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Message from the General and Program Chairs

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Welcome to Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii, and the 15th edition of WACV (renamed as IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, since 2014). In addition to the main three-day program of oral and poster presentations, keynote talks, a special session, demos and social functions, WACV 2015 has, for the first time, a number of co-located events, including three workshops, two tutorials and a PhD forum. WACV 2015 is a single track conference in which each accepted paper has the opportunity of both a short oral and a poster presentation.

This year, we received 425 original unpublished submissions to the main conference in a two round submission/review process. Out of these, 156 (35 in Round 1, 121 in Round 2) papers were accepted, resulting in an acceptance rate of 36.7%. Compared to WACV 2014, this year’s WACV has an increase of 46 submissions and a reduction of 3.3% in the acceptance rate.

We used the CMT conference management service provided by Microsoft Research to manage the submission and selection of papers from the beginning to the end. To select papers from these submissions, we invited 32 researchers to act as Area Chairs (ACs). We recruited 395 experienced reviewers from the broader computer vision community.

WACV 2015 adopted a two-round review process that is similar to journal submissions to provide the authors with an additional chance of defending and revising their papers, to make the best use of reviewers’ time, and to achieve an overall quality and consistency among the accepted papers. For Round 1, the decisions were accept, revise and resubmit, or reject. For Round 2, authors were invited to submit either a new, previously un-submitted paper -or- resubmit a paper that was submitted in Round 1 and received a decision of “revise and resubmit”. Papers that received a “reject” decision in Round 1 were not allowed to be re-submitted in Round 2. We hoped that the authors would utilize the reviewers’ comments on papers rejected in Round 1 and Round 2 to enhance their manuscript and submit elsewhere.

We strongly encouraged the authors of resubmitted papers (only “revise and resubmit” category from Round 1 to prepare a ‘rebuttal and list of changes’ in response to the reviewers’ comments in the first round. In the submission process, authors were asked if the paper was a resubmission which was verified by the CMT system. For the resubmitted papers, we assigned the same reviewers and AC’s as from the first round whenever possible. The page limit for the ‘rebuttal and list of changes’ was set at 2. This was in addition to the body of the resubmitted paper. Thus, the total length of the submitted document would not exceed 10 pages, i.e., 8 pages max of the paper plus 2 pages max of ‘rebuttal and list of changes’. This did not apply to new papers submitted in Round 2.

After the submission deadlines, for both Round 1 and Round 2, the Program Chairs (PCs) assigned the papers to the reviewers and ACs. Almost all the papers were reviewed by at least three reviewers. Once the reviews were returned, ACs and PCs made the final decision about the paper selection. The revise and resubmit process allowed by the two stage process served as a better proxy for the rebuttal process. Authors who submitted early, i.e. in Round 1, received this opportunity. The papers by the organizers were handled by other experienced people who made sure that there was absolutely no conflict of interest regarding any submission. Additionally, the ACs were excluded from any decisions associated with papers from their research groups, affiliated institutions or collaborators.

The main conference WACV 2015 includes two invited speakers, Prof. Steven Seitz from the University of Washington and Google and Mr. Mike Geertsen from DARPA. In addition, we have organized a special session on Life Sciences Applications with three invited speakers: Prof. Andre Obenaus (Loma Linda University Medical Center), Dr. Bahram Parvin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and Dr. Ankur Kapoor (Siemens).

The proceedings of WACV 2015 are being provided on a USB drive at the conference. All papers in the main conference and associated workshops will be made

Message from the General and Program Chairs

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available through the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and through IEEE Xplore.

We wish to thank all members of the Organizing Committee, the Area Chairs, reviewers, authors, and the CMT for the immense amount of hard work and professionalism that have gone into making WACV 2015 a first-rate conference on the applications of Computer Vision. Our thanks also go to the organizers of WACV 2014 and the steering committee for their helpful advice and support. We are also grateful to the sponsors for their generous support.

Finally, we wish all the attendees a highly stimulating, informative, and enjoyable conference.

Bir Bhanu, Gerard Medioni, Rakesh (Teddy) Kumar, Dorin Comaniciu (General Co-Chairs)

Sudeep Sarkar, Subhodev Das, Bahram Parvin, Fatih Porikli (Program Co-Chairs)

WACV 2015 Organizing Committee

General Chairs: Bir Bhanu Gerard Medioni Rakesh (Teddy) Kumar Dorin Comaniciu

Program Chairs: Sudeep Sarkar Subhodev Das Bahram Parvin Fatih Porikli

Steering Committee: David Michael Anthony Hoogs Bryan Morse Terrance Boult

Workshops/Tutorials/Demos Chair: Nuno Vasconcelos

Publicity Chairs: Ambrish Tyagi Charless Fowlkes Yuan Li

Publications Chair: Eric Mortensen

Finance/Local Arrangments Chair: Ninad Thakoor

Ph.D. Forum Chair: Amit Roy-Chowdhury

WACV 2015 Area Chairs

Amir Amini Mohammed Bennamoun Thierry Bouwmans Francois Bremond Michael Brown Peter Carr Andrea Cavallaro

Tsuhan Chen Marco Cristani Kristin Dana Shiloh Dockstrader Bruce Draper James Ferryman Riad Hammoud

