Schedule

January 17th

7:00 - 8:00 Breakfast

8:00 - 8:10 Intro by Chairs

8:10 - 9:45 Short Oral Session 1

3D Free Form Object Recognition using Rotational Projection Statistics, Yulan Guo, National University of Defense Technology; Mohammed Bennamoun, Ferdous Sohel, The University of Western Australia; Jianwei Wan, National University of Defense Technology; Min Lu, National University of Defense Technology
Are You Using the Right Approximate Nearest Neighbor Algorithm?, Stephen O'Hara, Colorado State University; Bruce Draper, Colorado State University
Large-scale Web Video Event Classification by use of Fisher Vectors, Chen Sun, University of Southern California
Nonuniform Image Patch Exemplars for Low Level Vision, Vincent De Smet, KU Leuven; Vinay Namboodiri, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Antwerp, Belgium; Luc Van Gool, KU Leuven
Towards a Practical PTZ Face Detection and Tracking System, Yinghao Cai, USC; Gerard Medioni
Separation of Specular-Diffuse Reﬂection Components in the HSI Color Space, Yang Jianwei, CBSR&NLPR. Pulled from proceedings due to no show.
Image segmentation for large-scale subcategory flower recognition, Anelia Angelova, NEC Labs America; Shenghuo Zhu, Yuanqing Lin
Heteroscedastic Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Manifold Learning in Video-Based Face Recognition, Moh Wibowo, QUT Brisbane Australia; Dian Tjondronegoro, QUT Brisbane Australia; Ligang Zhang, QUT Brisbane Australia; Ivan Himawan, QUT
MHAD: A Comprehensive Multimodal Human Action Database, Ferda Ofli, UC Berkeley; Rizwan Chaudhry, Johns Hopkins University; Gregorij Kurillo, UC Berkeley; Rene Vidal, Johns Hopkins University; Ruzena Bajcsy, UC Berkeley
Human Behavior Segmentation and Recognition using Continuous Linear Dynamic System, Jinjun Wang, Epson; Jing Xiao, Epson Research and Development
Statistical Angular Error-Based Triangulation for Efficient and Accurate Multi-View Scene Reconstruction, Shawn Recker, University of California Davis; Mauricio Hess-Flores, UC Davis; Ken Joy, University of California Davis
Automatic Region-of-Interest Detection and Prioritisation for Visually Optimised Coding of Low Bit Rate Videos, Ivan Himawan, QUT; Wei Song, QUT; Dian Tjondronegoro, QUT
Clustering of video-patches on Grassmannian manifold for facial expression recognition from 3D videos, Munawar Hayat, UWA; Mohammed Bennamoun, The University of Western Australia; Amar A. El-Sallam, UWA
Automatic Identification of Exudates in Retinal Images, Flavio Henrique Araujo, Universidade federal do Piaui; Andre Santana, Universidade federal do Piaui; Rodrigo Veras, Universidade federal do Piaui; Romuere Silva, Universidade Federal do Piauí; Kelson Romulo Aires, UFPI. Pulled from proceedings due to no show.
Classification of Human Epithelial Type 2 Cell Indirect Immunofluoresence Images via Codebook Based Descriptors, Arnold Wiliem, National ICT Australia, NICTA; Yongkang Wong, NICTA; Conrad Sanderson, NICTA; Shaokang Chen, NICTA; Peter Hobson, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology; Brian Lovell, University of Queensland
Spatio-Temporal Covariance Descriptors for Action and Gesture Recognition, Andres Sanin, NICTA; Conrad Sanderson, NICTA; Mehrtash Harandi, NICTA; Brian Lovell, University of Queensland
Relational Divergence Based Classification on Riemannian Manifolds, Azadeh Alavi, NICTA; Mehrtash Harandi, NICTA; Conrad Sanderson, NICTA; Brian Lovell, University of Queensland
Relative Ranking of Facial Attractiveness, Hani Altwaijry, UCSD; Serge Belongie, UCSD
Robust classification system with reliability prediction for semi-automatic traffic-sign inventory systems, Lykele Hazelhoff, CycloMedia Technology B.V.; Ivo Creusen, Peter de With, Eindhoven University of Technology

9:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:00 Plenary Talk

11:00 - 12:30 Short Oral Session 2

A Lip Extraction Algorithm Using Region-based ACM With Automatic Contour Initialization, Chao Sui*, UniversityOfWesternAustralia; Mohammed Bennamoun, ; Roberto Togneri, University of Western Australia; Serajul Haque, University of Western Australia
Scene Image Categorization and Video Event Detection using Naive Bayes Nearest Neighbor, Shiv Vitaladevuni, Raytheon BBN Technologies; Pradeep Natarajan, Raytheon BBN Technologies; Shuang Wu, Raytheon BBN Technologies; Rohit Prasad, Raytheon BBN Technologies; Premkumar Natarajan, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Accurate Motion Deblurring using Camera Motion Tracking and Scene Depth, Hyeoungho Bae, University of California, Irvi; Charless Fowlkes, UC Irvine; Pai Chou, UC Irvine
DIRSAC: A Directed Sampling And Consensus Approach to Quasi-Degenerate Data Fitting, Chris Baker, NREC; William Hoff, CSM
Scallop Detection in Multiple Maritime Environments, Matthew Dawkins, RPI/Kitware; Charles Stewart, RPI
What is the Space of Spectral Sensitivity Functions for Digital Color Cameras? JUN JIANG, Rochester Institute of Technol; Dengyu Liu, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jinwei Gu, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sabine Susstrunk, EPFL
Robust Rank-4 Affine Factorization for Structure from Motion, Guanghui Wang, University of Waterloo; John Zelek, University of Waterloo; Q.M. Jonathan Wu, University of Windsor; Ruzena Bajcsy, UC Berkeley
Using Kinect for Face Recognition Under Varying Poses, Expressions, Illumination and Disguise, Y.L. Billy Li, Curtin University; Ajmal Mian, University of Western Australia; Wanquan Liu, Curtin University; Aneesh Krishna, Curtin University
Expanding gait identification methods from straight to curved trajectorie, Yumi Iwashita, Kyushu University; Koichi Ogawara, ; Ryo Kurazumes
Wildfire Smoke Detection Using SpatioTemporal Bag-of-Features of Smoke, ByoungChul Ko, Keimyung University; Jun-Oh Park, Keimyung University; Jae-Yeal Nam, Keimyung University; SooYeong Kwak
Animal Recognition in the Mojave Desert: Vision Tools for Field Biologists, Michael Wilber, University of Colorado; Walter Scheirer, Securics, Inc.; Terry Boult, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Webcam2Satellite: Estimating Cloud Maps from Ground Sensors, Calvin Murdock, WUSTL; Nathan Jacobs, University of Kentucky; Robert Pless, WUSTL
A low cost 3D markerless system for the reconstruction of athletic techniques, Amar A. El-Sallam, UWA; Mohammed Bennamoun, The University of Western Australia; Andrew Lyttle, Univ of Western Australia; Ferdous Sohel, Univ. of Western Australia; jacqueline Alderson, Univ of Western Australia
HotSpotter - Species Independent Animal Instance Recognition, Jonathan Crall, RPI; Charles Stewart, RPI; Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois; Daniel Rubenstein, Princeton University
Reconstructing a Fragmented Face from a Cryptographic Identification Protocol, Andy Luong, University of Texas at Austin; Michael Gerbush, Brent Waters, UT Austin; Kristen Grauman, UT Austin
Periocular Biometric Recognition using Image Sets, Muhammad Uzair, CSSE, UWA; Arif Mahmood, CSSE, UWA; Ajmal Mian, University of Western Australia; Chris McDonald, CSSE, UWA
An Experimental Study of Pupil Constriction for Liveness Detection, Xinyu Huang, North Carolina Central Univ.; Changepeng Ti, University of Kentucky; Alade Tokuta, North Carolina Central University; Ruigang Yang, University of Kentucky
Automatic Content-Based Temporal Alignment of Image Sequences with Varying Spatio-Temporal Resolution, Sam Ogden, Brigham Young University; Bryan Morse, Brigham Young University

