Machine Learning and Category Representation 2011-2012

When: Fridays between 9h-12h
Where: ENSIMAG building in Montbonnot
Who: Lectures by Cordelia Schmid and Jakob Verbeek.
Grading: Final grades are determined as follows
- 50% written exam,
- 25% presentation,
- 25% the weekly quizes.

Class 1, November 25 2011

Jakob Verbeek: EM for mixture of Gaussian clustering + classification (kNN + Naive Bayes) [slides]
Student presentation 1: Boris Dalstein + Philippe Weinzaepfel [slides]
Scale and affine invariant interest point detectors, Mikolajczyk, Schmid, IJCV 2004.
Cordelia Schmid: Local features 2 [slides] + Instance-level recognition I [slides]

Jakob Verbeek: Linear classifiers (logistic discriminant + support vector machines) [slides]
Cordelia Schmid: Instance-level recognition II [slides]
Student presentation 2: Milliez + Gromer [slides]
Video Google: A Text Retrieval Approach to Object Matching in Videos Sivic, Zisserman, CVPR 2003.

Jakob Verbeek: Non-speparable SVM + Kernels for non-linear classification [slides]
Cordelia Schmid: Category level recognition [slides]
Student presentation 3: Al Homsi + Alzouhri Alyafi [slides]
Visual categorization with bags of keypoints Csurka, Dance, Fan, Willamowski, Bray, ECCV Workshop on Statistical Learning in Computer Vision, 2004
Student presentation 4: Perez Villegas + Remy Dautriche [slides]
Beyond bags of features: spatial pyramid matching for recognizing natural scene categories, Lazebnik, Schmid and Ponce, CVPR 2006.

Cordelia Schmid: object category localization [slides] action recognition in videos [slides]
Student presentation 5: Benkaouar + Johal [slides]
Learning realistic human actions from movies Laptev, Marszalek, Schmid, Rozenfeld, CVPR 2008.
Student presentation 6: Marin-Matholaz + Boiron [slides]
Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection, Dalal, Triggs, CVPR 2005.
Student presentation 7: Kumar + Singh [slides]
Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part Based Models, Felzenszwalb, Girshick, McAllester and Ramanan, PAMI 2010.

Jakob Verbeek: Fisher vector image representation [slides]
Student presentation 8: Hoang + Chu [slides]
High-dimensional signature compression for large-scale image classification Sanchez, Perronnin, CVPR 2011.
Student presentation 9: Mohamed Ayari, Hugo Loi, Pierre Arquier, [slides]
Aggregating local descriptors into a compact image representation, Jegou, Douze, Schmid, Perez, CVPR 2010.
Student presentation 10: Nicole Cogo + Renato Oliveira [slides]
Segmentation as Selective Search for Object Recognition, van de Sande, Uijlings, Gevers, Smeulders, ICCV 2011.