding complete reach and grasp actions from local primary motor cortex populations J. of Neuroscience, 39(29):9659-9669, July 2010 (article)

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Multisensor-Fusion for 3D Full-Body Human Motion Capture

Pons-Moll, G., Baak, A., Helten, T., Müller, M., Seidel, H., Rosenhahn, B.

In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2010 (inproceedings)

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Pons-Moll, G., Baak, A., Helten, T., Müller, M., Seidel, H., Rosenhahn, B. Multisensor-Fusion for 3D Full-Body Human Motion Capture In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2010 (inproceedings)

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Coded exposure imaging for projective motion deblurring

Tai, Y., Kong, N., Lin, S., Shin, S. Y.

In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 2408-2415, June 2010 (inproceedings)

Abstract

We propose a method for deblurring of spatially variant object motion. A principal challenge of this problem is how to estimate the point spread function (PSF) of the spatially variant blur. Based on the projective motion blur model of, we present a blur estimation technique that jointly utilizes a coded exposure camera and simple user interactions to recover the PSF. With this spatially variant PSF, objects that exhibit projective motion can be effectively de-blurred. We validate this method with several challenging image examples.

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Tai, Y., Kong, N., Lin, S., Shin, S. Y. Coded exposure imaging for projective motion deblurring In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 2408-2415, June 2010 (inproceedings)

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Tracking people interacting with objects

Kjellstrom, H., Kragic, D., Black, M. J.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR, pages: 747-754, June 2010 (inproceedings)

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Kjellstrom, H., Kragic, D., Black, M. J. Tracking people interacting with objects In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR, pages: 747-754, June 2010 (inproceedings)

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Contour people: A parameterized model of 2D articulated human shape

Freifeld, O., Weiss, A., Zuffi, S., Black, M. J.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR), pages: 639-646, IEEE, June 2010 (inproceedings)

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Freifeld, O., Weiss, A., Zuffi, S., Black, M. J. Contour people: A parameterized model of 2D articulated human shape In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR), pages: 639-646, IEEE, June 2010 (inproceedings)

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Secrets of optical flow estimation and their principles

Sun, D., Roth, S., Black, M. J.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 2432-2439, IEEE, June 2010 (inproceedings)

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Sun, D., Roth, S., Black, M. J. Secrets of optical flow estimation and their principles In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 2432-2439, IEEE, June 2010 (inproceedings)

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Guest editorial: State of the art in image- and video-based human pose and motion estimation

Sigal, L., Black, M. J.

International Journal of Computer Vision, 87(1):1-3, March 2010 (article)

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Sigal, L., Black, M. J. Guest editorial: State of the art in image- and video-based human pose and motion estimation International Journal of Computer Vision, 87(1):1-3, March 2010 (article)

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HumanEva: Synchronized video and motion capture dataset and baseline algorithm for evaluation of articulated human motion

Sigal, L., Balan, A., Black, M. J.

International Journal of Computer Vision, 87(1):4-27, Springer Netherlands, March 2010 (article)

Abstract

While research on articulated human motion and pose estimation has progressed rapidly in the last few years, there has been no systematic quantitative evaluation of competing methods to establish the current state of the art. We present data obtained using a hardware system that is able to capture synchronized video and ground-truth 3D motion. The resulting HumanEva datasets contain multiple subjects performing a set of predefined actions with a number of repetitions. On the order of 40,000 frames of synchronized motion capture and multi-view video (resulting in over one quarter million image frames in total) were collected at 60 Hz with an additional 37,000 time instants of pure motion capture data. A standard set of error measures is defined for evaluating both 2D and 3D pose estimation and tracking algorithms. We also describe a baseline algorithm for 3D articulated tracking that uses a relatively standard Bayesian framework with optimization in the form of Sequential Importance Resampling and Annealed Particle Filtering. In the context of this baseline algorithm we explore a variety of likelihood functions, prior models of human motion and the effects of algorithm parameters. Our experiments suggest that image observation models and motion priors play important roles in performance, and that in a multi-view laboratory environment, where initialization is available, Bayesian filtering tends to perform well. The datasets and the software are made available to the research community. This infrastructure will support the development of new articulated motion and pose estimation algorithms, will provide a baseline for the evaluation and comparison of new methods, and will help establish the current state of the art in human pose estimation and tracking.

