MIT AI Lab Vision Interface Reading Group

Alternate Tuesdays at noon starting 2/22/00, 9th Floor Conference Room



Tuesday Feb 22nd - Introductions 

Tuesday March 7th - Face Detection
H. Rowley, S. Baluja, and T. Kanade, Rotation Invariant Neural Network-Based Face Detection,  Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 1998. [web]

Tom Rikert and Mike Jones and Paul Viola , A Cluster-Based Statistical Model for Object Detection,  Proceedings of ICCV 1999. [PS] [PDF]

K.-K. Sung and T. Poggio, Example-based Learning for View-based Human Face Detection" AI Memo 1521/CBCL Paper 112, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, December 1994.

Brian Scassellati. Eye Finding via Face Detection for a Foveated, Active Vision System. AAAI 1998.   [postscript, compressed, 8 pages, 1.75 Mb] [PDF, 8 pages, 2.2 Mb]
 




Tuesday March 14th  in 8th floor playroom  - Face Recognition
Moghaddam B., Wahid W. and Pentland A., Beyond Eigenfaces: Probabilistic Matching for Face Recognition    International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, Nara, Japan, April 1998.    (TR #443)

G. Sukthankar, Face Recognition: A Critical Look at Biologically-Inspired Approaches, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-00-04,
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2000.

J. Heinzmann, A. Zelinsky,  "Robust Real-Time Face Tracking and Gesture Recognition" , Proceedings of IJCAI'97, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2, pp 1525-1530, August 1997.

T. Leung, M. Burl, P. Perona, Finding Faces in Cluttered Scenes using Random Labelled Graph Matching, Proc. Fifth ICCV, Cambridge MA, 1995.




Tuesday March 21th - (Spring Break, no meeting)


Tuesday April 4th - at 11:45 sharp! (done at 12:45 for Liana's defense) - Face Tracking and Morphable Models
David Beymer and Tomaso Poggio Image Representations for Visual Learning  Science, 1996 June 28; 272 (5250)

Jones, M. and T. Poggio. Multidimensional Morphable Models. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer Vision, Bombay, India, 683-688, January 4-7, 1998.

T.F.Cootes, G.J. Edwards and C.J.Taylor. "Active Appearance Models", in Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision 1998 (H.Burkhardt & B. Neumann Ed.s). Vol. 2, pp. 484-498, Springer, 1998. (Postscript)

G.J.Edwards, C.J.Taylor and T.F Cootes, "Improving Identitification Performance by Integrating Evidence from Sequences" Proc. IEEE CVPR 1999, Vol.I, pp.486-491.

Volker Blanz and Thomas Vetter, A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces. SIGGRAPH'99 Conference Proceedings (pp 187-194) (2.8MB .pdf)
 



Tuesday April 18th - Articulated Body Tracking  I
 
Compaq / Digital CRL:
http://www.crl.research.digital.com/publications/techreports/abstracts/97_8.html

http://www.crl.research.digital.com/publications/techreports/abstracts/98_8.html

Caltech:
ftp://vision.caltech.edu/pub/tech-reports-vision/CVPR00-Yang-motion.ps.gz

ftp://vision.caltech.edu/pub/tech-reports-vision/ICCV99-Yang-motion.ps.gz
(from www.vision.caltech.edu/html-files/publications.html)
 



Tuesday April 25th - (extra meeting, in 8AI)
Giese, M.A. and T. Poggio. Morphable Models for the Analysis and Synthesis of Complex Motion Patterns, International
Journal of Computer Vision, in press.

Giese, M.A., and T. Poggio. Synthesis and Recognition of Biological Motion Patterns Based on Linear Superposition of Prototypical Motion
Sequences. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Multi-View Modeling and Analysis of Visual Scene, Fort Collins, CO, 73-80, 1999.




Tuesday May 2nd - Articulated Body Tracking II
 
Bregler and Malik: Tracking People with Twists and Exponential MapsProc. IEEE CVPR 1998, (ps.gz)

Sidenbladh, Black, and Fleet: Stochastic Tracking of 3D Human Figures using 2D Image Motion, ECCV '00 (to appear)

Covell et al. Articulated-pose estimation using brightness- and depth-constancy constraints, CVPR '00 (to appear)