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2023:
	3 papers accepted to CVPR 2023.
2022:
	Pei passed his dissertation defense. Congratulations! (photo) On November 16, Jennifer Sun from Caltech visited our lab (photo) 2 papers accepted to NeurIPS 2022! Full papers will be released at Publications page. 2 papers accepted to ECCV 2022. Press coverage on paper "VALHALLA: Visual Hallucination for Machine Translation". Press coverage on paper "CoordGAN: Self-Supervised Dense Correspondences Emerge from GANs". 6 papers accepted to CVPR 2022.
2021:
	Yunsheng passed his dissertation defense. Congratulations! (photo) Paper "A new approach to cross-modal multimedia retrieval (ACM MM '10)" receives honourable mention for 2021 SIGMM Test of Time Paper Award. Congratulations to all authors! 6 papers accepted to ICCV 2021. Kabir Nagrecha is the first-place winner of the ACM SIGMOD 2021 Student Research Competition for his work on efficient training of large deep learning models (abstract & poster). Congratulations Kabir! Pedro and Bo passed their dissertation defenses. Congratulations! Papers "Rethinking and Improving the Robustness of Image Style Transfer" and "Audio-Visual Instance Discrimination with Cross-Modal Agreement" among 32 Best Paper Candidates of CVPR 2021. Congrats to Pei and Pedro! 7 papers accepted to CVPR 2021. 1 paper accepted to ICLR 2021.
2020:
	2 papers accepted to NeurIPS 2020. 2 papers accepted to ECCV 2020. 6 papers accepted to CVPR 2020.
2019:
	Zhaowei passed his defense. Congratulations! (photo) On April 3, Subarna and Marcel from Intel AI lab visited our lab (photo) 7 papers are accepted to CVPR 2019. Congrats to all authors!
2018:
	On December 3, Professor Fatih Porikli visited our lab (photo) paper: 'Self-Supervised Generation of Spatial Audio for 360° Video' accepted to NIPS2018 paper: 'Towards Realistic Predictors' accepted to ECCV2018 paper: 'RESOUND: Towards Action Recognition without Representation Bias' accepted to ECCV2018 paper: 'Feature Space Transfer for Data Augmentation' accepted to CVPR2018 paper: 'Cascade R-CNN: Delving into High Quality Object Detection' accepted to CVPR2018
2016:
	Weixin Li was finally doctored. UCSD reported our project on pedestrian detection. More coverage in the press (science daily)(gizmag)(IEEE spectrum)(eurekalert)
2015:
	Jose Maria Costa Pereira graduated. talk: Nuno gave a talk on 'Semantic Scene Classification' at Qualcomm Inc. talk: Zhaowei Cai will give a talk on 'Complexity Aware Cascades' at ICCV2015 talk: S. Hossein Khatoonabadi gave a talk titled 'How many bits does it take for a stimulus to be salient?' at CVPR2015 talk: Mandar Dixit gave a talk on 'Semantic Representations for Scenes Classification' at Qualcomm Inc. and Intel paper: 'Learning Complexity-Aware Cascades for Deep Pedestrian Detection' accepted to ICCV2015 paper: 'Bayesian Model Adaptation for Crowd Counts' accepted to ICCV2015 paper: 'Generic Promotion Diffusion-based Salient Object Detection' accepted to ICCV2015 paper: 'Scene Classification with Semantic Fisher Vectors' accepted to CVPR2015 paper: 'Multiple Instance Learning for Soft Bags via Top Instances' accepted to CVPR2015 paper : 'How many bits does it take for a stimulus to be salient?' accepted to CVPR2015
2014:
	Ehsan Saberian graduated and joind Yahoo! Labs. paper :  'Boosting Algorithm for Learning Detector Cascade' accepted at Journal of Machine Learning Research paper :  'Cross-modal Domain Adaptation for Text-based Regularization of Image Semantics in Image Retrieval Systems' accepted at Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding paper :  'On the Role of Correlation and Abstraction in Cross-Modal Multimedia Retrieval' accepted at IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence paper : paper : 'Anomaly Detection and Localization in Crowded Scenes' accepted at IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence paper : 'Guess-Averse Loss Functions For Cost-Sensitive Multiclass Boosting' accepted at ICML2014 paper : 'Learning Receptive Fields for Pooling from Tensors of Feature Response' accepted at CVPR2014 paper : 'Learning optimal seeds for diffusion-based salient object detection' accepted at CVPR2014
