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2009

Ball Joints for Marker-less Human Motion Capture

In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV),, December 2009 (inproceedings)

2009

Pons-Moll, G., Rosenhahn, B. Ball Joints for Marker-less Human Motion Capture In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV),, December 2009 (inproceedings)

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Background Subtraction Based on Rank Constraint for Point Trajectories

Ahmad, A., Del Bue, A., Lima, P.

In pages: 1-3, October 2009 (inproceedings)

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This work deals with a background subtraction algorithm for a fish-eye lens camera having 3 degrees of freedom, 2 in translation and 1 in rotation. The core assumption in this algorithm is that the background is considered to be composed of a dominant static plane in the world frame. The novelty lies in developing a rank-constraint based background subtraction for equidistant projection model, a property of the fish-eye lens. A detail simulation result is presented to support the hypotheses explained in this paper.

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Ahmad, A., Del Bue, A., Lima, P. Background Subtraction Based on Rank Constraint for Point Trajectories In pages: 1-3, October 2009 (inproceedings)

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Parametric Modeling of the Beating Heart with Respiratory Motion Extracted from Magnetic Resonance Images

Pons-Moll, G., Crosas, C., Tadmor, G., MacLeod, R., Rosenhahn, B., Brooks, D.

In IEEE Computers in Cardiology (CINC), September 2009 (inproceedings)

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Pons-Moll, G., Crosas, C., Tadmor, G., MacLeod, R., Rosenhahn, B., Brooks, D. Parametric Modeling of the Beating Heart with Respiratory Motion Extracted from Magnetic Resonance Images In IEEE Computers in Cardiology (CINC), September 2009 (inproceedings)

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Computer cursor control by motor cortical signals in humans with tetraplegia

Kim, S., Simeral, J. D., Hochberg, L. R., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J.

In 7th Asian Control Conference, ASCC09, pages: 988-993, Hong Kong, China, August 2009 (inproceedings)

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Kim, S., Simeral, J. D., Hochberg, L. R., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J. Computer cursor control by motor cortical signals in humans with tetraplegia In 7th Asian Control Conference, ASCC09, pages: 988-993, Hong Kong, China, August 2009 (inproceedings)

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Classification of colon polyps in NBI endoscopy using vascularization features

Stehle, T., Auer, R., Gross, S., Behrens, A., Wulff, J., Aach, T., Winograd, R., Trautwein, C., Tischendorf, J.

In Medical Imaging 2009: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 7260, (Editors: N. Karssemeijer and M. L. Giger), SPIE, February 2009 (inproceedings)

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The evolution of colon cancer starts with colon polyps. There are two different types of colon polyps, namely hyperplasias and adenomas. Hyperplasias are benign polyps which are known not to evolve into cancer and, therefore, do not need to be removed. By contrast, adenomas have a strong tendency to become malignant. Therefore, they have to be removed immediately via polypectomy. For this reason, a method to differentiate reliably adenomas from hyperplasias during a preventive medical endoscopy of the colon (colonoscopy) is highly desirable. A recent study has shown that it is possible to distinguish both types of polyps visually by means of their vascularization. Adenomas exhibit a large amount of blood vessel capillaries on their surface whereas hyperplasias show only few of them. In this paper, we show the feasibility of computer-based classification of colon polyps using vascularization features. The proposed classification algorithm consists of several steps: For the critical part of vessel segmentation, we implemented and compared two segmentation algorithms. After a skeletonization of the detected blood vessel candidates, we used the results as seed points for the Fast Marching algorithm which is used to segment the whole vessel lumen. Subsequently, features are computed from this segmentation which are then used to classify the polyps. In leave-one-out tests on our polyp database (56 polyps), we achieve a correct classification rate of approximately 90%.

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Stehle, T., Auer, R., Gross, S., Behrens, A., Wulff, J., Aach, T., Winograd, R., Trautwein, C., Tischendorf, J. Classification of colon polyps in NBI endoscopy using vascularization features In Medical Imaging 2009: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 7260, (Editors: N. Karssemeijer and M. L. Giger), SPIE, February 2009 (inproceedings)

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One-shot scanning using de bruijn spaced grids

Ulusoy, A., Calakli, F., Taubin, G.

In Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on, pages: 1786-1792, IEEE, 2009 (inproceedings)

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In this paper we present a new one-shot method to reconstruct the shape of dynamic 3D objects and scenes based on active illumination. In common with other related prior-art methods, a static grid pattern is projected onto the scene, a video sequence of the illuminated scene is captured, a shape estimate is produced independently for each video frame, and the one-shot property is realized at the expense of space resolution. The main challenge in grid-based one-shot methods is to engineer the pattern and algorithms so that the correspondence between pattern grid points and their images can be established very fast and without uncertainty. We present an efficient one-shot method which exploits simple geometric constraints to solve the correspondence problem. We also introduce De Bruijn spaced grids, a novel grid pattern, and show with strong empirical data that the resulting scheme is much more robust compared to those based on uniform spaced grids.

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Ulusoy, A., Calakli, F., Taubin, G. One-shot scanning using de bruijn spaced grids In Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on, pages: 1786-1792, IEEE, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Estimating human shape and pose from a single image

Guan, P., Weiss, A., Balan, A., Black, M. J.

In Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV, pages: 1381-1388, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Guan, P., Weiss, A., Balan, A., Black, M. J. Estimating human shape and pose from a single image In Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV, pages: 1381-1388, 2009 (inproceedings)

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On feature combination for multiclass object classification

Gehler, P., Nowozin, S.

In Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pages: 221-228, 2009, oral presentation (inproceedings)

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Gehler, P., Nowozin, S. On feature combination for multiclass object classification In Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pages: 221-228, 2009, oral presentation (inproceedings)

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Segmentation, Ordering and Multi-object Tracking Using Graphical Models

Wang, C., Gorce, M. D. L., Paragios, N.

In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009 (inproceedings)

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Wang, C., Gorce, M. D. L., Paragios, N. Segmentation, Ordering and Multi-object Tracking Using Graphical Models In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009 (inproceedings)

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Evaluating the potential of primary motor and premotor cortex for mutltidimensional neuroprosthetic control of complete reaching and grasping actions

Vargas-Irwin, C. E., Yadollahpour, P., Shakhnarovich, G., Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P.

2009 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner. Society for Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, 2009, Online (conference)

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Vargas-Irwin, C. E., Yadollahpour, P., Shakhnarovich, G., Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P. Evaluating the potential of primary motor and premotor cortex for mutltidimensional neuroprosthetic control of complete reaching and grasping actions 2009 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner. Society for Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, 2009, Online (conference)

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Modeling and Evaluation of Human-to-Robot Mapping of Grasps

Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D.

In International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pages: 1-6, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D. Modeling and Evaluation of Human-to-Robot Mapping of Grasps In International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pages: 1-6, 2009 (inproceedings)

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An additive latent feature model for transparent object recognition

Fritz, M., Black, M., Bradski, G., Karayev, S., Darrell, T.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, NIPS, pages: 558-566, MIT Press, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Fritz, M., Black, M., Bradski, G., Karayev, S., Darrell, T. An additive latent feature model for transparent object recognition In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, NIPS, pages: 558-566, MIT Press, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Let the kernel figure it out; Principled learning of pre-processing for kernel classifiers

Gehler, P., Nowozin, S.

In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 2836-2843, IEEE Computer Society, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Gehler, P., Nowozin, S. Let the kernel figure it out; Principled learning of pre-processing for kernel classifiers In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 2836-2843, IEEE Computer Society, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Monocular Real-Time 3D Articulated Hand Pose Estimation

Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D.

In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages: 87-92, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D. Monocular Real-Time 3D Articulated Hand Pose Estimation In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages: 87-92, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Grasp Recognition and Mapping on Humanoid Robots

Do, M., Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Azad, P., Asfour, T., Kragic, D., Dillmann, R.

In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages: 465-471, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Do, M., Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Azad, P., Asfour, T., Kragic, D., Dillmann, R. Grasp Recognition and Mapping on Humanoid Robots In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages: 465-471, 2009 (inproceedings)

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4D Cardiac Segmentation of the Epicardium and Left Ventricle

Pons-Moll, G., Tadmor, G., MacLeod, R. S., Rosenhahn, B., Brooks, D. H.

