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Helmut Grabner

Computer Vision Laboratory
Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)


Sternwartstrasse 7, ETF C108
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland

Tel: +41 44 632 4990
Fax: +41 44 632 1199
e-mail: grabner AT vision.ee.ethz.ch
www: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~hegrabne/

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  News

Apr. 24,
2012

My two PhD students successfully defended their thesis' -- Congratulations!
Severin Stalder: Paradigms in Visual Object Tracking
Fabian Nater: Abnormal Behavior Detection in Surveillance Videos

Sep. 5,
2011

Papers Accepted: ICCV'11 WS on VS
[Nater et al, VS'11a]: Unsupervised Workow Discovery in Industrial Environments
[Nater et al, VS'11b]
: Transferring activities: Updating human behavior analysis

Jun. 29,
2011

Papers Accepted: BMVC'11
[Nater et al, BMVC'11]: Temporal Relations in Videos for Unsupervised Activity Analysis (oral)
[Villamizar et al., BMVC'11]: Efficient 3D Object Detection using Multiple Pose-Specific Classifiers (oral)

May 20,
2011
Paper Accepted: MICCAI'11
[De Luca et al., MICCAI'11]: Keep Breathing! Common Motion Helps Multi-modal Mapping
Mar. 23,
2011
IEEE Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision
Andrea Fossati, Juergen Gall, Xiaofeng Ren and Kurt Konolige and I are organizing the CDC4CV'11 workshop which will be held in conjunction with ICCV'11.
Feb. 14,
2011
Paper Accepted: CVPR'11
[Grabner et al., CVPR'11]: What Makes a Chair a Chair?
Jan.17,
2011
A Working Vision System!
[Grabner and Grabner]: Richard!

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  Short CV

Helmut Grabner received a MSc degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Telematics and a PhD degree (Dr.techn) in Computer Science, both from Graz University of Technology in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He is currently a post doc researcher at the Computer Vision Lab at ETH-Zurich. His research interests are mainly on-line and incremental machine learning for computer vision (e.g., object detection, tracking, recognition and event detection) in particular in the field of visual surveillance.
He serves as a program committee member for all major computer vision conferences ICCV, ECCV, and CVPR and is routinely reviewing for IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analyis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) and Pattern Recognition.


  Selected Publications

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Affordance Detection

 

What Makes a Chair a Chair?
H. Grabner, J. Gall, and L. Van Gool

In Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011, Poster

Supplementary Material:
Full full resolution ranking lists (Fig. 7), our approach, appearance
Chair-Dataset

Context in Object Detection and Tracking
Tracking the Invisible: Learning Where the Object Might be
H. Grabner, 
J. Matas, L. Van Gool, and P. Cattin
In 
Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010, Talk,Video Lecture

Cascaded Confidence Filtering for Improved Tracking-by-Detection
S. Stalder, H. Grabner,
and L. Van Gool
In Proceedings European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010, Poster

overview

Exploring Context to Learn Scene Specific Object Detectors
S. Stalder, H. Grabner, and L. van Gool
In Proceedings CVPR09 Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS), 2009

Realted (previous) work:
Classifier Grids for Robust Adaptive Object Detection
S. Sternig, P. Roth, H. Grabner, and H. Bischof
In Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009
Exploiting Temporal Structure in Image Sequences


Temporal Relations in Videos for Unsupervised Activity Analysis
F. Nater, H. Grabner, and L. Van Gool
In Proceedings British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2011

Videos:
Supplementary Material




Unsupervised Workow Discovery in Industrial Environments
F. Nater, H. Grabner, and L. Van Gool
InProceedings ICCV’11 WS on Visual Surveillance, 2011

Videos:
coming soon

Related Work:
Automatic Workflow Monitoring in Industrial Environments
G. Veres, H. Grabner, L. Middleton, and L. Van Gool
In 
Proceedings Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2010



Keep Breathing! Common Motion Helps Multi-modal Mapping
V. De Luca, H. Grabner, L. Petrusca, R. Salomi, G. Szekely, and C. Tanner
In Proceedings International Conference on Medical Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2011



Boosting based Trackers





Beyond Semi-Supervised Tracking: Tracking Should Be as Simple as Detection, but not Simpler than Recognition
S. Stalder, H. Grabner, and L. Van Gool
In Proceedings 
ICCV’09 WS on On-line Learning for Computer Vision, 2009

updateGif Binaries/Code/Evaluations:
see project web-page



Semi-supervised On-line Boosting for Robust Tracking
H. Grabner, C. Leistner, and H. Bischof
In Proceedings European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008, Poster



overview Real-time Tracking via On-line Boosting
H. Grabner, M. Grabner, and H. Bischof. 
In Proceedings British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), volume 1, pages 47-56, 2006, Talk

