March 1, 2011 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Funding

Funding (2011): NSF (1059362): “II-New: Motion Grammar Laboratory”

II-New: Motion Grammar Laboratory (Stillman, Essa, Egerstadt, Christensen, Ueda) Division of Computer and Network Systems Instrumentation Grant. An anthropomorphic robot arm and a human capture system enable the autonomous performance of assembly tasks with significant uncertainty in problem specifications and environments. This line of work is investigated through sequences of manipulation actions where the guarantee of the completion […]
February 2, 2011 / Last updated : February 22, 2021 irfan Publications

Paper (2011) in Virtual Reality on “Augmenting aerial earth maps with dynamic information from videos”

Augmenting aerial earth maps with dynamic information from videos Abstract We introduce methods for augmenting aerial visualizations of Earth (from tools such as Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth) with dynamic information obtained from videos. Our goal is to make Augmented Earth Maps that visualize plausible live views of dynamic scenes in a city. We […]
Poster for Society of Thoracic Surgeon's Annual Meeting
February 2, 2011 / Last updated : March 24, 2023 irfan Computational Photography and Video

Poster in Society of Thoracic Surgeon’s Annual Meeting 2011: “3-Dimensional Visualization of the Operating Room Using Advanced Motion Capture: A Novel Paradigm to Expand Simulation-Based Surgical Education”

Citation Additional details A collaborative project between the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, and Inova Heart and Vascular Institute1, Fairfax, Virginia. This was a Video and a Poster presentation at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, Jan […]
January 12, 2011 / Last updated : September 1, 2020 irfan Computer Vision

Paper in IEEE PAMI 2011 on “Bilayer Segmentation of Webcam Videos Using Tree-Based Classifiers”

Bilayer Segmentation of Webcam Videos Using Tree-Based Classifiers Pei Yin, A. Criminisi, J. Winn, I. Essa (2011), “Bilayer Segmentation of Webcam Videos Using Tree-Based Classifiers” in Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on, Jan. 2011, Volume :  33 ,  Issue:1, ISSN :  0162-8828, Digital Object Identifier :  10.1109/TPAMI.2010.65,  IEEE Computer Society [Project Page|DOI] ABSTRACT This paper […]
January 6, 2011 / Last updated : January 6, 2011 irfan Computational Photography and Video

Teaching for Spring Semester 2011

In Spring 2011, I am teaching 2 classes. Computational Photography (CS 4475 HP/ 8803 PHO) This class explores perceptual and technical aspects of pictures, and more precisely the capture and depiction of reality on a 2D medium. The scientific, perceptual, and artistic principles behind image-making will be emphasized. Topics include the relationship between pictorial techniques […]
October 6, 2010 / Last updated : October 6, 2010 irfan Computational Journalism

FutureMedia Fest 2010: Birds of a Feather Session- Computationa…

Just did a session at the Future Media Fest at GA Tech on Computational Journalism. Journalism and related aspects information gathering, verification and distribution have significantly changed in recent times with the growth and pervasiveness of Computation, Information, and Networking Technologies. In this session, we will discuss how computation is now completely embedded into each […]
September 20, 2010 / Last updated : September 2, 2020 irfan Presentations

Fall 2010 GRASP Seminar, “Two Talks On Video Analysis: 1 Segmentation Of Video And 2 Prediction Of Actions In Video”

Fall 2010 GRASP Seminar – Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute Of Technology, “Two Talks On Video Analysis: 1 Segmentation Of Video And 2 Prediction Of Actions In Video” | GRASP Laboratory – University Of Pennsylvania. Friday September 24, 2010 from 11:00am to 12:00pm   My research group is focused on a variety if approaches for video […]
September 2, 2010 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Activity Recognition

In the News (2010): DARPA Awards Kitware a $13.8 Million Contract for Online Threat Detection and Forensic Analysis in Wide-Area Motion Imagery

via Kitware – News: DARPA Awards Kitware a $13.8 Million Contract for Online Threat Detection and Forensic Analysis in Wide-Area Motion Imagery. Kitware has received a $13,883,314 contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a software system capable of automatically and interactively discovering actionable intelligence from wide area motion imagery (WAMI) of complex […]
June 13, 2010 / Last updated : September 1, 2020 irfan Activity Recognition

Paper in CVPR (2010): "Motion Field to Predict Play Evolution in Dynamic Sport Scenes

Kihwan Kim, Matthias Grundmann, Ariel Shamir, Iain Matthews, Jessica Hodgins, Irfan Essa (2010) “Motion Field to Predict Play Evolution in Dynamic Sport Scenes” in Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2010 [PDF][Website][DOI][Video (Youtube)]. Abstract Videos of multi-player team sports provide a challenging domain for dynamic scene analysis. Player actions […]
June 13, 2010 / Last updated : September 1, 2020 irfan Computational Photography and Video

Paper in CVPR (2010): "Discontinuous Seam-Carving for Video Retargeting"

Discontinuous Seam-Carving for Video Retargeting Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han, Irfan Essa (2010) “Discontinuous Seam-Carving for Video Retargeting” in Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2010 [PDF][Website][DOI][Video (Youtube)]. [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib format=ieeeyr template=irfan-bibtex key=2010-Grundmann-DSVR] Abstract We introduce a new algorithm for video retargeting that uses discontinuous seam-carving in both […]