Oxford Brookes Vision Group Oxford Brookes Vision Group

In addition to our own seminar program, we also have joint seminars with the Oxford Robotics Research Group at the University of Oxford, and the Visual Geometry Group, also at the University of Oxford.

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Previous Talks

Show 17/08/2012, Lubor Ladicky (Oxford University) on "Lubor BMVC Practice Talk"

Show 17/08/2012, Vibhav Vineet (Oxford Brookes University) on "Vibhav ECCV Practice Talk"

Show 17/08/2012, Vibhav Vineet (Oxford Brookes University) on "Meanfield Based Image Segmentation"

Show 14/08/2012, Mike Sapienza (Oxford Brookes University) on "Mike BMVC Practice Talk"

Show 14/08/2012, Vibhav Vineet (Oxford Brookes University) on "Vibhav BMVC Practice Talk"

Show 14/08/2012, Paul Sturgess (Oxford Brookes University) on "Paul BMVC Practice Talk"

Show 14/08/2012, Sunando Sengupta (Oxford Brookes University) on "Sunando IROS Practice Talk"

Show 14/05/2012, Prof. Klaus D. McDonald-Maier(University of Essex) on "Embedded and Intelligent Systems"

Show 11/05/2012, Steve Hicks(Oxford Neuroscience, University of Oxford) on "Augmenting vision of the severely sight impaired: Development of a prototype display and future directions."

Show 24/04/2012, Anders Dahl and Henrik Aanaes (Technical University of Denmark) on "Robotics for Computer Vision Research"

Show 23/03/2012, Vibhav Vineet (Oxford Brookes University) on "Efficient Bilateral Filtering"

Show 16/03/2012, Vibhav Vineet (Oxford Brookes University) on "Rank Prize practice talk"

Show 16/03/2012, Dr. Jonathan Warrell (Oxford Brookes University) on "Mean Fiel Approximations"

Show 16/03/2012, Vibhav Vineet (Oxford Brookes University) on "Bilateral Filterinng"

Show 09/03/2012, Dr Patrick Perez (Technicolor) on "Visual search"

Show 02/12/2011, Mr Vibhav Vineet(Oxford Brookes University) on "Efficient Inference in Fully Connected CRFs with Gaussian Edge Potentials"

Show 02/12/2011, Mr Julien Valentin(Oxford Brookes University) on "KinectFusion: Real-Time Dense Surface Mapping and Tracking"

Show 07/11/2011, Dr Mikelis Bickis (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) on "The geometry of imprecise updating"

Show 25/10/2011, Jose Manuel Alvarez (Computer Vision Center, Barcelona) on " Cues and Priors for Vision-based Road Detection"

Show 04/10/2011, Shuai Kyle Zheng (Oxford Brookes University) on "Image Classification and Object Detection"

Show 23/09/2011, Vibhav Vineet (Oxford Brookes University) on "Discriminative Models for Multi-Class Object Layout"

Show 21/09/2011, Ziming Zhang (Oxford University) on "BRIEF: Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features"

Show 19/07/2011, Dr Ognjen Arandjelovic (University of Cambridge)

Show 19/07/2011, Dr Fabio Cuzzolin (Oxford Brookes University)

Show 19/07/2011, Teofilo Emidio de Campos (Oxford University)

Show 18/07/2011, Dr Jonathan Warrel (Oxford Brookes University) on "EMMCVPR Practice Talk"

Show 21/06/2011, Lubor Ladicky (Oxford University) on "Locally Linear Support Vector Machines"

Show 21/06/2011, Lubor Ladicky (Oxford University) on "Practise MSR/Google technical talks"

Show 21/06/2011, Jonathan Warrell (Oxford Brookes University) on "EMMCVPR Submission"

Show 17/06/2011, Victor Adrian Prisacariu (Oxford University) on "Nonlinear Shape Manifolds as Shape Priors in Level Set Segmentation and Tracking"

Show 17/06/2011, Ben Benfold (Oxford University) on "Stable Multi-Target Tracking in Real-Time Surveillance Video"

Show 10/06/2011, Sundando Sengupta (Oxford Brookes University) on "Overview of the Pascal Challenge"

Show 10/06/2011, Julien Valentin (Oxford Brookes University) on "Highlights of winning entries in the Pascal segmentation challenge"

Show 03/06/2011, Vibhav Vineet and Jonathan Warrell (Oxford Brookes University) on "Dual Decomposition Methods"

Show 27/05/2011, Julien Valentin (Oxford Brookes University) on "Review of MRG's work"

Show 27/05/2011, Natasha Govender (Oxford Brookes University) on "Review of current work"

Show 20/05/2011, Sunando Sengupta (Oxford Brookes University) on "fastHOG"

