Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

 CVPR’00

 

Preliminary Program
(Subject to change)

 

May 23, 2000

 

Sunday, June 11, 2000

 

Workshop: Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis

 

Monday, June 12, 2000

 

Tutorial: Vision by Inference and Learning in Graphical Models

Workshop: Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis

Workshop: Omnidirectional Vision

Workshop: Content-Based Access of Image and Video Library 2000

 

Tuesday, June 13, 2000

 

08h00    Registration

 

08h00-08h15   Welcome

08h15-09h15    Plenary lecture, Y. LeCun, "Gradient-Based Learning for Detection, Segmentation, and Recognition,"AT&T Labs-Research, Red Bank, NJ.

 

09h15-17h15   Demonstrations

 

Real-time 3D Motion and Structure of Point-features: A Front-end for Vision-based Control and Interaction, Hailin Jin, Paolo Favaro and Stefano Soatto, (Washington University, St.Louis)

 

Model Independent/Dependent Multi-View Pose Estimation, Yanlin Guo, Steve Hsu, Supun Samarasekera, Harpreet Sawhney, Rakesh Kumar (Sarnoff Corporation)

 

Robust 3D object extraction from image sequences, Arthur Zwern, Franco Callari (Geometrix, Inc.), Gerard Medioni (University of Southern California)

 

Creating geometrically and photometrically correct 3D models of buildings in urban environments, Ioannis Stamos, Peter K. Allen

 

Censys3D, people tracking and counting application using the Digiclops stereo vision system

Malcolm Steenburgh, Vladimir Tucakov, Don Murray (Point Grey Research & Univ. of British Columbia)

 

Sensor-Networked Mobile Robotics, Thomas Christensen, Mads Noergaard, Claus Madsen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Adam Hoover (Clemson University)

 

Human Head Tracking by Real-time Stereo Vision, Shigeru Kimura (TRDI of JDT, Tokyo, Japan), Eiji Kawamura, Hideki Tanuma (CyVerse Corp. Kawasaki, Japan)

 

09h15-10h25  Poster Session 1: Early Vision, Stereo and Tracking

 

ROR: Rejection of Outliers by Rotations in Stereo Matching, A. Adam, E. Rivlin, I. Shimshoni

 

Alpha Estimation in Natural Images, M. Ruzon, C. Tomasi

 

Assignment Problem in Edge Detection Performance Evaluation, G. Liu, R. Haralick

 

Segmentation with Invisible Keying Signal, M. Ben-Ezra

 

Blind Recovery of Transparent and Semireflected Scenes, Y. Schechner, N. Kiryati, J. Shamir

 

A Boundary Extraction Method based on Dual-T-Snakes and Dynamic Programming,

G. Giraldi, E. Strauss, A. Oliveira

 

Measurement of Color Invariants, J. Geusebroek, A. Smeulders

 

Are Multifractal Multipermuted Multinomial Measures Good Enough for Unsupervised Image Segmentation?

L. Kam, J. Blanc-Talon

 

A Region Extraction Method using Multiple Active Contour Models, T. Abe, Y. Matsuzawa

 

Fast Multiscale Image Segmentation, E. Sharon, A. Brandt, R. Basri

 

Learning Patterns from Images by Combining Soft Decisions and Hard Decisions

P. Hong, R. Wang, T. Huang

 

On Measuring Low-Level Saliency in Photographic Images, J. Luo, A. Singhal

 

Physical Panoramic Pyramid and Noise Sensitivity in Pyramids, W. Yin, T. Boult

 

Mixture Models and the Segmentation of Multimodal Textures, R. Manduchi

 

An Appearance Representation for Multiple Reflection Components, S. Lin, S. Lee

 

Segmenting Visual Actions based on Spatio-Temporal Motion Patterns, Y. Rui, P. Anandan

 

A Curve Evolution Approach to Smoothing and Segmentation Using the Mumford-Shah Functional,

A. Tsai, A. Yezzi, Jr., A. Willsky

 

Statistical Cues for Domain Specific Image Segmentation with Performance Analysis, S. Konishi, A. Yuille

