Program and Daily Schedule

Day 0 (Monday, July 18)

15:00-18:00
Registration
18:30-20:30
Opening reception

Day 1 (Monday, July 19)

08:30-09:15
Opening

"Differential Motion Analysis" -by Ying Wu (Northwestern)
Download handout: Part 1, Part 2.
09:30-10:30
Basics in motion analysis
Beyond optical flow
10:30-10:45
Tea Break
10:45-12:00
Kernel-based tracking
Context flow
12:00-13:30
Student/faculty lunch: introducing each other
13:30-14:45
Context-awareness tracking
14:45-15:00
Tea Break
15:00-17:30
Interactive discussions

Day 2 (Tuesday, July 20)

"Computational models of bottom-up attention and saliency" -by Laurent Itti (USC)
Download handout: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
08:30-10:00
Overview of perception in dynamic visual environments and visual attention.
Computational models of bottom-up attention and saliency
10:00-10:15
Tea Break
10:15-12:00
Top-down attention, modeling and experiments.
From attention to active perception, scene understanding, and applications.
12:00-13:30
Student/faculty lunch:
13:30-14:45
Introduction to the iLab Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit
14:45-15:00
Tea Break
15:00-17:30
Practical exercises using the toolkit:
a - Computing saliency maps from image and video inputs
b - Comparing saliency maps to eye movements
c - Adding a top-down (task-dependent) component
d - Application: Attention-based video surveillance
     Application: Attention-based robotics
     Application: Write your own!

Day 3 (Wednesday, July 21)

"Vision Based Interaction" -by Matthew Turk (UCSB)
Download handout.
08:30-10:00
Vision in the interface
10:00-10:15
Tea Break
10:15-12:00
Gestural interaction
12:00-13:30
Student/faculty lunch
13:30-14:45
Facial expression analysis
14:45-15:00
Tea Break
15:00-17:30
Mobile interactive vision

Day 4 (Thursday, July 22)

"Vision-based motion capturing" -by Jinxiang Chai (Texas A&M)
08:30-10:00
Part I
10:00-10:15
Tea Break
10:15-12:00
Part II
12:00-13:30
Student/faculty lunch

"Human motion analysis" -by Jim Rehg (Georgia Tech)
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13:30-14:45
Part I
14:45-15:00
Tea Break
15:00-17:30
Part II

Day 5 (Friday, July 23)

"Dynamic scene analysis" -by Martial Hebert (CMU)
Download handout.
08:30-10:00
Quick overview of two standards approaches
Incorporating temporal information more explicitly
10:00-10:15
Tea Break
10:15-12:00
Incorporating spatial information more explicitly
12:00-13:30
Student/faculty lunch
13:30-14:45
Designing stronger structural models
Issues with video training datasets
14:45-15:00
Tea Break
15:00-17:30
Discussion and introduction to proposed challenge problems

Day 6 (Saturday, July 24)

"Fundamentals of Video Surveillance" -by Robert Collins (The Pennsylvania State University)
08:30-10:00
Methods for Video Change Detection
10:00-10:15
Tea Break
10:15-12:00
Forming Object Hypotheses
12:00-13:30
Student/faculty lunch
13:30-14:45
Frame-to-Frame Data Association
14:45-15:00
Tea Break
15:00-17:30
Online Learning for Persistent Tracking

Day 7 (Sunday, July 25)

Industry workshop and invited talks:
From Academia to Industry: a Comprehensive View of Computer Vision Research.
Song-Chun Zhu (UCLA), Yi Ma (UIUC/MSRA), Gang Hua (IBM Research T. J Watson Center)
For details about the workshop, please click here.

Day 8 (Monday, July 26)

Social activities. (arranged by Xi'an Jiaotong University)