News:

News

  • [Apr.15.08]  Computer Vision Colloquium   
      Dr. Li Zhang, title: "Computer Vision under Programmable Lighting:from 3D Reconstruction to Object Recognition", CSE dept Colloquium series hosted by Dr. Liu.
    He also will give a technical talk at LPAC meeting.


  • [Mar.22.08]  Computer Vision Colloquium  
      Dr. Xiaofeng Ren, title: "Image and Video Parsing: a Gestalt Approach", CSE dept Colloquium series hosted by Dr. Liu.
    He also will give a technical talk at LPAC meeting.


  • [Mar.08.08]  6 papers are accepted at CVPR 2008  
      6 papers are accepted at IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recogntion.



  • [Feb.19.08]  More Computer Vision Colloquium this semester  
      Xiaofeng Ren, March 28
      Li Zhang (WISC), CSE seminar speaker, April 15


  • [Feb.15.08]  Computer Vision Colloquium  
      Dr. Silvio Savarese, title: "Visual Recognition in the Three-Dimensional World", CSE dept Colloquium series hosted by Dr. Liu.


  • [Feb.11.08]  Computer Vision Colloquium  
      Dr. Evgeniy Bart, title: "Visual Object Recognition,Categorization, and Taxonomy Learning", CSE dept Colloquium series hosted by Dr. Collins.


  • [Feb.08.08]  Computer Vision Colloquium  
      Dr. Pedro Felzenszwalb, title: "Object Recognition with Deformable Models", CSE dept Colloquium series hosted by Dr. Collins.


  • [Feb.19.08]  Gift Grant from Northrop Grumman Corporation  
      Professor Liu received an unrestricted gift grant from Northrop Grumman Corporation to continue her creative and innovative research.


  • [Jan.01.08]  Professor Liu gave a research tutorial on the topic of "Computational Symmetry" at ACCV 2007, Tokyo, Japan.   


  • [Oct.29.07]  Professor Liu was an invited speaker at A MICCAI 2007 Workshop on Content-based Image Retrieval for Biomedical Image Archives, October 29th, 2007. Brisbane, Australia.   


  • [Jul.20.07]  [Jul.20.07] Two new graduate students join LPAC.   
    Weina Ge and Joao Soares will join LPAC in FALL 2007 semester. Welcome, new LPAC members!!


  • [Jul.11.07]  Professor Robert Collins and Yanxi Liu Receive Iinterdisciplinary NSF Award.  
      Professors Robert Collins and Yanxi Liu, together with R. Barry Ruback (Sociology) and Christopher Byrnes (Math/ARL) have received a $750,000 grant from NSF to support interdisciplinary research into the social behavior of crowds.
      Their research will combine a mathematical model of human collective behavior with software for image and texture tracking, classification, simulation, and animation to test the hypothesis that behavior in a large crowd results primarily from social influence within and between small groups of individuals. Empirical sociological evidence will be gathered by tracking all individuals in video of crowds of varying nature, topology, size and density using automated computer vision tracking algorithms, a methodological breakthrough capable of providing quantitative characterization of real crowds faster and more accurately than human observation. The theory and the tools to be developed by this project can assist personnel in law enforcement, emergency management, and event management to minimize violence, speed up evacuations, and reduce accidental injury during large public gatherings.
      Congratulations!