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A University of Central Florida research team has received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize for pioneering human action recognition datasets, which have played important role in the advancement of computer vision technology. The researchers behind UCF-101, the challenging action recognition dataset, are being awarded for their impressive collection of 13,320 clips across 101 action categories. ...

AAAI-23 is the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The theme of this conference is to create collaborative bridges within and beyond AI. Like previous AAAI conferences, AAAI-23 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibit programs, and two new activities: a Bridge Program ...

Dr. Mohamed Elgharib Max Planck Institute for Informatics Monday, December 5, 2022 10:00AM – 11:00AM Zoom Abstract Digitizing the world around us is of increasing importance, with several applications in Extended Reality, movie and media production, telecommunications, medicine, video games, robotics, and many more. Digitisation involves three main stages: modeling, reconstruction and rendering. Modeling is ...

Dr. Ajay Divakaran SRI International Wednesday, November 30, 2022 4:00PM – 5:00PM ENG1 327 Abstract Unlike current visual question answering (VQA), elementary school (K-5) teaching of reading comprehension has a graded approach based on a hierarchy of skills ranging from memorization to content creation. We take inspiration from such hierarchies to investigate both dataset creation ...

Dr. Mohsen Zand Robotics and Computer Vision (RCV) Lab, Queen’s University Monday, November 28, 2022 2:00PM – 3:00PM Zoom Abstract A variety of applications, including moving object detection, motion prediction, object tracking, motion segmentation, event detection, and behavior understanding, are addressed in the current research disciplines of video analysis and interpretation. In this talk, I ...

Dr. Du Tran Facebook AI Research Monday, November 21, 2022 2:00PM – 3:00PM Zoom Abstract Video understanding is one of the fundamental problems in computer vision with various applications, including autonomous vehicles, robot learning, and visual perception. Compared with traditional image understanding, video understanding: (i) has higher model complexity and requires learning from a much ...

Announcing the Final Examination of Sijie Zhu for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...

Announcing the Final Examination of Aisha Urooj Khan for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...

The Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) annual meeting fosters the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. The core focus is peer-reviewed novel research which is presented and discussed in the general session, along with invited talks by leaders in their fields. In 2022, UCF’s Center ...

Every year, CECS recognizes and honors distinguished alumni for their remarkable professional contributions and their dedication to the college and UCF. The University of Central Florida was established in the spirit that if we reach for the stars, dreams come true. This year, Dr. Omar Javed, VP of Applied Science at Twitch (an Amazon company) ...

Dr. Venu Govindaraju National University at Buffalo Thursday, October 20, 2022 1:00PM – 2:00PM HEC 101 Abstract We present an overview of two decades of innovation in handwriting recognition at the Govindaraju lab at the University at Buffalo and offer a perspective on the evolution of research in this area and the future of the ...

Dr. Omar Javed Twitch (an Amazon company) Friday, October 14, 2022 3:00PM – 4:00PM HEC 101 Abstract Twitch is a premier live social video platform with millions of unique streamers and tens of millions of daily viewers (who watched 1.3 trillion minutes of content in 2021). Recommendations are a major means of connecting viewers to ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued on October 11, 2022, the patent number US 11,468,676 titled “System and Method for Human Pose Estimation in Unconstrained Video”. Title: Methods of real-time spatio-temporal activity detection and categorization from untrimmed video segments UCF Inventor(s): Mubarak Shah, Yogesh Singh Rawat, Aayush Jung Bahadur Rana, Praveen Tirupattur, ...

The University of Central Florida (UCF) Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) solicits applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track assistant professor or tenured associate professor in the area of Deep Learning. CRCV is the world–class leader in computer vision research and related disciplines including, but not limited to, the algorithmic aspects of deep learning ...

A team of UCF researchers will lead one of the five areas that are part of a research center focused on developing livable, safe and inclusive communities. By Kimberly J. Lewis|August 19, 2022   A team of researchers led by UCF Trustee Chair Professor Mubarak Shah, professor of computer science in the UCF Center for ...

