19th May 2005
(3-4 PM, 310 Soda Hall)
Trevor Darrell (MIT) - Visual Recognition for Perceptive Interfaces

5th May 2005
(2-3 PM, 310 Soda Hall)
Daniel Cremers (Siemens) - 'Bayesian Approaches to Image Segmentation'

29th April 2005
Christopher gives an update on Landing Project

15th April 2005
Sumitra talks about 'Epipolar Constraints for Vision Aided Navigation'

8th April 2005
Todd presents 'Spectral Solution of Large-Scale Extrinsic Camera Calibration as a Graph Embedding Problem'

1st April 2005
Volkan Isler talks about Camera/ Sensor Planning problems

18th March 2005
Parvez and Christopher talk about Camera Network

4th March 2005
Peter Allen (Columbia University) talk - 'Automating the 3D Modeling Pipeline'
** Special Location: 405 Soda Hall **

25th Feb 2005
Jan Neumann (Siemens) talks about 'Computer vision in the space of light rays: Plenoptic Video Geometry and Polydioptric Camera Design'

18th Feb 2005
Todd talks about 'Motion Filter For UAVs Using Image Features and Attitude and Position Measurements'

3rd November 2004
Sang-Hack & Christopher talk about 'New View Synthesis for TI'

27th October 2004
Walter talks about 'Performance of Stereo Tracking'

20th October 2004
Marci talks about 'Modeling Progressive Scan Cameras and 
connections to Non-Central Cameras'

13th October 2004
Volkan talks about 'Seeing Through Water'

6th October 2004
Parvez talks about 'Joint Entropy Minimization Techniques for Unsupervised Learning'

29th September 2004
Walter talks about his Stereo Tracking work

22nd September 2004
General Discussion

26th August 2004
Sumitra talks about 'Inter-personal Distance in Immersive Virtual Environments'
(Reference1   Reference2)

4th August 2004
Yi Ma talks about Generalized Principal Component Analysis - theory and applications

21st July 2004
More CVPR'04 papers: Song presents 'Simultaneous Calibration and Tracking with a Network of Non-Overlapping Sensors'
Marci presents 'Visual Odometry'
Christopher presents 'Lie-Algebraic Averaging For Globally Consistent Motion Estimation'

14th July 2004
CVPR'04 papers: Parvez presents 'Camera Network Calibration from Dynamic Silhouettes', 
and Song presents 'Tracking Multiple Humans in Crowded Environment'

30th June 2004
Christopher talks about future agenda

23rd June 2004 (531 Cory - Wang Room)
   Paul Wright (ME) talks about 'Fire Monitoring and Fire Rescue Systems: The design of sensor networks for long-life readiness and fast response in emergencies'. 
Ken Goldberg (IEOR/EE) talks about 'Robotic Cameras and Sensor Networks for High Resolution Environment Monitoring'

2nd June 2004
Walter talks about 'The Plenoptic Function and the Elements of Early Vision' & 'The Laplacian Pyramid as a Compact Image Code'

26th May 2004
Cancelled in view of HP/CITRIS Day Meeting

19th May 2004
Christopher talks about Camera Networks, entropies of images, epipolar geometries and future plans for experiments

12th May 2004
Parvez presents preliminary results in 'Appearance Based Terrain Classification' (joint work with Marci)

5th May 2004
Marci presents 'Error Analysis for a Navigation Algorithm based on Optical-Flow and a Digital Terrain Map' & 'Visual Odometry and Map Correlation' papers (CVPR'04 papers)
Parvez discusses work done with Marci on terrain classification

28th April 2004
Christopher talks about 'A Fourier Theory of Cast Shadows'
Jonathan talks about 'Programmable Imaging Using Digital Micro-Array' (Nayar et.al.)

21st April 2004
Short Meeting - Discussion on future papers to discuss from ECCV'04 & CVPR'04

14th April 2004
Song discusses 'Sparse representation of images with hybrid linear model' and GPCA

7th April 2004
Parvez discusses: "Probabilistic multi-view correspondence in a distributed setting with no central server"

31st March 2004
Christopher discusses Sminchisescu's work on 3D articulated human tracking from monocular video

24th March 2004
Marci talks about 'Vision Based Helicopter Landing' work

10th March 2004
Songhwai presents "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Data Association for General Multiple Target Tracking Problems"

3rd March 2004
Jonathan & Mike present "Encoding Aerial Pursuit/Evasion Games into A Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller"

25th February 2004
Cancelled - Christopher/Marci dry run talks in the evening

18th February 2004
Walter presents 'Locating tiny sensors in time and space: A case study'

11th February 2004
Parvez - continued discussion on distributed coding concepts (References: Wyner/Ziv paper, Ajdler/Vetterli paper, Slepian/Wolf paper)

4th February 2004
Parvez presents 'Distributed Video Coding' paper