Seminar on Current Works in Computer Vision

Prof. Thomas Brox

Computer Vision is a very active research field with many practical applications, for instance in quality control, robotics, or driving assistance systems. The ultimate goal of Computer Vision is to imitate the great capabilies of the human visual system, allowing the computer not only to record images but also to interpret them. Research is still far from this goal, but significant progress has been made in recent years.
In this seminar we will take a detailed look at the most interesting recent works that have been published at the latest Computer Vision conference (ICCV 2011). You will read a number of research papers published at this conference. For each paper there will be one person, who performs a more detailed investigation of the research work and its background and gives a presentation. The presentation is followed by a discussion with all participants about the merits and limitations of the respective paper. You will learn to read and understand contemporary research papers, to give a good oral presentation, to ask questions, and to openly discuss a research problem.

Seminar: (2 SWS) Wednesday, 10-12am, Room: HS 02-017, Building 052 Contact person: Margret Keuper Beginning: Wednesday, Apr 25, 2012 Introduction and allocation of seminar topics. ECTS Credits: 4 Recommended semester: 6-10 Requirements: any proseminar Remarks: This course is offered to both Bachelor and Master students. Master students should give their presentation in English (to practise their English presentation skills), Bachelor students may present in German. Topics will be assigned in the first meeting. Please register for the seminar online before the first meeting. Just in case there are more interested students than places, places will be assigned by motivation in the first meeting, NOT by date of registration to avoid that people grab a topic and then jump off during the semester. So please have a coarse look at all available papers to make an informed decision in the first meeting. The listed papers are not yet sorted by the date of presentation.

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Slides of first session with instructions for a good presentation

Papers:

Date	Topic	Paper	Questions	Presenting student	Slides	Advisor
23.5.2012	Decision tree fields	Nowozin et al.	Help and questions	Patrick Tippmann		Kun Liu
6.6.2012	Attribute classification	Bourdev et al.	Questions	Jan Mattner		Thorsten Schmidt
13.6.2012	Viewpoint learning from videos	Mei et al.	Questions	Andreas Kuhner		Margret Keuper
27.6.2012	Viewpoint specific object detection	Glasner et al.	Questions	Mohamed Chit		Naveen Shankar Nagaraja
4.7.2012	Region-based detection	Sande et al.	Questions	Jonathan Nagel		Robert Bensch
11.7.2012	Shape matching	Windheuser et al.	Questions	Andreas Behr		Benjamin Drayer
18.7.2012	Image restauration	Zoran et al.	Questions	Dina Yunusova		Qing Wang
25.7.2012	Dense 3D reconstruction	Newcombe et al.	Questions	Mohammed Chbeib		Benjamin Ummenhofer