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

12:30 - 15:00 Day 1 Poster Session

January 18th

7:00 - 8:00 Breakfast

8:05 - 9:45 Short Oral Session 3

Ridge Regression based Classifiers for Large Scale Class Imbalanced Datasets, Devansh Arpit, Raytheon BBN Technologies; Shuang Wu, Raytheon BBN Technologies; Pradeep Natarajan*, Raytheon BBN Technologies; Rohit Prasad, Raytheon BBN Technologies; Premkumar Natarajan, Raytheon BBN Technologies
A Relational Kernel-based Approach to Scene Classification, Laura Antanas, KUL; McElory Hoffmann, KUL; Paolo Frasconi, KUL; UNIFI; Tinne Tuytelaars, KUL; Luc De Raedt, KUL
Person Re-identification using Semantic Color Names and RankBoos, Cheng-Hao Kuo*, Siemens Corporate Research; Sameh Khamis, University of Maryland; Vinay Shet, Siemens Corporate Researcht
OpenVL: A Task-Based Abstraction for Developer-Friendly Computer Vision, Gregor Miller*, University of British Columbia; Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia
Image Quality Quantification for Fingerprints Using Quality-Impairment Assessmen, Anurag Awasthi*, IIT Kanpur; Krithika Venkataramani, IIT Kanpur; Avani Nandini, IIT Kanpurt
Shape and Image Retrieval by Organizing Instances Using Population Cues, Andrew Temlyakov, University of South Carolina; Pahal Dalal, ; Jarrell Waggoner, ; Dhaval Salvi, ; Song Wang
"RegionCut" - Interactive Multi-Label Segmentation Utilizing Cellular Automaton, Björn Scheuermann, Inst. f. Informationsverarbeit; Jakob Arndt, ; Bodo Rosenhahn
A High Resolution 3D Tire and Footprint Impression Acquisition for Forensics Applications, Ruwan Egoda Gamage, IUPUI; Abhishek Joshi, IUPUI; Jiang Zheng , IUPUI; Mihran Tuceryan, IUPUI
Domain Adaptive Object Detection, Fatemeh Mirrashed, University of Maryland; Larry Davis, University of Maryland; vlad Morariu, ; Behjat Siddiquie, Rogerio Feris
A Weakly Supervised Approach for Object Detection Based on Soft-Label Boosting, Weihong Wang, Nitional ICT Australia; Yang Wang, National ICT Australia; Fang Chen, National ICT Australia (NICTA); Arcot Sowmya, University of New South Wales
Video Event Recognition Using Concept Attributes, Jingen Liu, SRI International Sarnoff; Qian Yu, SRI International
Single View Pose Estimation of Mobile Devices in Urban Environments, Aaron Hallquist, UC Berkeley; Avideh Zakhor
A Full-Spherical Device for Simultaneous Geometry and Reflectance Acquisition, Johannes Koehler, DFKI GmbH; Tobias Nöll, ; Gerd Reis, ; Didier Stricker
Depth SEEDS: Recovering Incomplete Depth Data using Superpixels, Michael Van den Bergh, ETH Zurich; Luc Van Gool, ETH Zurich, KU Leuven
Unwrapping the Eye for Visible-Spectrum Gaze Tracking on Wearable Devices, Bernardo Pires, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Devyver, Carnegie Mellon University; Akihiro Tsukada, Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University
Semantic Tie Points, Javier Montoya, ETHZ; Konrad Schindler, ; Christian Leistner
Multi-Pose Multi-Target Tracking for Activity Understanding, Hamid Izadinia,; Varun Ramakrishna, Kris Kitani, Carnegie Mellon University; Daniel Huber
Estimation of Camera Pose with Respect to Terrestrial LiDAR Data, Wei Guan, University of Southern Califor; Suya You, University of Southern California
Fusing appearance and geometric constrains for estimating the epipolar geometry, Miguel Lourenço, ISR-UC; Nuno Gonçalves, ISR
Illumination Invariant Mean-Shift Tracking, Gargi Phadke, IIT,Bombay

9:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:00 Plenary Talk

11:00 - 12:30 Short Oral Session 4

Image to LIDAR Matching for Geotagging in Urban Environments, Bogdan Matei, SRI International; Nicholas Vander Valk, SRI International; Zhiwei Zhu, SRI International; Hui Cheng, SRI International; Harpreet Sawhney, SRI International
Improving Pollen Classification with Less Training Effort, Nhat Nguyen, UNC Charlotte; Min Shin, UNC Charlotte; Matina Donaldson-Matasci, University of Arizona
Boosting Object Detection Performance in Crowded Surveillance Videos, Rogerio Feris, Ankur Datta, IBM Research; Sharath Pankanti, IBM Research; Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington
Robust Autocalibration for Surveillance Camera Network, Jingchen Liu, Penn State Univ; Robert Collins, Penn. State; Yanxi Liu, Penn. State
Real-time Tracking of Low-Resolution Vehicles for Wide-Area Persistent Surveillance, Mark Keck, BAE Systems; Luis Galup, ; Chris Stauffer, BAE
Laparoscopic Instrument Localization using a 3-D Time-of-Flight/RGB Endoscope, Sven Haase, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Thomas Kilgus, German Cancer Research Center; Jakob Wasza, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Joachim Hornegger, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Automatic curve selection for lens distortion correction using Hough transform energy, Jinhai Cai, University of South Australia
Gender Recognition Using 2-D Ear Images and Sparse Representation, Rahman Khorsandi, University of Miami; Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, University of Miami
Geometric Calibration for a Multi-Camera-Projector System, Ricardo Garcia, UC Berkeley; Avideh Zakhor
SAGE: A Principled Approach and Implementation Empowering Quick and Reliable Quantitative Analysis for Segmentation Comparison, Danna Gurari, Boston University; Seule Ki Kim, ; Eugene Yang, ; Brett Isenberg, ; Tuan Pham, ; Alberto Purwada, ; Patricia Solski, ; Matthew Walker, ; Joyce Wong, ; Margrit Betke
A Bayesian Non-parametric Viewpoint to Visual Tracking, Yi Wang, UNSW/NICTA; Zhidong Li, ; Yang Wang, National ICT Australia; Fang Chen, National ICT Australia (NICTA)
A Graph-Based Algorithm for Multi-Target Tracking with Occlusion, Dhaval Salvi, Jarrell Waggoner, Andrew Temlyakov, University of South Carolina; Song Wang
The Gixel Array Descriptor (GAD) for Multi-Modal Image Matching, Guan Pang, Univ of Southern California; Ulrich Neumann, Univ of Southern California
Handwritten Text Segmentation using Average Longest Path Algorithm, Dhaval Salvi, Jun Zhou, University of South Carolina; Jarrell Waggoner, Song Wang
Spatial-Temporal Structural and Dynamics Features for Surveillance Video Fire Detection, Hongcheng Wang, UTRC
Whale Blow Detection in Infrared Video using Fractal Analysis as Tool for Representing Dynamic Shape Variation, Varun Santhaseelan, University of Dayton; Vijayan Asari, University of Dayton
Mass Anomaly Depth Estimation From Full Tensor Gradient Gravity Data, Daniel Wedge, The University of Western Aust
Tracking Multiple Ants in a Colony, Thomas Fasciano, UNC Charlotte; Hoan Nguyen, UNCC; Anna Dornhaus, University of Arizona; Min Shin, UNC Charlotte

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

12:30 - 15:00 Day 2 Poster Session + Awards