Recognizing Humans and their Activities

Overview

We are working on computational vision approaches to analyzing human movement. We are interested in problems such as locating people in still images, tracking people across video sequences, and recognizing human activities. There are many possible applications for automated analysis of human movement. These include surveillance, gait analysis, and motion capture.
We are also working on establishing common datasets for human action recognition: Call for Participation.

* "Poselets: Body Part Detectors Trained Using 3D Human Pose Annotations"
L. Bourdev and J. Malik.   ICCV 2009. [pdf] [More Info]
* "Recovering Human Body Configurations using Pairwise Constraints between Parts"
X. Ren, A. C. Berg, and J. Malik.   ICCV 2005    [pdf]
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"Strike a Pose: Tracking People by Finding Stylized Poses"
D. Ramanan, D. A. Forsyth, and A. Zisserman.   CVPR 2005    [pdf]

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"Detecting, Localizing, and Recovering Kinematics of Textured Animals"
D. Ramanan, D. A. Forsyth, and K. Barnard.   CVPR 2005    [pdf]

* "Who's in the Picture"
T. L. Berg, A. C. Berg, J. Edwards, and D. A. Forsyth.   NIPS 2004    [pdf] [ps.gz]
* "Names and Faces in the News"
T. L. Berg, A. C. Berg, J. Edwards, M. Maire, R. White, Y. W. Teh, E. Learned-Miller, and D. A. Forsyth.   CVPR 2004    [pdf] [ps.gz]
* "Recovering Human Body Configurations: Combining Segmentation and Recognition"
G. Mori, X. Ren, A. A. Efros and J. Malik.   CVPR 2004    [pdf] [ppt]
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"Twist Based Acquisition and Tracking of Animal and Human Kinematics"
C. Bregler, J. Malik, and K. Pullen   IJCV 2004.    [pdf]

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"Automatic Annotation of Everyday Movements"
D. Ramanan and D. A. Forsyth   NIPS 2003   [pdf]

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"Recognizing Action at a Distance"
A. A. Efros, A. C. Berg, G. Mori, and J. Malik.   ICCV 2003.    [pdf] [slides]

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"Using Temporal Coherence to Build Models of Animals"
D. Ramanan and D. A. Forsyth.   ICCV 2003    [pdf]

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"Finding and Tracking People from the Bottom Up"
D. Ramanan and D. A. Forsyth.   CVPR 2003    [pdf]

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"Estimating Human Body Configurations using Shape Context Matching"
G. Mori and J. Malik.   ECCV 2002    [pdf] [ps.gz]
Previous version (Workshop on Models versus Exemplars in Computer Vision at CVPR 2001). [pdf] [ps.gz]

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"Human Tracking with Mixtures of Trees"
S. Ioffe and D. A. Forsyth.   ICCV 2001    [pdf]

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"Probabilistic methods for finding people"
S. Ioffe and D. A. Forsyth.   IJCV 2001    [pdf]

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"Finding People by Sampling"
S. Ioffe and D. A. Forsyth   ICCV 1999    [pdf][ps.gz]

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"Automatic Detection of Human Nudes"
D. A. Forsyth and M. Fleck.   IJCV 1999    [pdf]

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"Tracking People with Twists and Exponential Maps"
C. Bregler and J. Malik.   CVPR 1998    [ps.gz] [pdf] [More info]

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"Learning and Recognizing Human Dynamics in Video Sequences"
C. Bregler.   CVPR 1997    [pdf] [More info]

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"Video Rewrite: Driving Visual Speech with Audio"
C. Bregler, M. Covell, and M. Slaney.   SIGGRAPH 1997    [pdf] [More info]

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"Finding Naked People"
M. Fleck, D. A. Forsyth, and C. Bregler.   ECCV 1996    [pdf]

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Questions--> Lubomir Bourdev (lbourdev at cs.berkeley.edu)