IMVIP 2017 will take place in the IONTAS Lecture Theatre and Foyer from the afternoon of Wednesday 30th August through to the morning of Friday 1st September (inclusive). The welcome reception with be held on the South Campus in Renehan Hall. Lunch will be provided on the Thursday of the conference in the Phoenix University Restaurant.
Wednesday 30th August
12noon - 2pm Registration desk open (Iontas Building Foyer)
2pm - 2.15pm Welcome and Opening Remarks, Prof. Ray O'Neill, Vice-President for Research, Maynooth University.
2.20pm - 3.20pm Keynote - Chair: John McDonald
Thomas Whelan, Oculus Research
Title: Machine Perception
Abstract: The advent of modern virtual reality has brought about a host of new and challenging problems in many fields, most notably in computer vision. The future of this technology is not just restricted to the domain of virtual reality, but has far greater reach into more challenging areas including mixed and augmented reality. The Surreal Vision team at Oculus Research focuses on real-time always on embedded machine perception. This talk will present a brief overview of Oculus Research, some of the machine perception challenges involved in mixed reality and some of the existing published solutions to these problems.
3.20pm - 3.50pm Coffee / Tea Break
3.50pm - 4.50pm Oral Paper Session 1 - Chair: Paul Whelan
- A Modular Scheme for Artifact Detection in Stereoscopic Omni-Directional Images
Sebastian Knorr, Simone Croci and Aljosa Smolic
- A Robust Quality Measure for Quality-Guided 2D Phase Unwrapping Algorithms Based on Histogram Processing
Ambroise Moreau, Matei Mancas and Thierry Dutoit
- Fast and Accurate Optical Flow based Depth Map Estimation from Light Fields
Yang Chen, Martin Alain and Aljosa Smolic
6pm - 8pm Welcome Reception in Renehan Hall with tours of the Russell Library
Thursday 31st August
9.20am - 10.40am Oral Paper Session 2 - Chair: Bryan Gardiner
- Recognising Fine-Grained Actions by Combining Colour, Depth and Flow
Seán Bruton and Gerard Lacey
- A Tale of Two Losses: Discriminative Deep Feature Learning for Person Re-Identification
Alessandro Borgia, Yang Hua and Neil Robertson
- On using CNN with DCT based Image Data
Matej Ulicny and Rozenn Dahyot
- Deep convolutional neural networks and digital holographic microscopy for in-focus depth estimation of microscopic objects
Tomi Pitkaaho, Aki Manninen and Thomas Naughton
10.40am - 11.40am Poster Pitches / Poster Session 1/ Industry Demos & Coffee - Chair: Kenneth Dawson-Howe
- Computing the Uncertainty of Motion Fields for Human Activity Analysis
Jorge S. Marques, António R. Moreira and João M. Lemos
- Automatic Book Finding on Bookshelves
Jason Hogan and Kenneth Dawson-Howe
- Image Fusion of Unregistered Colour Digital Pathology Images
Wael Saafin, Gerald Schaefer, Miguel Vega, Rafael Molina and Aggelos Katsaggelos
- High Speed Reconstruction of a Scene Implemented Through Projective Texture Mapping
William Clifford, Catherine Deegan and Charles Markham
- Improving The Viola-Jones Face Detection Performance by Using The Brightness Channel in HSV and HLS Colour Spaces
Inas Altaie, Adrian Clark and Nassr Azeez
- Tahitian Pearls’ Lustre Assessment
Gael Mondonneix, Sébastien Chabrier, Jean-Martial Mari, Alban Gabillon and Jean-Pierre Barriot
- Fast Video Processing Using a Spiral Coordinate System and an Eye Tremor Sampling Scheme
John Fegan, Sonya Coleman, Dermot Kerr and Bryan Scotney
11.40am - 12.40pm Oral Paper Session 3 - Chair: Bryan Scotney
- Automated Identification of Trampoline Skills Using Computer Vision Extracted Pose Estimation
Paul Connolly, Guenole Silvestre and Chris Bleakley
- Visual Lecture Summary Using Intensity Correlation Coefficient
Solomon E. Garber, Luka Milekic, Nick Moran, Aaditya Prakash, Antonella Di Lillo and James A. Storer
- Automatic Tracking System for Event Detection and Classification in Tennis
Pushyami Rachapudi, Abhishek Sharma and Navjyoti Singh
12.40pm - 2pm Lunch @ Phoenix University Restaurant
2pm - 3pm Keynote - Chair: Charles Markham
Maurice Fallon, University of Oxford
Title: Mapping and Tracking for Legged Robots
Abstract: In this talk I will present ongoing research on multi-sensor perception for applications to robotic manipulation, navigation and locomotion. The first topic will focus on creating volumetric maps suitable for collision free motion planning by incorporating humanoid proprioception into a surfel-based dense visual mapping system. Visual SLAM systems are notoriously fragile - either reliant on the presence of structure or assuming no dynamics in the scene. A second topic develops methods for high-frequency legged robot state estimation - combining proprioception, vision and LIDAR. We will describe the various challenges of doing so - including dynamic impacts, poor lighting conditions and various sources of sensor noise. Finally we present initial research on visual manipulator tracking. We explore the problem instead by tracking the robot’s manipulator using dense vision and present initial research showing how we can use discriminative methods to propose candidate solutions. Example demonstrations will be given using some notable platforms including the Boston Dynamics Atlas, NASA Valkyrie and the HyQ quadruped.
