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    <title>Chetan Bhole: Cortical Surface Imaging:  2 papers</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/380</link>
    <description>[Friday, November 21, 2008 at 12:30 PM in U of R Comp. Studies Bldg. rm 703] [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.15.6598&quot;&gt;Paper #1&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;br&gt;
[ &lt;a href=&quot;http://white.stanford.edu/~brian/papers/mri/CorticalVisualization.pdf&quot;&gt;Paper #2&lt;/a&gt; ]</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:03:59 -0500</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/380</guid>
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    <title>Vidit Jain: &quot;Mining Context for Recognizing People in Images&quot;</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/368</link>
    <description>[Friday, October 31, 2008 at  3:15 PM in U of R Comp. Studies Bldg. rm 209] Identifying a person appearing in an
image is a well-studied, yet far-from-solved problem. One limitation of the existing approaches is that the inference
on a particular image is done independent of the captured scene and any other information available in addition to the
image (e.g., text annotation). In other words, the context associated with the image is often ignored. In this work, we
present methods for extracting two additional cues from an image that facilitate robust recognition of people present
in an image: (1) recognizing the captured event (e.g., a tennis match) to reduce the set of possible identities of the
person in the image, and (2) the co-occurrence statistics of people (e.g., Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie often appear
together).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We formulate the problem of event classification as probabilistic inference on a novel specification of the
hidden-state random field that selects a subset of the observed features suitable for classification. To address the
second problem of learning co-occurrence statistics, we present a directed graphical model that incorporates an expert
(e.g., a face recognizer for people) in the topic modeling framework to anchor the generated latent topics around
semantics determined by the expert.
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:50:02 -0400</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/368</guid>
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    <title>Paul Ardis: Study of &quot;Real-Time Foveation Techniques for Low Bit Rate Video Coding&quot;</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/357</link>
    <description>[Friday, October 03, 2008 at  1:00 PM in U of R Comp. Studies Bldg. rm. 703] [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://live.ece.utexas.edu/publications/2003/hrs_RTI2003_Real-TimeFoveationTechniquesForLowBitRateVideoCoding.pdf&quot;&gt;Paper link&lt;/a&gt; ]</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:59:25 -0400</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/357</guid>
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    <title>Nick Morsillo: Study of &quot;Matching Local Self-Similarities Across Images and Videos&quot;</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/355</link>
    <description>[Friday, September 19, 2008 at  1:00 PM in U of R Comp. Studies Bldg. rm. 703] [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/VideoAnalysis/Demos/SelfSimilarities/SelfSimilarities_ShechtmanIrani07.pdf&quot;&gt;Paper link&lt;/a&gt; ]</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:30:51 -0400</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/355</guid>
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    <title>Chetan Bhole: Study of &quot;Learning Conditional Random Fields for Stereo&quot;</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/353</link>
    <description>[Thursday, September 11, 2008 at  4:00 PM in U of R Comp. Studies Bldg. rm. 703] [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://bj.middlebury.edu/~schar/papers/LearnCRFstereo_cvpr07.pdf&quot;&gt;Paper link&lt;/a&gt; ]</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:12:55 -0400</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/353</guid>
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    <title>Ross Messing: Constellation Models</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/326</link>
    <description>[Friday, April 04, 2008 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] &lt;a href=&quot;http://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/papers/fergus03.pdf&quot;&gt;Primary Paper Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/papers/fergus_cvpr05.pdf&quot;&gt;Secondary Paper Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~dph/papers/cvpr07.pdf&quot;&gt;Tertiary Paper Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:13:56 -0400</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/326</guid>
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    <title>Paul Ardis &amp; Chris Pal: Tag-Team-Talk on 3D (part 2)</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/318</link>
    <description>[Friday, February 22, 2008 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] </description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:44:37 -0500</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/318</guid>
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    <title>Chris Pal &amp; Paul Ardis: Tag-Team-Talk on 3D</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/316</link>
    <description>[Friday, February 15, 2008 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~ardis/seminar.html&quot;&gt;Vision Seminar website&lt;/a&gt; for details.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:17:09 -0500</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/316</guid>
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    <title>Nick Morsillo: Learning Probabilistic Models for Contour Completion in Natural Images</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/310</link>
