Sunday, June 13th, 2010 Posted in Activity Recognition, Jessica Hodgins, Kihwan Kim, Matthias Grundmann, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Sports Visualization | No Comments »
Kihwan Kim, Matthias Grundmann, Ariel Shamir, Iain Matthews, Jessica Hodgins, Irfan Essa (2010) "Motion Field to Predict Play Evolution in Dynamic Sport Scenes" in Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference ... Read more..Sunday, June 13th, 2010 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, Matthias Grundmann, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Vivek Kwatra | No Comments »
Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han, Irfan Essa (2010) "Efficient Hierarchical Graph-Based Video Segmentation" in Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2010 [PDF][Website][DOI][Video ... Read more..Sunday, June 13th, 2010 Posted in Activity Recognition, Jessica Hodgins, Kihwan Kim, Matthias Grundmann, Numerical Machine Learning, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Raffay Hamid, Sports Visualization | No Comments »
Raffay Hamid, Ram Krishan Kumar, Matthias Grundmann, Kihwan Kim, Irfan Essa, Jessica Hodgins (2010), "Player Localization Using Multiple Static Cameras for Sports Visualization" In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ... Read more..Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Posted in Activity Recognition, Franzi Meier, Intelligent Environments, Michael Beetz, Papers | No Comments »
Radu Bogdan Rusu, Jan Bandouch, Franziska Meier, Irfan Essa and Michael Beetz (2009) "Human Action Recognition Using Global Point Feature Histograms and Action Shapes", in Journal of Advanced ... Read more..Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Kihwan Kim, Modeling and Animation, Papers | No Comments »
Kihwan Kim, Sangmin Oh, Jeonggyu Lee and Irfan Essa (2009), "Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information," In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Orlando, ... Read more..Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Events | No Comments »
IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision for Humanoid Robots in Real Environments. I am co-organizing the First IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision for Humanoids in conjunction with ICCV Conference in Kyoto, Japan. ... Read more..Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, Presentations | No Comments »
"Temporal Representations of Video for Analysis and Synthesis" at IWV09: International Workshop on Video, In Barcelona, SPAIN, May 25-27, 2009. (Slides, NO Video) Abstract I will present a variety of temporal models of video ... Read more..Sunday, March 1st, 2009 Posted in ACM SIGGRAPH, Computational Photography and Video, James Rehg, Matt Flagg, Modeling and Animation, Papers, Sing Bing Kang | No Comments »
Matthew Flagg, Atsushi Nakazawa, Qiushuang Zhang, Sing Bing Kang, Young Kee Ryu, Irfan Essa, James M. Rehg (2009), Human Video Textures In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2009 ... Read more..Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Activity Recognition, Aware Home, Face and Gesture, Franzi Meier, Matthias Grundmann, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers | 1 Comment »
M. Grundmann, F. Meier, and I. Essa (2008) "3D Shape Context and Distance Transform for Action Recognition", In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2008, Tampa, FL. [Project ... Read more..Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in Aaron Bobick, Activity Recognition, Aware Home, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Raffay Hamid | No Comments »
R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Bobick, I. Essa (2007). Structure from Statistics - Unsupervised Activity Analysis using Suffix Trees, At theInternational Conference on Computer Vision 2007. October 2007, Rio ... Read more..Sunday, June 17th, 2007 Posted in Antonio Crimisini, Computational Photography and Video, Funding, John Winn, NSF (0205507), Numerical Machine Learning, Papers, Pei Yin, Research | No Comments »
Yin, Pei Criminisi, Antonio Winn, John Essa, Irfan (2007), Tree-based Classifiers for Bilayer Video Segmentation In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007. CVPR ... Read more..Monday, October 23rd, 2006 Posted in AAAI/IJCAI/UAI, Aaron Bobick, Activity Recognition, Aware Home, Papers, Raffay Hamid, Siddhartha Maddi | No Comments »
R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Bobick, I. Essa. "Unsupervised Analysis of Activity Sequences Using Event Motifs", In proceedings of 4th ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor ... Read more..Wednesday, June 14th, 2006 Posted in Aaron Bobick, Activity Recognition, Aware Home, Papers, Research, Yifan Shi | No Comments »
Yifan Shi, Bobick, A. Essa, I. (2006), "Learning Temporal Sequence Model from Partially Labeled Data" Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2006 Volume: ... Read more..Monday, June 20th, 2005 Posted in Activity Recognition, Aware Home, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Yan Huang | No Comments »
Huang, Y and Essa, I. (2005) "Tracking multiple objects through occlusions", In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2005 (CVPR 2005), Volume: 2 page(s): ... Read more..Saturday, October 30th, 2004 Posted in Activity Recognition, Aware Home, Computational Photography and Video, Presentations | No Comments »
Irfan Essa (2004), "Temporal Reasoning from Video to Temporal Synthesis of Video" Talk at USC's IRIS-Vision Seminars (Fall 2004). Temporal Reasoning from Video to Temporal Synthesis of Video Abstract In this talk, I ... Read more..Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004 Posted in Funding, James Rehg, NSF (0205507), Papers, Pei Yin | No Comments »