2013:
	paper : 'Latent Dirichelet Allocation Models for Image Classification' accepted at IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence paper : 'Localizing Target Structures in Ultrasound Video - a Phantom Study' accepted at Journal of Medical Image Analysis paper : 'Biologically-inspired Object Tracking Using Center-surround Mechanisms' accepted at IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence paper : 'Surveillance of Crowded Environments: Modeling the Crowd by its Global Properties' accepted at Journal of Modeling, Simulation and Visual Analysis of Crowds paper : 'Class-Specific Simplex-Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Image Classification' accepted at ICCV2013 paper : 'Dynamic Pooling for Complex Event Recognition' accepted at ICCV2013 paper : 'Recognizing Activities via Bag of Words for Attribute Dynamics' accepted at CVPR2013
2012:
	Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi joined University of Shiraz, Iran. Roland Kwitt has received Young Scientist Award at Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention. SVCL awarded an NSF grant for biologically inspired robotic vision (press release). SVCL awarded a grant for work on Action Recognition from the UC Academic Senate. Ehsan Saberian was a finalist for Facebook Fellowship. Nuno gave a set of lectures at the International Summer School on Vision, Learning, and Cognition, Beijing. Paper : 'Recognizing Activities by Attribute Dynamics' accepted at NIPS 2012. Paper : 'On the connections between saliency and tracking' accepted at NIPS 2012. Paper : 'Scene Recognition on the Semantic Manifold' accepted at ECCV 2012. Paper : 'Recognition in Ultrasound Videos: Where am I?' accepted at MICCAI 2012. Paper : 'Boosting Algorithms for Simultaneous Feature Extraction and Selection' accepted at CVPR 2012. Paper : 'On the Regularization of Image Semantics by Modal Expansion' accepted at CVPR 2012.
2011:
	Ehsan Saberian won Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge award in Multimedia. Vijay Mahadevan graduated in December 2011. Sunhyoung Han and Nikhil Rasiwasia graduated in September 2011. Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi graduated in May 2011. Nuno gave a talk on Discriminant Saliency Networks at the 18th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation. Sunhyoung Han gave a talk on Detection of Amorphous Objects in the wild at the CVPR Workshop on Biologically-Consistent Vision Vijay Mahadevan gave a talk on Automatic Initialization and Tracking Using Attentional Mechanisms at the CVPR Workshop on Biologically-Consistent Vision Paper : 'TaylorBoost: First and Second order boosting algorithms with explicit margin control' accepted at CVPR 2011. Paper : 'Adapted gaussian models for image classification' accepted at CVPR 2011. Paper : 'Multiclass Boosting: Theory and Algorithms' accepted at NIPS 2011. Paper : 'Maximum Covariance Unfolding - Manifold Learning for Bimodal Data' accepted at NIPS 2011. Paper : 'Learning Pit Pattern Concepts for Gastroenterological Training' accepted at MICCAI 2011.
2010:
	Paper : 'On the design of robust classifiers for computer vision' accepted for oral presentation at CVPR 2010. Paper : 'Anomaly Detection in videos using mixtures of dynamic textures' accepted for oral presentation at CVPR 2010. CVPR talks are now on the web : Here are Vijay's and Hamed's presentations. Paper : 'A biologically plausible network for the computation of orientation dominance' accepted for spotlight presentation at NIPS 2010. Paper : 'Boosting classifier cascades' accepted at NIPS 2010. Paper : 'Variable margin losses for classifier design' accepted at NIPS 2010. Nikhil and Jose won the best student paper award at ACM Multimedia 2010. Nuno and Kritika, along with Prof.Roger Levy, Prof.Keith Rayner and their students were awarded the UCSD Collaboratory grant.
