Selected Publications

This is an incomplete list of the recent (1996-99) publications by the computer vision group in UC Berkeley.

Index:

Perceptual Organization

Image Retrieval for Digital Libraries

Shape from Shading

Human Motion Recognition and Interaction

Recognition and Learning

Virtual Environment: Facade

Automated Highways: Road Watch and Stereo Drive

Low-level Vision: Texture and Stereo

Perceptual Organization

"Contour and Texture Analysis for Image Segmentation": Jitendra Malik, Serge Belongie, Thomas Leung, and Jianbo Shi; Submitted to International Journal of Computer Vision, Jan. 2000.; paper

"Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation"

Jianbo Shi and Jitendra Malik

to appear in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2000.

paper

"Contour and Texture Analysis for Image Segmentation"

Jitendra Malik, Serge Belongie, Thomas Leung, and Jianbo Shi

In Perceptual Organization for Artificial Vision Systems, K.L. Boyer and S. Sarkar, editors. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

paper

"Textons, Contours and Regions: Cue Combination in Image Segmentation"

Jitendra Malik, Serge Belongie, Jianbo Shi, and Thomas Leung

Int. Conf. Computer Vision, Sept 1999, Corfu, Greece

abstract, paper

"Segmentation Using Eigenvectors: A Unifying View"

Yair Weiss

Int. Conf. Computer Vision, Sept 1999, Corfu, Greece

paper

"Self Inducing Relational Distance and its Application to Image Segmentation"

Jianbo Shi and Jitendra Malik

5th Euro. Conf. Computer Vision, Jun 1998, Frieburg, Germany

paper (1.2M)

"Finding Boundaries in Natural Images: A New Method Using Point Descriptors and Area Completion": Serge Belongie and Jitendra Malik; 5th Euro. Conf. Computer Vision, June 1998, Frieburg, Germany; paper (454K)

"Contour continuity in region based image segmentation": Thomas Leung and Jitendra Malik; 5th. Euro. Conf. Computer Vision, June 1998, Frieburg, Germany; paper (gzip 380K) , abstract

"Motion Segmentation and Tracking Using Normalized Cuts": Jianbo Shi and Jitendra Malik; Int. Conf. Computer Vision, Jan 1998, Bombay, India; paper(508K) , web site

"Primitives, percpetual organization and object recognition": D. Forsyth, J. Malik, M. Fleck and J. Ponce; in review, 1997

"Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation": Jianbo Shi and Jitendra Malik; IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 1997, Puerto Rico; abstract , paper(276K) , web site

"Detecting, Localizing and Grouping Repeated Scene Elements from an Image": Thomas Leung and Jitendra Malik; Fourth European Conf. Computer Vision, 1996, Cambridge, England; abstract , paper (1.7M) , poster

Image Retrieval for Digital Libraries

"Color- and Texture-based Image Segmentation Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm and Its Application to Content-Based Image Retrieval": Serge Belongie, Chad Carson, Hayit Greenspan, and Jitendra Malik; Int. Conf. Computer Vision, Jan 1998, Bombay, India; abstract , paper (859K)

"Searching for Digital Pictures": David Forsyth, Jitendra Malik and Robert Wilensky; Scientific American, June 1997

"Region-Based Image Querying": Chad Carson, Serge Belongie, Hayit Greenspan, and Jitendra Malik; CVPR '97 Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries; abstract, query results, paper (765K)

"Recognition of Images in Large Databases Using a Learning Framework": Serge Belongie, Chad Carson, Hayit Greenspan, and Jitendra Malik; UC Berkeley CS Tech Report 97-939; abstract, classification results, paper (337K)

"Storage and Retrieval of Feature Data for a Very Large Online Image Collection": Chad Carson and Ginger Ogle; IEEE Computer Society Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, Dec. 1996; abstract, HTML, paper (0.8M)

"Finding Pictures of Objects in Large Collections of Images": D. Forsyth, J. Malik, M. Fleck, H. Greenspan, T. Leung, S. Belongie, C. Carson and C. Bregler; Int. Workshop on Object Recognition for Computer Vision, April 13-14 1996, Cambridge, England; paper (3M)