Pei Yin Essa, I. Rehg, J.M. (2004) "Asymmetrically boosted HMM for speech reading,", In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern ... Read more..Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004 Posted in Aaron Bobick, Activity Recognition, Aware Home, David Minnen, Papers, Yan Huang, Yifan Shi | No Comments »
Yifan Shi, Yan Huang, Minnen, D., Bobick, A., Essa, I. (2004), "Propagation networks for recognition of partially ordered sequential action" In Proceedings of the ... Read more..Friday, April 9th, 2004 Posted in Activity Recognition, Gabriel Brostow, Modeling and Animation, Research, Thesis | No Comments »
Gabriel Brostow (2004), "Novel Skeletal Representation for Articulated Creatures" PhD Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing. (Advisor: Irfan Essa) [PDF] [URI]AbstractThis research examines an approach for capturing 3D ... Read more..Monday, October 13th, 2003 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, Drew Steedly, Frank Dellaert, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV | No Comments »
Steedly, D., Essa, I., Dellaert, F. (2003), "Spectral partitioning for structure from motion", In Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2003, 13-16 Oct. 2003, page(s): 996 - 1003 ... Read more..Friday, July 25th, 2003 Posted in ACM SIGGRAPH, Aaron Bobick, Arno Schödl, Computational Photography and Video, Greg Turk, Papers, Vivek Kwatra | No Comments »
Vivek Kwatra, Arno Schödl, Irfan Essa, Greg Turk, Aaron Bobick (2003), "Graphcut textures: image and video synthesis using graph cuts" In ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 22 , ... Read more..Tuesday, October 1st, 2002 Posted in Funding, James Rehg, NSF (0205507) | No Comments »
Award#0205507 - ITR: Analysis of Complex Audio-Visual Events Using Spatially Distributed Sensors ABSTRACT We propose to develop a comprehensive framework for the joint analysis of audio-visual signals obtained from spatially distributed microphones ... Read more..Sunday, September 29th, 2002 Posted in AAAI/IJCAI/UAI, Activity Recognition, Darnell Moore, Intelligent Environments, Papers | No Comments »
D. Moore and I. Essa (2002). "Recognizing multitasked activities from video using stochastic context-free grammar", in Proceedings of AAAI 2002. [PDF | Project Site] Abstract In this paper, we present techniques ... Read more..Sunday, August 11th, 2002 Posted in Antonio Haro, Collaborators, Computational Photography and Video, Numerical Machine Learning, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV | No Comments »
Haro, A. Essa, I. (2002), "Learning video processing by example" In Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2002, 11-15 Aug. 2002 Volume: 1, page(s): 487 - ... Read more..Sunday, July 8th, 2001 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, Drew Steedly, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV | No Comments »
Steedly, D. Essa, I. (2001) "Propagation of innovative information in non-linear least-squares structure from motion" In Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2001. ICCV 2001. 7-14 ... Read more..Wednesday, July 14th, 1999 Posted in Aware Home, Face and Gesture, Intelligent Environments, Papers | No Comments »
Irfan A. Essa "Computers Seeing People", AI Magazine 20(2): Summer 1999, 69-82 Abstract AI researchers are interested in building intelligent machines that can interact with them as they interact with each ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 1997 Posted in Affective Computing, Face and Gesture, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Research, Sandy Pentland | No Comments »
Coding, analysis, interpretation, and recognition of facial expressions Essa, I.A. Pentland, A.P. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, July 1997, Volume: 19 , Issue: 7, pp ... Read more..Saturday, December 14th, 1996 Posted in Activity Recognition, Face and Gesture, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Research, Sandy Pentland | No Comments »
Darrell, T.J.; Essa, I.A.; Pentland, A.P., "Task-specific gesture analysis in real-time using interpolated views" Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol.18, no.12, pp.1236-1242, Dec 1996 URL: [ieeexplore.ieee.org] [DOI] Abstract Hand and ... Read more..Sunday, August 25th, 1996 Posted in Face and Gesture, Intelligent Environments, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Sumit Basu | No Comments »
S. Basu, I. Essa, A. Pentland (1996) "Motion regularization for model-based head tracking." In Proceedings of Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1996., 25-29 Aug 1996 Volume: ... Read more..Tuesday, June 20th, 1995 Posted in Face and Gesture, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Sandy Pentland | No Comments »
Essa, I.A. Pentland, A.P. (1995), "Facial expression recognition using a dynamic model and motion energy", In Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision, 1995, 20-23 June 1995, ... Read more..Tuesday, August 30th, 1994 Posted in Face and Gesture, Thesis | 2 Comments »
Irfan Essa (1994), "Analysis, interpretation and synthesis of facial expressions", PhD Thesis, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Advisor: Alex (Sandy) Pentland Read more..Tuesday, June 21st, 1994 Posted in Face and Gesture, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Sandy Pentland | No Comments »
Essa, I.A. Pentland, A. (1994), "A vision system for observing and extracting facial action parameters", In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '94.), 21-23 June 1994, ... Read more..Thursday, May 3rd, 1990 Posted in Masters, Modeling and Animation, Thesis | No Comments »
Irfan Essa (1990), "Contact detection, collision forces and friction for physically based virtual world modeling" MS Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Read more..