Author: Jerod Weinman

Affiliation: Associate Professor. Department of Computer Science. Grinnell College. IA, USA. Place: Large Lecture Room Recognizing the place names within textual labels on historical maps is complicated by many factors, such as curvilinear baselines and dense overlap with other textual or graphical …

Historical Map Alignment and Toponym Recognition with Geographic and Style Models Read More »

Affiliation: Computer Scientist at Pixmap. Place: Large Lecture Room   Classifying 3D measurement data has become a core problem in photogrammetry and 3D computer vision, since the rise of modern multiview geometry techniques, combined with affordable range sensors. We introduce a …

Semantic segmentation of 3D textured meshes for urban scene analysis Read More »

Affiliation: Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science. Hong Kong Baptist University. Place: Large Lecture Room   Face recognition has been successfully deployed in many practical applications ranging from mobile phone logon to banking and law enforcement domains in the last …

3D Mask Face Anti-Spoofing with Remote Photoplethy Smography Read More »

  Affiliation: Senior Staff Software Engineer Google Inc. USA Place: Large Lecture Room   Google extracts information from Street View images to build maps. It started with street address numbers, and is now growing to more and more types of …

Mapping the World with Street View Read More »

  Place: Large Lecture Room   Perception involves a complex interaction between feedforward sensory-driven information and feedback attentional, memory, and executive processes that modulate such feedforward processing. A mechanistic understanding of feedforward processing, and its limitations, is a necessary first …

Computational mechanisms of rapid visual recognition Read More »

Place: Large Lecture Room   Low-level Vision Statistical Color Constancy and Prior Color Naming for Application-Independent Automated Near Real-Time Detection and Quality Assessment of Superpixels / Texels in Any Color Image: (i) Uncalibrated / Calibrated, (ii) RGB True- or False-Color …

Low-Level Vision Color Constancy and Prior Color Naming for Application-independent Automated Linear-Time Detection and Quality Assessment of Superpixels in Multi-Source Color Images Read More »

Place: Computer Vision Centre at Lecture Room. Committee: Dr. Jawahar  Cheerakkuzhi Veluthemana, International Institute of Information Technology , Hyderabad, India. Dr. Marçal Rusiñol Sanabra, Departament de Ciències de la Computació & CVC, UAB, Spain Dr. José Antonio Rodríguez Serrano, BBVA Data & Analytics, Barcelona, Spain Thesis supervisor: Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas, Computer Vision …

Exploiting similarity hierarchies for multi-script scene text understanding. Read More »

Place: Large lecture room. Tomorrow’s healthcare lies in early diagnosis and individually tailored treatments, i.e. delivering the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. This patient-centred approach to medicine, the so-called personalized medicine, has been embraced as …

From Medical Image Analysis to Computer-based Personalized Medicine. Read More »

Place: Large lecture room. Affiliation:  INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France.   Object tracking and activity recognition underly many applications in computer science. Because they allow a principle integration of uncertainties, probabilistic models have been deepl investigated to solve object tracking and activity …

Dynamic Probabilistic Models for Person Tracking and Activity Recognition Read More »

Place: Large lecture room. Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund. Germany.   Machine learning methods are capable of achieving impressive performances on a variety of pattern recognition tasks today. This is mostly due to two factors. First, large annotated data …

Semi-Supervised Learning in Large Image Collections Read More »

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