Show 20/05/2011, Vibhav Vineet (Oxford Brookes University) on "Graph cuts on GPU"

Show 20/05/2011, Julien Valentine (Oxford Brookes University) on "FABMAP"

Show 12/05/2011, Ziming Zhang (Oxford Brookes University) on "Recent advances in local coordinate coding"

Show 12/05/2011, Lubor Ladicky (Oxford University) on "Locally Linear Support Vector Machines"

Show 29/09/2010, Natasha Govender (Oxford Brookes University) on "Active Object Verification using Vocabulary Trees"

Show 27/09/2010, Ingmar Posner on "Where's What? - Towards Semantic Mapping of Urban environments"

Show 18/08/2010, Amir Saffari on "Semi-Supervised Learning in Vision"

Show 23/07/2010, Ziming Zhang (Oxford Brookes University) on "AdaMKL: A Novel Biconvex Multiple Kernel Learning Approach"

Show 20/05/2010, Andrea Fossati (EPFL - Computer Vision Laboratory) on "Priors for 3D Human Body Tracking"

Show 28/04/2010, Dr Linda Brown (University of Nottingham) on "Taking the energy out of motion"

Show 15/01/2010, Sara Vicente (University College London) on "Joint optimization of segmentation and appearance models"

Show 11/12/2009, Sam Hare (Oxford Brookes Univeristy) on "'Multiple Instance Learning: Algorithms and Applications' and 'Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part Based Models'"

Show 09/12/2009, Tom Shannon (Vicon) on "Capturing Memories"

Show 04/12/2009, Lubor Ladicky (Oxford Brookes University) on "Nonlinear Learning using Local Coordinate Coding"

Show 30/10/2009, Sam Hare (Oxford Brookes University) on "Max-Margin Additive Classifiers for Detection"

Show 30/10/2009, Nick Lord (Sony) on "Compact Signatures for High-speed Interest Point Description and Matching"

Show 14/10/2009, Greg Rogez (Oxford Brookes University) on "Randomized forrests for human pose detection"

Show 03/09/2009, Sandor Szedmak (University of Southampton) on "Learning structured outputs efficiently via maximum margins"

Show 03/09/2009, Jonathan Warrell (University College London) on "Representing Object-level Knowledge for Segmentation and Image Parsing: Epitome Priors and Bayesian supervised clustering approaches"

Show 06/08/2009, Chris Russell (Oxford Brookes University) on "Normalized Cuts"

Show 06/08/2009, Sam Hare (Oxford Brookes University) on "19 Facts About Faces and a Comparison of High Dimensional Classifiers"

Show 30/07/2009, Chris Russell (Oxford Brookes University) on "Semi-Supervised Learning"

Show 23/07/2009, Lubor Ladicky (Oxford Brookes University) on "Boosting"

Show 18/06/2009, Dr. Vittorio Ferrari on "2D Human Pose Estimation and Search in (almost) Unconstrained Video"

Show 10/06/2009, Professor Steffen Lauritzen (University of Oxford) on "Aspects of Local Computation"

Show 22/05/2009, Paul Sturgess (Oxford Brookes University) on "BMVC 09 Work"


Show 20/03/2009, Nigel Crook (University of Oxford) on "Dirichlet Processes in Dialogue Modelling"

Show 30/01/2009, Catherine Hobbs on "Singularity Theory and Applications"

Show 26/01/2009, Fabio Cuzzolin on "Bilinear modeling for robust action/identity recognition from gait"

Show 21/01/2009, Fabio Cuzzolin on "Coherent Laplacian 3D protrusion segmentation"

Show 06/10/2008, Pawan Kumar (University of Oxford) on "NIPS work"

Show 03/10/2008, Nick Lord (Sony) on "Kernel Methods Tutorial"

Show 02/10/2008, Lubor Ladicky (Oxofrd Brookes University) on "Pascal Challenge"

Show 15/08/2008, Jon Rihan (Oxford Brookes University) on "Vincent Lepetit and Pascal Fua on 'A fast local descriptor for dense matching'"

Show 15/08/2008, Chris Russel (Oxford Brookes University) on "Cosegmentation of Image Pairs by Histogram Matching - Incorporating a Global Constraint into MRFs"

Show 07/08/2008, Lubor Ladicky (Oxford Brookes University) on "Jamie Shotton, Matthew Johnson, Roberto Cipolla : 'Semantic Texton Forests for Image Categorization and Segmentation' and Zhuowen Tu : 'Auto-context and Its application to High-level Vision Tasks'"

Show 02/07/2008, Pawan Kumar (University of Oxford) on "Efficiently Solving Convex Relaxations for MAP Estimation"

