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Computer Vision

Awards

Kay H. Brodersen received a Trainee Abstract Award at HBM 2012 for his work on 'Model-Based Clustering Using Generative Embedding.' Kay will be giving a talk on his results in Beijing on 12 June.

François Cellier received the McLeod Founder's Award of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Spotlight

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Computational models of brain connectivity, coupled with machine learning algorithms, make it possible to infer neuronal disease mechanisms from non-invasive functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data in humans. This illustration shows how dynamic systems models can be used for reducing complex (high-dimensional) brain activity data to a simple (low-dimensional) and mechanistically interpretable representation (Brodersen et al., PLoS Comput. Biol. 2011). Please also see the summary on ETH Life.

Introduction

Recent advances in image and video capture have enabled very cheap acquisition of image data. This calls for automatic tools for analysis, categorization and interpretation. Such challenges in the field of computational vision present an ideal test bed for pattern recognition and machine learning algorithms. We apply new sampling techniques to image segmentation, investigating the different approaches for efficient large scale inference. Graphical models are used to learn object categorization from weakly labeled data, providing a framework for integrating multiple sources of information. We use psychophysics to investigate object detection in humans and we apply these techniques to real world problems, such as the analysis of medical and neuroanatomical data.  

Projects

Discriminative methods for structured data

In this project we consider discriminative models for problems that have an underlying structure, i.e. we overcome the traditional independence assumption present in many discriminative models. In our setting the structure is specified by a graphical model and might correspond to a grid for image segmentation in computer vision or a complete graph for multilabel classification. One important research focus is approximate training of these models, which is needed as these models are computationally intractable in general. Furthermore, we are interested in applications to vision problems.    
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Conditional Random Fields allow for a principled, probabilistic discriminative reasoning about structured data. We are investigating applications in computer vision like multilabel categorization (top) or training segmentations of photos into semantic classes (bottom).    
Contact: Patrick Pletscher
   
Funding source: SNF
   

Utilizing multiple data sources by information fusion

This project is dedicated to integrating approximate geometry inference and object segmentation and recognition. The main challenges lie in constructing a feature transform that is adequate to both tasks and devising a learning algorithm that can exploit the relation of tasks that are different, but defined on same domain.  
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Contact: Alexander Vezhnevets
 
Funding source: SNF
 
 

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