Robuddies < LCI

*Robuddies meets Wednesdays at 2pm in CS146*

Each week someone presents a paper/tutorial or current research.

The topics for robuddies are Robotics and Vision. Under the heading _Finished Papers_ below is a log of earlier topics.

Since many regulars are non LCI members, we've moved the main page to the web.

Please check out [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/lci/robuds/][the Robuddies web page]]

/Per-Erik

---++ Finished papers, spring 2006

   * July 27: More CVPR and ECCV, *Jim and Wei-Lwun*:
      * Amit Adam and Ehud Rivlin and Ilan Shimshoni, _Robust Fragments-based Tracking using the Integral Histogram_, *CVPR 2006*
      * Oncel Tuzel and Fatih Porikli and Peter Meer, _Region Covariance: A Fast Descriptor for Detection and Classification_, *ECCV 2006*
      * Hwasup Lim and Vlad I. Morariu and Octavia I. Camps and Mario Sznaier, _Dynamic Appearance Modeling for Human Tracking_, *CVPR 2006* 
   * July 20: Best of CVPR pt2:
      * *David:* Lazebnik, Schmid, Ponce, _Beyond Bags of Features: Spatial Pyramid Matching for Recognizing Natural Scene Categories_
      * *Jim:* Parameswaran, Ramesh, Zoghlami. _Tunable Kernels for Tracking_
   * July 13: Best of CVPR:
      * *Scott:* Dollar, Ti and Belongie, _Supervised Learning of Edges and Object Boundaries_
      * *Per-Erik:* David Nistér and Henrik Stewénius, _Scalable Recognition with a Vocabulary Tree_
      * *Julia:* Opelt, Pinz, Zisserman, _Incremental learning of object detectors using a visual shape alphabet_
      * *Kenji:* Ling, Okada. _Diffusion Distance for Histogram Comparison_
   * June 30: Best of ECCV:
      * *Scott:* Jamie Shotton, John Winn, Carsten Rother, and Antonio Criminisi, _TextonBoost: Joint Appearance, Shape and Context Modeling for Multi-class Object Recognition and Segmentation_ 
      * *Scott:* Andreas Opelt, Axel Pinz, and Andrew Zisserman, _A Boundary-Fragment-Model for Object Detection_
      * *Per-Erik:* Liran Goshen and Ilan Shimshoni, _Balanced Exploration and Exploitation Model Search for Efficient Epipolar Geometry Estimation_
      * *Per-Erik:* Josephine Sullivan and Stefan Carlsson, _Tracking and Labelling of Interacting Multiple Targets_
      * *Julia:* Xiaofeng Ren, Charless C. Fowlkes, and Jitendra Malik, _Figure/Ground Assignment in Natural Images_
      * *Julia:* Anat Levin and Yair Weiss, _Learning to Combine Bottom-Up and Top-Down Segmentation_
      * *Jim:* Hanzi Wang, David Suter, and Konrad Schindler, _Effective Appearance Model and Similarity Measure for Particle Filtering and Visual Tracking_
      * *Jim:* Matthieu Bray, Pushmeet Kohli, and Philip H.S. Torr, _PoseCut: Simultaneous Segmentation and 3D Pose Estimation of Humans Using Dynamic Graph-Cuts_
      * *Jim:* Mustafa Özuysal, Vincent Lepetit, François Fleuret, and Pascal Fua, _Feature Harvesting for Tracking-by-Detection_
   * June 23: *Per-Erik:* Herbert Bay, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc Van Gool, _SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features_. *ECCV 2006*
   * May 26: *Ruben:* Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Jose A Castellanos, _Bounding Uncertainty in EKF-SLAM: The Robocentric Local Approach_ *ICRA 2006*
   * May 26: *Albert:* Wesgrid grid computing.
   * May 19: *Tristram:* Oblivion demo and discussion on ontologies.
   * May 12: *Rob, Julia, Kevin M:* E. Sudderth, A. Torralba, W. T. Freeman, and A. Wilsky. _Depth from Familiar Objects: A Hierarchical Model for 3D Scenes_. *CVPR 2006*
   * May 5: Derek Hoiem, Alexei A. Efros, Martial Hebert, _Putting Objects in Perspective_. *CVPR 2006*
   * April 28: *Ken Alton:* Ken Alton and Ian Mitchell, _Optimal Path Planning under Different Norms in Continuous State Spaces_. *ICRA 2006*
   * April 20: Practise talk by Rob
   * April 7: Dimitri Marinakis, Gregory Dudek, _A Practical Algorithm for Network Topology Inference_. *ICRA 2006*, later also Anne Francis _Forbidden Planet_
   * March 24: Peter M. Roth, Michael Donoser, Horst Bischof, _Tracking for Learning an Object Representation from Unlabeled Data_. *CVWW 2006*
   * Catherine Laporte, Rupert Brooks, Tal Arbel, _A fast discriminant approach to active object recognition and pose estimation_. *ICPR 2004*
   * *Kenji:* Shai Avidan, _Ensemble Tracking_. *CVPR 2005*
   * Feb 24: *Kevin M:* Computer Vision in the Movies
   * Feb 1: S. Obdrzálek and J. Matas. _Sub-linear indexing for large scale object recognition_. *BMVC 2005*
   * Jan 19: *Rob and Pantelis:* Robot hardware.