Show 20/06/2008, Robby Tan (Imperial College London) on "Color Analysis in Computer Vision"

Show 19/06/2008, Fabio Cuzzolin (INRIA) on "Machine learning methods and imprecise probabilities for computer vision"

Show 19/06/2008, Edward Rosten (Los Alamos National Laboratory) on "Faster and Better: A Machine Learning Approach to Corner Detection"

Show 14/05/2008, Gregory Rogez (University of Zaragoza) on "Randomized Trees for Human Pose Detection"

Show 29/04/2008, Paul Sturgess (Oxford Brookes University) on "An introduction to the acclaimed PASCAL Visual Object Classes Recognition Challenge and a Presentation on Local Features and Kernels for Classification of Texture and Object Categories"

Show 15/04/2008, Stanislav Zivy (University of Oxford) on "(Submodular) Valued Constraints"

Show 22/02/2008, Karteek Alahari (Oxford Brookes University) on "MRF Optimization via Dual Decomposition: Message-Passing Revisited"

Show 19/02/2008, Srikumar Ramalingam (Oxford Brookes University) on "Preprocessing of Unconstrained Quadratic Binary Optimization"

Show 15/02/2008, Chris Russel (Oxford Brookes University) on "A Linear Programming Approach to Max-sum Problem: A Review"

Show 28/09/2007, Srikumar Ramalingam (Oxford Brookes) on "Pseudo Boolean Optimization"

Show 25/09/2007, Jose Maria Martinez Montiel (University of Zaragoza) on "Inverse Depth Monocular SLAM"

Show 22/09/2007, Michael J. Black (Brown University) on "Fields of Experts: High-order Markov Random Field Models of Natural Scenes"

Show 16/09/2007, Srikumar Ramalingam (Oxford Brookes) and Gregory Rogez (University of Zaragoza) on "LSH and PSH"

Show 10/09/2007, Olly Woodford (University of Oxford) on "On New View Synthesis Using Multiview Stereo"

Show 31/08/2007, Carl Henrik Ek (Oxford Brookes) on "Dimensionality Reduction"

Show 16/08/2007, Daniel Cremers (University of Bonn) on "Continuous and Discrete Optimization Methods in Computer Vision"

Show 01/08/2007, Gregory Rogez (University of Zaragoza) on "A Spatio-temporal 2D-Models Framework for Human Motion Analysis in Monocular Gait Sequences"

Show 31/07/2007, Richard Hartley (Australian National University) on "Convex Optimisation for Geometric Problems"

Show 17/07/2007, Anton van den Hengel (University of Adelaide) on "Rapid interactive scene modelling from video"

Show 16/07/2007, Carl Ek (Oxford Brookes) on "Dimensionality Reduction for Data Consolidation"

Show 15/06/2007, Daniel Huttenlocher (Cornell University) on "The Formation and Evolution of Groups in Large Social Networks"

Show 25/05/2007, Daniel Huttenlocher (Cornell University) on "Learning and Recognizing Visual Object Categories Without Detecting Features"

Show 18/05/2007, Lubor Ladicky (Oxford Brookes) on "Scene understanding and higher order cliques in MRF's"

Show 15/05/2007, Vitorrio Ferrari (University of Oxford) on "Accurate object detection with deformable shape models learnt from images"

Show 09/02/2007, Srikumar Ramalingam (Oxford Brookes) on "'What Energy Functions can be Minimized via Graph Cuts?' and on 'Exact Optimization for Markov Random Fields with Convex Priors'"

Show 26/01/2007, Pushmeet Kohli (Oxford Brookes) on "MAP estimation via agreement on (hyper)trees: Message-passing and linear-programming approaches"

Show 14/11/2006, Tomas Werner (Czech Technical University) on "A Linear Programming Approach to Max-sum Problem"

Show 30/10/2006, Chris Russell (Oxford Brookes) on "'TextonBoost' and on 'The Layout Consistent Random Field for Recognizing and Segmenting Partially Occluded Objects'"

Show 13/10/2006, Frederic Abad and Christophe Vestri (IMRA Europe) on "Vision-based surrounding monitor by IMRA Europe"

Show 29/09/2006, Stefan Carlsson (KTH, Stockholm) on "Recognizing, Tracking and Labeling Human Motion"

Show 26/09/2006, Tim Cootes (University of Manchester) on "Automatic Construction of Statistical Models of Appearance"

Show 22/09/2006, Ali Shahrokni (University of Oxford) on "Segmentation"

Show 22/09/2006, Prof Alexandre Falcao (State University of Campinas) on "Image Segmentation as a Discrete Mathematics Problem"

Show 18/09/2006, Pawan Kumar (Oxford Brookes) on "Solving Markov Random Fields using Second Order Cone Programming Relaxations"

Show 01/09/2006, Derek Hoiem (Canegie Mellon University) on "Automatic Photo Popup (Prepared for SIGGRAPH 2005.)"