Mark Keck Jia Li Yi Li Jingen Liu Scott McCloskey Xue Mei Ram Nevatia

Federico Pernici Massimo Piccardi Robert Pless Conrad Sanderson Vinay Sharma Min Shin Peter Tu

Oncel Tuzel Senem Velipasalar Hongcheng Wang Zhigang Zhu

Organizing Committee & Area Chairs

Tuesday, January 6 Program

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Tuesday, January 6

0730–1700 Registration (Paniolo Ocean Terrace)

Tutorial: Exploiting Low-Rank Properties of Visual Data for Low-, Mid-, and High-Level Computer Vision Applications

Organizer: Kui Jia Tianzhu Zhang Weisheng Dong

Time: 0800-1200 (Half Day — Morning)

Location: Naupaka Salon 1-4

Description: Intrinsic structures of high-dimensional visual

data often have the properties of low dimensionality,

sparsity, or degeneracy. By discovering and properly

harnessing these intrinsic structures, groundbreaking results

have been achieved in the past decade on diverse applications

in the domains of signal/image processing, computer vision,

and machine learning. Mathematical concepts that

characterize these intrinsic structures include, but not limited

to, sparsity, group sparsity, structured sparsity, and low-rank.

This tutorial aims to present the very recent breakthroughs in

computer vision and image processing research. These results

are achieved by leveraging new powerful low-rank/sparsity

models and by developing efficient large-scale optimization

algorithms. We cover a variety of mainstream vision

applications ranging from low-level image processing,

face/object recognition, object alignment, feature

correspondence/matching, tracking, to unsupervised object

discovery and ambiguous learning. We will introduce the

respective nature of these problems and explain how

sparsity/low-rank models can be designed to harness their

problem nature and achieve striking performance.

1000–1100 Coffee Break (Naupaka Pre-function)

1200–1300 Lunch (On your own)

1300–1310 Welcome by the General Chairs (Naupaka Salon 1-4)

1310–1400 Invited Talk (Naupaka Salon 1-4)

Death of the Camera, Steven Seitz (Univ. of Washington)

Abstract: The last roll of Kodachrome was developed on Dec. 30 2010 in at Dwayne's Photo in Parsons Kansas. My beloved Canon AE-1 that I got for my bar mitzvah is officially a relic. Much more surprising, our “digital” cameras are fast becoming relics. In this talk, I'll discuss the rise and fall of the consumer camera and speculate on what's next.


1415–1640 Oral Session 1: Tracking (Naupaka Salon 1-4)

Format (5 min. short presentation)

1. Visual Recognition to Access and Analyze People Density

and Flow Patterns in Indoor Environments, Cristian Ruz,

Christian Pieringer, Billy Peralta, Ivan Lillo, Pablo Espinace,

Rodrigo Gonzalez, Bruno Wendt, Domingo Mery, Alvaro

Soto

2. Online Visual Tracking Using Temporally Coherent Part

Clusters, Wenbo Li, Longyin Wen, Mooi-Choo Chuah, Yi

Zhang, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li

3. Real Time Multi-Vehicle Tracking and Counting at

Intersections from a Fisheye Camera, Wei Wang, Tim Gee,

Jeff Price, Hairong Qi

4. Adaptive Local Movement Modelling for Object Tracking,

Baochang Zhang, Zhigang Li, Alessandro Perina, Alessio Del

Bue, Vittorio Murino

5. Bayesian Multi-Object Tracking Using Motion Context

from Multiple Objects, Ju Hong Yoon, Ming-Hsuan Yang,

Jongwoo Lim, Kuk-Jin Yoon


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6. Multi-Person Tracking Based on Body Parts and Online

