| Date | Topic | Subtopic | Presenter |
| Sept. 5 | Overview Lecture | Rama Chellappa, Ashok Veeraraghavan and Gaurav Aggarwal. Pattern Recognition in Video. International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence(PReMI), 2005. Volume 3776, Dec 2005, Pages 11-20 | Prof. Chellappa |
| Sept. 12 | Dynamical Models and Inference |
a. Dynamic Textures :- Doretto, Pundir, Wu, Soatto ICCV 2001 [PDF] b. Dynamic Shape :- Liu and Ahuja , CVPR 2004 [PDF] c. Deforming motions and shape averages :- Yezzi, IJCV 2003 [PDF] d. Hybrid Systems R. Vidal, S. Soatto and S. Sastry. An Algebraic Geometric Approach to the Identification of Linear Hybrid Systems. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2003. [PDF] | Pavan Turaga, Kaushik Mitra |
| Sept. 19 | Dynamical Models and Inference |
a. Stochastic Identification :- Overschee, Moor CDC 1991 [PDF] b. Hidden Markov Models :- Tutorial, Rabiner 1989[PDF] and Application (Sunderesan, RoyChoudhury and Chellappa, ICIP 2003) [PDF] c. Particle Filtering :- Doucet, Godsill, Andrieu, On sequential Monte Carlo sampling methods for Bayesian filtering, ACM 2000 Liu and Chen, Sequential Monte-Carlo Methods for Dynamical systems, JSTOR - | Nima Mesgarani, Zhe Lin |
| Sept. 26 | Graphical Models | Dynamic Systems:
book chapter by D. Koller and U. Lerner [PS] Application: Scene analysis using belief networks, Huang et. al. [PDF] | Ruonan Li, Xiaodong Yu |
| Oct. 3 | Dimensionality Reduction and its Importance to Video based PR |
PCA: Kirby and Sirovich Application of the Karhunen-Loeve procedure for thecharacterization of human faces T-PAMI, 1990. PCA/LDA: PN Belhumeur, JP Hespanha, DJ Kriegman, Eigenfaces vs. Fisherfaces: recognition using class specific linearprojection, TPAMI, 1997 [PDF] LLE: Sam Roweis & Lawrence Saul, Nonlinear dimensionality reduction by locally linear embedding. Science, v.290 no.5500 , Dec.22, 2000. pp.2323--2326. [PDF] Application: Separating Style and Content : Elgammal and Lee, CVPR 2004[PDF] | Vikranjit Mitra, Srikanth Vishnubhotla |
| Oct. 10 | Dimensionality Reduction and its Importance to Video based PR |
ISOMAPS: Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Vin de Silva, John C. Langford, A Global Geometric Framework for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction, Science 2001, [PDF] Application: Using ISOMAP to explore video sequences : Robert Pless [PDF] Laplacian Eigenmaps: Mikhail Belkin, Partha Niyogi, Laplacian Eigenmaps and Spectral Techniques for Embedding and Clustering, NIPS 2001 [PDF] Application: Using Laplacian Eigenmap to perform pose detection Sunderesan and Chellappa, ICPR 2006 [PDF] | Mohamed Abdelkader, Aravind Sundaresan (guest speaker) |
| Oct. 17 | Gait Modeling and Analysis |
a. Gait DNA: Ran, Chellappa b. Geometric Group theory: The language of Symmetry, from Mumford's book, "Indra's Pearl" c. Shape Sequences :- Veeraraghavan, Roy-Chowdhury, Chellappa PAMI 2005 [PDF] | Soma Biswas, Avinash Varna |
| Oct. 24 | Gait Modeling and Analysis Speech Modeling and Analysis |
c. Classifying Gaits Without Contact Force Bissacco and Soatto, CVPR 2006 - [PDF] Dynamic Bayesian Networks book chapter by K. Murphy [PDF] Application:Speaker Verification Using Adapted Gaussian Mixture Models by Douglas Reynolds et al. 2000. | Steve Tjoa Daniel Garcia-Romero |
| Oct. 31 | Tracking/Recognition/Behaviour Analysis |
a) Probabilistic recognition of human faces from video :- S. Zhou, V. Krueger, and R. Chellappa. CVIU 2003. [PDF] b) Learning Multi-Class Dynamics: Blake, North and Isard, NIPS 1999[PDF] c) Parametric Switched Linear Dynamical Systems for Behavior Modeling Oh, Rehg, Balch and Dellaert[PDF] d) Simultaneous Tracking and Analysis of Bee Dances :- Veeraraghavan, Chellappa and Srinivasan (PDF On Request) | Ling Liu, Yao Li |
| Nov. 7 | Activity Analysis |
a) View Invariant Representation and recognition of Actions Shah IJCV2002 , Parameswaran, Chellappa CVPR 2004 b) Exploring the space of Action [PDF] | Guangyu Zhu, Nick Horner |
| Nov. 14 | Activity Analysis |
c) Shape Activity for Activity Modeling and detection of anamolous activities Vaswani and Chellappa, TIP 2005[PDF] d) Factorization for Activity Recognition [PDF] | Punyaslok Purkayastha, Aniruddha Kembhavi |
| Nov. 21 | TBD | TBD | Yi Li |
| Nov. 28 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Dec. 5 - Dec. 12 | Projects! |