    <description>[Friday, February 08, 2008 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] &lt;a href=&quot;http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~xren/publication/xren_ijcv2007.pdf&quot;&gt;Paper link&lt;/a&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:43:53 -0500</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/310</guid>
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    <title>Ross Messing: Spatial-temporal correlations for unsupervised action classification</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/309</link>
    <description>[Friday, February 01, 2008 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] &lt;a href=&quot;http://vision.cs.princeton.edu/documents/SavareseDelPozoEtAl_2008.pdf&quot;&gt;Paper link&lt;/a&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:42:43 -0500</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/309</guid>
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    <title>Chetan Bhole: Learning Hierarchical Models of Scenes, Objects, and Parts</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/298</link>
    <description>[Friday, January 25, 2008 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] &lt;a href=&quot;http://ssg.mit.edu/~esuddert/papers/iccv05.pdf&quot;&gt;Paper Link&lt;/a&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:01:56 -0500</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/298</guid>
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    <title>Paul Ardis: Automatic Face Recognition from Skeletal Remains</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/294</link>
    <description>[Friday, December 21, 2007 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] Paper links:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4269955/4269956/04270085.pdf?tp=&amp;isnumber=&amp;arnumber=4270085&quot;&gt;(for those w/ IEEE Explore access)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yubingbing.com/xiaoming/publication/tu_liu_krahnstoever_cvpr_2007.pdf&quot;&gt;(for those without)&lt;/a&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:01:12 -0500</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/294</guid>
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    <title>Chris Pal: Dataset Issues in Object Recognition</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/290</link>
    <description>[Friday, November 09, 2007 at  3:30 AM in CSB632] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-cvr.ai.uiuc.edu/ponce_grp/publication/paper/sicily06c.pdf&quot;&gt;Paper Link&lt;/a&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:33:34 -0500</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/290</guid>
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    <title>Nick Morsillo: City-Scale Location Recognition</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/278</link>
    <description>[Friday, October 19, 2007 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] &lt;a href=&quot;http://research.microsoft.com/~brown/papers/cvpr2007c.pdf&quot;&gt;Paper link&lt;/a&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:25:26 -0400</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/278</guid>
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    <title>Dhiraj &quot;D.J.&quot; Joshi and Jie &quot;Jerry&quot; Yu: Industry Spotlight Presentation</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/277</link>
    <description>[Friday, October 26, 2007 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] </description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:59:20 -0400</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/277</guid>
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    <title>Paul Ardis: Image Quality Assessment:
From Error Visibility to Structural Similarity</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/273</link>
    <description>[Friday, October 05, 2007 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] &lt;a href=&quot;http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/83/28667/01284395.pdf?tp=&amp;isnumber=&amp;arnumber=1284395&quot;&gt;Paper link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.cns.nyu.edu/ftp/eero/wang03-preprint.pdf&quot;&gt;
Alternate link&lt;/a&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:24:18 -0400</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/273</guid>
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    <title>Lam Tran: Tutorial on Conditional Random Fields</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/272</link>
    <description>[Friday, September 28, 2007 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/papers/crf-tutorial.pdf&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the paper link, also found on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~ardis/seminar.html&quot;&gt;main Seminar webpage&lt;/a&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:16:28 -0400</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/272</guid>
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    <title>Paul Ardis: A Tensor Algebraic Approach to Image Synthesis, Analysis and Recognition</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/267</link>
    <description>[Friday, September 14, 2007 at  2:00 PM in CSB632] </description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:22:35 -0400</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/267</guid>
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    <title>Nick Morsillo: TextonBoost for Image Understanding</title>
    <link>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/266</link>
    <description>[Friday, September 21, 2007 at  3:30 PM in CSB632] </description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:21:31 -0400</pubDate>
    <guid>http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/seminar/view/266</guid>
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