Acivs 2017 Abstracts

Invited papers

Paper 102: Tracking humans in interaction with their environment

Author(s): Antonis Argyros

In this talk, we provide a brief overview of our work on computational methods for tracking the activities of human hands based on unobtrusive computer vision techniques that rely on the processing and analysis of markerless visual data. We focus on a computational framework for tracking the 3D position, orientation and full articulation of human hand(s) and we show how this is employed to solve problems of varying complexity, ranging from 3D tracking of a single hand to 3D tracking of two hands interacting with several objects. We also show how this framework can be used to deal with problems other, related problems such as human body tracking. Finally, we show how our work can support intuitive HCI and HRI as well as the development of interactive exhibits in the context of smart environments.

Paper 103: Image based 3D reconstruction and visual slam

Author(s): Daniel Cremers

The reconstruction of the 3D world from images is among the central challenges in computer vision. Starting in the 2000s, researchers have pioneered algorithms which can reconstruct camera motion and sparse feature-points in real-time. In my talk, I will introduce spatially dense methods for camera tracking and 3D reconstruction which do not require feature point estimation, which exploit all available input data and which recover dense or semi-dense geometry rather than sparse point clouds. Applications include 3D photography, 3D television, and autonomous vehicles.

Paper 104: Towards understanding stories in videos

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