Horst Bischof Inst. f. Graphics and Vision Graz University of Technology
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Robust and Adaptive Approaches to Scene and Object Recognition:
An example of a successful cooperative Project
Horst Bischof
Inst. f. Graphics and VisionGraz University of Technology
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Agenda
• Project• Organization• Achievements
• Lessons learned• Why cooperation worked• Issues to Consider
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Project
CONEX (funded by bm:bwk)http://conex.icg.tu-graz.ac.atOctober 2003 – September 2005
3 Partners• Czech Technical University• University of Ljubljana• Graz University of Technology
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Project
We have proposed:
Collaboration & Networking
• Joint workshops
• Colloquia
• Exchange of students
Joint research
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Research
1. Robust global appearance methods
(CVG/ICG)
Robustness for LDA, CCA, etc.
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2. Local appearance based methods
(CMP/ICG)
DR, Salient regions, etc.
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3. Support Vector Machines and Kernels
(CVG/CMP)
Robustness in SVMs and Kernels
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Research
4. Combine Statistical and Structural PR methods (all partners)
Increasing robustness, Local/Global models, human activity
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ResearchThree application scenarios
• Object recognition
• Mobile robot navigation
• Interpreting human activities in video sequences
• Several (> 5) Joint Publications between partners demonstrate cooperative work
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Collaboration & Networking
Workshops
• Computer Vision Winter Workshop (Piran, 2004)
• ECCV04 Workshop on Statistical Learning in Computer Vision (Prague)
• Computer Vision Winter Workshop (Zell an der Pram, 2005)
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Collaboration & Networking
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Collaboration & Networking
Colloquia Prague
• 18.9. 2003• 12.1. 2004 (Cognitive Vision)
• 7.4. 2004
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Collaboration & Networking
Project Meetings
• Kick-off Graz 15.11.2003• 2nd Piran, 4.2. 2004• Midterm Graz, 10.9. 2004• Demo Graz• Final Meeting September in Prague
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Collaboration & Networking
Student Exchange
• Several Exchanges (most of them short term < 1 month) between partners
• Lot of students (mainly PhD level) involved in Project
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European Involvement• Participation in European 5th Framework NoE ECVision
• All three partners will participate in new 6th Framework Concerted Action:
euCognition
• Joint (ViCos, ICG) FET STREP Proposal HIBRID (invited to submit full proposal)
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Added Value• A lot of new scientific questions (and some answers)
+ Students Contacts, Active Participation in Projects
• ECCV 2006 will be in Graz (jointly organized with ViCos)
• perfect for visibility
• new contacts, motivation for students ….
• Conference Software from Prague
• Methods (MSER) transferd to Austrian Companies (Siemens)
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Summary
• Project creates considerable added value
• Low adminstrative overhead
• Complements other activities
• Conection between students
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Why it was successful?
• Partners knew each other for quite some time
• Similar research interests
• Fit to research of partners
• Each partner offers complimentary know-how
• Students are open-minded
• Students want to work together
• Complements EU Projects (needs complimentary expertise)
• CONEX is a nice program !!!