Tutorial

Date: December 15, 2004. 

Venue: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Limited number of participants can be accommodated.

Registration Fee: Rs. 2,000/- or US $ 100.

 

Tuorial Session

 

Morning Session

09:00 - 10:00 Registration
09:45 - 10:00 Introduction by S. K. Pal (Tutorial Chair)
10:00 - 11:30 Andrew Zisserman
11:30 - 11:45 Tea break
11:45 - 13:15 Baba C. Vemuri

13:15 - 14:15

Lunch 

Afternoon Session
14:15 - 15:45 Larry  Davis
15:45 - 16:00  Tea break
16:00 - 17:30 J. K. Aggarwal

 

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Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE

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Larry Davis

University of Maryland, USA

Topic:  Detection and tracking for surveillance
Abstract: This tutorial will cover problems related to detection and tracking from surveillance video. For detection, I will cover background subtraction for fixed and pan/tilt/zoom cameras, shape-based detection using machine learning techniques, and the use of periodic motion models to discriminate people from other moving objects in video. For tracking, I will discuss discuss basic representation and control problems in tracking objects both continuously and with time gaps in coverage. 
 

J. K. Aggarwal

University of Texas, USA

Topic:  Human Motion: Actions and Interactions
Abstract:
 

Andrew Zisserman

University of Oxford, UK

Topic:  Trainable Visual Models for Object Class Recognition
Abstract: Recognizing object classes, such as cars, planes or elephants, in an image or a video remains one of the most challenging problems in Computer Vision. However, recently a number of successes have been achieved by using ideas and algorithms from statistical learning theory, where visual models are trained using positive and negative examples of the class.
 

Baba C. Vemuri

University of Florida, USA

Topic: Image Registration with Applications to Medical Imaging
Abstract:

Image registration is ubiquitous in Computer Vision, Medical Imaging and other fields of Science and Engineering. Image registration maybe defined as, given a pair of images possibly acquired from different view points under varying image acquisition parameters or from two different sensors, to estimate the unknown coordinate transformation that would align the images. The coordinate transformation may be linear (e.g., rigid, affine etc.) or nonlinear (e.g., polynomial etc.). Several well known approaches (e.g., the SSD method, the Mutual Information method etc.) to solve this problem will first be reviewed and following this, I will present a relatively new method that involves a novel measure of information in a random variable based on its cumulative distribution and dubbed the cumulative residual entropy (CRE). This measure parallels the well known Shannon entropy but has the following advantages: (1) it is more general than the Shannon Entropy as its definition is valid in the discrete and continuous domains, (2) it possess more general mathematical properties and (3) it can be easily computed from sample data and these computations asymptotically converge to the true values. Based on CRE, I will define the cross-CRE (CCRE) between two random variables, and apply it to solve the image alignment problem for parameterized (3D rigid and affine) transformations. The key strengths of the CCRE over using the mutual information (based on Shannon’s entropy) are that the former has significantly larger tolerance to noise and a much larger convergence range over the field of parameterized transformations. We demonstrate these strengths via experiments on synthesized and real image data.