The First IEEE Workshop on Visual Place Categorization (VPC '09)

In Association with CVPR 2009, Miami Beach, Florida, June 21, 2009

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Visual place categorization (VPC) refers to the identification of the semantic category of a place using visual information collected from an autonomous robot platform.

The VPC'09 workshop program consists of invited talks from both robotics and computer vision researchers, covering a wide range of topics such as robot mapping and visual place categorization, object and scene recognition, and scene understanding.

Preliminary Program (Sunday, June 21)

Location: Splash 5-8

08:45

Introduction

09:00

Keynote: Places, From the Robot's Point of View


Benjamin Kuipers (Univ. of Michigan) [slides, pdf format]

09:45

Natural Scene Categorization: Behaviors, Brains, and Computers


Fei-Fei Li (Princeton/Stanford)

10:10

Morning Break

10:30

Place Recognition and Lifelong Maps


Kurt Konolige (Willow Garage) [slides, ppt format]

10:55

What Should We Mean by "Scene"?


David Forsyth (UIUC)

11:20

Models for Joint Labeling of Objects and Scenes


Bernt Schiele (TU Darmstadt) [slides, pdf format]

11:45

A New Dataset of Home Interiors for Visual Place Categorization


Jianxin Wu (Georgia Tech) [slides, zip format]



13:45

Beyond Scene Categories


Alyosha Efros (CMU) [slides, pdf format]

14:10

Semantic Modeling of Places using Objects


Frank Dellaert (Georgia Tech) [slides, pdf format]

14:35

The Role of Spatial, Visual and Linguistic Context in Environmental Modelling


Nicholas Roy (MIT)

15:00

Afternoon Break

15:20

Context-based Vision for Place and Object Recognition


Antonio Torralba (MIT)

15:45

Combining Automated Visual Search and Place Categorization


Pooja Viswanathan (Univ. of British Columbia)

16:10

Combining Appearance and Geometry for Efficient Scene Recognition


Svetlana Lazebnik (Univ. of North Carolina) [slides, pdf format]

16:35

A Region-based Approach to Scene Understanding


Stephen Gould (Stanford)

17:00

Panel discussion



Dataset

A new annotated Visual Place Categorization dataset is available here. Some example images follow.


Examples of images from the bedroom category, chosen at random, one from each home. Annotations and development kit are also provided.

Page created and maintained by Jianxin Wu (wujx2001 AT gmail.com).