Detailed Programme

Monday 01-Sep-2008
09:00AM - 06:00PM	Arrivals & Registration	Foyer	Whole day
02:00PM - 06:00PM	Tutorial: Phil Torr	MLT	4 hours (+ coffee)
07:00PM - 09:00PM	Reception	Parkinson Building	2 hours
Tuesday 02-Sep-2008
07:30AM - 08.45AM	Breakfast	TBC	75 mins
09:00AM - 09:05AM	Opening Remarks (Welcome + Logistics)	MLT	5 mins
09:05AM - 10:00AM	Invited Talk: Ramin Zabih	MLT	55 mins
10:00AM - 10:30AM	Coffee	Foyer	30 mins
10:30AM - 12:30PM	Oral Session 1: 2D/3D Tracking Chair: Chris Needham	MLT	120 mins
10:30AM - 10:50AM	Fast Non-Rigid Object Boundary Tracking M. Donoser and H. Bischof		20 mins
10:50AM - 11:10AM	Joint Random Fields for Moving Vehicle Detection Y. Wang and G. Ye		20 mins
11:10AM - 11:30AM	Learning A Stable Structure To Describe Dynamic Texture C. Li and P.M. Hall		20 mins
11:30AM - 11:50AM	Online Learning and Partitioning of Linear Displacement Predictors for Tracking L. Ellis, J.G. Matas and R. Bowden		20 mins
11:50AM - 12:10PM	Efficient Feature Parameterisation for Visual SLAM Using Inverse Depth Bundles T. Pietzsch		20 mins
12:10PM - 12:30PM	Unified Loop Closing and Recovery for Real Time Monocular SLAM E.D. Eade and T.W. Drummond		20 mins
01:30PM - 04:00PM	Poster Session 1 + Coffee	X & Y	150 mins
	Efficiently Combining Contour and Texture Cues for Object Recognition J.D.J. Shotton, A. Blake and R. Cipolla
	A New Adaptive Focus Measure for Shape From Focus T. Aydin and Y.S. Akgul
	Exploiting Uncertainty Propagation in Gradient-based Image Registration K. Koeser and R. Koch
	Simultaneous Recognition and Homography Extraction of Local Patches with a Simple Linear Classifier S. Hinterstoisser, S. Benhimane, V. Lepetit, P. Fua and N. Navab
	Subframe Temporal Alignment of Non-Stationary Cameras B. Meyer, T. Stich, M. Magnor and M. Pollefeys
	Real-Time Video Processing for Multi-Object Chromatic Tracking C.N. Vasconcelos, A. Sa, L. Teixeira, P.C. Carvalho and M. Gattass
	Fast Artifacts-Free Image Interpolation A. Giachetti and N. Asuni
	A Unified Approach Combining Photometric and Geometric Information for Pose Estimation P. Georgel, S. Benhimane and N. Navab
	Multi-View Reconstruction using Narrow-Band Graph-Cuts and Surface Normal Optimization A. Ladikos, S. Benhimane and N. Navab
	Parameter Selection for Graph Cut Based Image Segmentation B. Peng and O. Veksler
	Parametric Hidden Markov Models for Recognition and Synthesis of Movements D.L. Herzog, V. Krueger and D. Grest
	Triangulation from Two Views Revisited: Hartley-Sturm vs. Optimal Correction K. Kanatani, Y. Sugaya and H. Niitsuma
	Efficient three-view triangulation based on 3D optimization K. Nordberg
	Global Behaviour Inference using Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis J. Li, S. Gong and T. Xiang
	Generalisation of Photometric Stereo technique to Q-illuminants V. Argyriou, S. Barsky and M. Petrou
	A Simple High Performance Approach to Semantic Segmentation G. Csurka and F. Perronnin
	Probabilistic Detection-based Particle Filter for Multi-target Tracking X. Song, J. Cui, H. Zha and H. Zhao
	Motion Interpretation Using Adjustable Linear Models. M. Chessa, F. Solari, S.P. Sabatini and G.M. Bisio
	Video Augmentation for Improving Audio Speech Recognition under Noise S. Pachoud, S. Gong and A. Cavallaro
	Tracking with Active Contours Using Dynamically Updated Shape Information J. Chiverton, X. Xie and M. Mirmehdi
	Learning Discriminative LBP-Histogram Bins for Facial Expression Recognition C. Shan and T. Gritti
	Image Segmentation with Elastic Shape Priors via Global Geodesics in Product Spaces T. Schoenemann, F.R. Schmidt and D. Cremers
	Distance-based Speed Functions for Level Set Methods in Image Segmentation K. Rink and K.D. Toennies
