Jiří Matas is a full professor at the Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University in Prague. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Surrey, UK (1995). He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conferences. Google Scholar reports about 22 000 citations to his work and an h-index 53.
He received the best paper prize at the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition in 2015, the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis 2013, Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference 2013, the Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2007, and at British Machine Vision Conferences in 2002 and 2005. His students received a number of awards, e.g. Best Student paper at ICDAR 2013, Google Fellowship 2013, and various “Best Thesis” prizes.
J. Matas is on the editorial board of IJCV and was the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE T. PAMI. He is a member of the ERC Computer Science and Informatics panel. He has served in various roles at major international conferences, e.g. ICCV, CVPR, ICPR, NIPS, ECCV, co-chairing ECCV 2004 and CVPR 2007. He is a program co-chair for ECCV 2016.
His research interests include object recognition, text localization and recognition, image retrieval, tracking, sequential pattern recognition, invariant feature detection, and Hough Transform and RANSAC-type optimization. His talk takes place on Thursday, March 2nd, at 1pm in room E105.

Tracking with Discriminative Correlation Filters

Visual tracking is a core video processing problem with many applications, e.g. in surveillance, autonomous driving, sport analysis, augmented reality, film post-production and medical imaging.

In the talk, tracking methods based on Discriminative Correlation Filters (DCF) will be presented. DCF-based trackers are currently the top performers on most commonly used tracking benchmarks. Starting from the oldest and simplest versions of DCF trackers like MOSSE, we will progress to kernel-based and multi-channel variants including those exploiting CNN features. Finally, the Discriminative Correlation Filter with Channel and Spatial Reliability will be introduced.

Time permitting, I will briefly introduce a problem that has been so far largely ignored by the computer vision community – tracking of blurred, fast moving objects.

Video recording of the talk is publicly available.

Piotr Didyk is an Independent Research Group Leader at the Cluster of Excellence on ”Multimodal Computing and Interaction” at the Saarland University (Germany), where he is heading a group on Perception, Display, and Fabrication. He is also appointed as a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Prior to this, he spent two years as a postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2012, he obtained his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Saarland University for his work on perceptual display. During his studies, he was also a visiting student at MIT. In 2008, he received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Wrocław (Poland). His research interests include human perception, new display technologies, image/video processing, and computational fabrication. His main focus are techniques that account for properties of the human sensory system and human interaction to improve perceived quality of the final images, videos, and 3D prints. His talk takes place on Wednesday, February 15th, 1pm in room A113.

Perception and Personalization in Digital Content Reproduction

There has been a tremendous increase in quality and number of new output devices, such as stereo and automultiscopic screens, portable and wearable displays, and 3D printers. Unfortunately, abilities of these emerging technologies outperform capabilities of methods and tools for creating content. Also, the current level of understanding of how these new technologies influence user experience is insufficient to fully exploit their advantages. In this talk, I will present our recent efforts in the context of perception-driven techniques for digital content reproduction. I will demonstrate that careful combinations of new hardware, computation, and models of human perception can lead to solutions that provide a significant increase in perceived quality. More precisely, I will discuss two techniques for overcoming limitations of 3D displays. They exploit information about gaze direction as well as the motion-parallax cue. I will also demonstrate a new design of automultiscopic screen for cinema and a prototype of a near-eye augmented reality display that supports focus cues. Next, I will show how careful rendering of frames enables continuous framerate manipulations giving artists a new tool for video manipulation. The technique can, for example, reduce temporal artifacts without sacrificing the cinematic look of a movie content. In the context of digital fabrication, I will present a perceptual model for compliance with its applications to 3D printing.