Random Ferns Learning of Thermal Images, Joon-Young

Kwak, ByoungChul Ko, Jae-Yeal Nam

7. Generalized Sum of Gaussians for Real-Time Human Pose

Tracking from a Single Depth Sensor, Meng Ding, Guoliang

Fan

8. Qualitative Tracking Performance Evaluation without

Ground-Truth, Bohyung Han, Jihun Hamm

9. Lie-Struck: Affine Tracking on Lie Groups using Structured

SVM, Gao Zhu, Fatih Porikli, Yansheng Ming, Hongdong Li

10. Enhancing Linear Programming with Motion Modeling for

Multi-target Tracking, Niall McLaughlin, Jesus Martinez Del

Rincon, Paul Miller

11. Multi-Person Tracking Based on Body Parts and Online

Random Ferns Learning of Thermal Images, Joon-Young

Kwak; ByoungChul Ko; Jae-Yeal Nam

12. Part-based Tracking via Salient Collaborating Features,

Wassim Bouachir, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau

13. Key-Pose Prediction in Cyclic Human Motion, Dan Zecha,

Rainer Lienhart

14. Non-rigid Articulated Point Set Registration for Human

Pose Estimation, Song Ge, Guoliang Fan

15. Co-operative Pedestrians Group Tracking in Crowded

Scenes using an MST Approach, Achint Setia, Anurag

Mittal

16. Tracking People by Evolving Social Groups: An Approach

with Social Network Perspective, Linan Feng, Bir Bhanu

17. Efficient Training of Multiple Ant Tracking, Lance Rice,

Anna Dornhaus, Min C. Shin

18. Spatially Stratified Correspondence Sampling for Real-

Time Point Cloud Tracking, Jeremie Papon, Markus

Schoeler, Florentin Wörgötter

19. Beyond Pedestrians: A Hybrid Approach of Tracking

Multiple Articulating Humans, Weijun Wang, Ram Nevatia,

Bo Yang

20. 3D Pictorial Structures for Human Pose Estimation with

Supervoxels, Alexander Schick, Rainer Stiefelhagen

21. Analyzing Tracklets for the Detection of Abnormal Crowd

Behavior, Hossein Mousavi, Seyed Mohammadi, Alessandro

Perina, Ryad Chellali, Vittorio Murino

22. Adaptive Deformation Handling for Pedestrian Detection,

Hak Kyoung Kim, YongHyun Kim, DaiJin Kim

23. Face Alignment Refinement, Andy Zeng, Vishnu Naresh

Boddeti, Kris M. Kitani, Takeo Kanade

24. Training a Scene-Specific Pedestrian Detector Using

Tracklets, Yunxiang Mao, Zhaozheng Yin

25. Joint Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects Using

Spatio-Temporal Marked Point Processes, Paula Crăciun,

Mathias Ortner, Josiane Zerubia

26. Autonomous Driving Simulation for Unmanned Vehicles,

Danchen Zhao, Yuehu Liu, Chi Zhang, Yaochen Li

27. Forecasting Human Pose and Motion with Multibody

Dynamic Model, Song Cao, Ram Nevatia

28. Automatic 4D Facial Expression Recognition Using DCT

Features, Mingliang Xue, Ajmal Mian, Wanquan Liu, Ling Li

29. Touch Gesture-Based Active User Authentication Using

Dictionaries, Heng Zhang, Vishal M. Patel, Mohammed

Fathy, Rama Chellappa

1640–1800 Poster Session 1 (Naupaka Salon 5-7)

Posters for Oral Session 1

1640–1800 Demo (Naupaka Salon 5-7)

Progressive 3D Model Acquisition with a Commodity Hand-held Camera, Zhuoliang Kang, Gerard Medioni (Univ. of Southern California)

1800–1900 Dinner (Luau Grounds)


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1900–2115 Oral Session 2: Robotic Vision, 3D, and Surveillance (Naupaka Salon 1-4)


1. Mimicking Human Camera Operators, Jianhui Chen, Peter

Carr

2. Efficiently Constructing Mosaics from Video Collections,

Frank Liu, Rob Hess, Alan Fern

3. Vision-based Offline-Online Perception Paradigm for

Autonomous Driving, German Ros, Sebastian Ramos,

Manuel Granados, Amir Bakhtiary, David Vazquez, Antonio

M. Lopez

4. Real-time Barcode Detection in the Wild, Clement Creusot,

Asim Munawar

5. Structured Hough Voting for Vision-based Highway Border

Detection, Zhiding Yu, Wende Zhang, Bhagavatula V. K.

Vijaya Kumar, Dan Levi

6. A Motion Blur Resilient Fiducial For Quadcopter Imaging,

Meghshyam G. Prasad, Sharat Chandran, Michael S. Brown

7. Inertial Optical Flow for Throw-And-Go Micro Air Vehicles,

Stephan Weiss, Roland Brockers, Sigurd Albrektsen, Larry

Matthies

8. Progressive 3D Model Acquisition with a Commodity

Hand-held Camera, Zhuoliang Kang, Gérard Medioni

9. Geometry-Aware Feature Matching for Structure from

Motion Applications, Rajvi Shah, Vanshika Srivastava, P J

Narayanan

10. Visual Gyroscope for Accurate Orientation Estimation,

Wilfried Hartmann, Michal Havlena, Konrad Schindler

11. Fast Approximate Matching of Videos from Hand-Held

Cameras for Robust Background Subtraction, Raffay

Hamid, Atish Das Sarma, Dennis DeCoste, Neel Sundaresan

12. Photometric Stereo in the Wild, Chun-Ho Hung, Tai-pang

Wu, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Li Xu, Jiaya Jia, Chi-Keung Tang

13. High-Breakdown Bundle Adjustment, Anders Eriksson,

Mats Isaksson, Tat-Jun Chin

14. 3D Reconstruction from Hyperspectral Images, Ali Zia, Jie

Liang, Jun Zhou, Yongsheng Gao

15. Flexible Trajectory Indexing for 3D Motion Recognition,

Jianyu Yang, Junsong Yuan, Y.F. Li

16. A Low-noise Fluttering Shutter Camera Handling

Accelerated Motion, Scott McCloskey, Sharath Venkatesha,

Kelly Muldoon, Ryan Eckman

17. A Sequential Online 3D Reconstruction System Using

Dense Stereo Matching, Sosuke Yamao, Mamoru Miura,

Shuji Sakai, Koichi Ito, Takafumi Aoki

18. Detecting Building-level Changes of a City Using Street

Images and a 2D City Map, Daiki Tetsuka, Takayuki Okatani

19. Robot-Centric Activity Recognition from First-Person

RGB-D Videos, Lu Xia, Ilaria Gori, J. K. Aggarwal, Michael S.

Ryoo

20. A Camera Network Tracking (CamNeT) Dataset and

Performance Baseline, Shu Zhang, Elliot Staudt, Tim

Faltemier, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

21. Multi-Shot Re-Identification with Random-Projection-

Based Random Forests, Yang Li, Ziyan Wu, Richard J.