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Sigal, L., Balan, A., Black, M. J. HumanEva: Synchronized video and motion capture dataset and baseline algorithm for evaluation of articulated human motion International Journal of Computer Vision, 87(1):4-27, Springer Netherlands, March 2010 (article)

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Modellbasierte Echtzeit-Bewegungsschätzung in der Fluoreszenzendoskopie

Stehle, T., Wulff, J., Behrens, A., Gross, S., Aach, T.

In Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, 574, pages: 435-439, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Stehle, T., Wulff, J., Behrens, A., Gross, S., Aach, T. Modellbasierte Echtzeit-Bewegungsschätzung in der Fluoreszenzendoskopie In Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, 574, pages: 435-439, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Robust one-shot 3D scanning using loopy belief propagation

Ulusoy, A., Calakli, F., Taubin, G.

In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on, pages: 15-22, IEEE, 2010 (inproceedings)

Abstract

A structured-light technique can greatly simplify the problem of shape recovery from images. There are currently two main research challenges in design of such techniques. One is handling complicated scenes involving texture, occlusions, shadows, sharp discontinuities, and in some cases even dynamic change; and the other is speeding up the acquisition process by requiring small number of images and computationally less demanding algorithms. This paper presents a “one-shot” variant of such techniques to tackle the aforementioned challenges. It works by projecting a static grid pattern onto the scene and identifying the correspondence between grid stripes and the camera image. The correspondence problem is formulated using a novel graphical model and solved efficiently using loopy belief propagation. Unlike prior approaches, the proposed approach uses non-deterministic geometric constraints, thereby can handle spurious connections of stripe images. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified on a variety of complicated real scenes.

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Ulusoy, A., Calakli, F., Taubin, G. Robust one-shot 3D scanning using loopy belief propagation In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on, pages: 15-22, IEEE, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Scene Carving: Scene Consistent Image Retargeting

Mansfield, A., Gehler, P., Van Gool, L., Rother, C.

In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010 (inproceedings)

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Mansfield, A., Gehler, P., Van Gool, L., Rother, C. Scene Carving: Scene Consistent Image Retargeting In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010 (inproceedings)

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Epione: An Innovative Pain Management System Using Facial Expression Analysis, Biofeedback and Augmented Reality-Based Distraction

Georgoulis, S., Eleftheriadis, S., Tzionas, D., Vrenas, K., Petrantonakis, P., Hadjileontiadis, L. J.

In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, pages: 259-266, INCOS ’10, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 2010 (inproceedings)

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An innovative pain management system, namely Epione, is presented here. Epione deals with three main types of pain, i.e., acute pain, chronic pain, and phantom limb pain. In particular, by using facial expression analysis, Epione forms a dynamic pain meter, which then triggers biofeedback and augmented reality-based destruction scenarios, in an effort to maximize patient's pain relief. This unique combination sets Epione not only a novel pain management approach, but also a means that provides an understanding and integration of the needs of the whole community involved i.e., patients and physicians, in a joint attempt to facilitate easing of their suffering, provide efficient monitoring and contribute to a better quality of life.

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Georgoulis, S., Eleftheriadis, S., Tzionas, D., Vrenas, K., Petrantonakis, P., Hadjileontiadis, L. J. Epione: An Innovative Pain Management System Using Facial Expression Analysis, Biofeedback and Augmented Reality-Based Distraction In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, pages: 259-266, INCOS ’10, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Phantom Limb Pain Management Using Facial Expression Analysis, Biofeedback and Augmented Reality Interfacing

Tzionas, D., Vrenas, K., Eleftheriadis, S., Georgoulis, S., Petrantonakis, P. C., Hadjileontiadis, L. J.

In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conferenceon Software Development for EnhancingAccessibility and Fighting Info-Exclusion, pages: 23-30, DSAI ’10, UTAD - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Post-amputation sensation often translates to the feeling of severe pain in the missing limb, referred to as phantom limb pain (PLP). A clear and rational treatment regimen is difficult to establish, as long as the underlying pathophysiology is not fully known. In this work, an innovative PLP management system is presented, as a module of an holistic computer-mediated pain management environment, namely Epione. The proposed Epione-PLP scheme is structured upon advanced facial expression analysis, used to form a dynamic pain meter, which, in turn, is used to trigger biofeedback and augmented reality-based PLP distraction scenarios. The latter incorporate a model of the missing limb for its visualization, in an effort to provide to the amputee the feeling of its existence and control, and, thus, maximize his/her PLP relief. The novel Epione-PLP management approach integrates edge-technology within the context of personalized health and it could be used to facilitate easing of PLP patients' suffering, provide efficient progress monitoring and contribute to the increase in their quality of life.