Columbia University will partner with four other universities to forge livable, safe, and inclusive communities by using technologies built on advances in wireless communications that promote privacy and security while balancing community-defined benefits. Read more here. ...

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The UCF Strategic Investment Program invests in core academic activities to support President Alexander N. Cartwright’s vision that UCF will become a “University for the Future” as a top public institution and the world’s leading public metropolitan research university. The investments align with areas of strategic emphasis identified by UCF’s strategic plan as approved by ...

Dr. Angela Yao National University of Singapore Tuesday, June 28, 2022 2:00PM – 3:00PM ENGI 327 / Zoom Abstract Videos of procedural activities are goal-oriented, with multiple steps or actions in a sequence over time. In this talk, I will outline our group’s efforts in developing methods for segmenting and anticipating actions in procedural videos. ...

A recent work from CRCV researchers and collaborators was a finalist for the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022. The paper is titled Local Learning Matters: Rethinking Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning. In a nutshell, the work investigates the data heterogeneity challenge in Federated Learning (FL). ...

Dr. Muhammad Rana University of Surrey Friday, June 17, 2022 1:00PM – 2:00PM ENGI 327 / Zoom Abstract 1 Vision transformers have generated significant interest in the computer vision community because of their flexibility in exploiting contextual information, whether it is sharply confined local, or long range global. However, they are known to be data ...

Dr. Radu Ionescu University of Bucharest Wednesday, June 15, 2022 2:00PM – 3:00PM ENGI 327 / Zoom Abstract Anomaly detection in video is a challenging computer vision problem, as the classification of an event as normal or abnormal always depends on context. For instance, driving a truck on the street is considered normal, but, if ...

Dr. Ajay Divakaran SRI International Thursday, May 26, 2022 1:00PM – 2:00PM – Zoom Abstract We lay out a human learning-based framework for studying computational multimodal comprehension. Current visual question answering (VQA) systems treat all questions as equal and have no notion of comprehension. Elementary school (K-5) teaching of reading comprehension on the other hand ...

The h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. According to Google Scholar Metrics, the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is ranked 4th in the h5-index rankings. In 2022, UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) had 9 papers accepted into the CVPR conference, covering ...

Dr. Yogesh Rawat’s “Robustness in Sequential Data” workshop has been accepted to CVPR 2022. Most of the real-world data is sequential and there is always a distribution shift when we move from training set to real-world testing scenario. This workshop invites researchers from both academia and industry to advance the research in robust learning for ...

Dr. Mubarak Shah has been named as an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow for his contributions to human action recognition in video and leadership for undergraduate research experience. To read more about this honor, please visit https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/january/fellows-2021 Dr. Mubarak Shah, the UCF Board of Trustees Chair Professor, is the founding director of Center for ...

The team includes Postdoctoral scholar Shruti Vyas from CRCV, Assistant Professor Dr. Kristopher Davis from Material Science and Engineering Department, and Undergraduate students Joe Fioresi and Melody Halbert from Computer Science Department. https://www.herox.com/solarprizeR5software The team competed in the first round, Ready and won a $30,000 cash prize along with the eligibility to participate in the ...

Announcing the Final Examination of Kevin Duarte for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...

CRCV team ‘knights’ got first place at Visual Inductive Priors for Data-Efficient Action Recognition challenge, ICCV 2021. The team includes graduate students Ishan Dave, Brandon Clark, Rohit Gupta, and undergraduate intern Naman Biyani from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. https://vipriors.github.io/challenges/#action-recognition Data is fueling deep learning, yet it is costly to gather and to annotate. ...

ICCV is the premier international computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and tutorials. In 2021, UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) had 6 papers accepted into the ICCV conference. You can access the CRCV Publications Page for enhanced search capabilities. ...

