We presented three papers at the 23rd IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium in San Francisco, CA (Jan 2011):
Radhakrishna Achanta successfully defended his thesis Finding Objects of Interest in Images using Saliency and Superpixels. Congratulations, Dr. RK! (Jan 2011)
Sabine Süsstrunk gave an invited talk about the future of photography at the 10th anniversary of Image Engineering Gmbh in Cologne, Germany. (Jan 2011)
Albrecht Lindner presented a poster on Automatic grouping of semantic keywords to improve image rendering and Neda Salamati on Material-based object segmentation using near-infrared information at the IS&T/SID 18th Color and Imaging Conference in San Antonio, TX, US. The latter won the Cactus Award for Best Interactive Paper. Congratulations, Neda! (Nov. 2010)
The demo of our skin smoothing application using visible and near-infrared image fusion won the ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 Best Demo Award (Florence, Italy). For more information about the demo and to download the papers, click here. (Oct 2010)
Note that the skin smoothing demo is also present in the Digital Revolution exhibit at the Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey, Switzerland, until December 2011. Visitors can take their own pictures and get them displayed before and after smoothing, and e-mail themselves the results. Read more about the exhibit (in French) in Le Temps, and in this clipping from 24 heures.
Sabine Süsstrunk gave a talk about Computational Photography at the Doctoral School Seminar S2I, La Rochelle, France. (Oct. 2010)
Radhakrishna Achanta gave a talk on Saliency Detection using Maximum Symmetric Surround at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010) in Hong Kong, China. (Sept 2010)
After the success of the exhibition at the Musée de l'Elysée 'We are all Photographers Now!' in Lausanne in 2007 and the installation of the FLOW module at the New York Photo Festival in 2009, we continued the adventure around a specific theme: the public space. Both amateur and professional photographers, anywhere in the world, were invited to participate in the project by uploading their images. The photographs were projected on screens at the Rolex Learning Center during the La Nuit des Musées on September 25th from 2pm to midnight.
We received over 4'000 uploads and were able to display about 95% of the photos. A time-lapse video of the installation is available here.
Matthew Brown gave a talk about RGB/NIR imaging for environmental monitoring in a Permasense Seminar at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. (Sept. 2010)
Sabine Süsstrunk gave an invited talk about the future of photography at the DGPh Science and Technology Symposium during Photokina in Cologne, Germany. (Sept. 2010)
Our current research is highlighted in the Flash, the internal EPFL journal (14.9.2010), and on Swisster (21.9.2010).
Matthew Brown gave a talk about shift-invariant operators for spatio-chromatic image decorrelation in the Symposium on Colour Imaging, organized by the Imaging Science Group of The Royal Photographic Society, London, UK. (Sept. 2010)
Neda Salamati, Zahra Sadeghipoor, and Sabine Süsstrunk gave invited talks at Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, France. (July 2010)
Sabine Süsstrunk gave a keynote at the 2nd European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP 2010) in Paris, France. (July 2010)
Sabine Süsstrunk gave an invited talk Enhancing the Visible with the Invisible: Exploiting Near-Infrared to Advance Computational Photography and Computer Vision at the 48th SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition (SID 2010) in Seattle, WA, USA. (May 2010)
Sabine Süsstrunk gave a talk about Computational Photography at the Know Thy Neighbor seminar series of IC at EPFL. (May 2010)
Zahra Sadeghipoor Kermani joined IVRG as a PhD student. (May 2010)
The Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey opened the exhibit Digital Revolution. IVRG helped collect items to exhibit and is present with a demo of our skin smoothing application using visible and near-infrared image fusion. Visitors can take their own pictures and get them displayed before and after smoothing, and e-mail themselves the results. The demo was built by Daniel Tamburrino and Simon Hiscox. Read more (in French) in Le Temps, and in this clipping from 24 heures. (April 2010)