 

Color Tracking by Transductive Learning, Y. Wu, T. Huang

 

Provably Fast Algorithms for Contour Tracking, D. Freedman, M. Brandstein

 

Multifeature Object Tracking using a Model-Free Approach, H. Nguyen, M. Worring

 

Scene Constraints-Aided Tracking of Human Body, M. Yamamoto, K. Yagishita

 

Tracking of Elongated Structures using Statistical Snakes, R. Toledo, X. Orriols, X. Binefa, P. Radeva, J. Vitriŕ, J. Villanueva

 

Detecting and Tracking Eyes by using their Physiological Properties, Dynamics, and Appearance, A. Haro, M. Flickner, I. Essa

 

Stereoscopic Shading: Integrating Multi-Frame Shape Cues in a Variational Framework, H. Jin, A. Yezzi, S. Soatto

 

Stereo without Depth Search and Metric Calibration, H. Hattori, A. Maki

 

Filling in Scenes by Propagating Probabilities through Layers and into Appearance Models, B. Frey

 

Recovering Projection Geometry: How a Cheap Camera Can Outperform an Expensive Stereo System, M. Mitschke, N. Navab

 

Catadioptric Self-Calibration, S. Kang

 

Cameras for Stereo Panoramic Imaging S. Peleg, Y. Pritch, M. Ben-Ezra

 


10h25-12:05    Paper Sessions 1 and 2 in parallel

 

Paper Session 1: Image Retrieval

 

A Probabilistic Architecture for Content-based Image Retrieval, N. Vasconcelos, A. Lippman

 

Discriminant-EM Algorithm with Application to Image Retrieval, Y. Wu, Q. Tian, T. Huang

 

Boosting Image Retrieval, K. Tieu, P. Viola

 

Optimizing Learning in Image Retrieval, Y. Rui, T. Huang

 

Paper Session 2: Illumination

 

Layer Extraction from Multiple Images Containing Reflections and Transparency, R. Szeliski, S. Avidan, P. Anandan

 

In Search of Illumination Invariants, H. Chen, P. Belhumeur, D. Jacobs

 

A Bayesian Framework for Radar Shape-from-Shading, A. Bors, E. Hancock, R. Wilson

 

Illuminant Direction Determination for Multiple Light Sources, Y. Zhang, Y. Yang

 

 

12h05-14h00    Lunch

 

 

14h00-16h05            Paper Sessions 3 and 4 in parallel

 

Paper Session 3: Faces

 

Face Recognition by Distribution Specific Feature Extraction, K. Nagao

 

Illumination-Insensitive Face Recognition using Symmetric Shape-from-Shading, W. Zhao, R. Chellappa

 

Recognizing Upper Face Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis, Y. Tian, T. Kanade, J. Cohn

 

An Image-based Bayesian Framework for Face Detection, L. Meng, T. Nguyen, D. Castańon

 

A Combined Feature-Texture Similarity Measure for Face Alignment under Varying Pose, L. Fan, K. Sung

 

Paper Session 4: Shape and Segmentation

 

Statistical Shape Influence in Geodesic Active Contours, M. Leventon, E. Grimson, O. Faugeras

 

Statistics of Range Images, J. Huang, A. Lee, D. Mumford

 

Image-Consistent Surface Triangulation, D. Morris, T. Kanade

 

Image Segmentation by Nested Cuts, O. Veksler

 

Exact Voxel Occupancy with Graph Cuts, D. Snow, P. Viola, R. Zabih


 

 

16h05-17h015    Poster Session 2: Shape Pattern and Statistics

 

Parameterization of Closed Surfaces for Parametric Surface Description, M. Quicken, C. Brechbühler, J. Hug, H. Blattman, G. Székely

 

Tomographic Reconstruction using Curve Evolution, H. Feng, D. Castańon, W. Karl

 

Perceptual Grouping and Segmentation by Stochastic Clustering, Y. Gdalyahu, N. Shental, D. Weinshall

 

Bayesian Super-Resolved Surface Reconstruction from Images, V. Smelyanskiy, P. Cheeseman, D. Maluf, R. Morris

