June 13, 2010 / Last updated : March 24, 2023 irfan Activity Recognition

Paper in CVPR (2010): "Player Localization Using Multiple Static Cameras for Sports Visualization"

Raffay Hamid, Ram Krishan Kumar, Matthias Grundmann, Kihwan Kim, Irfan Essa, Jessica Hodgins (2010), “Player Localization Using Multiple Static Cameras for Sports Visualization” In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2010 [PDF][Website][DOI][Video (Youtube)]. Abstract We present a novel approach for robust localization of multiple people observed using multiple […]

June 18, 2008 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Activity Recognition

Thesis Raffay Hamid PhD (2008): "A Computational Framework For Unsupervised Analysis of Everyday Human Activities"

M. Raffay Hamid PhD (2008), “A Computational Framework For Unsupervised Analysis of Everyday Human Activities“, PhD Thesis, Georgia Institute of Techniology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA. (Advisor: Aaron Bobick & Irfan Essa) Abstract In order to make computers proactive and assistive, we must enable them to perceive, learn, and predict what is happening in their surroundings. […]

September 15, 2007 / Last updated : September 15, 2007 irfan Machine Learning

Funding: NSF/SGER (2007) "Persistent, Adaptive, Collaborative Synthespians"

Award#0749181 – SGER Collaborative Research: Persistent, Adaptive, Collaborative Synthespians ABSTRACT This project explores the development of methodologies for populating worlds with persistent, adaptive, collaborative, believable synthetic actors, referred to as Synthespians. These methods are extensions of adaptive models of learning and planning to accommodate the complex, dynamic environments in massive multi-player online games. The intellectual […]

June 17, 2007 / Last updated : September 1, 2020 irfan Computational Photography and Video

Paper: IEEE CVPR (2007) "Tree-based Classifiers for Bilayer Video Segmentation"

Yin, Pei Criminisi, Antonio Winn, John Essa, Irfan (2007), Tree-based Classifiers for Bilayer Video Segmentation In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007. CVPR ’07, 17-22 June 2007, page(s): 1 – 8, Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA, ISBN: 1-4244-1180-7, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/CVPR.2007.383008 Abstract This paper presents an algorithm for the automatic segmentation of monocular videos […]

November 9, 2003 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Face and Gesture

Paper: Asilomar Conference (2003) "Boosted audio-visual HMM for speech reading"

Yin, P. Essa, I. Rehg, J.M. (2003) “Boosted audio-visual HMM for speech reading.” In Proceedings Thirty-Seventh Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2003. Date: 9-12 Nov. 2003, Volume: 2, On page(s): 2013 – 2018 Vol.2, , ISBN: 0-7803-8104-1, INSPEC Accession Number:8555396, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ACSSC.2003.1292334 Abstract We propose a new approach for combining acoustic […]