"Finding Objects in Image Databases by Grouping": J. Malik, D. Forsyth, M. Fleck, H. Greenspan, T. Leung, C. Carson, S. Belongie and C. Bregler; Invited presentation at the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-96), special session on "Images in Digital Libraries," Sept. 1996

Shape from Shading

" The Appearance of Clothing": J. Haddon and D. Forsyth; in review; paper (7.1M)

" Shape Representations from Shading Primitives ": J. Haddon and D. Forsyth; to appear in 5th European Conference on Computer Vision, June 1998, Frieburg, Germany; paper (3.0M)

" Shading Primitives: Finding Folds and Shallow Grooves ": J. Haddon and D. Forsyth; Intl. Conf. Computer Vision, Bombay, India, Jan 1998; paper (1.8M)

Human Motion Recognition

"Video Motion Capture": Chris Bregler and Jitendra Malik; in review; paper

"Probabilistic Models of Verbal and Body Gestures": C.Bregler, S.Omohundro, M.Covell, M.Slaney, S.Ahmad, D.A.Forsyth, J.A.Feldman; in Computer Vision in Man-Machine Interfaces (R. Cipolla and A.Pentland eds), Cambridge University Press, 1998; paper

"Learning and Recognizing Human Dynamics in Video Sequences": Chris Bregler; IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 1997, Puerto Rico; abstract, paper

Object Recognition

"Finding Naked People": M. Fleck, D. Forsyth and C. Bregler; Fourth European Conf. Computer Vision, 1996, Cambridge,England

"Body Plans": D. Forsyth and M. Fleck; IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 1997, Puerto Rico

"Recognizing algebraic surfaces from their outlines": D. Forsyth; International Journal of Computer Vision

"Identifying nude pictures": D. Forsyth and M. Fleck
"Learning Appearance Based Models: Mixtures of Second Moment Experts": C. Bregler and J. Malik; Advances in Neural Information Precessing Systems 9, 1996; paper

Virtual Environments: Facade

"Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs": Paul Debevec, Camillo Taylor and Jitendra Malik; SIGGRAPH 96; abstract , Hi-resolution color version (4.9M) , Medium-resolution grayscale version (1.2M)

Road Watch

"A Real-time Computer Vision System for Measuring Traffic Parameters": David Beymer, Phil McLauchlan, Ben Coifman and Jitendra Malik; IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 1997, Puerto Rico

"Tracking vehicles in congested traffic": D. Beymer and J. Malik; Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium

"Learning Appearance Based Models: Mixtures of Second Moment Experts": Chris Bregler and Jitendra Malik; in Advances in Neural Information Precessing Systems 9. (1996); abstract, paper

Stereo Drive

"A real-time approach to stereopsis and lane-finding": C.J. Taylor, J. Malik and J. Weber; Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium

Texture

"Representing and Recognizing the Visual Appearances of Materials using Three-Dimensional Textons"

Thomas Leung and Jitendra Malik

submitted to International Journal of Computer Vision, Jan 2000.

paper

"Recognizing Surfaces using Three-Dimensional Textons"

Thomas Leung and Jitendra Malik

Int. Conf. Computer Vision, Sept 1999, Corfu, Greece

abstract, paper

"Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling"

Alexei Efros and Thomas Leung

Int. Conf. Computer Vision, Sept 1999, Corfu, Greece

abstract, paper

"On Perpendicular Texture: Why do we see more flowers in the distance? ": Thomas Leung and Jitendra Malik; IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 1997, Puerto Rico; abstract, paper (1.1M)

"Detecting, Localizing and Grouping Repeated Scene Elements from an Image": Thomas Leung and Jitendra Malik; Fourth European Conf. Computer Vision, 1996, Cambridge, England; abstract , paper (1.7M) , poster

Stereo Vision

"On binocularly viewed occlusion junctions": Jitendra Malik; Fourth European Conf. Computer Vision, 1996, Cambridge, England