 

Line Net Global Vectorization: An Algorithm and its Performance Evaluation, J. Song, F. Su, J. Chen, C. Tai, S. Cai

 

Smooth Region Structure: Folds, Domes, Bowls, Ridges, Valleys, and Slopes, D. Sinclair

 

Detecting Changes in 3-D Shape using Self-Consistency, Y. Leclerc, Q. Luong, P. Fua, K. Miyajima

 

A Neural Optimization Framework for Zoom Lens Camera Calibration, M. Ahmed, A. Farag

 

Histogram Preserving Image Transformations, E. Hadjidemetriou, M. Grossberg, S. Nayar

 

Robust and Efficient Skeletal Graphs, P. Dimitrov, C. Phillips, K. Siddiqi

 

Shape Descriptors for Non-Rigid Shapes with a Single Closed Contour, L. Latecki, R. Lakämper, U. Eckhardt

 

A Geometric Approach to Train Support Vector Machines, M. Yang, N. Ahuja

 

Improving Correlation-based DEMs by Image Warping and Facade Correlation, C. Vestri, F. Devernay

 

Codimension ľ Two Geodesic Active Contours for the Segmentation of Tubular Structures, L. Lorigo, O. Faugeras, W. Grimson, R. Keriven, R. Kikinis, A. Nabavi, C. Westin

 

Robust Snake Model, H. Luo, Q. Lu, R. Acharya, R. Gaborski

 

A New Regularized Approach for Contour Morphing, G. Cong, B. Parvin

 

Learning from One Example through Shared Densities on Transforms, E. Miller, N. Matsakis, P. Viola

 

High Dynamic Range Imaging: Spatially Varying Pixel Exposures, S. Nayar, T. Mitsunaga

 

Variable Albedo Surface Reconstruction from Stereo and Shape from Shading, D. Samaras, D. Metaxas, P. Fua, Y. Leclerc

 

Pose Estimation, Model Refinement, and Enhanced Visualization using Video, S. Hsu, S. Samarasekera, R. Kumar, H. Sawhney

 

Maintaining Valid Topology with Active Contours: Theory and Application, A. Perera, C. Tsai, R. Flatland, C. Stewart

 

Error Analysis of Background Adaption, X. Gao, T. Boult, F. Coetzee, V. Ramesh

 

Template Deformation Constrained by Shape Priors, M. Skouson, Z. Liang

 

Adaptive Metric Nearest Neighbor Classification, C. Domeniconi, J. Peng, D. Gunopulos

 

Likelihood Functions and Confidence Bounds for Total-Least-Squares Problems, O. Nestares, D. Fleet, D. Heeger

 

3-D Model Construction using Range and Image Data, I. Stamos, P. Allen

 

A Computational Model for Repeated Pattern Perception using Frieze and Wallpaper Groups, Y. Liu, R. Collins

 

Catadioptric Sensors that Approximate Wide-Angle Perspective Projections, R. Hicks, R. Bajcsy

 

Ill-Posed Problems in Surface and Surface Shape Recovery, G. Kamberov, G. Kamberova

 

Order Parameters for Minimax Entropy Distributions: When does High Level Knowledge Help?, A. Yuille, J. Coughlan, S. Zhu, Y. Wu

 

A Formal Classification of 3D Medial Axis Points and their Local Geometry, P. Giblin, B. Kimia

 

Fixed Topology Skeletons, P. Golland, W. Grimson

 

 

17h15-18h30   Paper Sessions 5 and 6

 

Paper Session 5: Motion and Motion Rendering

 

On the Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes from Reference Views, Y. Wexler, A. Shashua

 

Image-based Re-Rendering of Faces for Continuous Pose and Illumination Directions, A. Stoschek

 

On the Number of Samples Needed in Light Field Rendering with Constant-Depth Assumption, Z. Lin, H. Shum

 

Paper Session 6: Color and Light

 

Chromatic Framework for Vision in Bad Weather, S. Narasimhan, S. Nayar

 