CRCV is pleased to announce Dr. Chen Chen has joined our center as an Assistant Professor as of July 1, 2021. He has an h-index of 44 as of July 2021 according to his Google Scholar profile. He is ranked among the top 2% of scientists in the world by a recent Stanford University study (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918). He ...

Announcing the Final Examination of Krishna Regmi for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...

CRCV researchers top the 3D Tracking Leaderboard at https://jrdb.stanford.edu/leaderboards/tracking. You can read the extended abstract here. “JRDB is a novel dataset collected from our social mobile manipulator JackRabbot. The dataset includes 64 minutes of multimodal sensor data including stereo cylindrical 360° RGB video at 15 fps, 3D point clouds from two Velodyne 16 Lidars, line ...

Join us to learn more about UCF’s exciting new Computer Vision Masters Program on Tuesday, March 30 at 5:30pm! Register Here The Master of Science in Computer Vision (MSCV) Program aims to provide technical skills and domain knowledge to the future professionals who seek to acquire expertise in Computer Vision and its related areas. This ...

Mr. Kaidi Xu Northeastern University Monday, March 15, 2021 3:00PM – 4:00PM – Zoom Abstract Deep learning has achieved extraordinary performance in many application domains recently. It has been well accepted that Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which raises concerns of DNNs in securitycritical applications and may result in disastrous consequences. ...

The h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. According to Google Scholar Metrics, the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is ranked 5th in the h5-index rankings. In 2021, UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) had 6 papers accepted into the CVPR conference, covering ...

CRCV researchers won the Best Scientific Paper award at the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. See the project page, Gabriella: An Online System for Real-Time Activity Detection in Untrimmed Security Videos – Center for Research in Computer Vision (ucf.edu), for details on the system from the Center for Research in Computer Vision. <b>Publication<b> Mamshad N ...

The Master of Science in Computer Vision at UCF has been approved by the Florida Board of Governors to begin in Fall 2021. This will be the first masters program of its kind in Florida and among a select few in the United States. ...

CS PhD graduate Yun Zhai and Professor Mubarak Shah received an ACM SIGMM Test of Time Paper Honorable Mention award for their paper “Visual attention detection in video sequences using spatiotemporal cues,” in Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM ’06, page 815–824, New York, NY, USA, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1145/1180639.1180824 Earlier this year, ...

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CRCV Assistant Professor, Dr. Yogesh Rawat, captained a UCF-CMU team in the herox Automated Streams Analysis for Public Safety (ASAPS) Challenge. They competed and won a $30,000 prize for Topic 4 of Contest 1 on Extraction-to-analysis systems approach across all data categories as did another team led by Roy Hayes. The National Institute of Standards ...

http://humaninevents.org In this grand challenge, we focus on very challenging and realistic tasks of human-centric analysis in various crowd & complex events, including subway getting on/off, collision, fighting, and earthquake escape (cf. Figure. 1). To the best of our knowledge, few existing human analysis approaches report their performance under such complex events. With this consideration, ...

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CRCV Professor, Dr. Ulas Bagci, has been awarded the SAIC professorship in the Department of Computer Science for a period of 5 years. This appointment is in addition to his academic appointment and is in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments and national and international recognition in his discipline. Furthermore, it has the strong support of ...

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Announcing the Final Examination of Harish RaviPrakash for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...

Announcing the Final Examination of Rodney LaLonde III for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...

  The ActEV (Activities in Extended Video) Sequestered Data Leaderboard is an ongoing ranking of software systems that watch lengthy videos and detect activities of interest. Anyone can submit their system to NIST, which will then run the system on sequestered data, score the results and post the score to the leaderboard. The sequestered data ...

RadioGraphics’ mission to publish high-quality educational content is in large part the result of the efforts of those radiologists, medical physicists, and radiation oncologists who provide peer review of submitted material for the journal. Peer reviewers contribute their time and expertise to ensure that articles meet the high scientific standards and educational quality readers have ...

