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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Research

2. Local appearance based methods

(CMP/ICG)

DR, Salient regions, etc.

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Research

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 !!!