Research Archive

Example-based image synthesis

• Image quilting for texture synthesis and transfer
• Super-resolution (estimating image details)
• Shape-time photography

Belief propagation

• Generalized belief propagation
• Belief propagation in networks with loops
• On the max-product belief propagation algorithm, Y. Weiss and W. T. Freeman, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 47:2 pages 723-735, (2001)

Bayesian models of perception

• VISTA—Vision by Image/Scene Training
• Bilinear models for separating “style and content”
• Exploiting the generic viewpoint assumption to estimate scene parameters
• Bayesian decision theory, the maximum local mass method, and color constancy
• Estimating 3-d body pose from a single-camera video sequence

Computer vision for interactive computer graphics

• Computer vision for computer games
• Television control by hand signals
• Orientation histograms for hand gesture recognition

Steerable Filters

• Simple example showing how to synthesize filter oriented to arbitrary angles as a linear combination of basis filters
• Motion without movement , a method to display motion which uses steerable filters
• Cue and contour detection using steerable filters
• 3d steerable filters
• Steerable pyramid , a multi-scale, steerable image transform useful for image analysis and synthesis (pointers to C code)