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Computer Vision - A Modern Approach

In English

In Chinese

In Japanese

In Russian

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This is intended to be the book on computer vision. There is a table of contents, sample chapters, an index, and a set of slides on the web page, as well as the cover picture, endlessly repeated.

How to contact me

Research

•  Full publication list:   A list of my papers, books, etc.  
• Tutorial material:  I have given several tutorials on various topics at various places.      
• Current NSF- funded work on human activity
• Current NSF- funded work on understanding the meaning of pictures

PhD Students, Post-docs, Visiting scholars

Current

Sometime

Ali Farhadi Nicolas Loeff Gang Wang Varsha Hedau Duan Tran Du Tran Ian Endres Alex Sorokin

Okan Arikan (currently Asst Prof, U.T. Austin; Animate-me) Kobus Barnard (currently Assoc Prof, U.Ariz.) Tamara Berg (currently Asst Prof, SUNY SB) Stephen Chenney (left for UW Madison) Frank Cho Pinar Duygulu (currently Asst Prof, Bilkent U) Jaety Edwards John Haddon Sergey Ioffe (Google) Leslie Ikemoto (Animate-me) Nazli Ikizler (curently Post-doc, Boston U) Erik Learned-Miller (currently Asst Prof, UMAmherst) Deva Ramanan (currently Asst Prof, UC Irvine) Ryan White (Euclid media)

 

Projects by Picture

Understanding Human Activity
Finding and Tracking People	Animating People	Labelling Activities
Words and Pictures
Object Recognition	Depiction and iconography	Modifiers and object categories
Shading and Reconstruction
Rendering	Reconstructing cloth	Reconstruction from shading

Slides from recent talks

• Looking at People, (I have given versions of this talk as a plenary at ICDSC-2008, at Google, at INRIA, at IBM and at TTI Chicago)
• Shading and Recognition or the first Mrs Rochester (I gave this talk at the Lake Como workshop on object recognition)

Current courses

• CS543 Computer Vision 2009
• CS 598 Optimization in computer vision and machine learning
• Reading group

Some web pages from recent past courses

• Signals AI
• Optimization in Vision and AI
• CS-419 Computer Graphics
• CS-598 Applications of Computer Vision in Human Motion Understanding

Administrative work

• Porn committee: I served on an NRC committee on web pornography; here is the report.
• Letters and Science major: I used to chair the Computer Science L+S Steering committee at UC Berkeley. Most people encounter this committee through dealings with the L+S advisor, Barbara Hightower
• UC Berkeley admissions policy: I served on the UCB AEPE (Admissions, Enrollments and Primary Education) committee for a period of six years, 1995-2001 (a lively period in the life of this committee, due to changes in California law). The committee put together a comprehensive assessment policy that is now widely regarded as a model policy (described in a report ; more stuff is at the current committee page ).

Miscellaneous

• An excellent tea merchant