Radke

22. A Global-to-Local Framework for Infrared and Visible

Image Sequence Registration, Michael Ying Yang, Yu

Qiang, Bodo Rosenhahn

23. Anomaly Localization in Topic-based Analysis of

Surveillance Videos, Deepak Pathak, Abhijit Sharang,

Amitabha Mukerjee

24. 3-D Mediated Detection and Tracking in Wide Area Aerial

Surveillance, Bor-Jeng Chen, Gérard Medioni

25. Improving Vision-based Self-positioning in Intelligent

Transportation Systems via Integrated Lane and Vehicle

Detection, Parag S. Chandakkar, Yilin Wang, Baoxin Li

26. The Information in Temporal Histograms, Yedid Hoshen,

Shmuel Peleg

27. Estimating Drivable Collision-Free Space from Monocular

Video, Jian Yao, Srikumar Ramalingam, Yuichi Taguchi,

Yohei Miki, Raquel Urtasun




Progressive 3D Model Acquisition with a Commodity Hand-held Camera, Zhuoliang Kang, Gerard Medioni (Univ. of Southern California)

Wednesday, January 7 Program

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Wednesday, January 7


Tutorial: Image Noise Removal using Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic

Organizer: Mike Nachtegael

Time: 0800-1200 (Half Day — Morning)

Location: Naupaka Salon 1-4

Description: Noise removal is an important research branch

within image processing. Quite often images are disturbed by

noise due to external circumstances, and algorithms to detect

and remove that noise are required to improve the quality of

the images. Applications of noise removal are wide, and can

be found in the commercial, satellite, medical and military

field. The tutorial will provide insight in the way fuzzy set

theory and fuzzy logic can be applied in image processing

(both still images and video). Since fuzzy filters mimic the

behaviour of experts, they usually lead to good results, as will

be demonstrated.


1200–1300 Lunch (On your own)

1300–1445 Special Session: Life Sciences Applications (Naupaka Salon 1-4)

1. Use of Computer Vision for Improving Detection of

Traumatic Brain Injury, Andre Obenaus

2. Identifying Predictive Markers of Tumor Composition from

a Large Cohort of Histology Sections, Bahram Parvin

3. Toward Image-based Personalized Cardiac Modeling for

Therapy, Ankur Kapoor


1500–1640 Oral Session 3: Vision and Learning (Naupaka Salon 1-4)


1. De-Correlating CNN Features for Generative

Classification, Chaitanya Desai, Jayan Eledath, Harpreet

Sawhney, Mayank Bansal

2. Classification of 3D Multicellular Organization in Phase

Microscopy for High Throughput Screening of Therapeutic

Targets, Hang Chang, Bahram Parvin

3. Sequential Boosting for Learning a Random Forest

Classifier, Florian Baumann, Wei Liu, Arne Ehlers, Bodo

Rosenhahn

4. Learning an Aesthetic Photo Cropping Cascade, Peng

Wang, Zhe Lin, Radomír Měch

5. Learned Collaborative Representations for Image

Classification, Jiqing Wu, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool

6. Scalable Similarity Learning using Large Margin

Neighborhood Embedding, Zhaowen Wang, Jianchao

Yang, Zhe Lin, Jonathan Brandt, Shiyu Chang, Thomas

Huang

7. Tree-based Locally Linear Regression for Image Denoising,

Xin Lu, Zhe Lin, Hailin Jin

8. Convergence of Iteratively Re-weighted Least Squares to

Robust M-estimators, Khurrum Aftab, Richard Hartley

9. Image Classification using Generative NeuroEvolution for

Deep Learning, Phillip Verbancsics, Josh Harguess

10. Interleaved Regression Tree Field Cascades for Blind

Image Deconvolution, Kevin Schelten, Sebastian Nowozin,

Jeremy Jancsary, Carsten Rother, Stefan Roth

11. Learning Localized Perceptual Similarity Metrics for

Interactive Categorization, Catherine Wah, Subhransu Maji,

Serge Belongie

12. Learning to Select and Order Vacation Photographs,

Fereshteh Sadeghi, J. Rafael Tena, Ali Farhadi, Leonid Sigal

13. A Multi-Modal Sparse Coding Classifier Using Dictionaries

with Different Number of Atoms, Soheil Shafiee, Farhad

Kamangar, Vassilis Athitsos


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14. A Linear Chain Markov Model for Detection and

Localization of Cells in Early Stage Embryo Development,

Aisha Khan, Stephen Gould, Mathieu Salzmann

15. Deeply-Learned Feature for Age Estimation, Xiaolong

Wang, Rui Guo, Chandra Kambhamettu

16. Unsupervised Feature Extraction Inspired by Latent Low-

Rank Representation, Yaming Wang, Vlad I. Morariu, Larry

S. Davis

17. Predicting Geo-informative Attributes in Large-scale

Image Collections using Convolutional Neural Networks,

Stefan Lee, Haipeng Zhang, David J. Crandall

18. Hierarchical Spherical Hashing for Compressing High

Dimensional Vectors, Sravanthi Bondugula, Larry S. Davis

19. Bank of Quantization Models: A Data-Specific Approach

to Learning Binary Codes for Large-Scale Retrieval

Applications, Frederick Tung, Julieta Martinez, Holger H.

