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2010

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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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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)

Abstract
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)

Abstract
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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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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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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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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Edges as outliers: Anisotropic smoothing using local image statistics

Black, M. J., Sapiro, G.

In Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision, Second Int. Conf., Scale-Space ’99, pages: 259-270, LNCS 1682, Springer, Corfu, Greece, September 1999 (inproceedings)

Abstract
Edges are viewed as statistical outliers with respect to local image gradient magnitudes. Within local image regions we compute a robust statistical measure of the gradient variation and use this in an anisotropic diffusion framework to determine a spatially varying "edge-stopping" parameter σ. We show how to determine this parameter for two edge-stopping functions described in the literature (Perona-Malik and the Tukey biweight). Smoothing of the image is related the local texture and in regions of low texture, small gradient values may be treated as edges whereas in regions of high texture, large gradient magnitudes are necessary before an edge is preserved. Intuitively these results have similarities with human perceptual phenomena such as masking and "popout". Results are shown on a variety of standard images.

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1999

Black, M. J., Sapiro, G. Edges as outliers: Anisotropic smoothing using local image statistics In Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision, Second Int. Conf., Scale-Space ’99, pages: 259-270, LNCS 1682, Springer, Corfu, Greece, September 1999 (inproceedings)

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Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion discontinuities

(Marr Prize, Honorable Mention)

Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J.

In Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV-99, pages: 551-558, ICCV, Corfu, Greece, September 1999 (inproceedings)

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Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J. Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion discontinuities In Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV-99, pages: 551-558, ICCV, Corfu, Greece, September 1999 (inproceedings)

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Artscience Sciencart

Black, M. J., Levy, D., PamelaZ,

In Art and Innovation: The Xerox PARC Artist-in-Residence Program, pages: 244-300, (Editors: Harris, C.), MIT-Press, 1999 (incollection)

Abstract
One of the effects of the PARC Artist In Residence (PAIR) program has been to expose the strong connections between scientists and artists. Both do what they do because they need to do it. They are often called upon to justify their work in order to be allowed to continue to do it. They need to justify it to funders, to sponsoring institutions, corporations, the government, the public. They publish papers, teach workshops, and write grants touting the educational or health benefits of what they do. All of these things are to some extent valid, but the fact of the matter is: artists and scientists do their work because they are driven to do it. They need to explore and create.

This chapter attempts to give a flavor of one multi-way "PAIRing" between performance artist PamelaZ and two PARC researchers, Michael Black and David Levy. The three of us paired up because we found each other interesting. We chose each other. While most artists in the program are paired with a single researcher Pamela jokingly calls herself a bigamist for choosing two PAIR "husbands" with different backgrounds and interests.

There are no "rules" to the PAIR program; no one told us what to do with our time. Despite this we all had a sense that we needed to produce something tangible during Pamela's year-long residency. In fact, Pamela kept extending her residency because she did not feel as though we had actually made anything concrete. The interesting thing was that all along we were having great conversations, some of which Pamela recorded. What we did not see at the time was that it was these conversations between artists and scientists that are at the heart of the PAIR program and that these conversations were changing the way we thought about our own work and the relationships between science and art.

To give these conversations their due, and to allow the reader into our PAIR interactions, we include two of our many conversations in this chapter.

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Black, M. J., Levy, D., PamelaZ, Artscience Sciencart In Art and Innovation: The Xerox PARC Artist-in-Residence Program, pages: 244-300, (Editors: Harris, C.), MIT-Press, 1999 (incollection)

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Parameterized modeling and recognition of activities

Yacoob, Y., Black, M. J.

Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 73(2):232-247, 1999 (article)

Abstract
In this paper we consider a class of human activities—atomic activities—which can be represented as a set of measurements over a finite temporal window (e.g., the motion of human body parts during a walking cycle) and which has a relatively small space of variations in performance. A new approach for modeling and recognition of atomic activities that employs principal component analysis and analytical global transformations is proposed. The modeling of sets of exemplar instances of activities that are similar in duration and involve similar body part motions is achieved by parameterizing their representation using principal component analysis. The recognition of variants of modeled activities is achieved by searching the space of admissible parameterized transformations that these activities can undergo. This formulation iteratively refines the recognition of the class to which the observed activity belongs and the transformation parameters that relate it to the model in its class. We provide several experiments on recognition of articulated and deformable human motions from image motion parameters.

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Yacoob, Y., Black, M. J. Parameterized modeling and recognition of activities Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 73(2):232-247, 1999 (article)

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Explaining optical flow events with parameterized spatio-temporal models

Black, M. J.

In IEEE Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR’99, pages: 326-332, IEEE, Fort Collins, CO, 1999 (inproceedings)

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Black, M. J. Explaining optical flow events with parameterized spatio-temporal models In IEEE Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR’99, pages: 326-332, IEEE, Fort Collins, CO, 1999 (inproceedings)

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1997

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Robust anisotropic diffusion and sharpening of scalar and vector images

Black, M. J., Sapiro, G., Marimont, D., Heeger, D.