In World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC), 2009 (inproceedings)

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Pons-Moll, G., Tadmor, G., MacLeod, R. S., Rosenhahn, B., Brooks, D. H. 4D Cardiac Segmentation of the Epicardium and Left Ventricle In World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC), 2009 (inproceedings)

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Geometric Potential Force for the Deformable Model

Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu

In The 20th British Machine Vision Conference, pages: 1-11, 2009 (inproceedings)

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We propose a new external force field for deformable models which can be conve- niently generalized to high dimensions. The external force field is based on hypothesized interactions between the relative geometries of the deformable model and image gradi- ents. The evolution of the deformable model is solved using the level set method. The dynamic interaction forces between the geometries can greatly improve the deformable model performance in acquiring complex geometries and highly concave boundaries, and in dealing with weak image edges. The new deformable model can handle arbi- trary cross-boundary initializations. Here, we show that the proposed method achieve significant improvements when compared against existing state-of-the-art techniques.

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Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu Geometric Potential Force for the Deformable Model In The 20th British Machine Vision Conference, pages: 1-11, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Level Set Based Automatic Segmentation of Human Aorta

Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu

In International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, pages: 242-245, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu Level Set Based Automatic Segmentation of Human Aorta In International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, pages: 242-245, 2009 (inproceedings)

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In Defense of Orthonormality Constraints for Nonrigid Structure from Motion

Akhter, I., Sheikh, Y., Khan, S.

In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009. IEEE Conference on, pages: 2447-2453, 2009 (inproceedings)

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In factorization approaches to nonrigid structure from motion, the 3D shape of a deforming object is usually modeled as a linear combination of a small number of basis shapes. The original approach to simultaneously estimate the shape basis and nonrigid structure exploited orthonormality constraints for metric rectification. Recently, it has been asserted that structure recovery through orthonormality constraints alone is inherently ambiguous and cannot result in a unique solution. This assertion has been accepted as conventional wisdom and is the justification of many remedial heuristics in literature. Our key contribution is to prove that orthonormality constraints are in fact sufficient to recover the 3D structure from image observations alone. We characterize the true nature of the ambiguity in using orthonormality constraints for the shape basis and show that it has no impact on structure reconstruction. We conclude from our experimentation that the primary challenge in using shape basis for nonrigid structure from motion is the difficulty in the optimization problem rather than the ambiguity in orthonormality constraints.

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Akhter, I., Sheikh, Y., Khan, S. In Defense of Orthonormality Constraints for Nonrigid Structure from Motion In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009. IEEE Conference on, pages: 2447-2453, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Dynamic distortion correction for endoscopy systems with exchangeable optics

Stehle, T., Hennes, M., Gross, S., Behrens, A., Wulff, J., Aach, T.

In Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2009, pages: 142-146, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Endoscopic images are strongly affected by lens distortion caused by the use of wide angle lenses. In case of endoscopy systems with exchangeable optics, e.g. in bladder endoscopy or sinus endoscopy, the camera sensor and the optics do not form a rigid system but they can be shifted and rotated with respect to each other during an examination. This flexibility has a major impact on the location of the distortion centre as it is moved along with the optics. In this paper, we describe an algorithm for the dynamic correction of lens distortion in cystoscopy which is based on a one time calibration. For the compensation, we combine a conventional static method for distortion correction with an algorithm to detect the position and the orientation of the elliptic field of view. This enables us to estimate the position of the distortion centre according to the relative movement of camera and optics. Therewith, a distortion correction for arbitrary rotation angles and shifts becomes possible without performing static calibrations for every possible combination of shifts and angles beforehand.

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Stehle, T., Hennes, M., Gross, S., Behrens, A., Wulff, J., Aach, T. Dynamic distortion correction for endoscopy systems with exchangeable optics In Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2009, pages: 142-146, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Computational mechanisms for the recognition of time sequences of images in the visual cortex

Tan, C., Jhuang, H., Singer, J., Serre, T., Sheinberg, D., Poggio, T.

