IEEE Computer Society Conference
on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
June 25, 2009, Miami, Florida

1st International Workshop on Visual Scene Understanding (ViSU’09)

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

9:00am Welcome Message from Chairs
9:10am VCL'09
12:05pm

Spotlights (5 min each) - Joint with VCL'09

Categorization in Natural Time‐Varying Image Sequences, Teresa Ko, Stefano Soatto, Deborah Estrin

Scenes vs. Objects: a Comparative Study of Two Approaches to Context Based Recognition, Andrew Rabinovich, Serge Belongie

Mining Discriminative Adjectives and Prepositions for Natural Scene Recognition, Bangpeng Yao, Juan Carlos Niebles, Li Fei-Fei

12:30pm

Poster Session Joint with VCL'09

Adaptive Object Classification in Surveillance System by Exploiting Scene Context, Jitao Sang, Zhen Lei, Shengcai Liao, Stan Z. Li

Combining Appearance and Motion for Human Action Classification in Videos, Paramveer S. Dhillon, Sebastian Nowozin, Christoph H. Lampert

Event Detection Using Local Binary Pattern Based Dynamic Textures, Yunqian Ma, Petr Cisar

Nonparametric Bottom‐Up Saliency Detection by Self‐Resemblance, Hae Jong Seo, Peyman Milanfar

Categorization in Natural Time‐Varying Image Sequences, Teresa Ko, Stefano Soatto, Deborah Estrin

Estimating Object Region from Local Contour Configuration, Tetsuaki Suzuki, Martial Hebert

Scenes vs. Objects: a Comparative Study of Two Approaches to Context Based Recognition, Andrew Rabinovich, Serge Belongie

Towards Total Scene Understanding: Classification, Annotation and Segmentation in an Automatic Framework, Li‐Jia Li, Richard Socher, Li Fei‐Fei

Mining Discriminative Adjectives and Prepositions for Natural Scene Recognition, Bangpeng Yao, Juan Carlos Niebles, Li Fei‐Fei

Hierarchical Audio‐Visual Cue Integration Framework for Activity Analysis in Intelligent Meeting Rooms, Shankar T. Shivappa, Mohan M. Trivedi, Bhaskar D. Rao

2:10pm ViSU Introductions
2:15pm

Panel Discussion: "Beyond Isolated Objects"

Senior Panelists Junior Panelists

Derek Hoiem (UIUC, website)

Li Fei-Fei(Princeton/Stanford, website)

Steve Seitz (UWashington, website)

Li-Jia Li (Princeton, website)

Devi Parikh (CMU, website)

Bryan Russell (INRIA, website)

3:00pm Afternoon Break
3:20pm

Keynote Speaker: Jitendra Malik (Berkeley, website)

Title: The interaction of bottom-up and top-down processing in visual recognition

4:00pm Panel Discussion: "To Segment or Not To Segment"
Senior Panelists Junior Panelists

Serge Belongie (UCSD, website)

Nebojsa Jojic (MSR, website)

Christoph Lampert (MPI, website)

Andrew Rabinovich (Google, website)

Santosh Divvala (CMU, website)

Chunhui Gu (Berkeley, website)

4:45pm Panel Discussion: "Machine Learning Challenges in Scene Understanding"
Senior Panelists Junior Panelists

Trevor Darrell (Berkeley, website)

Svetlana Lazebnik (UNC, website)

Zhuowen Tu (UCLA, website)

Piotr Dollár (Caltech, website)

Stephen Gould (Stanford, website)

Raquel Urtasun (Berkeley, website)

5:45pm Final Remarks