In Int. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP, 1, pages: 263-266, Vol. 1, Santa Barbara, CA, October 1997 (inproceedings)

Abstract
Relations between anisotropic diffusion and robust statistics are described. We show that anisotropic diffusion can be seen as a robust estimation procedure that estimates a piecewise smooth image from a noisy input image. The "edge-stopping" function in the anisotropic diffusion equation is closely related to the error norm and influence function in the robust estimation framework. This connection leads to a new "edge-stopping" function based on Tukey's biweight robust estimator, that preserves sharper boundaries than previous formulations and improves the automatic stopping of the diffusion. The robust statistical interpretation also provides a means for detecting the boundaries (edges) between the piecewise smooth regions in the image. We extend the framework to vector-valued images and show applications to robust image sharpening.

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1997

Black, M. J., Sapiro, G., Marimont, D., Heeger, D. Robust anisotropic diffusion and sharpening of scalar and vector images In Int. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP, 1, pages: 263-266, Vol. 1, Santa Barbara, CA, October 1997 (inproceedings)

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Robust anisotropic diffusion: Connections between robust statistics, line processing, and anisotropic diffusion

Black, M. J., Sapiro, G., Marimont, D., Heeger, D.

In Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision, Scale-Space’97, pages: 323-326, LNCS 1252, Springer Verlag, Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 1997 (inproceedings)

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Black, M. J., Sapiro, G., Marimont, D., Heeger, D. Robust anisotropic diffusion: Connections between robust statistics, line processing, and anisotropic diffusion In Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision, Scale-Space’97, pages: 323-326, LNCS 1252, Springer Verlag, Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 1997 (inproceedings)

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Learning parameterized models of image motion

Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D., Fleet, D. J.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR-97, pages: 561-567, Puerto Rico, June 1997 (inproceedings)

Abstract
A framework for learning parameterized models of optical flow from image sequences is presented. A class of motions is represented by a set of orthogonal basis flow fields that are computed from a training set using principal component analysis. Many complex image motions can be represented by a linear combination of a small number of these basis flows. The learned motion models may be used for optical flow estimation and for model-based recognition. For optical flow estimation we describe a robust, multi-resolution scheme for directly computing the parameters of the learned flow models from image derivatives. As examples we consider learning motion discontinuities, non-rigid motion of human mouths, and articulated human motion.

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Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D., Fleet, D. J. Learning parameterized models of image motion In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR-97, pages: 561-567, Puerto Rico, June 1997 (inproceedings)

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Analysis of gesture and action in technical talks for video indexing

Ju, S. X., Black, M. J., Minneman, S., Kimber, D.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages: 595-601, CVPR-97, Puerto Rico, June 1997 (inproceedings)

Abstract
In this paper, we present an automatic system for analyzing and annotating video sequences of technical talks. Our method uses a robust motion estimation technique to detect key frames and segment the video sequence into subsequences containing a single overhead slide. The subsequences are stabilized to remove motion that occurs when the speaker adjusts their slides. Any changes remaining between frames in the stabilized sequences may be due to speaker gestures such as pointing or writing and we use active contours to automatically track these potential gestures. Given the constrained domain we define a simple ``vocabulary'' of actions which can easily be recognized based on the active contour shape and motion. The recognized actions provide a rich annotation of the sequence that can be used to access a condensed version of the talk from a web page.

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Ju, S. X., Black, M. J., Minneman, S., Kimber, D. Analysis of gesture and action in technical talks for video indexing In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages: 595-601, CVPR-97, Puerto Rico, June 1997 (inproceedings)

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Modeling appearance change in image sequences

Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Fleet, D. J.

In Advances in Visual Form Analysis, pages: 11-20, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, May 1997 (inproceedings)

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Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Fleet, D. J. Modeling appearance change in image sequences In Advances in Visual Form Analysis, pages: 11-20, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, May 1997 (inproceedings)

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Recognizing facial expressions in image sequences using local parameterized models of image motion

Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y.

Int. Journal of Computer Vision, 25(1):23-48, 1997 (article)

Abstract
This paper explores the use of local parametrized models of image motion for recovering and recognizing the non-rigid and articulated motion of human faces. Parametric flow models (for example affine) are popular for estimating motion in rigid scenes. We observe that within local regions in space and time, such models not only accurately model non-rigid facial motions but also provide a concise description of the motion in terms of a small number of parameters. These parameters are intuitively related to the motion of facial features during facial expressions and we show how expressions such as anger, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, and sadness can be recognized from the local parametric motions in the presence of significant head motion. The motion tracking and expression recognition approach performed with high accuracy in extensive laboratory experiments involving 40 subjects as well as in television and movie sequences.

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