Society for Neuroscience, 2009 (conference)

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Tan, C., Jhuang, H., Singer, J., Serre, T., Sheinberg, D., Poggio, T. Computational mechanisms for the recognition of time sequences of images in the visual cortex Society for Neuroscience, 2009 (conference)

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Interactive Inverse Kinematics for Monocular Motion Estimation

Morten Engell-Norregaard, Soren Hauberg, Jerome Lapuyade, Kenny Erleben, Kim S. Pedersen

In The 6th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS), 2009 (inproceedings)

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Morten Engell-Norregaard, Soren Hauberg, Jerome Lapuyade, Kenny Erleben, Kim S. Pedersen Interactive Inverse Kinematics for Monocular Motion Estimation In The 6th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS), 2009 (inproceedings)

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A Comprehensive Grasp Taxonomy

Feix, T., Pawlik, R., Schmiedmayer, H., Romero, J., Kragic, D.

In Robotics, Science and Systems: Workshop on Understanding the Human Hand for Advancing Robotic Manipulation, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Feix, T., Pawlik, R., Schmiedmayer, H., Romero, J., Kragic, D. A Comprehensive Grasp Taxonomy In Robotics, Science and Systems: Workshop on Understanding the Human Hand for Advancing Robotic Manipulation, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Population coding of ground truth motion in natural scenes in the early visual system

Stanley, G., Black, M. J., Lewis, J., Desbordes, G., Jin, J., Alonso, J.

COSYNE, 2009 (conference)

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Stanley, G., Black, M. J., Lewis, J., Desbordes, G., Jin, J., Alonso, J. Population coding of ground truth motion in natural scenes in the early visual system COSYNE, 2009 (conference)

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Segmentation of Human Upper Airway Using a Level Set Based Deformable Model

Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu

In The 13th Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu Segmentation of Human Upper Airway Using a Level Set Based Deformable Model In The 13th Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Three Dimensional Monocular Human Motion Analysis in End-Effector Space

Soren Hauberg, Jerome Lapuyade, Morten Engell-Norregaard, Kenny Erleben, Kim S. Pedersen

In Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 5681, pages: 235-248, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Cremers, Daniel and Boykov, Yuri and Blake, Andrew and Schmidt, Frank), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Soren Hauberg, Jerome Lapuyade, Morten Engell-Norregaard, Kenny Erleben, Kim S. Pedersen Three Dimensional Monocular Human Motion Analysis in End-Effector Space In Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 5681, pages: 235-248, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Cremers, Daniel and Boykov, Yuri and Blake, Andrew and Schmidt, Frank), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Decoding visual motion from correlated firing of thalamic neurons

Stanley, G. B., Black, M. J., Desbordes, G., Jin, J., Wang, Y., Alonso, J.

2009 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner. Society for Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, 2009 (conference)

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Stanley, G. B., Black, M. J., Desbordes, G., Jin, J., Wang, Y., Alonso, J. Decoding visual motion from correlated firing of thalamic neurons 2009 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner. Society for Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, 2009 (conference)

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2005

A quantitative evaluation of video-based 3D person tracking

Balan, A. O., Sigal, L., Black, M. J.

In The Second Joint IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, VS-PETS, pages: 349-356, October 2005 (inproceedings)

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2005

Balan, A. O., Sigal, L., Black, M. J. A quantitative evaluation of video-based 3D person tracking In The Second Joint IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, VS-PETS, pages: 349-356, October 2005 (inproceedings)

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Inferring attentional state and kinematics from motor cortical firing rates

Wood, F., Prabhat, , Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J.

In Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pages: 1544-1547, September 2005 (inproceedings)

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Wood, F., Prabhat, , Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J. Inferring attentional state and kinematics from motor cortical firing rates In Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pages: 1544-1547, September 2005 (inproceedings)

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Motor cortical decoding using an autoregressive moving average model

Fisher, J., Black, M. J.

In Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pages: 1469-1472, September 2005 (inproceedings)

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Fisher, J., Black, M. J. Motor cortical decoding using an autoregressive moving average model In Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pages: 1469-1472, September 2005 (inproceedings)

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Fields of Experts: A framework for learning image priors

Roth, S., Black, M. J.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2, pages: 860-867, June 2005 (inproceedings)

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Roth, S., Black, M. J. Fields of Experts: A framework for learning image priors In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2, pages: 860-867, June 2005 (inproceedings)

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On the receptive fields of Markov random fields: Predictions from a probabilistic model of scene statistics

Black, M. J., Roth, S.

COSYNE 2005, Salt Lake City, March 2005 (conference)

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Black, M. J., Roth, S. On the receptive fields of Markov random fields: Predictions from a probabilistic model of scene statistics COSYNE 2005, Salt Lake City, March 2005 (conference)

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On the spatial statistics of optical flow

(Marr Prize, Honorable Mention)

Roth, S., Black, M. J.

In International Conf. on Computer Vision, International Conf. on Computer Vision, pages: 42-49, 2005 (inproceedings)

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Roth, S., Black, M. J. On the spatial statistics of optical flow In International Conf. on Computer Vision, International Conf. on Computer Vision, pages: 42-49, 2005 (inproceedings)

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Modeling neural population spiking activity with Gibbs distributions

Wood, F., Roth, S., Black, M. J.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18, pages: 1537-1544, 2005 (inproceedings)

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Wood, F., Roth, S., Black, M. J. Modeling neural population spiking activity with Gibbs distributions In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18, pages: 1537-1544, 2005 (inproceedings)

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Energy-based models of motor cortical population activity

Wood, F., Black, M.

Program No. 689.20. 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, 2005 (conference)

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Wood, F., Black, M. Energy-based models of motor cortical population activity Program No. 689.20. 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, 2005 (conference)

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2002

Inferring hand motion from multi-cell recordings in motor cortex using a Kalman filter

Wu, W., Black, M. J., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Serruya, M., Donoghue, J. P.

In SAB’02-Workshop on Motor Control in Humans and Robots: On the Interplay of Real Brains and Artificial Devices, pages: 66-73, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK), August 2002 (inproceedings)

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2002

Wu, W., Black, M. J., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Serruya, M., Donoghue, J. P. Inferring hand motion from multi-cell recordings in motor cortex using a Kalman filter In SAB’02-Workshop on Motor Control in Humans and Robots: On the Interplay of Real Brains and Artificial Devices, pages: 66-73, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK), August 2002 (inproceedings)

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Inferring hand motion from multi-cell recordings in motor cortex using a Kalman filter

Wu, W., Black M., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Serruya, M., Donoghue, J.

Program No. 357.5. 2002 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, 2002, Online (conference)

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Wu, W., Black M., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Serruya, M., Donoghue, J. Inferring hand motion from multi-cell recordings in motor cortex using a Kalman filter Program No. 357.5. 2002 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, 2002, Online (conference)

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Automatic detection and tracking of human motion with a view-based representation

Fablet, R., Black, M. J.

In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 1, pages: 476-491, LNCS 2353, (Editors: A. Heyden and G. Sparr and M. Nielsen and P. Johansen), Springer-Verlag , 2002 (inproceedings)

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This paper proposes a solution for the automatic detection and tracking of human motion in image sequences. Due to the complexity of the human body and its motion, automatic detection of 3D human motion remains an open, and important, problem. Existing approaches for automatic detection and tracking focus on 2D cues and typically exploit object appearance (color distribution, shape) or knowledge of a static background. In contrast, we exploit 2D optical flow information which provides rich descriptive cues, while being independent of object and background appearance. To represent the optical flow patterns of people from arbitrary viewpoints, we develop a novel representation of human motion using low-dimensional spatio-temporal models that are learned using motion capture data of human subjects. In addition to human motion (the foreground) we probabilistically model the motion of generic scenes (the background); these statistical models are defined as Gibbsian fields specified from the first-order derivatives of motion observations. Detection and tracking are posed in a principled Bayesian framework which involves the computation of a posterior probability distribution over the model parameters (i.e., the location and the type of the human motion) given a sequence of optical flow observations. Particle filtering is used to represent and predict this non-Gaussian posterior distribution over time. The model parameters of samples from this distribution are related to the pose parameters of a 3D articulated model (e.g. the approximate joint angles and movement direction). Thus the approach proves suitable for initializing more complex probabilistic models of human motion. As shown by experiments on real image sequences, our method is able to detect and track people under different viewpoints with complex backgrounds.