	Feature Tracking and Motion Compensation for Action Recognition H. Uemura, S. Ishikawa and K. Mikolajczyk
	Tracking Human Body Parts Using Particle Filters Constrained by Human Biomechanics J. Martinez, J.-C. Nebel, D. Makris and C. Orrite
	Probabilistic Parameter Selection for Learning Scene Structure from Video M.D. Breitenstein, E. Sommerlade, B. Leibe, L. Van Gool and I. Reid
	Efficient Stereo Algorithm using Multiscale Belief Propagation on Segmented Images H. Trinh
	MAP Model for Large-scale 3D Reconstruction and Coarse Matching for Unordered Wide-baseline Photos X. Zeng, Q. Wang and J. Xu
	Online Figure-ground Segmentation with Edge Pixel Classification Z. Yin and R.T. Collins
	Efficient Feature-Based Nonrigid Registration of Multiphase Liver CT Volumes D. Kwon, I.D. Yun, K.H. Lee and S.U. Lee
	Appearance Based Indexing for Relocalisation in Real-Time Visual SLAM D. Chekhlov, W.W. Mayol-Cuevas and A.D. Calway
	An Image Quality Metric based on Corner, Edge and Symmetry Maps L. Cui and A.R. Allen
	Geometric LDA: A Generative Model for Particular Object Discovery J. Philbin, J. Sivic and A. Zisserman
	TVSeg - Interactive Total Variation Based Image Segmentation M. Unger, T. Pock, W. Trobin, D. Cremers and H. Bischof
	A Frequency Domain Approach to Roto-translation Estimation using Gradient Cross-Correlation G. Tzimiropoulos, V. Argyriou and T. Stathaki
	Weighted Sampling for Large-Scale Boosting Z. Kalal, J.G. Matas and K. Mikolajczyk
	Structure Guided Salient Region Detector S. Fan and F.P. Ferrie
	Pools of AAMs: Towards Automatically Fitting any Face Image J. Peyras, A.E. Bartoli and S.K. Khoualed
	Shapes Fit For Purpose A. Balikai, P.L. Rosin, Y.-Z. Song and P.M. Hall
	Robust Brightness Description for Computing Optical Flow M. Kharbat, N. Aouf, A. Tsourdos and B. White
	A Model of Brightness Variations Due to Illumination Changes and Non-rigid Motion Using Spherical Harmonics J.M. Buenaposada, A. Del Bue, E. Munoz and L. Baumela
	Combining Reinforcement Learning and Belief Revision - A Learning System for Active Vision T. Leopold, G. Kern-Isberner and G. Peters
	Colour Invariant Head Pose Classification in Low Resolution Video B. Benfold and I. Reid
04:00PM - 06:00PM	Oral Session 2: Object & Scene Recognition Chair: Jiri Matas	MLT	120 mins
04:00PM - 04:20PM	Near Duplicate Image Detection: min-Hash and tf-idf Weighting O. Chum, J. Philbin and A. Zisserman		20 mins
04:20PM - 04:40PM	Learning Linear Discriminant Projections for Dimensionality Reduction of Image Descriptors H. Cai, K. Mikolajczyk and J.G. Matas		20 mins
04:40PM - 05:00PM	Foreground Focus: Finding Meaningful Features in Unlabeled Images Y.J. Lee and K. Grauman		20 mins
05:00PM - 05:20PM	Crowd Detection from Still Images O. Arandjelovic		20 mins
05:20PM - 05:40PM	Object Class Segmentation using Random Forests F. Schroff, A. Criminisi and A. Zisserman		20 mins
05:40PM - 06:00PM	Object Detection using Multiple Kernel Learning A. Bosch, V. Gulshan, M. Varma and A. Zisserman		20 mins
06:00PM - 06:10PM	BMVA Members' AGM: Majid Mirmehdi	MLT	10 mins
Wednesday 03-Sep-2008
07:30AM - 08.45AM	Breakfast	TBC	75 mins
09:00AM - 09:05AM	Announcements	MLT	5 mins
09:05AM - 10:00AM	Invited Talk: Cordelia Schmid	MLT	55 mins
10:00AM - 10:30AM	Coffee	Foyer	30 mins
10:30AM - 12:30PM	Oral Session 3: 3D Geometry, Reconstruction & Registration Chair: Tomas Pajdla	MLT	120 mins
10:30AM - 10:50AM	Globally Optimal O(n) Solution to the PnP Problem for General Camera Models G. Schweighofer and A. Pinz		20 mins
10:50AM - 11:10AM	Polynomial Eigenvalue Solutions to the 5-pt and 6-pt Relative Pose Problems Z. Kukelova, M. Bujnak and T. Pajdla		20 mins
11:10AM - 11:30AM	Indexing Uncoded Stripe Patterns in Structured Light Systems By Maximum Spanning Trees W. Brink, A. Robinson and M. Rodrigues		20 mins