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Tzionas, D., Vrenas, K., Eleftheriadis, S., Georgoulis, S., Petrantonakis, P. C., Hadjileontiadis, L. J. Phantom Limb Pain Management Using Facial Expression Analysis, Biofeedback and Augmented Reality Interfacing In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conferenceon Software Development for EnhancingAccessibility and Fighting Info-Exclusion, pages: 23-30, DSAI ’10, UTAD - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Automated Home-Cage Behavioral Phenotyping of Mice

Jhuang, H., Garrote, E., Mutch, J., Poggio, T., Steele, A., Serre, T.

Nature Communications, Nature Communications, 2010 (article)

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Jhuang, H., Garrote, E., Mutch, J., Poggio, T., Steele, A., Serre, T. Automated Home-Cage Behavioral Phenotyping of Mice Nature Communications, Nature Communications, 2010 (article)

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An automated action initiation system reveals behavioral deficits in MyosinVa deficient mice

Pandian, S., Edelman, N., Jhuang, H., Serre, T., Poggio, T., Constantine-Paton, M.

Society for Neuroscience, 2010 (conference)

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Pandian, S., Edelman, N., Jhuang, H., Serre, T., Poggio, T., Constantine-Paton, M. An automated action initiation system reveals behavioral deficits in MyosinVa deficient mice Society for Neuroscience, 2010 (conference)

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Dense Marker-less Three Dimensional Motion Capture

Soren Hauberg, Bente Rona Jensen, Morten Engell-Norregaard, Kenny Erleben, Kim S. Pedersen

In Virtual Vistas; Eleventh International Symposium on the 3D Analysis of Human Movement, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Soren Hauberg, Bente Rona Jensen, Morten Engell-Norregaard, Kenny Erleben, Kim S. Pedersen Dense Marker-less Three Dimensional Motion Capture In Virtual Vistas; Eleventh International Symposium on the 3D Analysis of Human Movement, 2010 (inproceedings)

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ImageFlow: Streaming Image Search

Jampani, V., Ramos, G., Drucker, S.

MSR-TR-2010-148, Microsoft Research, Redmond, 2010 (techreport)

Abstract

Traditional grid and list representations of image search results are the dominant interaction paradigms that users face on a daily basis, yet it is unclear that such paradigms are well-suited for experiences where the user‟s task is to browse images for leisure, to discover new information or to seek particular images to represent ideas. We introduce ImageFlow, a novel image search user interface that ex-plores a different alternative to the traditional presentation of image search results. ImageFlow presents image results on a canvas where we map semantic features (e.g., rele-vance, related queries) to the canvas‟ spatial dimensions (e.g., x, y, z) in a way that allows for several levels of en-gagement – from passively viewing a stream of images, to seamlessly navigating through the semantic space and ac-tively collecting images for sharing and reuse. We have implemented our system as a fully functioning prototype, and we report on promising, preliminary usage results.

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Jampani, V., Ramos, G., Drucker, S. ImageFlow: Streaming Image Search MSR-TR-2010-148, Microsoft Research, Redmond, 2010 (techreport)

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On Parameter Learning in CRF-based Approaches to Object Class Image Segmentation

Nowozin, S., Gehler, P., Lampert, C.

In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010 (inproceedings)

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Nowozin, S., Gehler, P., Lampert, C. On Parameter Learning in CRF-based Approaches to Object Class Image Segmentation In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010 (inproceedings)

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Stick It! Articulated Tracking using Spatial Rigid Object Priors

Soren Hauberg, Kim S. Pedersen

In Computer Vision – ACCV 2010, 6494, pages: 758-769, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Kimmel, Ron and Klette, Reinhard and Sugimoto, Akihiro), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Soren Hauberg, Kim S. Pedersen Stick It! Articulated Tracking using Spatial Rigid Object Priors In Computer Vision – ACCV 2010, 6494, pages: 758-769, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Kimmel, Ron and Klette, Reinhard and Sugimoto, Akihiro), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Gaussian-like Spatial Priors for Articulated Tracking

Soren Hauberg, Stefan Sommer, Kim S. Pedersen

In Computer Vision – ECCV 2010, 6311, pages: 425-437, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Daniilidis, Kostas and Maragos, Petros and Paragios, Nikos), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Soren Hauberg, Stefan Sommer, Kim S. Pedersen Gaussian-like Spatial Priors for Articulated Tracking In Computer Vision – ECCV 2010, 6311, pages: 425-437, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Daniilidis, Kostas and Maragos, Petros and Paragios, Nikos), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Reach to grasp actions in rhesus macaques: Dimensionality reduction of hand, wrist, and upper arm motor subspaces using principal component analysis

Vargas-Irwin, C., Franquemont, L., Shakhnarovich, G., Yadollahpour, P., Black, M., Donoghue, J.