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Fablet, R., Black, M. J. Automatic detection and tracking of human motion with a view-based representation In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 1, pages: 476-491, LNCS 2353, (Editors: A. Heyden and G. Sparr and M. Nielsen and P. Johansen), Springer-Verlag , 2002 (inproceedings)

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A layered motion representation with occlusion and compact spatial support

Fleet, D. J., Jepson, A., Black, M. J.

In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 1, pages: 692-706, LNCS 2353, (Editors: A. Heyden and G. Sparr and M. Nielsen and P. Johansen), Springer-Verlag , 2002 (inproceedings)

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We describe a 2.5D layered representation for visual motion analysis. The representation provides a global interpretation of image motion in terms of several spatially localized foreground regions along with a background region. Each of these regions comprises a parametric shape model and a parametric motion model. The representation also contains depth ordering so visibility and occlusion are rightly included in the estimation of the model parameters. Finally, because the number of objects, their positions, shapes and sizes, and their relative depths are all unknown, initial models are drawn from a proposal distribution, and then compared using a penalized likelihood criterion. This allows us to automatically initialize new models, and to compare different depth orderings.

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Fleet, D. J., Jepson, A., Black, M. J. A layered motion representation with occlusion and compact spatial support In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 1, pages: 692-706, LNCS 2353, (Editors: A. Heyden and G. Sparr and M. Nielsen and P. Johansen), Springer-Verlag , 2002 (inproceedings)

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Implicit probabilistic models of human motion for synthesis and tracking

Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Sigal, L.

In European Conf. on Computer Vision, 1, pages: 784-800, 2002 (inproceedings)

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This paper addresses the problem of probabilistically modeling 3D human motion for synthesis and tracking. Given the high dimensional nature of human motion, learning an explicit probabilistic model from available training data is currently impractical. Instead we exploit methods from texture synthesis that treat images as representing an implicit empirical distribution. These methods replace the problem of representing the probability of a texture pattern with that of searching the training data for similar instances of that pattern. We extend this idea to temporal data representing 3D human motion with a large database of example motions. To make the method useful in practice, we must address the problem of efficient search in a large training set; efficiency is particularly important for tracking. Towards that end, we learn a low dimensional linear model of human motion that is used to structure the example motion database into a binary tree. An approximate probabilistic tree search method exploits the coefficients of this low-dimensional representation and runs in sub-linear time. This probabilistic tree search returns a particular sample human motion with probability approximating the true distribution of human motions in the database. This sampling method is suitable for use with particle filtering techniques and is applied to articulated 3D tracking of humans within a Bayesian framework. Successful tracking results are presented, along with examples of synthesizing human motion using the model.

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Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Sigal, L. Implicit probabilistic models of human motion for synthesis and tracking In European Conf. on Computer Vision, 1, pages: 784-800, 2002 (inproceedings)

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Robust parameterized component analysis: Theory and applications to 2D facial modeling

De la Torre, F., Black, M. J.

In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 4, pages: 653-669, LNCS 2353, Springer-Verlag, 2002 (inproceedings)

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De la Torre, F., Black, M. J. Robust parameterized component analysis: Theory and applications to 2D facial modeling In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 4, pages: 653-669, LNCS 2353, Springer-Verlag, 2002 (inproceedings)

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Probabilistic inference of hand motion from neural activity in motor cortex

Gao, Y., Black, M. J., Bienenstock, E., Shoham, S., Donoghue, J.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, pages: 221-228, MIT Press, 2002 (inproceedings)

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Gao, Y., Black, M. J., Bienenstock, E., Shoham, S., Donoghue, J. Probabilistic inference of hand motion from neural activity in motor cortex In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, pages: 221-228, MIT Press, 2002 (inproceedings)

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2000

Stochastic tracking of 3D human figures using 2D image motion

(Winner of the 2010 Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision)

Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Fleet, D.

