First International Workshop on Stochastic Image Grammars June 2009 - Miami, Florida

Welcome and Opening Remarks: Brief Review of Grammars

Authors:

Sinisa Todorovic (Oregon State University), Song-Chun Zhu (University of California Los Angeles)

Oral presentations

Session 1

Keynote Talk: Generative Hierarchical Models for Image Analysis

Authors:

Stuart Geman (Brown University)

Keynote Talk: Learning a Hierarchical Compositional Representation of Multiple Object Classes

Authors:

Ales Leonardis (University of Ljubljana)

A bottom-up and top-down optimization framework for learning a compositional hierarchy of object classes

Authors:

Sanja Fidler (University of Ljubljana), Marko Boben, Ales Leonardis (University of Ljubljana)

Session 2

Keynote Talk: Is There a General Structure for Grammars?

Authors:

David Mumford (Brown University)

Keynote Talk: Recursive Compositional Models: Representation, Learning, and Inference

Authors:

Long (Leo) Zhu (MIT), Alan Yuille ("University of California, Los Angeles")

Learning and Inference using Hierarchical Compositional Models

Authors:

Iasonas Kokkinos (Ecole Centrale de Paris), Alan Yuille ("University of California, Los Angeles")

Session 3

Predicate Logic based Image Grammars for Complex Pattern Recognition

Authors:

Vinay Shet (Siemens Corporate Research), Maneesh Singh (Siemens Corporate Research), Claus Bahlmann (Siemens Corporate Research), Visvanathan Ramesh (Siemens Corporate Research)

Image Parsing with Stochastic Grammar: The Lotus Hill Dataset and Inference Scheme

Authors:

Benjamin Yao (UCLA), Xiong Yang (LHI), Tianfu Wu (UCLA)

Keynote Talk: A Syntax for Image Understanding

Authors:

Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Session 4

Stochastic Representation and Recognition of High-level Group Activities:Describing Structural Uncertainties in Human Activities

Authors:

Michael Ryoo (ETRI), J.K. Aggarwal (The University of Texas at Aus)

Keynote Talk: Beyond One-to-One Feature Correspondence: The Need for Many-to-Many Matching and Image Abstraction

Authors:

Sven Dickinson (University of Toronto)