December 2012
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Private defense
Albrecht successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Semantic Awareness for Automatic Image Interpretation”. Congratulations and all the best for 2013.
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Teaching awards
Congratulations to Neda and Albrecht for winning Silver Awards for best Teaching Assistants in IC/EPFL for the academic year 2011/2012.
November 2012
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IS&T 20th Color and Imaging Conference
Albrecht presented our work ” A Large-Scale Multi-Lingual Color Thesaurus ” and received the MERL best student paper award. Look at the project page and find your favorite color. Multi-lingual Color Thesaurus
October 2012
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ACM Multimedia 2012
Albrecht presented our long paper entitled ” Joint Statistical Analysis of Images and Keywords with Applications in Semantic Image Enhancement “. Go see the result images and download code. Semantic Image Enhancement
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ECCV’s 4th Color and Photometry in Computer Vision Workshop
Neda Salamati presented our joint work with Xerox Research in Grenoble on “Semantic Image Segmentation Using Visible and Near-Infrared Channels.” Sabine Süsstrunk gave a keynote presentation.
September 2012
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IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2012)
Neda Salamati and Zahra Sadeghipoor Kermani presented our work on “Compression of Multispectral Images: Color (RGB) plus Near-Infrared (NIR).” Sabine Süsstrunk gave a keynote.
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International Create Challenge in Martigny
Appu Shaji won several awards for his project Insight at ICC 2012, an international startup competition held at IDIAP Martigny.
May 2012
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CROPPOLA IS ON-LINE
CROPPOLA (croppola.com), the intelligent image cropping tool developed by Radhakrishna Achanta and Appu Shaji, is on-line. Try it out and give feedback!
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Our superpixel and supervoxel methods ” SLIC Superpixels Compared to the State-of-the-art Superpixels ” was accepted for publication.
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The 4th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo), 5-7 December 2012, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
An interdisciplinary venue for researchers from Computer Science, Informatics, Social Sciences and Management Sciences to present work on studying the interplay between socially-centric platforms and social phenomena.
May 2012
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IS&T 6th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision (CGIV 2012)
Albrecht Lindner presented our collaborative work with Océ Print Logic Technology (a Canon Group) on ” What is the Color of Chocolate? – Extracting Color Values of Semantic Expressions“.
April 2012
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IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP)
Dominic Rüfenacht presented a poster entitled “Automatic and Accurate Shadow Detection using Near-Infrared.”
March 2012
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IEEE Transaction on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Our collaborative work on ” A New In-Camera Imaging Model for Color Computer Vision and its Application ” with NUS was accepted for publication.
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Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A)
Our collaborative work with UEA and the Center of Computer Vision, Barcelona, on ” Spectral Sharpening by Spherical Sampling ” was accepted for publication.
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NCCR Mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR MICS)
Sabine Süsstrunk talks about her experiences participating in the NCCR MICS as a researcher and as a project leader in the March 2012 newsletter.
February 2012
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7th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2012), Rome, Italy
Sabine Süsstrunk gave a keynote entitled “Improving the Visible with the Invisible – Incorporating Near-Infrared Cues in Computational Photography and Computer Vision.”
January 2012
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24th IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium, San Francisco, USA
Zahra Sadeghipoor presented a paper on ” Optimum Spectral Sensitivity Functions for Single Sensor Color Imaging ” in the Digital Photography VIII conference, and Sabine Süsstrunk a keynote in Visual Information Processing and Communication III.