Hoos, James J. Little

20. Re-ranking by Multi-feature Fusion with Diffusion for

Image Retrieval, Fan Yang, Bogdan Matei, Larry S. Davis



1640–1800 PhD Forum (Naupaka Salon 5-7)

Fast and Robust Estimation for Autonomous Navigation, German Ros (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Unsupervised Semantic Perception, Summarization, and Autonomous Exploration for Robots in Unstructured Environments, Yogesh Girdhar (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Photogrammetric Method of Distant Reconstruction of Displacement Fields in Deformable Solids, Ghulam Mubashar Hassan (Univ. of Western Australia)

Image Analysis Using Visual Saliency with Applications in Hazmat Sign Detection and Recognition, Bin Zhao (Purdue Univ.)

Model-free Point Cloud Segmentation and Tracking, Jeremie Papon (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Topology-Constrained Non-rigid Articulated Point Set Registration, Song Ge (Oklahoma State Univ.)

Manifold Learning for Human Motion Modeling and Vision-based Pose Tracking, Meng Ding (Oklahoma State Univ.)

Pedestrian Detection in Low Resolution Videos Using Multi-Frame HOG Detector, Hisham Sager (Colorado School of Mines)


Facial Attribute Recognition for Real Time Video, Ethan Rudd, Terrance E. Boult, (Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs)

1800–1900 Dinner (Naupaka Lawn)

1900–2105 Oral Session 4: Applications of Computer Vision (Naupaka Salon 1-4)


1. Leveraging Context to Support Automated Food

Recognition in Restaurants, Vinay Bettadapura, Edison

Thomaz, Aman Parnami, Gregory D. Abowd, Irfan Essa

2. Genre and Style based Painting Classification, Siddharth

Agarwal, Harish Karnick, Nirmal Pant, Urvesh Patel

3. Choosing Basic-Level Concept Names using Visual and

Language Context, Alexander Mathews, Lexing Xie, Xuming

He

4. The Mountain Habitats Segmentation and Change

Detection Dataset, Frédéric Jean, Alexandra Branzan Albu,

David Capson, Eric Higgs, Jason T. Fisher, Brian M.

Starzomski

5. Detection of Arrows in On-line Sketched Diagrams using

Relative Stroke Positioning, Martin Bresler, Daniel Průša,

Václav Hlaváč

6. AR-Weapon: Live Augmented Reality based First-Person

Shooting System , Zhiwei Zhu, Vlad Branzoi, Mikhail

Sizintsev, Nicholas Vitovitch, Taragay Oskiper, Ryan

Villamil, Ali Chaudhry, Supun Samarasekera, Rakesh Kumar

7. Egocentric Field-of-View Localization Using First-Person

Point-of-View Devices, Vinay Bettadapura, Irfan Essa,

Caroline Pantofaru


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8. Multiple Insect Tracking with Occlusion Sub-Tunnels,

Thomas Fasciano, Anna Dornhaus, Min C. Shin

9. Towards Convenient Calibration for Cross-Ratio based

Gaze Estimation, Nuri Murat Arar, Hua Gao, Jean-Philippe

Thiran

10. Composition Context Photography, Daniel Vaquero,

Matthew Turk

11. A Multi-modal 2D + 3D Face Recognition Method with a

Novel Local Feature Descriptor, Xu Dai, Shouyi Yin, Peng

Ouyang, Leibo Liu, Shaojun Wei

12. Fingerprint Orientation Modeling using Symmetric Filters,

Puneet Gupta, Phalguni Gupta

13. Gait-based Person Identification Method Using Shadow

Biometrics for Robustness to Changes in the Walking

Direction, Makoto Shinzaki, Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume,

Koichi Ogawara

14. Quality-Aware Estimation of Facial Landmarks in Video

Sequences, Mohammad A. Haque, Kamal Nasrollahi,

Thomas B. Moeslund

15. Circular Hough Transform and Local Circularity Measure

for Weight Estimation of a Graph-Cut based Wood Stack

Measurement, Bo Galsgaard, Dennis H. Lundtoft, Ivan

Nikolov, Kamal Nasrollahi, Thomas B. Moeslund

16. Robust Fastener Detection for Autonomous Visual Railway

Track Inspection, Xavier Gibert, Vishal M. Patel, Rama

Chellappa

17. Adaptive Keyframe Selection for Video Summarization,

Shayok Chakraborty, Omesh Tickoo, Ravishankar Iyer

18. Extending Digital Image Correlation to Reconstruct

Displacement and Strain Fields around Discontinuities in

Geomechanical Structures under Deformation, Ghulam

Mubashar Hassan, Cara MacNish, Arcady Dyskin

19. Entropy-based Similarity Evaluation and Visualization of

Cartographic Symbol Sets, Florence Ying Wang, Masahiro

Takatsuka

20. City Scale Image Geolocalization via Dense Scene

Alignment, Semih Yagcioglu, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem

21. Change Detection in Laser-Scanned Data of Industrial

Sites, Jing Huang, Suya You

22. Document Retrieval with Unlimited Vocabulary, Viresh

Ranjan, Gaurav Harit, C. V. Jawahar

23. Material Classification on Symmetric Positive Definite

Manifolds, Masoud Faraki, Mehrtash T. Harandi, Fatih

Porikli

24. Distance Transform Based Active Contour Approach for

Document Image Rectification, Dhaval Salvi, Kang Zheng,

Youjie Zhou, Song Wang

25. Extending the Performance of Human Classifiers using a

Viewpoint Specific Approach, Endri Dibra, Jerome Maye,

Olga Diamanti, Roland Siegwart, Paul Beardsley




Facial Attribute Recognition for Real Time Video, Ethan Rudd, Terrance E. Boult, (Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs)