11:30AM - 11:50AM	Minimizing the Multi-view Stereo Reprojection Error for Triangular Surface Meshes A. Delaunoy, E. Prados, P. Gargallo, J.-P. Pons and P. Sturm		20 mins
11:50AM - 12:10PM	Deformable 3D Volume Registration Using Efficient MRFs Model with Decomposed Nodes K.J. Lee, D. Kwon, I.D. Yun and S.U. Lee		20 mins
12:10PM - 12:30PM	Monocular Template-based Reconstruction of Inextensible Surfaces M. Perriollat, R. Hartley and A. Bartoli		20 mins
12:30PM - 01:30PM	Lunch	Refectory	60 mins
01:30PM - 04:00PM	Poster Session 2 + Coffee	X & Y	150 mins
	Background Subtraction in Videos using Bayesian Learning with Motion Information P. Jaikumar, A. Singh and S.K. Mitra
	Accelerated Corner-Detector Algorithms L.P. Teixeira, W. Celes and M. Gattass
	Recursive Tower of Knowledge for Learning to Interpret Scenes M. Xu and M. Petrou
	Multi-camera Matching using Bi-Directional Cumulative Brightness Transfer Functions B. Prosser, S. Gong and T. Xiang
	On the Stationary Solution of PDE based Curve Evolution J. Wang, K.L. Chan and Y. Wang
	Combining Stochastic and Deterministic Search for Pose-Invariant Facial Expression Recognition S. Kumano, K. Otsuka, J. Yamato, E. Maeda and Y. Sato
	3D Scanning Method for Fast Motion using Single Grid Pattern with Coarse-to-fine Technique R. Furukawa, H. Kawasaki, R. Sagawa and Y. Yagi
	Metric Reconstruction with Missing Data under Weak Perspective A. Pernek, L. Hajder and C. Kazo
	Probabilistic Optical Flow Estimation for Large Pixel Displacements Utilizing Egomotion Flow Compensation V. Willert, J. Schmuedderich, J. Eggert, C. Goerick and E. Koerner
	Indexing Sub-Vector Distance for High-Dimensional Feature Matching H. Yang, Q. Wang and Z. He
	Exploiting Periodicity in Recurrent Scenes D.M. Russell and S. Gong
	Near Real-time Stereo for Weakly-Textured Scenes Q. Yang, C. Engels and A. Akbarzadeh
	Parallax-Free Registration of Aerial Video D.E. Crispell, J.L. Mundy and G. Taubin
	Global Uncertainty-based Selection of Relative Poses for Multi Camera Calibration F. Bajramovic and J. Denzler
	Synchronization Using Shapes R. Chang, S. Ieng and R. Benosman
	Evolving Implicit Polynomial Interfaces E. Ozgur, M. Unel, H. Erdogan and A. Ercil
	Mixture Distributions for Weakly Supervised Classification in Remote Sensing Images J.-B. Bordes and V. Prinet
	AIDIA - Adaptive Interface for Display InterAction B. Stenger, T.E. Woodley, T.-K. Kim, C. Hernandez and R. Cipolla
	A Local Algorithm for the Computation of Optic Flow via Constructive Interference of Global Fourier Components B. Dellen and F. Woergoetter
	An Efficient Shared Multi-Class Detection Cascade P. Zehnder, E. Koller-Meier and L. Van Gool
	Image-Based Acquisition of Shape and Spatially Varying Reflectance T. Haber and P. Bekaert
	Sample-Based 3D Tracking of Colored Objects : A Flexible Architecture M. Taiana, J.C. Nascimento, J. Gaspar and A. Bernardino
	Transferring Colours to Grayscale Images by Locally Linear Embedding J. Li, P. Hao and C. Zhang
	Identifying semi-Invariant Features on Mouse Contours P.A. Crook, T.C. Lukins, J. Heward and J.D. Armstrong
	A Framework for Unsupervised Segmentation of Lung Tissues from Low Dose Computed Tomography Images A.S. El-Baz, G.L. Gimel'farb, R. Falk, T. Holland and T. Shaffer
	Human Activity Tracking from Moving Camera Stereo Data J. Darby, B. Li and N.P. Costen
	A Generalisation of the ICP Algorithm for Articulated Bodies S. Pellegrini, K. Schindler and D. Nardi
	Human Activity Recognition Using a Dynamic Texture Based Method V. Kellokumpu, G. Zhao and M. Pietikainen
	Using Illumination Estimated from Silhouettes to Carve Surface Details on Visual Hull S. Li, K.-Y.K. Wong and D. Schnieders
	Semi-Supervised Clustering via Learnt Codeword Distances D. Batra, R. Sukthankar and T. Chen
