- Date: June 25, 2011
Awarded to: Paul A. Viola and Michael J. Jones
Awarded for: "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features"
Awarded by: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contact: Michael J. Jones
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - Paper from 10 years ago with the largest impact on the field: "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features", originally published at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2001).
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- Date: June 21, 2011
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Entropy Rate Superpixel Segmentation" by Liu, M.-Y., Tuzel, O., Ramalingam, S. and Chellappa, R., "Structured Light 3D Scanning in the Presence of Global Illumination" by Gupta, M., Agrawal, A., Veeraraghavan, A. and Narasimhan, S., "CrossTrack: Robust 3D Tracking from Two Cross-Sectional Views" by Hussein, M., Porikli, F., Li, R. and Arsian, S., "P2C2: Programmable Pixel Compressive Camera for High Speed Imaging" by Reddy, D., Veeraraghavan, A. and Chellappa, R., "Beyond Alhazen's Problem: Analytical Projection Model for Non-Central Catadioptric Cameras with Quadric Mirrors" by Agrawal, A., Taguchi, Y. and Ramalingam, S. and "The Light-Path Less Traveled" by Ramalingam, S., Bouaziz, S., Sturm, P. and Torr, P. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: May 12, 2011
Where: CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Modeling Cutting Forces for 5-Axis Machining of Sculptured Surfaces" by Boz, Y., Erdim, H. and Lazoglu, I. was presented at the CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations.
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- Date: May 9, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Pose Estimation using Both Points and Lines for Geo-Localization" by Ramalingam, S., Bouaziz, S. and Sturm, P. and "Finding a Needle in a Specular Haystack" by Shroff, N., Taguchi, Y., Tuzel, O., Veeraraghavan, A., Ramalingam, S. and Okuda, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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- Date: April 10, 2011
Where: Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Shape Retrieval on Non-rigid 3D Watertight Meshes" by Lian, Z., Godil, A., Bustos, B., Daoudi, M., Hermans, J., Kawamura, S., Kurita, Y., Lavoua, G., Nguyen, H.V., Ohbuchi, R., Ohkita, Y., Porikli, F., Reuter, M., Sipiran, I., Smeets, P., Suetens, P., Tabia, H. and Vandermeulen, D. was presented at the Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval.
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- Date: April 4, 2011
Where: Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Sensor Placement Tool for Rapid Development of Video Sensor Layouts" by Garaas, T.W. was presented at the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD).
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- Date: March 15, 2011
Where: Machine Vision and Applications
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The article "In-vehicle Camera Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition" by Ruta, A., Porikli, F.M., Watanabe, S. and Li, Y. was published in Machine Vision and Applications.
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- Date: January 15, 2011
Where: Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Camera Models and Fundamental Concepts Used in Geometric Computer Vision" by Sturm, P., Ramalingam, S., Tardif, J.-P., Gasparini, S. and Barreto, J. was published in Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision.
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- Date: January 15, 2011
Where: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "A Fast Bilinear Structure from Motion Algorithm Using a Video Sequence and Inertial Sensors" by Ramachandran, M., Veeraraghavan, A. and Chellappa, R. was published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
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- Date: December 15, 2010
Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Axial-Cones: Modeling Spherical Catadioptric Cameras for Wide-Angle Light Field Rendering:" by Taguchi, Y., Agrawal, A., Veeraraghavan, A., Ramalingam, S. and Raskar, R. was published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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- Date: October 26, 2010
Where: Journal of Vision (J Vis)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Inconsistency between Peri-saccadic Mislocalization and Compression: Evidence for Separate "What" and "Where" Visual Systems" by Luo, G., Garaas, T., Pomplun, M. and Peli, E. was published in Journal of Vision (J Vis).
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- Date: October 24, 2010
Where: International Conference on High Performance Cutting (CIRP)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Prediction of Cutting Forces for 5-Axis Ball-End Milling of Free-Form Surfaces" by Boz, Y., Erdim, H. and Lazoglu, I. was presented at the International Conference on High Performance Cutting (CIRP).