Thursday, January 8 Program

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Thursday, January 8


1300–1400 Invited Talk (Naupaka Salon 1-4)

DARPA’s Visual Media Reasoning Program and Tools for CV Researchers, Mike Geertsen (Program Manager DARPA)

Abstract: Our country's adversaries often take photos and videos to claim responsibility for events or to illustrate capabilities. This media is sometimes confiscated by the Department of Defense from a variety of devices, including laptops, cellphone cameras and memory cards. The volume of this visual media is quickly outpacing our ability to review, let alone analyze the contents of every image. DARPA’s Visual Media Reasoning (VMR) program seeks to provide “visual intelligence” to our warfighters and analysts by providing a software system that lets users ask queries of ad hoc photo content, such as “What make and model of vehicle is that?” or “Is this person on our terrorist watch list?” or “Where is this building located?” The result of VMR may be an enhanced capability to generate intelligence required for successful counterinsurgency and counterterrorist operations.

Under the Visual Media Reasoning Program, DARPA has facilitated the development of a range of innovative computer vision technologies. This includes two general-purpose tools which DARPA and its contractors will make generally available. One of these tools enables the automated evaluation of vision algorithms over their parameter spaces. The other enables the automatic generation of large amounts of synthetic images for use in developing and testing vision algorithms. These tools are planned to be released to the research community in early 2015. Mike Geertsen, Program Manager for the DARPA Visual Media Reasoning Program, will present an overview of the Visual Media Reasoning (VMR) Program, its systems approach to large-volume visual search and the research tools.


1415–1640 Oral Session 5: Object Recognition (Naupaka Salon 1-4)


1. Heterogeneous Multi-column ConvNets with a Fusion

Framework for Object Recognition, Yandong Li, Ferdous

Sohel, Mohammed Bennamoun, Hang Lei

2. Error Factor Analysis for Wild Scene Image-Labelling, Peng

Wang, Alan Yuille

3. Efficient Model Evaluation with Bilinear Separation Model,

Fanyi Xiao, Martial Hebert

4. Evaluation of Features for Leaf Classification in

Challenging Conditions, David Hall, Chris McCool, Feras

Dayoub, Niko Sünderhauf, Ben Upcroft

5. Unsupervised Generation of Context-Relevant Training-

Sets for Visual Object Recognition Employing

Multilinguality, Markus Schoeler, Florentin Wörgötter,

Jeremie Papon, Tomas Kulvicius

6. Local Novelty Detection in Multi-class Recognition

Problems, Paul Bodesheim, Alexander Freytag, Erik Rodner,

Joachim Denzler

7. Pose Estimation of Object Categories in Videos Using

Linear Programming, Michele Fenzi, Laura Leal-Taixé,

Konrad Schindler, Jörn Ostermann

8. Category Attentional Search for Fast Object Detection by

Mimicking Human Visual Perception, Hawook Jeong,

Sangdoo Yun, Kwang Moo Yi, Jin Young Choi

9. How to Transfer? Zero-Shot Object Recognition via

Hierarchical Transfer of Semantic Attributes, Ziad Al-

Halah, Rainer Stiefelhagen

10. Menu-Match: Restaurant-Specific Food Logging from

Images, Oscar Beijbom, Neel Joshi, Dan Morris, Scott

Saponas, Siddharth Khullar

11. Non-Negative Sparse Coding with Regularizer for Image

Classification, Lopamudra Mukherjee, Alex Hall

12. Selective Pooling Vector for Fine-grained Recognition,

Guang Chen, Jianchao Yang, Hailin Jin, Eli Shechtman,

Jonathan Brandt, Tony X. Han

13. An Ensemble Color Model for Human Re-identification,

Xiaokai Liu, Hongyu Wang, Yi Wu, Jimei Yang, Ming-Hsuan

Yang


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14. Bikers are Like Tobacco Shops, Formal Dressers are Like

Suits: Recognizing Urban Tribes with Caffe, Yufei Wang,

Garrison W. Cottrell

15. A General Framework for Fast 3D Object Detection and

Localization Using an Uncalibrated Camera, Andrés Solís

Montero, Jochen Lang, Robert Laganière

16. Characterizing Feature Matching Performance Over Long

Time Periods, Abby Stylianou, Austin Abrams, Robert Pless

17. Action Recognition using Discriminative Structured

Trajectory Groups, Indriyati Atmosukarto, Narendra Ahuja,

Bernard Ghanem

18. Multimodal Registration of Multiple Retinal Images Based

on Line Structures, Matthias Hernandez, Gérard Medioni,

Zhihong Hu, SriniVas Sadda

19. Automated Axon Segmentation from Highly Noisy

Microscopic Videos, John Bowler, Rogerio Feris, Liangliang

Cao, Jun Wang, Mo Zhou

20. A Robust Adaptive Classifier for Detector Adaptation in a

Video, Pramod Sharma, Ram Nevatia

21. Person Re-Identification Using the Silhouette Shape

Described by a Point Distribution Model, Olivier Huynh,

Bogdan Stanciulescu

22. Ensembles of Correlation Filters for Object Detection,

Ryan Tokola, David Bolme

23. Near Duplicate Image Discovery on One Billion Images,

Saehoon Kim, Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Seungjin Choi

24. Runway to Realway: Visual Analysis of Fashion, Sirion

Vittayakorn, Kota Yamaguchi, Alexander C. Berg, Tamara L.