2010 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner, Society for Neuroscience, 2010, Online (conference)

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Vargas-Irwin, C., Franquemont, L., Shakhnarovich, G., Yadollahpour, P., Black, M., Donoghue, J. Reach to grasp actions in rhesus macaques: Dimensionality reduction of hand, wrist, and upper arm motor subspaces using principal component analysis 2010 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner, Society for Neuroscience, 2010, Online (conference)

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On Parameter Learning in CRF-based Approaches to Object Class Image Segmentation

Nowozin, S., Gehler, P., Lampert, C.

In European Conference on Computer Vision, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Nowozin, S., Gehler, P., Lampert, C. On Parameter Learning in CRF-based Approaches to Object Class Image Segmentation In European Conference on Computer Vision, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Layered image motion with explicit occlusions, temporal consistency, and depth ordering

Sun, D., Sudderth, E., Black, M. J.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23 (NIPS), pages: 2226-2234, MIT Press, 2010 (inproceedings)

Abstract

Layered models are a powerful way of describing natural scenes containing smooth surfaces that may overlap and occlude each other. For image motion estimation, such models have a long history but have not achieved the wide use or accuracy of non-layered methods. We present a new probabilistic model of optical flow in layers that addresses many of the shortcomings of previous approaches. In particular, we define a probabilistic graphical model that explicitly captures: 1) occlusions and disocclusions; 2) depth ordering of the layers; 3) temporal consistency of the layer segmentation. Additionally the optical flow in each layer is modeled by a combination of a parametric model and a smooth deviation based on an MRF with a robust spatial prior; the resulting model allows roughness in layers. Finally, a key contribution is the formulation of the layers using an image dependent hidden field prior based on recent models for static scene segmentation. The method achieves state-of-the-art results on the Middlebury benchmark and produces meaningful scene segmentations as well as detected occlusion regions.

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Sun, D., Sudderth, E., Black, M. J. Layered image motion with explicit occlusions, temporal consistency, and depth ordering In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23 (NIPS), pages: 2226-2234, MIT Press, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Manifold Valued Statistics, Exact Principal Geodesic Analysis and the Effect of Linear Approximations

Stefan Sommer, Francois Lauze, Soren Hauberg, Mads Nielsen

In Computer Vision – ECCV 2010, 6316, pages: 43-56, (Editors: Daniilidis, Kostas and Maragos, Petros and Paragios, Nikos), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Stefan Sommer, Francois Lauze, Soren Hauberg, Mads Nielsen Manifold Valued Statistics, Exact Principal Geodesic Analysis and the Effect of Linear Approximations In Computer Vision – ECCV 2010, 6316, pages: 43-56, (Editors: Daniilidis, Kostas and Maragos, Petros and Paragios, Nikos), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010 (inproceedings)

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GPU Accelerated Likelihoods for Stereo-Based Articulated Tracking

Rune Mollegaard Friborg, Soren Hauberg, Kenny Erleben

In The CVGPU workshop at European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Rune Mollegaard Friborg, Soren Hauberg, Kenny Erleben GPU Accelerated Likelihoods for Stereo-Based Articulated Tracking In The CVGPU workshop at European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Visual Object-Action Recognition: Inferring Object Affordances from Human Demonstration

Kjellström, H., Romero, J., Kragic, D.

Computer Vision and Image Understanding, pages: 81-90, 2010 (article)

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Kjellström, H., Romero, J., Kragic, D. Visual Object-Action Recognition: Inferring Object Affordances from Human Demonstration Computer Vision and Image Understanding, pages: 81-90, 2010 (article)

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Unsupervised learning of a low-dimensional non-linear representation of motor cortical neuronal ensemble activity using Spatio-Temporal Isomap

Kim, S., Tsoli, A., Jenkins, O., Simeral, J., Donoghue, J., Black, M.