Color Channels Decorrelation by ICA Transformation in the Wavelet Domain for, Color Texture Analysis and Synthesis, Y. Liang, E. Simoncelli, Z. Lei

 

Matching Images with Different Resolutions, Y. Dufournaud, C. Schmid, R. Horaud

 

18h45-20h45  Reception

 

20h30 -   PAMI TC Meeting

 

 


 

Wednesday, June 14, 2000

 

08h00 – Registration

 

08h00-09h00    Plenary Lecture: P. Cavanagh, “What Unnatural Art Reveals About the Natural Brain,” Harvard University

 

09h00-17h15    Demonstrations

 

Intelligent Selection Tools, Eric N. Mortensen, L. Jack Reese, William A. Barrett (Brigham Young University)

 

Segmentation with Invisible Keying, Moshe Ben-Ezra (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

 

Omnidirectional Imaging Technology Demonstration,  Rick Rollins (RemoteReality)

 

Multi-modality Model-Based Registration in the Cardiac Domain, Thomas O'Donnell, Shmuel Aharon, Alok Gupta, Gareth Funka-Lea (Siemens Corporate  Research)

 

Invariant Web Defect Detection and Classification System, Dominik Rohrmus (Siemens Corporate Research)

 

 

Intel's Computer Vision Library: Applications in calibration, stereo, segmentation, tracking, gesture and object recognition, Gary R. Bradski, Jean-Yves Bouguet, Radek Grzeszczuk, Ara Nefian, Mark Holler (Intel Corporation, Microcomputer Research Lab)

 

Cognex In-Sight(tm) 2000, David Michael (Cognex Corp)

 

09h00-10h10    Poster Session 3: Matching, Recognition and Faces

 

A Parametric Template Method and its Application to Robust Matching, K. Tanaka, M. Sano, S. Ohara, M. Okudaira

 

Categorical Representation and Recognition of Oscillatory Motion Patterns, J. Davis, A. Bobick, W. Richards

 

Fast Face Detection using Subspace Discriminant Wavelet Features, Y. Zhu, S. Schwartz, M. Orchard

 

Histogram-based Object Recognition using Shape-from-Shading, P. Worthington, E. Hancock

 

Point Pattern Matching with Robust Spectral Correspondence, M. Carcassoni, E. Hancock

 

Perspective Pose from Spectral Voting, E. Ribeiro, E. Hancock

 

Geodesic Distance Evolution of Surfaces: A New Method for Matching Surfaces, H. Yahia, E. Huot, I. Herlin, I. Cohen

 

Estimating Anthropometry and Pose from a Single Image, C. Barron, I. Kakadiaris

 

Reconstruction of Articulated Objects from Point Correspondences in a Single Uncalibrated Image, C. Taylor

 

Robust Visual Recognition of Color Images, R. Dahyot, P. Charbonnier, F. Heitz

 

Object Recognition for an Intelligent Room, R. Campbell, J. Krumm

 

A General Scheme for Training and Optimization of the Grenander Deformable Template Model, R. Fisker, N. Schultz, N. Duta, J. Carstensen

 

Algorithms for Plane-based Pose Estimation, P. Sturm

 

Recognition of Partially Occluded and/or Imprecisely Localized Faces using a Probabilistic Approach, A. Martínez

 

On the Space Requirements of Indexing 3D Models from 2D Perspective Images, V. Caglioti

 

Learning to Recognize Objects, D. Roth, M. Yang, N. Ahuja

 

Distortion-Invariant Recognition via Jittered Queries, D. DeCoste, M. Burl

 

Integrating Bottom-Up/Top-Down for Object Recognition by Data Driven Markov Chain Monte Carlo, S. Zhu, R. Zhang, Z. Tu

 

A Statistical Method for 3D Object Detection Applied to Faces and Cars, H. Schneiderman, T. Kanade

 

Representation and Recognition of Complex Human Motion, J. Hoey, J. Little

 

A Novel Algorithm for Rotated Human Face Detection, X. Lv, J. Zhou, C. Zhang

 