Video:
"Tracking Shrek and others"

M. Grabner, H. Grabner, and H. Bischof
In Video Proceedings in conjunction with IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006


Event Detection / Abnormal Behavior Analysis
   

Exploiting Simple Hierarchies for Unsupervised Human Behavior Analysis
F. Nater, H. Grabner, and L. Van Gool
In 
Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010

Videos:
Supplementary Material (more see project web-page)

Related Work:
 Discrimination of locomotion direction at different speeds: A comparison between macaque monkeys and algorithms
F. Nater, J. Vangeneugden, H. Grabner, L. Van Gool, and R. Vogels
In Proceedings ECML/PKDD Workshop on Detection and Identiffcation of Rare Audiovisual Cues, 2010
trackingTrees
Tracker Trees for Unusual Event Detection
F. Nater, H. Grabner, T. Jaeggli, and L. Van Gool
In Proceedings ICCV’09 WS on Visual Surveillance, 2009

Videos:
see project web-page

Realted work:
Transferring activities: Updating human behavior analysis
F. Nater, T. Tommasi, H. Grabner, L. Van Gool, and B. Caputo.
In Proceeding ICCV'11 WS on Visual Surveillance, 2011

nessietimeSquare
Hunting Nessie: Real Time Abnormality Detection from Webcams
M. Breitenstein, H. Grabner, and L. Van Gool
In Proceedings ICCV’09 WS on Visual Surveillance, 2009

Realted work:
Mining from Large Image Sets
L. Van Gool, M. Breitenstein, S. Gammeter, H. Grabner, and T. Quack
ACM Int. Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) (Invited Paper), 2009

Real-time Detection of Unusual Regions in Image Streams
R. Schuster, R. Mörzinger, W. Haas, H. Grabner, and L. Van Gool
In Proceedings ACM 
Int. Conference on Multimedia - Video Program, 2010


Object Detection


Efficient 3D Object Detection using Multiple Pose-Specific Classifiers
M. Villamizar, H. Grabner, F. Moreno-Noguer, J. Andrade-Cetto, L. Van Gool, and A. Sanfeliu
In Proceedings British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2011


 

On-line boosting-based car detection from arial images
H. Grabner, T.T. Nguyen, B. Gruber, and H. Bischof.
ISPRS Journal of  Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, 63(3):382-396, 2008



Scene Understanding
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sutsu3sutsu4

Segmentation-Based Urban Traffic Scene Understanding
A. Ess, T. Müller, H. Grabner, and L. Van Gool
In Proceedings British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2009



On-line Learning


Training Sequential On-line Boosing Classifier for Visual Tracking
H. Grabner, J. Sochman, H. Bischof, and J. Matas
In Proceedings International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008, Talk

overview
On-line Boosting and Vision
H. Grabner, and H. Bischof
In Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), volume 1, pages 260-267, 2006, Poster


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  Projects

Scovis Logo Self-configurable COgnitive VIdeo Supervision - Scovis
European Community's Seventh Framework Programme FP7 ICT

  Teaching and Talks

Teaching
Recent Invited Talks
  • Sommerschule TUM/DLR (Technische Universitaet Muenchen and Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt) Ftan, CH, Robust Tracking using Visual Constrains and Context, July, 2011, Slides.
  • Seminar at Center for Processing Speech and Images, Katholic Univeristy of Leuven, BL, Context in Tracking, September 2010.
  • Seminar at Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group (ISIS), Univ. of Southampton, UK. Learning for Tracking and Lessons Learned from it. August 2009, Slides
  • Presentation at Visual Recognition and Geometric Reconstruction Symposium, Vienna, A. Simplifying Object Detection: Classifier Grids for Learning Robust Adaptive Object Detectors. April 2009, Slides
  • Seminar at Robotics Research Group, Univ. of Oxford, UK, Learning for Tracking and Lessons Learned from it. March 2009, Slides

  Students and Collaborators

I'm proud to have the availability working closely together with young and motivated PhD-Students in our lab:

Andreas Nussberger Visual Sense and Avoid for Unmanned Aircrafts, ongoing, (together with Prof. Luc Van Gool).
Severin Stalder Paradigms in Visual Object Tracking, 2012, (together with Prof. Luc Van Gool)
Fabian Nater Abnormal Behavior Detection in Surveillance Videos, 2012, (together with Prof. Luc Van Gool)

  Richi - Jan. 17. 2011


  BIWI Running

BIWI-running is every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11:30am! Meeting point: ETF C108. Just pass by and join!
You can find recorded tracks here.


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