Posted by Rahul Sukthankar, Research Scientist


More than 1800 participants showed up to discuss their research at this year’s International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’12), held in Providence, RI last month. The main conference consisted of three eventful -- and exhausting -- days of talks and poster sessions, supplemented by an additional three days of tutorials and workshops.

This year, I found the CVPR posters to be especially energizing: poster presenters were mobbed by huge crowds that prompted the authors to start early and give encore performances through breaks and into subsequent sessions. Live demos and videos on laptops and tablets were increasingly common and allowed the audience to get a closer look at the research.

Here is a small sampling of papers (both oral and poster) that I particularly enjoyed:
The best paper prize this year (sponsored by Google) was awarded to Y. Dai, H. Li, and M. He for their paper, “A Simple Prior-free Method for Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion Factorization”; the best student paper award went to M. Hoai and F. De la Torre for their work on “Max-Margin Early Event Detectors”. 

Research at Google was very active at CVPR '12: 

For me, the best part of CVPR was talking with graduate students about their work: at the doctoral consortium, during poster sessions and at the Google booth (where interesting demos and swag drew large crowds).

Since becoming a part of Research at Google last year, I’ve been particularly excited about the idea of training spatiotemporally localized object and action detectors from lots of video, with minimal human supervision -- a goal that seemed both technically and computationally infeasible until recently. It’s great to see that many in the CVPR community share my belief that we’re now ready to learn from large-scale video and we’ve decided to organize a AAAI Spring Symposium on this topic. 

Next year’s CVPR will be held in Portland, OR. I look forward to seeing many of you there!

M. Grundmann and V. Kwatra present the YouTube video stabilization demo

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