Show 01/09/2006, John Winn (Microsoft Research) on "Divergence measures and message passing (work by Tom Minka)"

Show 31/08/2006, Dr Thorsten Thormahlen (Adelaide) on "Rapid Interactive Modelling from Video with Graph Cuts"

Show 25/07/2006, Chris Russell (Oxford Brookes) on "Texture Synthesis"

Show 24/07/2006, Huma Lodhi (Sheffield University) on "String Kernels"

Show 14/07/2006, Yutaka Hirano (Toyota Japan) on "Visual recognition for intelligent robot and car"

Show 07/07/2006, Fred Nicolls (Cape Town) on "Machine Vision and Digital Image Processing at UCT"

Show 07/07/2006, Ramin Zabih (Cornell) on "MRI Reconstruction"

Show 07/07/2006, Rob Fergus (MIT) on "Removing Camera Shake from a Single Photograph"

Show 19/05/2006, Tom Shannon (Oxford Metrics) on "Motion Capture"

Show 16/05/2006, Yuri Boykov (University of Western Ontario) on "From Photohulls to Photoflux Optimization"


Show 19/03/2006, David Lowe (University of British Columbia) on "Object Recognition and Image Matching using Invariant Local Features"

Show 15/03/2006, Chris Russell and Karteek Alahari (Oxford Brookes) on "Approximation Algorithms for Classification Problems with Pairwise Relationships: Metric Labeling and Markov Random Fields (part 2)"

Show 10/03/2006, Oliver Woodford (University of Oxford) on "Contrastive Divergence ML learning"

Show 07/03/2006, Chris Russell and Karteek Alahari (Oxford Brookes) on "Approximation Algorithms for Classification Problems with Pairwise Relationships: Metric Labeling and Markov Random Fields (part 1)"

Show 28/02/2006, Jian J Zhang (Bournemouth University) on "Computer Animation - Modelling, Rendering and Deformation"

Show 03/02/2006, Pawan Kumar (Oxford Brookes) on "Second Order Cone Programming"

Show 01/02/2006, Pushmeet Kohli (Oxford Brookes) on "A New Framework for Approximate Labeling via Graph Cuts"

Show 27/01/2006, Vladimir Kolmogorov (UCL Adastral Park) on "Primal-dual Algorithm for Convex Markov Random Fields"

Show 01/01/2006, Vladimir Kolmogorov (UCL Adastral Park) on "Algorithms for MAP estimation in Markov Random Fields"

Show 02/12/2005, Pawan Kumar (Oxford Brookes) on "Graphical models and the junction tree algorithm"

Show 01/11/2005, Olly Woodford (University of Oxford) on "On the Spatial Statistics of Optical Flow"

Show 01/11/2005, Carl Ek (Oxford Brookes) on "Fields of Experts: A Framework for Learning Image Priors"

Show 26/07/2005, Ramin Zabih (Cornell) on "LP, extended maxflow and TRW"

Show 22/07/2005, Carl Henrik Ek (Oxford Brookes) on "Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning"

Show 17/06/2005, Stephen Westland (University of Leeds) on "Computational Colour Vision"

Show 16/06/2005, Pawan Kumar Mudigonda (Oxford Brookes) on "What Energy Functions can be minimized using Graph Cuts"

Show 15/06/2005, Professor Richard Hartley (Australian National University) on "L-inf Minimization in Geometric Reconstruction Problems"

Show 07/06/2005, Vladimir Kolmogorov (UCL Adastral Park) on "Pseudo-Boolean Optimization"

Show 06/05/2005, Pushmeet Kohli (Oxford Brookes) on "MAP-MRF Inference via Tree Reweighted Message Passing"

Show 29/04/2005, Pawan Kumar (Oxford Brookes) on "Introduction to Graphical Models"

Show 25/04/2005, Christophe Restif (Oxford Brookes) on "Image Segmentation with Level Sets"

Show 20/04/2005, Manish Jethwa (Oxford Brookes) on "Bayesian Belief Propagation"

Show 06/04/2005, Carl Henrik Ek (Oxford Brookes) on "Paramter Sensitive Hashing and Boosting"

Show 01/04/2005, Pawan Kumar (Oxford Brookes) on "Understanding generalizations of belief Propagation"

Show 25/03/2005, Manish Jethwa and Mathieu Bray (Oxford Brookes) on "Spectral methods for Segmentation"

Show 25/03/2005, Pushmeet Kohli (Oxford Brookes) on "What energy functions can be minimized using Graph cuts"