2010 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner, Society for Neuroscience, 2010, Online (conference)

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Kim, S., Tsoli, A., Jenkins, O., Simeral, J., Donoghue, J., Black, M. Unsupervised learning of a low-dimensional non-linear representation of motor cortical neuronal ensemble activity using Spatio-Temporal Isomap 2010 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner, Society for Neuroscience, 2010, Online (conference)

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3D Knowledge-Based Segmentation Using Pose-Invariant Higher-Order Graphs

Wang, C., Teboul, O., Michel, F., Essafi, S., Paragios, N.

In International Conference, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2010 (inproceedings)

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Wang, C., Teboul, O., Michel, F., Essafi, S., Paragios, N. 3D Knowledge-Based Segmentation Using Pose-Invariant Higher-Order Graphs In International Conference, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2010 (inproceedings)

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Vision-Based Automated Recognition of Mice Home-Cage Behaviors.

Jhuang, H., Garrote, E., Edelman, N., Poggio, T., Steele, A., Serre, T.

Workshop: Visual Observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior, in conjunction with International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) , 2010 (conference)

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Jhuang, H., Garrote, E., Edelman, N., Poggio, T., Steele, A., Serre, T. Vision-Based Automated Recognition of Mice Home-Cage Behaviors. Workshop: Visual Observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior, in conjunction with International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) , 2010 (conference)

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Hands in action: real-time 3D reconstruction of hands in interaction with objects

Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D.

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 458-463, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D. Hands in action: real-time 3D reconstruction of hands in interaction with objects In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 458-463, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Orientation and direction selectivity in the population code of the visual thalamus

Stanley, G., Jin, J., Wang, Y., Desbordes, G., Black, M., Alonso, J.

COSYNE, 2010 (conference)

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Stanley, G., Jin, J., Wang, Y., Desbordes, G., Black, M., Alonso, J. Orientation and direction selectivity in the population code of the visual thalamus COSYNE, 2010 (conference)

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Estimating Shadows with the Bright Channel Cue

Panagopoulos, A., Wang, C., Samaras, D., Paragios, N.

In Color and Reflectance in Imaging and Computer Vision Workshop (CRICV) (in conjunction with ECCV 2010), 2010 (inproceedings)

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Panagopoulos, A., Wang, C., Samaras, D., Paragios, N. Estimating Shadows with the Bright Channel Cue In Color and Reflectance in Imaging and Computer Vision Workshop (CRICV) (in conjunction with ECCV 2010), 2010 (inproceedings)

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Dense non-rigid surface registration using high-order graph matching

Zeng, Y., Wang, C., Wang, Y., Gu, X., Samaras, D., Paragios, N.

In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010 (inproceedings)

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Zeng, Y., Wang, C., Wang, Y., Gu, X., Samaras, D., Paragios, N. Dense non-rigid surface registration using high-order graph matching In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010 (inproceedings)

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Computational Mechanisms for the motion processing in visual area MT

Jhuang, H., Serre, T., Poggio, T.

Society for Neuroscience, 2010 (conference)

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Jhuang, H., Serre, T., Poggio, T. Computational Mechanisms for the motion processing in visual area MT Society for Neuroscience, 2010 (conference)

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Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Grasping Actions

Romero, J., Feix, T., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D.

In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, pages: 2103-2108, 2010 (inproceedings)

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Romero, J., Feix, T., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D. Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Grasping Actions In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, pages: 2103-2108, 2010 (inproceedings)

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2008

Learning Optical Flow

Sun, D., Roth, S., Lewis, J., Black, M. J.

In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV, 5304, pages: 83-97, LNCS, (Editors: Forsyth, D. and Torr, P. and Zisserman, A.), Springer-Verlag, October 2008 (inproceedings)

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Assumptions of brightness constancy and spatial smoothness underlie most optical flow estimation methods. In contrast to standard heuristic formulations, we learn a statistical model of both brightness constancy error and the spatial properties of optical flow using image sequences with associated ground truth flow fields. The result is a complete probabilistic model of optical flow. Specifically, the ground truth enables us to model how the assumption of brightness constancy is violated in naturalistic sequences, resulting in a probabilistic model of "brightness inconstancy". We also generalize previous high-order constancy assumptions, such as gradient constancy, by modeling the constancy of responses to various linear filters in a high-order random field framework. These filters are free variables that can be learned from training data. Additionally we study the spatial structure of the optical flow and how motion boundaries are related to image intensity boundaries. Spatial smoothness is modeled using a Steerable Random Field, where spatial derivatives of the optical flow are steered by the image brightness structure. These models provide a statistical motivation for previous methods and enable the learning of all parameters from training data. All proposed models are quantitatively compared on the Middlebury flow dataset.