For his contributions in video surveillance, including object detection, tracking and action recognition, Dr. Mubarak Shah was been elected to be a member of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL).The induction of new members and certificate awards will be presented during the opening session of the Annual Meeting of AMEMFL to ...

Dr. Shah has been recognized as the Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention for his “outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of Computer Vision between 2009 and 2019”. The list is conferred in recognition of outstanding technical achievements with lasting contribution and impact. Each year, the top 10 most-cited scholars from the top venues ...

CRCV Professor, Dr. Ulas Bagci, has been awarded NIH’s prestigious R01 funding. The title of his grant is “Cyst-X: Interpretable Deep Learning Based Risk Stratification of Pancreatic Cystic Tumors”, and a total of award more than $2.5M. Dr. Bagci has obtained this funding from National Cancer Institute (NCI) of NIH, the nation’s leader in cancer ...

Congratulations to Dr. Abhijit Mahalanobis who received promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in the last cycle! This will officially be effective on August 8, 2020. ...

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Announcing the Final Examination of Amir Mazaheri for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued on December 17, 2019, the patent number US 10,509,957 titled “System and Method for Human Pose Estimation in Unconstrained Video”. Title: System and Method for Human Pose Estimation in Unconstrained Video UCF Inventor(s): Dong Zhang, Dr. Mubarak Shah UCF REF ID#: 33602 Download ...

UCF NEWS | STORIES OF IMPACT + INNOVATION | ORLANDO, FL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY National Academy of Inventors Names UCF Computer Vision Pioneer as Fellow Mubarak Shah is the university’s 13th NAI fellow, the highest professional accolade given to academic inventors. BY BEL HUSTON | FEBRUARY 6, 2020   Mubarak Shah, Trustee Chair Professor of Computer Science, ...

Announcing the Final Examination of Aliasghar Mortazi for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...

Announcing the Final Examination of Aidean Sharghi for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...

Announcing the Final Examination of Naji Khosravan for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...

The College of Engineering and Computer Science has recommended to The Burnett Honors College that Irene Tanner receive an Honors Undergraduate Scholarship (HUT) for her research accomplishments and completion of the honors thesis. Irene’s honors thesis is about finding obesity and cancer link with deep learning algorithms, working under CRCV Professor, Ulas Bagci in collaboration ...

Paper:            Bridging the Domain Gap for Ground-to-Aerial Image Matching  Presentation: https://youtu.be/gmAhQXCYCEQ   Paper:           Deep Constrained Dominant Sets for Person Re-Identification Presentation: https://youtu.be/R8vXWtwwAbk   Paper:           CapsuleVOS: Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation Using Capsule Routing Presentation: https://youtu.be/YjjVatilGpA ...

The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions, emphasizing those without prior DARPA funding, and expose them to DoD needs and DARPA’s program development process. The YFA program provides funding, mentoring and industry and DoD contacts to awardees early in their careers ...

Trustee chair professor Dr. Mubarak Shah is the 2019 winner of the prestigious ACM SIGMM award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. Dr. Shah was selected for this award for his “outstanding and pioneering and continued research contributions in the areas of multimedia content analysis and multimedia applications, for leadership in ...

Announcing the Final Examination of Rui Hou for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...

A capsule network provides an effective way to model part-to-whole relationships between entities and allows to learn viewpoint invariant representations. Through this improved representation learning, capsule networks are able to achieve good performance in multiple domains with a drastic decrease in the number of parameters. Recently, capsule networks have shown state-of-the-art results for human action ...

Enes Karaaslan, Ulas Bagci and Necati Catbas received the Best Research Paper Award for their paper on “Smart Infrastructure Assessment Using Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence” at the 1st International Conference on Smart Tourism, Smart Cities and Enabling Technologies. This work was in collaboration with the Civil Engineering Department of UCF, and the first author ...

Announcing the Final Examination of Mahdi M. Kalayeh for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science ...