Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing

ECG782 Spring 2021

(Potential) Paper Reading List

• Stauffer and Grimson, "Adaptive background mixture models for real-time tracking", 1998
  Mixture of Gaussian for robust background modeling. [pdf]
  Presenter: Brendan Morris W 03/03
  
  
• Viola and Jones, "Robust Real-time Object Detection", 2001
  Boosted Haar-like cascade for fast object detection. Well suited for rigid objects like faces and vehicles [pdf]
  Presenter: Brendan Morris W 03/24
  
  
• Maldonado-Bascon et al., "Road-Sign Detection and Recognition Based on Support Vector Machines", 2007
  Use of SVM to very effectively detect road signs.[pdf]
  Presenter: Rojin Aslani W 4/7
  
  
• Shi and Malik, "Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation", 2000
  Graph-based segmentation using graph cuts and connected with computational efficient spectral clustering. Used for image segmentation. [pdf] [notes]
  Presenter: Smit Patel M 4/12
  
  
• Razavian et al., "CNN Features off-the-shelf: an Astounding Baseline for Recognition", 2014
  Convolutional neural networks trained on large scale data used as feature selection for other vision tasks. [pdf]
  Presenter: Umme Fatema W 4/17
  
  
• Girshick, "Fast R-CNN", 2015
  Fast object detection using region proposal and efficient convolutional neural network architecture. [pdf]
  Presenter: Minsung Cho M 4/19
  
  
• Chiang et al., "Food Calorie and Nutrition Analysis System based on Mask R-CNN", 2019 [pdf]
  Presenter: Rocky Gonzalez W 4/21
  
  
• Qu et al., PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation, 2017 [pdf]
  Presenter: Lihao Qiu M 4/26
  
  
• Catagirone et al., "LIDAR-Camera Fusion for Road Detection Using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks", 2018 [pdf]
  Presenter: Jingyuan Dai W 4/28
  
  
• Lowe, "Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints", 1999
  Powerful SIFT feature used for image matching and object detection. [pdf] [notes]
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• Dalal and Triggs, "Histogram of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection", 2005
  Basic edge-type feature useful for object detection and recognition. Designed for pedestrian detection. [pdf] [notes]
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• Itti et al., "A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis", 1998
  Biologically inspired feature maps used to detect interesting (salient) image regions. [pdf] [notes]
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• Turk and Pentland, "Eigenfaces for Recognition", 1991
  Simple PCA subspace method for face recognition. [pdf] [notes]
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• Ahonen et al., "Face Description with Local Binary Patterns: Application to Face Recognition", 2006
  Simple texture patterns used for facial recognition. [pdf] [draft] [notes]
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• Sivic and Zisserman, "Video Google: A Text Retrieval Approach to Object Matching in Videos", 2003
  Bag of visual words for detection and recognition using web text document matching techniques. [pdf] [notes]
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• Makris and Ellis, "Learning semantic scene models from observing activity in visual surveillance", 2005
  Use of tracking information to learn scene context and activity. [pdf]
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• Gupte et al., "Detection and Classification of Vehicles", 2002
  Early vehicle tracking and classification system. [pdf]
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• Blake and Isard, "CONDENSATION - Conditional Density Propagation for Visual Tracking", 1998
  Particle filtering approach for tracking curves in visual clutter. [pdf] [notes]
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• Felzenszwalb et. al, "Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part Based Models", 2010
  State-of-the-art object detection. Combines smaller HOG parts for better performance [pdf] [notes]
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• Lazebnik, "Beyond Bags of Features: Spatial Pyramid Matching for Recognizing Natural Scene Categories", 2006 [pdf] [notes]
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• Belongie et. al, "Shape Matching and Object Recognition Using Shape Contexts", 2001
  Object detection and recognition descriptor based on object shape. [pdf] [notes]
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• Belhumeur et. al, "Eigenfaces vs. Fisherfaces: Recognition Using Class Specific Linear Projection", 1997
  LDA projection subspace for better face recognition. Extension of Eigenface. [pdf] [notes]
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• McCall and Trivedi, "Video-Based Lane Estimation and Tracking for Driver Assistance: Survey, System, and Evaluation", 2006
  Violet system for robust lane detection for driver assistance systems. [pdf]
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• Comaniciu and Meer, "Mean shift: a robust approach toward feature space analysis", 2002
  Iterative probability density estimation and maximization. Used in segmentation and tracking. [pdf] [notes]
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• Uijlings et al, "Selective Search for Object Recognition", 2013
  Segmentation for object localization. [link]
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