	Contour-Based Registration and Retexturing of Cartoon-Like Videos N.P. Tiilikainen, A.E. Bartoli and S. Olsen
	Evaluation of Hierarchical Sampling Strategies in 3D Human Pose Estimation J. Bandouch, F. Engstler and M. Beetz
	Multi-target Data Association by Tracklets with Unsupervised Parameter Estimation W. Ge and R.T. Collins
	Monocular SLAM with Inverse Scaling Parametrization D. Marzorati, M. Matteucci, D.A. Migliore and D.G. Sorrenti
	FEUDOR: Feature Extraction Using Distinctive Octagonal Regions A. Emaminejad and M. Brookes
	Computing the Uncertainty of the 8 point Algorithm for Fundamental Matrix Estimation F. Sur, N. Noury and M.-O. Berger
	A Novel Level Set Based Echocardiographic Contour Extraction Method with Prior Knowledge A.B. Oktay and Y.S. Akgul
	Accumulated Visual Representation for Cognitive Vision N. Pugeault, F. Woergoetter and N. Krueger
	A Spatio-Temporal Descriptor Based on 3D-Gradients A. Klaeser, M. Marszalek and C. Schmid
	Efficient Tracking of 3D Objects Using Multiple Orthogonal Cameras E. Munoz, J.M. Buenaposada and L. Baumela
	Estimating Surface Reflectance Spectra for Underwater Color Vision S. Skaff, J.J. Clark and I. Rekleitis
	Matching 3D Faces with Partial Data P.M. Nair and A. Cavallaro
	Semi-supervised Learning for Anomalous Trajectory Detection R.R. Sillito and R.B. Fisher
	Robust Phase Correlation based Motion Estimation and Its Applications H. Yan and J.-G. Liu
04:00PM - 06:00PM	Oral Session 4: Video, Biometrics & Activity Understanding Chair: David Hogg	MLT	120 mins
04:00PM - 04:20PM	Fast Motion Consistency through Matrix Quantization P.K. Matikainen, R. Sukthankar, M. Hebert and Y. Ke		20 mins
04:20PM - 04:40PM	Trajectory-Based Video Retrieval Using Dirichlet Process Mixture Models X. Li, W. Hu, Z. Zhang, X. Zhang and G. Luo		20 mins
04:40PM - 05:00PM	Facial Dynamics in Biometric Identification L. Benedikt, V. Kajic, D. Cosker, P.L. Rosin and D. Marshall		20 mins
05:00PM - 05:20PM	Feature Selection for Gait Recognition without Subject Cooperation K. Bashir, T. Xiang and S. Gong		20 mins
05:20PM - 05:40PM	Information Theoretic Key Frame Selection for Action Recognition Z. Zhao and A. Elgammal		20 mins
05:40PM - 06:00PM	Long Term Arm and Hand Tracking for Continuous Sign Language TV Broadcasts P. Buehler, M. Everingham, D. Huttenlocher and A. Zisserman		20 mins
07:00PM	Banquet	Great Hall
Thursday 04-Sep-2008
07:30AM - 08.45AM	Breakfast	TBC	75 mins
09:00AM - 09:10AM	Announcements	MLT	10 mins
09:10AM - 10:30AM	Oral Session 5: Image Representation & Reconstruction Chair: Majid Mirmehdi	MLT	80 mins
09:10AM - 09:30AM	Paying Attention to Symmetry G. Kootstra, A. Nederveen and B. de Boer		20 mins
09:30AM - 09:50AM	Bio-inspired, Invariant Image Reconstruction from Irregularly Placed Samples F. Faille and M. Petrou		20 mins
09:50AM - 10:10AM	Reliable Representation of Data on Manifolds J. Li and P. Hao		20 mins
10:10AM - 10:30AM	Texture Representation by Geometric Objects using a Jump-Diffusion Process F. Lafarge and G.L. Gimel'farb		20 mins
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Coffee	Foyer	30 mins
11:00AM - 12:20PM	Oral Session 6: Vision meets Graphics Chair: Peter Hall	MLT	80 mins
11:00AM - 11:20AM	Improving Color Modeling for Alpha Matting C. Rhemann, C. Rother and M. Gelautz		20 mins
11:20AM - 11:40AM	Combining High-Resolution Images With Low-Quality Videos F. Schubert and K. Mikolajczyk		20 mins
11:40AM - 12:00PM	From Visual Query to Visual Portrayal A. Shahrokni, C. Mei, P. Torr and I. Reid		20 mins
12:00PM - 12:20PM	An Adaptive Machine Director T.M. Hospedales and O. Williams		20 mins
12:20PM - 1:20PM	Lunch	Refectory	60 mins
01:20PM	Conference finishes
Friday 05-Sep-2008
09:00AM - 05:00PM	THEMIS2008 Workshop	X & Y	Whole day