Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

Recognizing materials, objects and scenes is one of the most useful functions of vision. Understanding this ability in humans, and reproducing it in machines is a grand challenges for scientists, mathematicians and engineers.
We will focus on the computational and statistical foundations of visual recognition. The program will be organized around special topics including: machine learning and statistical models, the role of context and language, recognition of human activities, features, shape matching, the structure and functional role of hierarchies and taxonomies. Sessions will include surveys and critiques of existing approaches in addition to presentations of the latest research results. Poster sessions will give all workshop participants to present their research.
Confirmed speakers: Amit, Freeman, Geman, Grill-Spector, Harrison, Huttenlocher, Lowe, Malik, Mumford, Perona, Schmid, Ullman, Younes.

Workshop Schedule
All sessions will be held in the Second Floor lecture Hall.

Daily Schedule 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Teas will be served at 10:30-11:00 AM and 3:00-3:30 PM daily.

Monday, March 21
9:30AM - Features: +Lowe, Lazebnik, Schmid
2PM - P. Perona (overview), Student talks: P. Moreels, A. Ferencz, A. Holub, other...

Tuesday, March 22
9AM - Stochastic models & learning I: Y. Amit, *D. Geman, D. Huttenlocher, L Younes
2PM - Stochastic models & learning II: *Jordan, Freeman, Zisserman, Zhu

Wednesday, March 23
9AM - Images, context: +W. Freeman, E. Sudderth, A. Efros, J. Buhmann(?)
2PM - Shape and correspondence: +Mumford, L. Younes(?), *Malik

Thursday, March 24
9AM - Hierarchical approaches, language: K. Grill-Spector, S. Ullman, *Y. Amit, C. Manning
2PM - Hiearchical approaches: M. Harrison, D. Geman, Y. Le Cun
4:45PM - Posters & short talks (15’ each)

Friday, March 25
9AM - Looking at people: +Malik, Perona, Soatto, Viola
PM - OPEN

+Overview
* Discussant

Lodging:
Rooms for this workshop are being held at the Hotel Durant at the rate of $118+tax/night. To make reservations, send and e-mail, referencing code "J80000", to: reservations@hoteldurant.com. The cut-off date for reservations is February 18th, 2005.

For alternative, short-term accommodations click here.

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Currently Available Videos

David Lowe , Features for Recognition March 21,2005, 09:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Svetlana Lazebnik , Features for Visual Recognition March 21,2005, 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Cordelia Schmid , Features of Visual Recognition March 21,2005, 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Pierre Moreels , Features of Visual Recognition March 21,2005, 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM
Andras Ferencz , Features of Visual Rcognition-Student Talks March 21,2005, 02:00 PM to 02:30 PM
Stuart Andrews , Features for Visual Recognition- Student Talks March 21,2005, 03:00 PM to 03:30 PM
Pietro Perona , BAFLE: Boosted Ambiguous Feature Learning March 21,2005, 03:30 PM to 04:00 PM
Yali Amit , Features of Visual Recognition March 21,2005, 04:00 PM to 04:45 PM
Dan Huttenlocher , Stochastic Models & Learning I March 22,2005, 09:00 AM to 09:30 AM
Michael Jordan , Dirichlet Processes, Chinese Restaurant Processes, and All That. March 22,2005, 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Andrew Zisserman , Stochastic Models & Learning I March 22,2005, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
William Freeman , Stochastic Models & Learning I March 22,2005, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Alexei Efros , Stochastic Models & Learning II March 22,2005, 02:00 PM to 02:45 PM
William Freeman , Stochastic Models & Learning II March 22,2005, 04:00 PM to 04:45 PM
Alexei Efros , Images, Context of Visual Recognition March 23,2005, 09:00 AM to 09:45 AM
Erik Sudderth , Learning Hierarchical Models of Scens, Objects, and Parts March 23,2005, 10:00 AM to 10:45 AM
Song Chun Zhu , Images, Context of Visual Recognition March 23,2005, 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM
Jitendra Malik , Shape Recognition March 23,2005, 01:00 PM to 01:45 PM
Yann LeCun , Invariant Object Recognition with Energy-Based Models. March 23,2005, 03:00 PM to 03:45 PM
Laurent Younes , Shape and Correspondence March 23,2005, 04:00 PM to 04:45 PM
Shimon Ullman , Hierarchical Approaches and Language March 24,2005, 09:00 AM to 09:45 AM
Kalanit Grill-Spector , Recognition and the Brain. March 24,2005, 10:00 AM to 10:40 AM
Chris Manning , Recognizing Object Types, Attributes and Relations Through Language. March 24,2005, 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM
Matthew Harrison , Unsupervised Learning of Invariances Using Video. March 24,2005, 02:00 PM to 02:30 PM
Donald Geman, Donald Geman , Hierarchical Approaches. March 24,2005, 02:00 PM to 02:30 PM
Donald Geman, Donald Geman , Hierarchical Approaches. March 24,2005, 02:00 PM to 02:45 PM
Junmei Zhu , Dynamic Link Matching for Correspondence-based Visual Recognition. March 25,2005, 09:00 AM to 09:20 AM
Eran Borenstein , Top-down Figure-ground Segmentation. March 25,2005, 09:20 AM to 09:40 AM
Björn Ommer , Compositional Graphical Models for Categorization. March 25,2005, 09:40 AM to 10:00 AM
Elliot Bernstein , Statistical Models for Visual Object Detection and Classification. March 25,2005, 10:00 AM to 10:20 AM
Deva Ramanan , Tracking People and Recognizing Their Activities. March 25,2005, 10:20 AM to 11:00 AM

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