Solving the Rotation-Estimation Problem by using the Perspective Three-Point Algorithm, T. Moriya, H. Takeda

 

Reliable Feature Matching across Widely Separated Views, . Baumberg

 

Nearest Neighbor Search using Additive Binary Tree, S. Cha, S. Srihari

 

Impact of Dynamic Model Learning on Classification of Human Motion, V. Pavlović, J. Rehg

 

Corner Guided Curve Matching and its Application to Scene Reconstruction, Y. Shan, Z. Zhang

 

Detecting People in Cluttered Indoor Scenes, M. Lee

 

Towards Detection of Human Motion, Y. Song, X. Feng, P. Perona

 

Representation and Optimal Recognition of Human Activities, S. Hongeng, F. Brémond, R. Nevatia

 

Stereo based Gesture Recognition Invariant to 3D Pose and Lighting, R. Grzeszczuk, G. Bradski, M. Chu, J. Bouguet

 

Fusion of Color, Shading and Boundary Information for Factory Pipe Segmentation, B. Thirion, B. Bascle, V. Ramesh, N. Navab

 

Local Appearance for Robust Object Recognition, D. Jugessur, G. Dudek

 

10h10-12h15    Paper Sessions 7 and 8 in parallel

 

Paper Session 7: Statistical Methods and Learning

 

Learning in Gibbsian Fields: How Accurate and How Fast Can It Be?, S. Zhu, X. Liu

 

A Geometric Approach to Blind Deconvolution with Application to Shape from Defocus

S. Soatto, P. Favaro

 

A General Method for Errors-in-Variables Problems in Computer Vision, B. Matei, P. Meer

 

Transformed Hidden Markov Models: Estimating Mixture Models of Images and Inferring Spatial Transformations in Video Sequences, N. Jojic, N. Petrovic, B. Frey, T. Huang

 

Multimodal Speaker Detection using Error Feedback Dynamic Bayesian Networks, V. Pavlović, A. Garg, J. Rehg, T. Huang

 

Paper Session 8: Matching

 

A New Algorithm for Non-Rigid Point Matching, H. Chui, A. Rangarajan

 

Maximum-Likelihood Template Matching, C. Olson

 

Improving Visual Matching, M. Lew, N. Sebe, T. Huang

 

Efficient Matching of Pictorial Structures, P. Felzenszwalb, D. Huttenlocher

 

11:55-12h30    Panel Session: Will Success in Computer Vision Lead to Big Brother?

 

12h30-14h00   Lunch

 

 

 

14h00-16h05 Paper Sessions 9 and 10 in parallel

 

Paper Session 9: Recognition

 

Handwritten Digit Recognition with a Novel Vision Model that Extracts Linearly Separable Features, L. Teow, K. Loe

 

Active Character Recognition using “A*-like” Algorithm, J. Park, V. Govindaraju

 

View-Independent Recognition of Hand Postures, Y. Wu, T. Huang

 

Computing 3D Object Parts from Similarities among Object Views, F. Cutzu

 

Towards Automatic Discovery of Object Categories, M. Weber, M. Welling, P. Perona

 

Paper Session 10: Tracking

 

Simultaneous Tracking and Verification via Sequential Posterior Estimation, B. Li, R. Chellappa

 

 

Tracking Segmented Objects using Tensor Voting, P. Kornprobst, G. Medioni

 

Articulated Body Motion Capture by Annealed Particle Filtering, J. Duetscher, A. Blake, I. Reid

 

Dynamic Layer Representation with Applications to Tracking, H. Tao, H. Sawhney, R. Kumar

 

Real-Time Tracking of Non-Rigid Objects using Mean Shift, D. Comaniciu, V. Ramesh, P. Meer

 

16h05-17h15    Poster Session 4: Applications

 

Estimation and Prediction of Evolving Color Distributions for Skin Segmentation under Varying Illumination, L. Sigal, S. Sclaroff, V. Athitsos

 

Scene Modeling for Wide Area Surveillance and Image Synthesis, A. Mittal, D. Huttenlocher

 

Detecting and Tracking Human Face and Eye using Space-Varying Sensor and an Active Vision Head, M. Yeasin, Y. Kuniyoshi