Berg

25. Feature Fusion by Similarity Regression for Logo Retrieval,

Fan Yang, Mayank Bansal

26. Retrieval of Images with Objects of Specific Size, Location

and Spatial Configuration, Niloufar Pourian, B.S.

Manjunath

27. Norm-Induced Entropies for Decision Forests, Christoph

Lassner, Rainer Lienhart

28. Visual Saliency Models Based on Spectrum Processing, Bin

Zhao, Edward J. Delp

29. Family Member Identification from Photo Collections,

Qieyun Dai, Peter Carr, Leon Sigal, Derek Hoiem




Real-World Impacts in Computer Vision and Photogrammetry: How Trimble Navigation is Using Google’s Project Tango to Transform the Way our Customers Work, Jordan Lawver (Trimble)

1800–1900 Dinner (Naupaka Lawn)

1900–2110 Oral Session 6: Segmentation and Recognition (Naupaka Salon 1-4)


1. A Self-Adjusting Approach to Change Detection Based on

Background Word Consensus, Pierre-Luc St-Charles,

Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Robert Bergevin

2. Real-time Multi-scale Action Detection From 3D Skeleton

Data, Amr Sharaf, Marwan Torki, Mohamed E. Hussein,

Motaz El-Saban

3. A Multi-modal Graphical Model for Scene Analysis, Sarah

Taghavi Namin, Mohammad Najafi, Mathieu Salzmann,

Lars Petersson

4. Multi-class Semantic Video Segmentation with Exemplar-

based Object Reasoning, Buyu Liu, Xuming He, Stephen

Gould

5. Finding Temporally Consistent Occlusion Boundaries in

Videos using Geometric Context, Syed Hussain Raza,

Ahmad Humayun, Irfan Essa, Matthias Grundmann, David

Anderson

6. Visual Object Clustering via Mixed-Norm Regularization,

Xin Zhang, Duc-Son Pham, Dinh Phung, Wanquan Liu,

Budhaditya Saha, Svetha Venkatesh

7. Efficient Facade Segmentation using Auto-Context, Varun

Jampani, Raghudeep Gadde, Peter V. Gehler

8. Motion Segmentation of Truncated Signed Distance

Function based Volumetric Surfaces, Samunda Perera,

Nick Barnes, Xuming He, Shahram Izadi, Pushmeet Kohli,

Ben Glocker

9. Real-time Facial Expression Recognition on Smartphones,

Myunghoon Suk, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran


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10. Extracting Image Regions by Structured Edge Prediction,

Yi-Ting Chen, Jimei Yang, Ming-Hsuan Yang

11. Semantic Instance Labeling Leveraging Hierarchical

Segmentation, Steven Hickson, Irfan Essa, Henrik

Christensen

12. Multiscale Superpixels and Supervoxels Based on

Hierarchical Edge-Weighted Centroidal Voronoi

Tessellation, Youjie Zhou, Lili Ju, Song Wang

13. Topology-Preserving Multi-Label Image Segmentation,

Jarrell Waggoner, Youjie Zhou, Jeff Simmons, Marc De

Graef, Song Wang

14. Action Recognition from Depth Sequences Using Depth

Motion Maps-based Local Binary Patterns, Chen Chen,

Roozbeh Jafari, Nasser Kehtarnavaz

15. SparseFlow: Sparse Matching for Small to Large

Displacement Optical Flow, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool

16. Gradient Boundary Histograms for Action Recognition,

Feng Shi, Robert Laganière, Emil Petriu

17. Dense and Deformable Motion Extraction in Dynamic

Scenes Based on Hierarchical MRF Optimization in RGB-D

Images, Wei Wang, Darius Burschka

18. An Improved Model for Segmentation and Recognition of

Fine Grained Activities with Application to Surgical

Training Tasks, Colin Lea, Gregory D. Hager, René Vidal

19. Optimization of Plane Fits to Image Segments in Multi-

View Stereo, Nelson Max, Hyojin Kim

20. Robust Nonrigid Point Set Registration using Graph-

Laplacian Regularization, Varun Panaganti, R. Aravind

21. Semantic Multi-body Motion Segmentation, Cosimo

Rubino, Marco Crocco, Vittorio Murino, Alessio Del Bue

22. Stereovision Bias Removal by Autocorrelation, Yang

Cheng, Larry H. Matthies

23. Clauselets: Leveraging Temporally Related Actions for

Video Event Analysis, Hyungtae Lee, Vlad I. Morariu, Larry

S. Davis

24. How to Collect Segmentations for Biomedical Images? A

Benchmark Evaluating the Performance of Experts,

Crowdsourced Non-Experts, and Algorithms, Danna

Gurari, Diane Theriault, Mehrnoosh Sameki, Brett Isenberg,

Tuan A. Pham, Alberto Purwada, Patricia Solski, Matthew

Walker, Chentian Zhang, Joyce Y. Wong, Margrit Betke

25. Shot Boundary Detection with Graph Theory using

Keypoint Features and Color Histograms, Kyoungmin Lee,

Mathias Kölsch

26. Fixing WTFs: Detecting Image Matches caused by

Watermarks, Timestamps, and Frames in Internet Photos,

Tobias Weyand, Chih-Yun Tsai, Bastian Leibe




Real-World Impacts in Computer Vision and Photogrammetry: How Trimble Navigation is Using Google’s Project Tango to Transform the Way our Customers Work, Jordan Lawver (Trimble)

