ECCV 2006 papers on the web

Recognition I (oral)

TextonBoost: Joint Appearance, Shape and Context Modeling for Multi-Class Object Recognition and Segmentation (PDF, project, video, code): Jamie Shotton (University of Cambridge); John Winn (Microsoft Research, Cambridge); Carsten Rother (Microsoft Research, Cambridge); Antonio Criminisi (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
Weakly Supervised Learning of Part-Based Spatial Models for Visual Object Recognition (PDF, code): David Crandall (Cornell University); Daniel Huttenlocher (Cornell University)
Hyperfeatures - Multilevel Local Coding for Visual Recognition (Abstract, PDF): Ankur Agarwal (GRAVIR-INRIA); Bill Triggs (GRAVIR-CNRS-INRIA)

Statistical Models and Visual Learning (oral)

Riemannian Manifold Learning for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction (PDF, PPT): Tony Lin (Peking University); Hongbin Zha (Peking University); Sang Uk Lee (Seoul National University)
Controlling Sparseness in Non-Negative Tensor Factorization (PDF, project): Matthias Heiler (University of Mannheim, Germany); Christoph Schnörr (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Conditional Infomax Learning: An Integrated Framework for Feature Extraction and Fusion (PDF): Dahua Lin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Xiaoou Tang (Microsoft Research Asia)

3D Reconstruction and Multi-View Geometry (oral)

Carved Visual Hulls for Image-Based Modeling (PDF): Yasutaka Furukawa (Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Jean Ponce (Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
What is the Range of Surface Reconstructions from a Gradient Field? (PDF, Project, code): Amit Agrawal (University of Maryland); Ramesh Raskar (MERL); Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland)
Practical Global Optimization for Multiview Geometry (PDF): Sameer Agarwal (University of California, San Diego); Manmohan Chandraker (University of California, San Diego); Fredrik Kahl (Lund University); David Kriegman (University of California, San Diego); Serge Belongie (University of California, San Diego)
Perspective n-view Multibody Structure-and-Motion through Model Selection (PDF, movies): Konrad Schindler (ECSE, Monash University); James U (ECSE, Monash University); Hanzi Wang (ECSE, Monash University)
Confocal Stereo - Honorable Mention Paper Awards (PDF, Project, videos): Samuel W. Hasinoff (University of Toronto); Kiriakos N. Kutulakos (University of Toronto)

Energy Minimization (oral)

Comparison of energy minimization algorithms for highly connected graphs (Abstract, PDF): Vladimir Kolmogorov (Microsoft Research Cambridge); Carsten Rother (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
A Comparative Study of Energy Minimization Methods for Markov Random Fields (Project, PDF): Rick Szeliski (Microsoft Research); Ramin Zabih (Cornell University); Daniel Scharstein (Middlebury College); Olga Veksler (University of Western Ontario); Vladimir Kolmogorov (University College London); Aseem Agarwala (University of Washington); Marshall Tappen (MIT); Carsten Rother (Microsoft Research)
Measuring Uncertainty in Graph Cut Solutions - Efficiently Computing Min-marginal Energies using Dynamic Graph Cuts (PDF, PPT): Pushmeet Kohli (Oxford Brookes University); Philip H.S. Torr (Oxford Brookes University)

Tracking and Motion (oral)

Tracking Dynamic Near-regular Textures under Occlusions and Rapid Movements (Project, PDF): Wen-Chieh Lin (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Yanxi Liu (Carnegie Mellon University)
Simultaneous Object Pose and Velocity Computation Using a Single View from a Rolling Shutter Camera - Honorable Mention Paper Awards (PDF): Omar Ait-Aider (LASMEA, UMR 6602 CNRS); Nicolas Andreff (LASMEA, UMR 6602 CNRS); Jean Marc Lavest (LASMEA, UMR 6602 CNRS); Philippe Martinet (LASMEA, UMR 6602 CNRS)
A Theory of Multiple Orientation Estimation (Project, PDF): Matthias Mühlich (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Til Aach (RWTH Aachen, Germany)

Segmentation (oral)