3pm - 3.40pm Oral Paper Session 4 - Chair: Barak Pearlmutter
- Saliency Detection and Object Classification
Christopher Cooley, Sonya Coleman, Bryan Gardiner and Bryan Scotney
- IDT Vs L2 Distance for Point Set Registration
Hana Alghamdi, Mairead Grogan and Rozenn Dahyot
3.40pm - 4.40pm Poster Pitches / Poster Session 2 / Industry Demos & Coffee - Chair: Dermot Kerr
- Gaussian Random Vector Fields in Trajectory Modelling
Miguel Barão and Jorge S. Marques
- Digital holographic sensor network and image analyses for distributed potable water monitoring
Tomi Pitkaaho, Ville Pitkakangas, Mikko Niemela, Sudheesh K. Rajput, Naveen K. Nishchal and Thomas Naughton
- Study of imperfect keys to characterise the security of optical encryption
Lingfei Zhang and Thomas Naughton
- Towards Dense Collaborative Mapping using RGBD Sensors
Louis Gallagher and John McDonald
- Video Based Piano Music Transcription
Robert McCaffrey and Kenneth Dawson-Howe
- Structure Based Matching between Aerial and Map Images using Brightness- and Rotation-Invariant Curve Features
Yoshikatsu Nakajima and Hideo Saito
- A dataset for Irish Sign Language recognition
Marlon Oliveira, Houssem Chatbri, Noel E. O'Connor, Alistair Sutherland, Ylva Ferstl, Suzanne Little and Mohamed Farouk
4.40 - 5.40pm Oral Paper Session 5 - Sonya Coleman
- Detecting and Tracking Meeting Participants using Motion Heat Maps
Nahlah Algethami and Sam Redfern
- Gabor and HOG approach to facial emotion recognition
Ryan Melaugh, Nazmul Siddique, Sonya Coleman and Pratheepan Yogarajah
- SimilarityMeasures and the Performance of Biometric Systems
Inas Altaie, Adrian Clark and Nassr Azeez
6pm - 7pm IPRCS AGM
Thursday Evening - Conference Dinner at Barberstown Castle Hotel, Straffan, Co. Kildare.
Bus departs from Phoenix Restaurant Pickup Point at 7.30pm.
Friday 1st September
9.20am - 10.20am Keynote - Chair: Rozenn Dahyot
Stefan Leutenegger, Imperial College London
Title: Spatial Perception for Mobile Robots
Abstract: Mobile robots need dedicated sensing and processing for localisation and mapping as well as scene understanding. Recent years have brought tremendous advances in vision sensors (e.g. RGB-D cameras) and processing power (e.g. GPUs) that have led us to design new algorithms that will empower the next generation of mobile robots. With the arrival of deep learning, we are furthermore now in the position to link respective unprecedented performance in scene understanding with 3D mapping. In this talk, I will go through some recent algorithms and software we have developed as well as their application to mobile robots, including drones.
10.20am - 11.20am Poster Pitches / Poster Session 3 & Coffee - Chair: Charles Markham
- Extending the Bag-of-Words Representation with Neighboring Local Features and Deep Convolutional Features
Daniel Manger and Dieter Willersinn
- Local Shape and Moment Invariant Descriptor for Structured Images
Elena Ranguelova
- Open Source Dataset and Deep Learning Models for Online Digit Gesture Recognition on Touchscreens
Philip Corr, Chris Bleakley and Guenole Silvestre
- Facial Image Aesthetics Prediction with Visual and Deep CNN Features
Mohamed Selim, Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial and Didier Stricker
- Correlation of Pre-Operative Cancer Imaging Techniques with Post-Operative Gross and Microscopic Pathology Images
Gabriel Reines March, Xiangyang Ju and Stephen Marshall
- Evaluating Quantized Convolutional Neural Networks for Embedded Systems
Simon O'Keeffe and Rudi Villing
- Stitching Skin Images of Scars
S. M. Iman Zolanvari and Rozenn Dahyot
- Characterisation of CMOS Image Sensor Performance in Low Light Automotive Applications
Shane P. Gilroy, John O'Dwyer and Lucas C. Bortoleto
11.20am - 12.40pm Oral Paper Session 6 - Chair: Tom Naughton
- Classification of Alzheimer’s disease subjects from MRI using the principle of consensus segmentation
Aymen Khlif and Max Mignotte
- Multi-Class U-Net for Segmentation of Non-Biometric Identifiers
Tomislav Hrkac, Karla Brkić and Zoran Kalafatic
- A Restricted-Domain Dual Formulation for Two-Phase Image Segmentation
Jack Spencer
- Spatio-temporal tube segmentation through a video metrics-based patch similarity measure
Patricia Vitoria Carrera, Vadim Fedorov and Coloma Ballester
12.40pm - 1pm Best Paper Awards & Closing Remarks