Invited Speaker

Dr. Dimitrios Makris, Kingston University, UK Biography: Dr Dimitrios Makris is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, Kingston University, London. He received his first degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1999 and his PhD in Computer Vision from City University, London in 2004. Since 2006, he has also been lecturing for the EPSRC-BMVA Summer School in Computer Vision. His research interests are in the area of Image Processing, Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and he is especially interested in Motion Analysis and Pose Recovery. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) and a member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is the coordinator of the BMVA technical meetings. He is also a reviewer of numerous scientific journals and conferences.

October 3rd, 2009

• 09.30 - 9.35 Welcome by the oganisers


• 09.35 - 10.35 Keynote Address: Dr. Dimitrios Makris


• 10.35 – 11.00 Poster Presentations: 5 minutes each poster


• Paper AW-11-009: 3D Body-Part Tracking of Multiple Persons Using A Hierarchical Body Model, Leonid Raskin, Michael Rudzsky and Ehud Rivlin


• Paper AW-11-010: User-centric Speaker Report: Ranking-based Effectiveness Evaluation and Feedback, Tianshi Gao, Chen Wu and Hamid Aghajan.


• Paper AW-11-011: A regression-based approach to recover human pose from voxel data, Laetitia Gond, Patrick Sayd, Thierry Chateau and Michel Dhome.


• Paper AW-11-012: Tracking of Humans and Estimation of Body/Head Orientation from Top-view Single Camera for Visual Focus of Attention Analysis, Ovgu Ozturk, Toshihiko Yamasaki and Kiyoharu Aizawa


• Paper AW-11-013: A Framework for Human Tracking using Kalman Filter and Fast Mean Shift Algorithms, Ali Ahmed and Kenji Terada.


• 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break + Poster Session


• 11.30 - 12.30 Oral Session I: Motion tracking.


• Paper AW-11-001: Modeling the Product Manifold of Posture and Motion, Ankur Datta, Yaser Sheikh and Takeo Kanade.


• Paper AW-11-002: 3D Model-based Marker-less Human Motion Tracking in Cluttered Environment, Andre Gagalowicz and Chee Kwang Quah.


• 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Break


• 14.00 - 15.30 Oral Session II: Pose estimation.


• Paper AW-11-003: Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation using Sparse Motion Features, Ben Daubney, David Gibson and Neill Campbell.


• Paper AW-11-004: Multiple Views Gait Recognition using View Transformation Model Based on Optimized Gait Energy Image, Worapan Kusakunniran, Qiang Wu, Hongdong Li and Jian Zhang.


• Paper AW-11-006: Summarised Hierarchical Markov Models for Speed Invariant Action Matching, Joe Kilner, Jean-Yves Guillemaut, and Adrian Hilton.


• 15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break + Poster Session


• 16.00 - 17.30 Oral Session III: Event understanding.


• Paper AW-11-005: Continuous Recognition of Motion Based Gestures in Sign Language, Daniel Kelly, John Mc Donald, and Charles Markham.


• Paper AW-11-007: Trajectory based Primitive Events for learning and recognizing Activity, Guido Pusiol, Francois Bremond, and Monique Thonnat.


• Paper AW-11-008: The TUM Kitchen Data Set of Everyday Manipulation Activities for Motion Tracking and Action Recognition, Moritz Tenorth, Jan Bandouch and Michael Beetz.


• 17.30 - 17.45 Closing remarks