Affine-Invariant Multi-Reference Shape Priors for Active Contours (Bibtex): Alban Foulonneau (ERA 27 LCPC); Pierre Charbonnier (ERA 27 LCPC); Fabrice Heitz (Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Image, de l'Informatique et de la Teledetection)
Figure/Ground Assignment in Natural Images (PDF): Xiaofeng Ren (U.C. Berkeley); Charless Fowlkes (U.C. Berkeley); Jitendra Malik (U.C. Berkeley)
Background Cut (PDF, video): Jian Sun (Microsoft Research Asia); Weiwei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia); Xiaoou Tang (Microsoft Research Asia); Heung-Yeung Shum (Microsoft Research Asia)
PoseCut: Simultaneous Segmentation and 3D Pose Estimation of Humans using Dynamic Graph-Cuts (PDF): Matthieu Bray (Oxford Brookes University); Pushmeet Kohli (Oxford Brookes University); Philip Torr (Oxford Brookes University)

Recognition II (oral)

Blind Vision (Project, tehnical report): Shai Avidan (MERL); Moshe Butman (Bar Ilan University)
Object Detection by Contour Segment Networks (PDF): Vittorio Ferrari (ETHZ); Tinne Tuytelaars (KUL); Luc Van Gool (ETHZ/KUL)
Sparse Flexible Models of Local Features (PDF): Gustavo Carneiro (University of British Columbia); David Lowe (University of British Columbia)

Shape from X (oral)

Differential Geometric Consistency Extends Stereo to Curved Surfaces (CiteSeer, PDF): Gang Li (Yale University); Steven W. Zucker (Yale University)
Resolution-Enhanced Photometric Stereo (Project, PDF, PPT): Ping Tan (Computer Science Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Stephen Lin (Microsoft Research Asia); Long Quan (Computer Science Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
The 4-Source Photometric Stereo under General Unknown Lighting: Chia-Ping Chen (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica); Chu-Song Chen (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica)

Visual Tracking (oral)

Feature Harvesting for Tracking-by-Detection (CiteSeer, PDF): Mustafa Ozuysal (CVLab EPFL); Francois Fleuret (CVLab EPFL); Vincent Lepetit (CVLab EPFL); Pascal Fua (CVLab EPFL)
Effective Appearance Model and Similarity Measure for Particle Filtering and Visual Tracking (PDF): Hanzi Wang (Monash University); David Suter (Monash University); Konrad Schindler (Monash University)
Tracking and Labelling of Interacting Multiple Targets (PDF): Josephine Sullivan (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Stefan Carlsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Level-Set Curve Particles (Project, PDF): Tingting Jiang (Department of Computer Science, Duke University); Carlo Tomasi (Department of Computer Science, Duke University)

Face Detection and Recognition (oral)

Robust Multi-View Face Detection Using Error Correcting Output Codes (PDF): Hongming Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology,China); Wen Gao (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS,China); Xilin Chen (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS,China); Shiguang Shan (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS,China); Debin Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology,China)
Inter-Modality Face Recognition (PDF): Dahua Lin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Xiaoou Tang (Microsoft Research Asia)
Face Recognition from Video using the Generic Shape-Illumination Manifold (CiteSeer, PDF): Ognjen Arandjelovic (University of Cambridge); Roberto Cipolla (University of Cambridge)

Illumination and Reflectance Modelling (oral)

A Theory of Spherical Harmonic Identities for BRDF/Lighting Transfer and Image Consistency (PDF): Dhruv Mahajan (Columbia University); Ravi Ramamoorthi (Columbia University); Brian Curless (University of Washington)
Covariant Derivatives and Vision (PDF, PPT, mp3): Todor Georgiev (Adobe Systems)
Retexturing Single Views Using Texture and Shading (Project, PDF): Ryan White (University of California, Berkeley); D.A. Forsyth (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Low-level Vision, Segmentation and Grouping (oral)

Unsupervised patch-based image regularization and representation (PDF): Charles Kervrann (IRISA-INRIA / INRA-MIA); Jerome Boulanger (IRISA / INRIA Rennes)
A Fast Approximation of the Bilateral Filter using a Signal Processing Approach (Project, PDF, PPT): Sylvain Paris (MIT CSAIL); Frédo Durand (MIT CSAIL)
Learning to Combine Bottom-Up and Top-Down Segmentation - Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award (PDF): Anat Levin (The Hebrew University); Yair Weiss (The Hebrew University)
Multi-way Clustering Using Super-symmetric Non-negative Tensor Factorization (PDF): Amnon Shashua (Hebrew University); Ron Zass (Hebrew University); Tamir Hazan (Hebrew University)