[UCI-CalIT2] Seminar on Computer Vision - Feb 13

[Stuart A ROSS]

"Computer Vision Based Modeling and Recognition of Human-Human
Interactions"


J. K. Aggarwal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin


Friday, February 13
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Engineering Tower 331, UC Irvine campus


ABSTRACT:  Computer vision research has slowly progressed, over the past
25 years, from recognizing the motion of rigid, planar objects to
3-dimensional, articulate non-rigid objects.  Today, the major objective
is the recognition and understanding of various facets of human motion.
Human motion research has focused on tracking the actions of a single
person, recognizing and understanding interactions among several people
and evaluating crowd behavior.  Human interactions are diverse and
difficult to interpret.  Occlusion, shadows lighting conditions make
tracking and recognition difficult.  Professor Aggarwal will present his
research on modeling and recognition of human-human interactions.  The
work includes the study of interactions at the gross level and at the
detailed level.  The two levels present different problems in terms of
observation and analysis.  The applications of research to surveillance
and computer animation will be discussed, as well as the issue of what
the computer 'sees' vs. what a human 'sees'.


SPEAKER:  J. K. Aggarwal has served on the faculty of The University of
Texas at Austin College of Engineering since 1964 and is currently
Cullen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of
the Computer and Vision Research Center.  His research interests include
computer vision and pattern recognition focusing on human motion.  A
Fellow of IEEE since 1976 and IAPR since 1998, he received the Senior
Research Award of the American Society of Engineering Education in 1992,
the 1996 Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Computer Society and
the graduate teaching award at The University of Texas at Austin in
1992.  He has served as Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Technical
Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1987-1989);
Director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multisensor Fusion
for Computer Vision, Grenoble, France (1989); Chairman of the IEEE
Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
(1993), and President of the International Association for Pattern
Recognition (1992-94).  He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and Golden Core
member of IEEE Computer Society.  He has authored and edited a number of
books, chapters, proceedings of conferences, and papers.