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- Date: October 18, 2010
Where: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "SKYLINE2GPS: Localization in Urban Canyons Using Omni-skylines" by Ramalingam, S., Bouaziz, S., Sturm, P. and Brand, M. was presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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- Date: September 5, 2010
Where: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
MERL Contact: Tim K. Marks
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Image Invariants for Smooth Reflective Surfaces" by Sankaranarayanan, A.C., Veeraraghavan, A., Tuzel, O. and Agrawal, A., "Analytical Forward Projection for Axial Non-Central Dioptric & Catadioptric Cameras" by Agrawal, A., Taguchi, Y. and Ramalingam, S., "P2Pi: A Minimal Solution for Registration of 3D Points to 3D Planes" by Ramalingam, S., Taguchi, Y., Marks, T.K. and Tuzel, O., "Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Methods for Non-Euclidean Manifolds with Applications to Human Activity Analysis in Videos" by Chaudhry, R. and Ivanov, Y. and "Flexible Voxels for Motion-Aware Videography" by Gupta, M., Agrawal, A., Veeraraghavan, A. and Narasimhan, S.G. were presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
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- Date: August 18, 2010
Where: Joint IAPR International Conference on Structural, Syntactic and Statistical Pattern Recognition (SSPR & SPR)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Learning on Manifolds" by Porikli, F. was presented at the Joint IAPR International Conference on Structural, Syntactic and Statistical Pattern Recognition (SSPR & SPR).
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- Date: June 13, 2010
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contacts: Michael J. Jones; Tim K. Marks Brief - The papers "Optimal Coded Sampling for Temporal Super-Resolution" by Agrawal, A.K., Gupta, M., Veeraraghavan, A.N. and Narasimhan, S.G., "Breaking the Interactive Bottleneck in Multi-class Classification with Active Selection and Binary Feedback" by Joshi, A.J., Porikli, F.M. and Papanikolopoulos, N., "Axial Light Field for Curved Mirrors: Reflect Your Perspective, Widen Your View" by Taguchi, Y., Agrawal, A.K., Ramalingam, S. and Veeraraghavan, A.N., "Morphable Reflectance Fields for Enhancing Face Recognition" by Kumar, R., Jones, M.J. and Marks, T.K., "Increasing Depth Resolution of Electron Microscopy of Neural Circuits using Sparse Tomographic Reconstruction" by Veeraraghavan, A., Genkin, A.V., Vitaladevuni, S., Scheffer, L., Xu, S., Hess, H., Fetter, R., Cantoni, M., Knott, G. and Chklovskii, D., "Specular Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Reflection Correspondences" by Sankaranarayanan, A., Veeraraghavan, A.N., Tuzel, C.O. and Agrawal, A.K., "Fast Directional Chamfer Matching" by Liu, M.-Y., Tuzel, C.O., Veeraraghavan, A.N. and Chellappa, R. and "Robust RVM regression using sparse outlier model" by Mitra, K., Veeraraghavan, A. and Chellappa, R. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: June 13, 2010
Where: IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond and in the Visible Spectrum
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "RelCom: Relational Combinatorics Features for Rapid Object Detection" by Venkatraman, V. and Porikli, F.M. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond and in the Visible Spectrum.
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- Date: June 1, 2010
Awarded to: Vijay Venkataraman and Fatih Porikli
Awarded for: "RelCom: Relational Combinatorics Features for Rapid Object Detection"
Awarded by: IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond and in the Visible Spectrum (OTCBVS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
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- Date: May 3, 2010
Where: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
MERL Contact: Tim K. Marks
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Pose Estimation in Heavy Clutter Using a Multi-Flash Camera" by Liu, M.-Y., Tuzel, C.O., Veeraraghavan, A.N., Chellappa, R., Agrawal, A.K. and Okuda, H., "Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering for Probing-based 6-DOF Localization in Robotic Assembly" by Taguchi, Y., Marks, T.K. and Okuda, H. and "Multi-Class Batch-mode Active Learning for Image Classification" by Joshi, A.J., Porikli, F. and Papanikolopoulos, N. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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- Date: May 3, 2010
Where: Eurographics
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Reinterpretable Imager: Towards Variable Post-Capture Space, Angle and Time Resolution in Photography" by Agrawal, A.K., Veeraraghavan, A.N. and Raskar, R. was presented at Eurographics.
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- Date: April 20, 2010
Where: Video Search and Mining
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Statistical Analysis on Manifolds and Its Applications to Video Analysis" by Turaga, P., Veeraraghavan, A.N., Srivastava, A. and Chellappa, R. was published in the book Video Search and Mining.
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- Date: April 15, 2010
Where: SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Needle Picking: A Sampling Based Track-before-Detection Method for Small Targets" by Porikli, F.M. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets.
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- Date: April 14, 2010
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Exploiting User Labels with Generalized Distance Transforms and Random Field Level Sets" by Zhu, Y. and Tieu, K.H. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro.
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- Date: April 8, 2010
Where: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Coded Strobing Photography: Compressive Sensing of High Speed Periodic Events" by Veeraraghavan, A., Reddy, D. and Raskar, R. was published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
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- Date: March 2, 2010
Where: IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "CycleStack: Inferring Periodic Behavior via Temporal Sequence Visualization in Ultrasound Video" by Lee, T.-Y., Chaudhuri, A., Porikli, F.M. and Shen, H.-W. was presented at the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis).
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