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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Very quick, high-level overview of CVPR last week:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The overall message from the conference is that computer vision is hot. We hit a new attendance record with over 2000 attendees (in Columbus, Ohio!), and also a new record with $181,000 in corporate sponsorship, which is much, much higher than 2-3 years ago (and 50% higher than last year). There were 30 exhibitors (Google, Qualcomm, Xerox, Amazon, NVIDIA, Metaio, and lots of small companies) and 26 technical demonstrations. There were two excellent keynote talks (CVPR usually doesn’t have keynotes) – by Doris Tsao, a neurophysiologist from Cal Tech, and Stephane Mallat, a mathematician from <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>École Normale Supérieure, Paris (and famous for his work on wavelets). This year’s conference was four days for the main conference (a departure from the normal three days) and two days for 19 workshops and 15 tutorials.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>It was a busy week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>It is really amazing, for those of us who remember the “old days” in the field, how much industry interest there is now in CV. Everyone is trying to hire vision people – especially Amazon, but also Apple, Facebook, etc., and many small companies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Anything that had “deep learning” in its title (including a tutorial and a workshop) drew a big audience. Many are not convinced that it’s the solution to everything; time will tell whether it’s a fad or something substantial.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Johnny Lee from Google gave an interesting talk at an embedded vision workshop. I already sent out a video he showed, but here it is again: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vppay5UDc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vppay5UDc</a>. To me, this seems like the most important vision-related project around.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Amazon is still not talking about their secret “shiny new project” involving computer vision, but Gerard Medioni from USC is now there on sabbatical (and maybe for good), and they are being very aggressive about hiring. I thought that maybe the new Fire phone was the result of the secret project, but supposedly it’s something much more interesting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Next year’s CVPR is in Boston - <a href="http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr15/">http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr15/</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Papers from the main conference and workshops are available at <a href="http://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess">http://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess</a>. There are some video spotlights (1-minute video overviews) of papers at <a href="http://techtalks.tv/cvpr-2014-viddeo-highlights/">http://techtalks.tv/cvpr-2014-viddeo-highlights/</a>. Videos of the oral presentations will be posted, but I don’t think they’re available yet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PAMI TC meeting voting results: <a href="http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr14/files/cvpr2014-vote-results.pdf">http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr14/files/cvpr2014-vote-results.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>Awards:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Best Paper Award: "What Camera Motion Reveals About Shape with Unknown BRDF"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Manmohan Chandraker<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Best Paper Honorable Mention: "3D Shape and Indirect Appearance by Structured Light Transport"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Matthew O'Toole, John Mather, Kyros Kutulakos<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Best Student Paper Award: "Partial Optimality by Pruning for MAP-inference with General Graphical Models"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Paul Swoboda, Bogdan Savchynskyy, Joerg Kappes, Christoph Schnörr<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>2014 Longuet-Higgins Prize: "A performance evaluation of local descriptors"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Krystian Mikolajczyk and Cordelia Schmid<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>2014 PAMI Young Researcher Awards: Derek Hoiem and Jamie Shotton<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Pictures: <a href="http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr14/awards.php">http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr14/awards.php</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best Demo Award: “Real-Time Video Magnification”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Neal Wadhwa, Michael Rubinstein, Frédo Durand, William T. Freeman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best Demo Honorable Mention: “Learning to be a Depth Camera”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sean Ryan Fanello, Cem Keskin, Shahram Izadi, Pushmeet Kohli, David Kim, David Sweeney, Antonio Criminisi, Jamie Shotton, Sing Bing Kang, Tim Paek <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>