---++ Old stuff below

Upcoming and recent discussion groups:

This Thurs: NIPS roundup
   * Rob: the robotics and attention papers (I'll discuss each of these very briefly)
      * Grand Challenge Vision (Thrun, et al)
      * Bayesian Surprise Attracts Human Attention (Itti & Baldi)
      * Saliency Based on Information Maximization (Bruce & Tsotsos)
      * Radial Basis Function Networks for Multi-task Learning (Liao & Carin)
      * Off-Road Obstacle Avoidance Through End-to-End Learning (LeCun, Muller et al)
      * Hierarchical Linear/Constant Time SLAM Using Particle Filters for Dense Maps (Parr & Eliazar) 

Paper suggestions:

   * _Polygonal Random Fields_ work by Mark Paskin @ Stanford.
   * Andrew Ng's NIPS paper on learning helicopter control.
   * Some good papers on AUV's (autonomous underwater vehicles)
   * HRI papers specifically surveying safety issues.
   * Ian Mitchell to present his recent work.
   * A broader discussion of the open problems in robotics.
   * _Probabilistic Roadmaps_, Kavraki et al.
   * _Subjective localization with action respecting embedding_, Michael Bowling, Dana Wilkinson, Ali Ghodsi, and Adam Milstein. In Proceedings of the International Symposium of Robotics Research , 2005.  [[http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~bowling/papers/05isrr.pdf][pdf]] [[Abs:BowlingISRR][abstract]]
   * C.-C. Wang, C. Thorpe and S. Thrun. _Online Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects: Theory and Results from a Ground Vehicle in Crowded Urban Areas_. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'03), May, 2003. Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award  & for the Wegbreit Best Vision Paper Award, [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bobwang/Papers/wang_icra03.html][pdf]]
   * _Bayesian Video Matting Using Learnt Image Priors_, N.E. Apostoloff and A.W. Fitzgibbon, CVPR 2004 [[http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/publications/papers/apostoloff04.pdf][pdf]] [[Abs:AposECCV04][abstract]]
   * _Searching in the plane_, R.A. Baeza-Yates, J. Culberson, G.J.E. Rawlins.  Information and Computation 106(2), 234-252 (1993).  A classic paper on optimal search algorithms in 2-space. [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~simra/lci/baeza-yates.pdf][pdf]]
   * _Fast Learning of Sprites using Invariant Fetaures_, Moray Allan, Michalis K. Titsias, Christopher K. I. Williams.  In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference 2005 (BMVC 2005). [[http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~moray/papers/allan2005b.pdf][pdf]]

Previous papers:
* Sept 2005: _An MCMC-based Particle Filter for Tracking Multiple Interacting Targets_, Zia Khan, Tucker Balch, Frank Dellaert. [[http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dellaert/ftp/Khan04eccv.pdf][pdf]] [[Abs:KhanECCV][abstract]]

* Jan 10, 2004: We'll meet in room 202.  Paper: Spacetime Faces: High-Resolution Capture for Modeling and Animation
Li Zhang, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, and Steven M. Seitz URL: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/stfaces/

* Dec 10, 2004: 
** Paper: Gap Navigation Trees: Minimal Representation for Visibility-based Tasks URL: http://btovar.net/research/research.html , Steven M. LaValle. 
** Robot name proposals: Nelson, Cartman, Brutus, Eve, Donbot, Manos, Cleo, Clamps

* Dec 3, 2004: Cancelled.

* Nov 26, 2004: We'll demo the new robot.

* Nov 19, 2004: Belief Propagation for Early Vision, Pedro Felzenszwalb & Daniel P. Huttenlocher




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