Visual Recognition Circa 2008

I am collecting here a few thoughts on broad issues in visual recognition. I am assuming that the reader has some familiarity with vision and visual recognition. This is not a survey, and the references are meant to exemplify an idea or an approach – they are not meant to give proper credit to the many good people who work in the field. Also, some of the interesting issues are not visible from the mile-high perspective I take here, and are therefore not mentioned.

[1]  David A. Forsyth,et al.  Matching Words and Pictures , 2003, J. Mach. Learn. Res..

[2]  Pietro Perona,et al.  Learning Generative Visual Models from Few Training Examples: An Incremental Bayesian Approach Tested on 101 Object Categories , 2004, 2004 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop.

[3]  Donald Geman,et al.  Coarse-to-Fine Face Detection , 2004, International Journal of Computer Vision.

[4]  P. Perona,et al.  What do we perceive in a glance of a real-world scene? , 2007, Journal of vision.

[5]  Trevor Darrell,et al.  Active Learning with Gaussian Processes for Object Categorization , 2007, 2007 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computer Vision.

[6]  Cordelia Schmid,et al.  Beyond Bags of Features: Spatial Pyramid Matching for Recognizing Natural Scene Categories , 2006, 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'06).

[7]  Pietro Perona,et al.  Learning object categories from Google's image search , 2005, Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'05) Volume 1.

[8]  Paul A. Viola,et al.  Robust Real-Time Face Detection , 2001, International Journal of Computer Vision.

[9]  Alexei A. Efros,et al.  Using Multiple Segmentations to Discover Objects and their Extent in Image Collections , 2006, 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'06).

[10]  Pietro Perona,et al.  One-shot learning of object categories , 2006, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

[11]  G. Griffin,et al.  Caltech-256 Object Category Dataset , 2007 .

[12]  Antonio Torralba,et al.  Sharing features: efficient boosting procedures for multiclass object detection , 2004, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004. CVPR 2004..

[13]  Pietro Perona,et al.  Towards automatic discovery of object categories , 2000, Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2000 (Cat. No.PR00662).

[14]  Pietro Perona,et al.  Measuring and Predicting Importance of Objects in Our Visual World , 2007 .