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Microsoft provides software tools for educators

July 4, 2009 by Computer Vision Central Posted in

According to a press release, members of the Innovative Teachers Network have free download access of AutoCollage, a computer vision and image processing software from Microsoft Research that automatically creates montages of digital photos. The goal is to provide teachers with new tools to create dynamic visual content for the classroom.

Photometric stereo system developed to monitor children’s breathing

July 3, 2009 by Computer Vision Central Posted in

Researchers from the University of the West of England (UWE) have developed a camera-based system to monitor young children with respiratory problems. The system, named dynamic photometric stereo, uses a camera and structured light to track the breathing movements of the child’s chest and abdomen.

According to a press release, the system is less intrusive than traditional methods that include the use of bands strapped on the body.

CVPR 2009 Best Paper Awards

July 2, 2009 by Computer Vision Central Posted in

The best paper awards for CVPR 2009 have been announced.

  • Best Paper:
    Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior by Kaiming He (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jian Sun (Microsoft Research Asia), and Xiaoou Tang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Best Paper - Honorable Mention:
    Understanding and evaluating blind deconvolution algorithms by Anat Levin (MIT & Weizmann Institute), Yair Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Fredo Durand (MIT), and Bill Freeman (MIT and Adobe)
  • Best Student Paper:
    Nonparametric Scene Parsing: Label Transfer via Dense Scene Alignment by Ce Liu (MIT), Jenny Yuen (MIT), and Antonio Torralba (MIT)
  • Best Student Paper - Honorable Mention:
    A Tensor-Based Algorithm for High-Order Graph Matching by Olivier Duchenne (Ecole Normale Superieure), Francis Bach (INRIA - ENS), In So Kweon (KAIST), Jean Ponce (Ecole Normale Superieure)

Google’s new Street View simplifies navigation

July 1, 2009 by Computer Vision Central Posted in

Daniel Filip, Computer Vision technical lead at Google Zürich, recently announced a new navigation feature on Google Street View whereby a user can double click on an image object to change the view to the object's location.

Eutecus embeds video analytics onto FPGA

June 30, 2009 by Computer Vision Central Posted in

Eutecus, Inc. recently released its Multi-core Video Analytics Engine (MVE™) Evaluation Kit with a graphical user interface. According to Eutecus, MVE is the first system to embed an entire video analytics event detection application on a single low-cost FPGA, the Xilinx Spartan 3A. The MVE system includes multiple parallel event detectors, processing HD video streams at 30 frames per second.

Information about MVE is available from the Eutecus site.

Maine bans use of photo enforcement cameras

June 29, 2009 by Computer Vision Central Posted in
Maine has enacted a law banning the use of red-light and speed cameras for traffic enforcement. A motivation for the law was the possibility that vehicle owners rather than drivers could be cited. The new law does not apply to the use of cameras that enforce highway toll payments. More information is available in a news article and a legislative-watch site.

Researchers at Newcastle University develop method to search motion capture data

June 28, 2009 by Computer Vision Central Posted in

Dr. Sally Jane Norman and her team from Newcastle University have developed a method to more easily search and retrieve motion capture data that pertain to selected movements and features. The user sketches the desired movements with a mouse or pen to trigger a search for similar sequences.

More information is available in a press release.

Sites for future CVPR conferences

June 27, 2009 by Computer Vision Central Posted in

At the 2009 meeting of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI-TC) the locations for CVPR 2011 and 2012 were selected:

  • CVPR 2011: Colorado Springs, Colorado;
  • CVPR 2012: Newport, Rhode Island.

CVPR 2010 will be held in San Francisco, California June 13-18, 2010. The general chairs are Larry Davis (University of Maryland) and Jitendra Malik (University of California, Berkeley). The program chairs are Trevor Darrell (University of California, Berkeley), David Hogg (University of Leeds, UK), and David Jacobs (University of Maryland).

Announced: The 2009 Longuet-Higgins Prize for computer vision research

June 26, 2009 by Computer Vision Central Posted in

The Longuet-Higgins Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision for 2009 has been awarded to

  • Jinggang Huang and David Mumford for "Statistics of Natural Images and Models," CVPR'99 vol. 1, pp. 1541, and
  • Chris Stauffer and W.E.L. Grimson for "Adaptive Background Mixture Models for Real-Time Tracking," CVPR'99 vol. 2, pp. 2246.

The award recognizes CVPR papers from ten years ago which have had fundamental impact on computer vision research. The award was established in 2005, and a list of award winners is available at the CVPR 2009 site.

Scottish parking attendants use head-mounted cameras

June 25, 2009 by Computer Vision Central Posted in

Head-mounted cameras are being used by parking attendants in Scotland to record interactions with motorists. The video recording helps resolve customer complaints and parking disputes. According to a Traffic Technology article, it also reduces verbal abuse from motorists.

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