Place: Large lecture room. Affiliation: Daimler Group. Germany.   Daimler introduced an advanced set of driver assistance functions in its latest Mercedes-Benz 2013-2014 S-, E-, and C-Class models, termed “Intelligent Drive”, using stereo vision. It includes a pedestrian safety component which …

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Place: Large lecture room. Affiliation: ETHZ vision group. Zurich, Switzerland.     Object proposals have become a key component in most of the recent state-of-the-art object detectors, as they provide a reduced set of candidate locations for objects in the image. They …

Multiscale Combinatorial Grouping for Image Segmentation and Object Proposal Generation. Read More »

Place: Large lecture room. Affiliation: Image Analysis Lab. Stony Brook University,  N.Y. , U.S.A.     The objective of this work is to detect shadows in images. We pose this as the problem of labeling image regions, where each region …

Leave-One-Out Kernel Optimization for Shadow Detection Read More »

Place: Large lecture room. Affiliation: Philips Research North America. Cambridge, MA, USA.     With the recent advancement in intracardiac therapies, navigation and steering of medical devices in moving environments have become an important research topic. In this talk, I will present …

Image guided robotics for cardiac surgery Read More »

Place: Large lecture room. Affiliation:  Queen Mary University of London. U.K.     Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented interest in the recognition of human behaviour, from analysis of facial expressions, body gestures or neurophysiological signals such as EEG and …

Looking at / Sensing People Read More »

Place: Large lecture room. Affiliation:  University of Edinburgh.     Modern object class detectors typically apply a window classifier to all the windows in a large set, either in a sliding window manner or using object proposals. In this work, …

An Active Search Strategy for Efficient Object Class Detection Read More »

Place: Large lecture room. Affiliation:  Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada i Anàlisi. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.     This seminar is a summary of Adriana Romero Soriano’s PhD thesis work.   Deep learning has recently been enjoying an increasing popularity due to its success …

Assisting the training of deep neural networks with applications to computer vision Read More »