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Sun, D., Roth, S., Lewis, J., Black, M. J. Learning Optical Flow In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV, 5304, pages: 83-97, LNCS, (Editors: Forsyth, D. and Torr, P. and Zisserman, A.), Springer-Verlag, October 2008 (inproceedings)

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GNU Octave Manual Version 3

John W. Eaton, David Bateman, Soren Hauberg

Network Theory Ltd., October 2008 (book)

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John W. Eaton, David Bateman, Soren Hauberg GNU Octave Manual Version 3 Network Theory Ltd., October 2008 (book)

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Probabilistic Roadmap Method and Real Time Gait Changing Technique Implementation for Travel Time Optimization on a Designed Six-legged Robot

Ahmad, A., Dhang, N.

In pages: 1-5, October 2008 (inproceedings)

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This paper presents design and development of a six legged robot with a total of 12 degrees of freedom, two in each limb and then an implementation of 'obstacle and undulated terrain-based' probabilistic roadmap method for motion planning of this hexaped which is able to negotiate large undulations as obstacles. The novelty in this implementation is that, it doesnt require the complete view of the robot's configuration space at any given time during the traversal. It generates a map of the area that is in visibility range and finds the best suitable point in that field of view to make it as the next node of the algorithm. A particular category of undulations which are small enough are automatically 'run-over' as a part of the terrain and not considered as obstacles. The traversal between the nodes is optimized by taking the shortest path and the most optimum gait at that instance which the hexaped can assume. This is again a novel approach to have a real time gait changing technique to optimize the travel time. The hexaped limb can swing in the robot's X-Y plane and the lower link of the limb can move in robot's Z plane by an implementation of a four-bar mechanism. A GUI based server 'Yellow Ladybird' eventually which is the name of the hexaped, is made for real time monitoring and communicating to it the final destination co-ordinates.

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Ahmad, A., Dhang, N. Probabilistic Roadmap Method and Real Time Gait Changing Technique Implementation for Travel Time Optimization on a Designed Six-legged Robot In pages: 1-5, October 2008 (inproceedings)

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The naked truth: Estimating body shape under clothing,

Balan, A., Black, M. J.

In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV, 5304, pages: 15-29, LNCS, (Editors: D. Forsyth and P. Torr and A. Zisserman), Springer-Verlag, Marseilles, France, October 2008 (inproceedings)

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We propose a method to estimate the detailed 3D shape of a person from images of that person wearing clothing. The approach exploits a model of human body shapes that is learned from a database of over 2000 range scans. We show that the parameters of this shape model can be recovered independently of body pose. We further propose a generalization of the visual hull to account for the fact that observed silhouettes of clothed people do not provide a tight bound on the true 3D shape. With clothed subjects, different poses provide different constraints on the possible underlying 3D body shape. We consequently combine constraints across pose to more accurately estimate 3D body shape in the presence of occluding clothing. Finally we use the recovered 3D shape to estimate the gender of subjects and then employ gender-specific body models to refine our shape estimates. Results on a novel database of thousands of images of clothed and "naked" subjects, as well as sequences from the HumanEva dataset, suggest the method may be accurate enough for biometric shape analysis in video.

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Balan, A., Black, M. J. The naked truth: Estimating body shape under clothing, In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV, 5304, pages: 15-29, LNCS, (Editors: D. Forsyth and P. Torr and A. Zisserman), Springer-Verlag, Marseilles, France, October 2008 (inproceedings)

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Infinite Kernel Learning

Gehler, P., Nowozin, S.

(178), Max Planck Institute, octomber 2008 (techreport)

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Gehler, P., Nowozin, S. Infinite Kernel Learning (178), Max Planck Institute, octomber 2008 (techreport)

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A non-parametric Bayesian alternative to spike sorting

Wood, F., Black, M. J.

