BMVC 2012 Conference Programme

Monday - 3th September

Tuesday - 4th September

• Automatic and Efficient Long Term Arm and Hand Tracking for Continuous Sign Language TV Broadcasts
  Tomas Pfister (University of Oxford), James Charles (University of Leeds), Mark Everingham (University of Leeds), Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford)
• Deformable Tracking of Textured Curvilinear Objects
  Nicolas Padoy (Johns Hopkins University), Gregory Hager (Johns Hopkins University)

• Using Richer Models for Articulated Pose Estimation of Footballers
  Vahid Kazemi (KTH, Sweden), Josephine Sullivan (KTH, Sweden)
• Dynamical Pose Filtering for Mixtures of Gaussian Processes
  Martin Fergie (Universiy of Manchester), Aphrodite Galata (University of Manchester)
• Close-Range Human Detection and Tracking for Head-Mounted Cameras
  Dennis Mitzel (RWTH Aachen University), Bastian Leibe (RWTH Aachen University)
• Detection and Tracking of Occluded People
  Siyu Tang (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Mykhaylo Andriluka (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Bernt Schiele (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
• Latent SVMs for Human Detection with a Locally Affine Deformation Field
  L’ubor Ladický (University of Oxford), Philip Torr (Oxford Brookes University), Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford)

• Stixmentation - Probabilistic Stixel based Traffic Scene Labeling
  Friedrich Erbs (Daimler AG), Beate Schwarz (Daimler AG), Uwe Franke (Daimler AG)
• MoT - Mixture of Trees Probabilistic Graphical Model for Video Segmentation
  Ignas Budvytis (University of Cambridge), Vijay Badrinarayanan (University of Cambridge), Roberto Cipolla (University of Cambridge)
• Improved Initialization and Gaussian Mixture Pairwise Terms for Dense Random Fields with Mean-field Inference
  Vibhav Vineet (Oxford Brookes University), Jonathan Warrell (Oxford Brookes University), Paul Sturgess (Oxford Brookes Vision Group), Philip Torr (Oxford Brookes University)
• Image Segmentation using Dual Distribution Matching
  Tatsunori Taniai (University of Tokyo), Viet-quoc Pham (Toshiba Corporation, Japan), Keita Takahashi (University of Electro-Communications, Japan), Takeshi Naemura (University of Tokyo)

Wednesday - 5th September

• Image Retrieval for Image-Based Localization Revisited
  Torsten Sattler (RWTH Aachen University), Tobias Weyand (RWTH Aachen University), Bastian Leibe (RWTH Aachen University), Leif Kobbelt (RWTH Aachen University)
• Improved Geometric Verification for Large Scale Landmark Image Collections
  Rahul Raguram (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Joseph Tighe (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jan-michael Frahm (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

• Transfer Learning by Ranking for Weakly Supervised Object Annotation
  Zhiyuan Shi (Queen Mary, University of London), Parthipan Siva (Queen Mary, University of London), Tao Xiang (Queen Mary, University of London)
• Enhancing Exemplar SVMs using Part Level Transfer Regularization
  Yusuf Aytar (University of Oxford), Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford)
• Do We Need More Training Data or Better Models for Object Detection?
  Xiangxin Zhu (University of California), Carl Vondrick (MIT), Deva Ramanan (University of California), Charless Fowlkes (University of California)
• An Object Co-occurrence Assisted Hierarchical Model for Scene Understanding
  Xin Li (Temple University, Philadelphia), Yuhong Guo (Temple University, Philadelphia)
• Efficient Kernels Couple Visual Words Through Categorical Opponency
  Ioannis Alexiou (Imperial College London), Anil Bharath (Imperial College London)

• Learning discriminative space-time actions from weakly labelled videos
  Michael Sapienza (Oxford Brookes University), Fabio Cuzzolin (Oxford Brookes University), Philip Torr (Oxford Brookes University)
• Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Sparse Auto-Encoder for Sequence Classification
  Moez Baccouche (Orange Labs R&D), Franck Mamalet (Orange Labs R&D), Christian Wolf (LIRIS laboratory - INSA Lyon), Christophe Garcia (LIRIS laboratory - INSA Lyon), Atilla Baskurt (LIRIS laboratory - INSA Lyon)
• Cross-View Action Recognition via a Transferable Dictionary Pair
  Jingjing Zheng (University of Maryland), Zhuolin Jiang (University of Maryland), Jonathon Phillips (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland)
• A Videography Analysis Framework for Video Retrieval and Summarization
  Kang Li (SUNY at Buffalo), Sangmin Oh (Kitware Inc), A.g. Amitha Perera (Kitware Inc), Yun Fu (Northeastern University, Boston)

Thursday - 6th September

• Scene Text Recognition using Higher Order Language Priors
  Anand Mishra (IIIT Hyderabad, India), Karteek Alahari (INRIA - WILLOW / ENS), Cv Jawahar (IIIT Hyderabad, India)
• Data-Driven Scene Understanding from 3D Models
  Scott Satkin (The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University), Jason Lin (The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University), Martial Hebert (The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
• Tom-vs-Pete Classifiers and Identity-Preserving Alignment for Face Verification
  Thomas Berg (Columbia University), Peter Belhumeur (Columbia University)
• Let the Shape Speak - Discriminative Face Alignment using Conjugate Priors
  Pedro Martins (Institute of Systems Robotics, University of Coimbra), Rui Caseiro (Institute of Systems Robotics, University of Coimbra), João Henriques (Institute of Systems Robotics, University of Coimbra), Jorge Batista (Institute of Systems Robotics, University of Coimbra)
• Dense Active Appearance Models Using a Bounded Diameter Minimum Spanning Tree
  Robert Anderson (University of Cambridge), Bjorn Stenger (Toshiba Research Europe), Roberto Cipolla (University of Cambridge)

• PMBP: PatchMatch Belief Propagation for Correspondence Field Estimation
  Frederic Besse (University College London), Carsten Rother (Microsoft Research Cambridge), Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge), Jan Kautz (University College London)
• Deformable 3D Reconstruction with an Object Database
  Pablo Alcantarilla (Université d'Auvergne), Adrien Bartoli (Université d'Auvergne)
• Incremental Light Bundle Adjustment
  Vadim Indelman (Georgia Institute of Technology), Richard Roberts (Georgia Institute of Technology), Chris Beall (Georgia Institute of Technology), Frank Dellaert (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Low-Complexity Single-Image Super-Resolution based on Nonnegative Neighbor Embedding
  Marco Bevilacqua (INRIA), Aline Roumy (INRIA), Christine Guillemot (INRIA), Marie-line Alberi Morel (Bell Labs France)
• Fast Non-uniform Deblurring using Constrained Camera Pose Subspace
  Zhe Hu (University of California at Merced), Ming-hsuan Yang (University of California at Merced)