In European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, pages: 702-718, LNCS 1843, Springer Verlag, Dublin, Ireland, June 2000 (inproceedings)

Abstract

A probabilistic method for tracking 3D articulated human figures in monocular image sequences is presented. Within a Bayesian framework, we define a generative model of image appearance, a robust likelihood function based on image gray level differences, and a prior probability distribution over pose and joint angles that models how humans move. The posterior probability distribution over model parameters is represented using a discrete set of samples and is propagated over time using particle filtering. The approach extends previous work on parameterized optical flow estimation to exploit a complex 3D articulated motion model. It also extends previous work on human motion tracking by including a perspective camera model, by modeling limb self occlusion, and by recovering 3D motion from a monocular sequence. The explicit posterior probability distribution represents ambiguities due to image matching, model singularities, and perspective projection. The method relies only on a frame-to-frame assumption of brightness constancy and hence is able to track people under changing viewpoints, in grayscale image sequences, and with complex unknown backgrounds.

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2000

Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Fleet, D. Stochastic tracking of 3D human figures using 2D image motion In European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, pages: 702-718, LNCS 1843, Springer Verlag, Dublin, Ireland, June 2000 (inproceedings)

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Functional analysis of human motion data

Ormoneit, D., Hastie, T., Black, M. J.

In In Proc. 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics and 63rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Guanajuato, Mexico, May 2000 (inproceedings)

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Ormoneit, D., Hastie, T., Black, M. J. Functional analysis of human motion data In In Proc. 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics and 63rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Guanajuato, Mexico, May 2000 (inproceedings)

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Stochastic modeling and tracking of human motion

Ormoneit, D., Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Hastie, T.

Learning 2000, Snowbird, UT, April 2000 (conference)

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Ormoneit, D., Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Hastie, T. Stochastic modeling and tracking of human motion Learning 2000, Snowbird, UT, April 2000 (conference)

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A framework for modeling the appearance of 3D articulated figures

Sidenbladh, H., De la Torre, F., Black, M. J.

In Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pages: 368-375, Grenoble, France, March 2000 (inproceedings)

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Sidenbladh, H., De la Torre, F., Black, M. J. A framework for modeling the appearance of 3D articulated figures In Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pages: 368-375, Grenoble, France, March 2000 (inproceedings)

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1994

Estimating multiple independent motions in segmented images using parametric models with local deformations

Black, M. J., Jepson, A.

In Workshop on Non-rigid and Articulate Motion, pages: 220-227, Austin, Texas, November 1994 (inproceedings)

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1994

Black, M. J., Jepson, A. Estimating multiple independent motions in segmented images using parametric models with local deformations In Workshop on Non-rigid and Articulate Motion, pages: 220-227, Austin, Texas, November 1994 (inproceedings)

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Time to contact from active tracking of motion boundaries

Ju, X., Black, M. J.

In Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII: 3D Vision, Product Inspection, and Active Vision, pages: 26-37, Proc. SPIE 2354, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1994 (inproceedings)

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Ju, X., Black, M. J. Time to contact from active tracking of motion boundaries In Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII: 3D Vision, Product Inspection, and Active Vision, pages: 26-37, Proc. SPIE 2354, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1994 (inproceedings)

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The outlier process: Unifying line processes and robust statistics

Black, M., Rangarajan, A.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR’94, pages: 15-22, Seattle, WA, June 1994 (inproceedings)

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Black, M., Rangarajan, A. The outlier process: Unifying line processes and robust statistics In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR’94, pages: 15-22, Seattle, WA, June 1994 (inproceedings)

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Recursive non-linear estimation of discontinuous flow fields

Black, M.

In Proc. Third European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV’94,, pages: 138-145, LNCS 800, Springer Verlag, Sweden, May 1994 (inproceedings)

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Black, M. Recursive non-linear estimation of discontinuous flow fields In Proc. Third European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV’94,, pages: 138-145, LNCS 800, Springer Verlag, Sweden, May 1994 (inproceedings)

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