J. Neuroscience Methods, 173(1):1–12, August 2008 (article)

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The analysis of extra-cellular neural recordings typically begins with careful spike sorting and all analysis of the data then rests on the correctness of the resulting spike trains. In many situations this is unproblematic as experimental and spike sorting procedures often focus on well isolated units. There is evidence in the literature, however, that errors in spike sorting can occur even with carefully collected and selected data. Additionally, chronically implanted electrodes and arrays with fixed electrodes cannot be easily adjusted to provide well isolated units. In these situations, multiple units may be recorded and the assignment of waveforms to units may be ambiguous. At the same time, analysis of such data may be both scientifically important and clinically relevant. In this paper we address this issue using a novel probabilistic model that accounts for several important sources of uncertainty and error in spike sorting. In lieu of sorting neural data to produce a single best spike train, we estimate a probabilistic model of spike trains given the observed data. We show how such a distribution over spike sortings can support standard neuroscientific questions while providing a representation of uncertainty in the analysis. As a representative illustration of the approach, we analyzed primary motor cortical tuning with respect to hand movement in data recorded with a chronic multi-electrode array in non-human primates.We found that the probabilistic analysis generally agrees with human sorters but suggests the presence of tuned units not detected by humans.

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Wood, F., Black, M. J. A non-parametric Bayesian alternative to spike sorting J. Neuroscience Methods, 173(1):1–12, August 2008 (article)

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Dynamic time warping for binocular hand tracking and reconstruction

Romero, J., Kragic, D., Kyrki, V., Argyros, A.

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,ICRA, pages: 2289 -2294, May 2008 (inproceedings)

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Romero, J., Kragic, D., Kyrki, V., Argyros, A. Dynamic time warping for binocular hand tracking and reconstruction In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,ICRA, pages: 2289 -2294, May 2008 (inproceedings)

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Neural control of computer cursor velocity by decoding motor cortical spiking activity in humans with tetraplegia

(J. Neural Engineering Highlights of 2008 Collection)

Kim, S., Simeral, J., Hochberg, L., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J.

J. Neural Engineering, 5, pages: 455–476, 2008 (article)

Abstract

Computer-mediated connections between human motor cortical neurons and assistive devices promise to improve or restore lost function in people with paralysis. Recently, a pilot clinical study of an intracortical neural interface system demonstrated that a tetraplegic human was able to obtain continuous two-dimensional control of a computer cursor using neural activity recorded from his motor cortex. This control, however, was not sufficiently accurate for reliable use in many common computer control tasks. Here, we studied several central design choices for such a system including the kinematic representation for cursor movement, the decoding method that translates neuronal ensemble spiking activity into a control signal and the cursor control task used during training for optimizing the parameters of the decoding method. In two tetraplegic participants, we found that controlling a cursor’s velocity resulted in more accurate closed-loop control than controlling its position directly and that cursor velocity control was achieved more rapidly than position control. Control quality was further improved over conventional linear filters by using a probabilistic method, the Kalman filter, to decode human motor cortical activity. Performance assessment based on standard metrics used for the evaluation of a wide range of pointing devices demonstrated significantly improved cursor control with velocity rather than position decoding.

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Kim, S., Simeral, J., Hochberg, L., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J. Neural control of computer cursor velocity by decoding motor cortical spiking activity in humans with tetraplegia J. Neural Engineering, 5, pages: 455–476, 2008 (article)

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Incremental nonparametric Bayesian regression

Wood, F., Grollman, D. H., Heller, K. A., Jenkins, O. C., Black, M. J.

(CS-08-07), Brown University, Department of Computer Science, 2008 (techreport)

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Wood, F., Grollman, D. H., Heller, K. A., Jenkins, O. C., Black, M. J. Incremental nonparametric Bayesian regression (CS-08-07), Brown University, Department of Computer Science, 2008 (techreport)

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Brownian Warps for Non-Rigid Registration

Mads Nielsen, Peter Johansen, Andrew Jackson, Benny Lautrup, Soren Hauberg

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 31, pages: 221-231, Springer Netherlands, 2008 (article)

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Mads Nielsen, Peter Johansen, Andrew Jackson, Benny Lautrup, Soren Hauberg Brownian Warps for Non-Rigid Registration Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 31, pages: 221-231, Springer Netherlands, 2008 (article)

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Simultaneous Visual Recognition of Manipulation Actions and Manipulated Objects

Kjellström, H., Romero, J., Martinez, D., Kragic, D.

In European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, pages: 336-349, 2008 (inproceedings)

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Kjellström, H., Romero, J., Martinez, D., Kragic, D. Simultaneous Visual Recognition of Manipulation Actions and Manipulated Objects In European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, pages: 336-349, 2008 (inproceedings)

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