Sabine Süsstrunk presented two posters about our work on combining visible and near-infrared images and the Gigavision camera at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), MIT, Boston, MA, USA. (March 2010)
Sabine Süsstrunk presented IVRG's work on combining visible and near-infrared images at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, Logitech, Freemont, CA, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, and the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. (Jan, Feb 2010)
Sabine Süsstrunk gave an invited talk on color image quality metric at the Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XV Conference at the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium, for which she was also the co-chair. (Jan 2010)
Our collaborative project with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, US on cosmetic advice using mobile imaging received the Best Paper Award at the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging: Multimedia on Mobile Devices 2010 conference. Most of EPFL's work was done by Joanna Marguier. (Jan 2010)
Joanna Marguier successfully defended her thesis Exploiting Redundancy in Color Images. Congratulations, Dr. Joanna! (Jan 2010)
Radhakrishna Achanta presented a poster on Image Summaries using Database Saliency at ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 in Yokohama, Japan. (Dec 2009)
We presented three papers at the IS&T/SID 17th Color Imaging Conference (CIC 2009) in Albuquerque, USA (Nov 09):
We presented four papers at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2009) in Cairo, Egypt (Nov 09):
Matthew Brown has joined IVRG and CVLab as a Post Doc. (Nov 09)
The Gigavision project is discussed in the New Scientist of Oct. 7 2009. (Oct 09)
Radhakrishna Achanta presented a poster on salient region detection at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in Miami, Florida, USA. The paper, code, and the ground truth images can be found here here. (June 09)
Sabine Süsstrunk gave a keynote lecture on our work combining NIR and visible images at the 16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis in Oslo, Norway. (June 09)
Sabine Süsstrunk gave a keynote lecture on color image quality metrics at the Gjovik Color Imaging Symposium in Gjovik, Norway. (June 09)
All Photographers Now!, a joint project between IVRG and the Musée de l'Elysée was featured at the New York Photo Festival, May 13-17, 2009. It allowed photographers all around the world to show their work at the festival. An installation shot with the projected image was mailed back. Over 4'000 images were uploaded during the 4-day festival. Daniel Tamburrino made it all work in NY.
Clément Fredembach received the MERL Best Student Paper Award for our paper Colouring the Near-Infrared, presented at the IS&T/SID 16th Color Imaging Conference in Portland, OR, USA. (Nov 08)
We presented three papers at the IS&T/SID 16th Color Imaging Conference in Portland, OR, USA. (Nov 08)
Sabine Süsstrunk gave an invited talk at A World of Colors: From Gabriel Lippmann to Nanophotonics, a Symposium to commemorate the Nobel prize attributed to Gabriel Lippmann in 1908, in Paris, France. (Oct 08)
Sheila S. Hemami joined us for her sabbatical from Cornell University's Visual Communications Lab. (Sep 08 to Feb 09)
Radhakrishna Achanta's Text Detection and Recognition code has been incorporated into Image Cerberus, a SpamAssassin plug-in against image spam. (Sep 08)
Daniel Tamburrino is doing an internship at Sharp Laboratories of America, Vancouver, WA, USA. (Jul 08 to Sep 08)
Joanna Marguier is doing an internship at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, USA. (Jul 08 to Aug 08)
Sabine Süsstrunk was elected Senior Member of the Society of Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T). (Jun 08)
Sabine Süsstrunk gave a keynote at CGIV 2008: IS&T's Fourth European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging and Vision in Terrassa, Spain. (Jun 08)
Our Color Matching by Phone collaborative project with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories made the MIT Technology Review. (Jul 07)
Daniel Tamburrino describes in the Flash Informatique IVRG's contributions to the exhibit We are all Photographers Now! at the Musée de l'Élysee. (Jul 07)
At the last ICASSP conference, we have organized a special session on reproducible research (co-organized with M. Barni and F. Perez-Gonzalez). (Apr 07)
Our Java web application for automatic red-eye removal is available online on our software page. (Apr 06)