Friday, January 9 Workshops

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Friday, January 9



1200–1300 Lunch (Naupaka Pre-function)


Workshop on Applications for Aerial Video Exploitation

Organizers: Matt Turek Mikel Rodriguez Larry Davis Anthony Hoogs

Location: Alii I

Schedule: Full Day

0900 Invited Talk: Wide Area Aerial Surveillance,

Opportunities and Challenges, Gérard Medioni (Univ. of

Southern California)

0945 Invited Talk: Challenges in Video Exploitation, Juan

Vasquez (Air Force Research Lab)

1030 Object Detection in Low Resolution Overhead Imagery,

Paul Kidwell, Kofi Boakye

1100 Morning Break

1115 Invited Talk: Modeling Video via Structured Sparsity,

Alexey Castrodad (United States Department of

Defense)

1200 Demo: Activity Recognition Applications from

Contextual Video-Text Fusion, Georgiy Levchuk,

Charlotte Shabarekh

1230 Lunch (Naupaka Pre-function)

1330 Invited Talk: Skybox Satellite FMV and Image Data

Applications, Andrew Hock (Skybox Imaging)

1415 Multi-Objective Detector and Tracker Parameter

Optimization via NSGA-II, Ryan Fogle, Karl Salva, Juan

Vasquez, Ashley Kessler

1445 3D Urban Reconstruction from Wide Area Aerial

Surveillance Video, Zhuoliang Kang, Gérard Medioni

1515 Context Exploitation in Intelligence, Surveillance, and

Reconnaissance for Detection Algorithms, Jonathan

Tucker, Robert Stanfill

1545 Afternoon Break

1600 Demo: Depth Map Generation for Aerial Video in

Natural Scenery, Jung-Jae Yu, Seung-Wan Han

1630 Panel Discussion: Future trends in aerial and overhead

video exploitation

1700 Invited Talk: Vision-based Target Tracking, Brandon

Basso (3D Robotics)

1730 Invited Talk: UAV Sense and Avoid Using Computer

Vision, James Revell (BAE Systems)

1800 Closing Remarks

Friday, January 9 Workshops

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Automated Analysis of Video Data for Wildlife Surveillance

Organizers: Benjamin Richards Anthony Hoogs David Kriegman

Location: Alii II

Schedule: Full Day

0900 Overview of NOAA Fisheries Optical Data Streams and

Automated Analysis Needs, Benjamin Richards (NOAA

Fisheries)

1000 Counting and Sizing Fish, Elizabeth Clarke (NOAA

Fisheries)

1030 Morning Break

1045 Invited Talk: Video: Big Data, Big Challenges, John

Garofolo (National Institute of Standards and

Technology)

1145 Monitoring Giraffe Behavior in Thermal Video, Victor

Gan, Peter Carr, Joseph Soltis


1315 Invited Talk: Animal Detection and Classification in

Video/Images in the Mojave Desert, Terry Boult (Univ.

of Colorado at Colorado Springs)

1415 Dolphin Detection and Tracking, Jeremy Karnowski,

Edwin Hutchins, Christine Johnson

1445 Automated Detection of Rockfish in Unconstrained

Underwater Videos using Haar Cascades and a New

Image Dataset: Labeled Fishes in the Wild, George

Cutter, Kevin Stierhoff, Jiaming Zeng

1515 Afternoon Break

1530 Invited Talk: Hiding in Plain Sight: Experiments in

Nonspectral Camouflage Detection for Robust Benthic

Census, Lakshman Prasad (Los Alamos National

Laboratories)

1600 Evolutionary Computational Methods for Optimizing

the Classification of Sea Stars in Underwater Images,

André Mendes, Maia Hoeberechts, Alexandra Branzen

Albu

1630 Invited Talk: Penoptes: A Development Framework for

Citizen Science, Alexandra Swanson (Zooniverse)

1715 Closing Remarks

Benchmarking Multi-Target Tracking

Organizers: Laura Leal-Taixé Anton Milan Ian Reid Stefan Roth Konrad Schindler

Location: Alii III

Schedule: Full Day

1000 Welcome

1030 Keynote Speaker: Alexandre Alahi (Stanford Univ.)

1130 Discovery of Sets of Mutually Orthogonal Vanishing

Points in Videos, Till Kroeger, Dengxin Dai, Radu

Timofte, Luc Van Gool


1300 Multiple Object Tracking Benchmark, Laura Leal-Taixe,

Anton Milan

1400 Solving Multiple People Tracking In A Minimum Cost

Arborescence, Roberto Henschel, Laura Leal-Taixé,

Bodo Rosenhahn

1430 TBA

1500 TBA

1530 Discussion: Challenges in Multiple Object Tracking

Evaluation

1630 Keynote Speaker: TBA

1730 Further Discussion and Closing Remarks

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