 

Video Summarization using Singular Value Decomposition, Y. Gong, X. Liu

 

An Effective Approach to Detect Lesions in Color Retinal Images, H. Wang, W. Hsu, K. Goh, M. Lee

 

Augmented Reality System for Surgical Navigation using Robust Target Vision, A. Kosaka, A. Saito, Y. Furuhashi, T. Shibasaki

 

Visual Tunnel Analysis for Visibility Prediction and Camera Planning, S. Kang, S. Seitz, P. Sloan

 

Multisensor Integration for Building Modeling, A. Huertas, Z. Kim, R. Nevatia

 

Zebra-Crossing Detection for the Partially Sighted, S. Se

 

Edge-Constrained Joint View Triangulation for Image Interpolation, M. Lhuillier, L. Quan

 

A Semi-Automatic Method for Resolving Occlusion in Augmented Reality, V. Leptit, M. Berger

 

Flying a Toy Plane, D. Tanguay

 

Integrating Color, Texture, and Geometry for Image Retrieval, N. Howe, D. Huttenlocher

 

Gesture, Speech, and Gaze Cues for Discourse Segmentation, F. Quek, D. McNeill, R. Bryll, C. Kirbas, H. Arslan, K. McCullough, N. Furuyama, R. Ansari

 

Efficient Query Modification for Image Retrieval, G. Aggarwal, S. Ghosal, P. Dubey

 

Calibration of Light Sources, M. Powell, S. Sarkar, D. Goldgof

 

An Energy-based Framework for Dense 3D Registration of Volumetric Brain Images, P. Hellier, C. Barillot, É. Mémin, P. Pérez

 

Feature based Visualization of Geophysical Data, Q. Yang, B. Parvin

 

Automatic Recovery of Relative Camera Rotations for Urban Scenes, M. Antone, S. Teller

 

Using Lexical Similarity in Handwritten Word Recognition, J. Park, V. Govindaraju

 

Arbitrary View Position and Direction Rendering for Large-Scale Scenes, T. Takahashi, H. Kawasaki, K. Ikeuchi, M. Sakauchi

 

Detection of Obstacles in the Flight Path of an Aircraft, T. Gandhi, M. Yang, R. Kasturi, O. Camps, L. Coraor, J. McCandless

 

Indexing for Topics in Videos using Foils, T. Syeda-Mahmood

 

Detecting Dynamic Behavior in Compressed Fingerprint Videos: Distortion, C. Dorai, N. Ratha, R. Bolle

 

Visual Servoing for Automatic and Uncalibrated Needle Placement for Percutaneous Procedures, N. Navab, B. Bascle, M. Loser, B. Geiger, R. Taylor

 

Statistical Modeling and Performance Characterization of a Real-Time Dual Camera Surveillance System, M. Greiffenhagen, V. Ramesh, D. Comaniciu, H. Niemann

 

An On-Line Handwriting Recognition System using Fisher Segmental Matching and

Hypotheses Propagation Network, J. Oh, D. Geiger

 

Probabilistic vs. Geometric Similarity Measures for Image Retrieval, S. Aksoy, R. Haralick

 

Retinal Thickness Measurements in Optical Coherence Tomography using a Markov Boundary Model, D. Koozekanani, K. Boyer, C. Roberts

 

17h15-18h30    Paper Sessions 11 and 12 in parallel

 

Paper Session 11: Sensors

 

Limits on Super-Resolution and How to Break Them, S. Baker, T. Kanade

 

Rectified Catadioptric Stereo Sensors, J. Gluckman, S. Nayar

 

360 ´ 360 Mosaics, S. Nayar, A. Karmarkar

 

Paper Session 12: Features

 

Inconsistencies in Edge Detector Evaluation, L. Forbes, B. Draper

 

Towards Reliable Fusion of Segmented Surface Descriptions, D. Fischer, P. Kohlhepp

 

Surface Landmark Selection and Matching in Natural Terrain, A. Johnson

 

 

19h00-21h00: Banquet