2009:
	Antoni Chan graduated in December 2008. Antoni Chan will join the CS department at the City University of Hong Kong in August. Paper on analysis of crowded scenes using holistic properties accepted for oral presentation in the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance(PETS 2009). Paper on Variational Dynamic Textures accepted for oral presentation in CVPR 2009. Journal Paper on Layered Dynamic Textures accepted to IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence : Special Issue on Probabilistic Graphical Models in Computer Vision. Journal Paper on Background Subtraction accepted to IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Nikhil will be spending the summer with the Search Labs at Microsoft Research, Bay area. Paper on Holistic context Modeling using Semantic Co-occurences accepted in CVPR 2009. Vijay gave a talk in CVPR 2009 on Discriminant Saliency Tracking. Vijay, Nikhil and Jose moved to SVCL2 in 5101, EBU1
2008:
	Dashan Gao graduated in September, 2008, and joins GE Global Research Center at Niskayuna, NY. Sunhyoung Han awarded IBM best student paper award in International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). Nikhil Rasiwasia attends the Fourth Annual IBM Watson Workshop Emerging Leaders in Multimedia, Oct 9-10 2008, hosted by IBM T.J. Watson Research CenterHawthorne, NY, USA. Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi awarded NSF IGERT fellowship. paper on image retrieval accepted in ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval . paper on the role of context in image classification accepted in International Conference on Image Processing . paper on scene classification accepted in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition . paper on query by semantic example accepted in 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia . paper on detection cascade design accepted in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision . paper on loss function design accepted in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2008 . paper on background subtraction in dynamic scenes accepted in Journal of Vision . paper on regions of interest for image compression accepted in Data Compression Conference . paper on discriminant features accepted in International Conference on Image Processing . Journal paper titled 'On the plausibility of the discriminant center-surround hypothesis for visual saliency' accepted for publication in Journal of Vision . Journal paper titled 'Decision-theoretic saliency: computational principles, biological plausibility, and implications for neurophysiology and psychophysics' accepted for publication in Neural Computation . paper on center-surround bottom-up saliency accepted in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) . paper on bottom-up saliency accepted in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision . paper on discriminant interest points accepted in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition . paper on crowd monitoring accepted in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition . Journal paper titled 'Modeling, clustering, and segmenting video with mixtures of dynamic textures' accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence .
2007:
	paper on sparse SVM accepted in International Conference on Machine Learning . paper on boosting algorithm accepted in International Conference on Machine Learning . paper on kernel dynamic textures accepted in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition . Dashan Gao gives a talk at MathPsych2007, and presents posters at COSYNE 2007, VSS 2007, CCNC 2007. Paper on image labeling appears on the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence pdf . Press-release on SVCL image labeling work (with a 5 minute video discussion) . SVCL image labeling work high-lighted by "Slashdot" . SVCL image labeling work high-lighted by "Technology Review" . SVCL image labeling work high-lighted by "A Source of Inspiration" .
2006:
	Nuno Vasconcelos gives a talk on Image labeling and Semantic retrieval at Google . Antoni Chan awarded NSF IGERT fellowship. Antoni Chan and Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi awarded UCSD Outstanding TA Award . Paper on using statistics to search and annotate pictures in Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2006 . Antoni Chan gives a talk in the Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop at IBM Watson on classification and clustering of motion flow using dynamic textures. Paper on image compression using object-based regions of interest in International Conference on Image Processing 2006 . Journal paper titled 'Bridging the Gap: Query By Semantic Example' accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia . Nikhil Rasiwasia gives an oral presentation on Query By Semantic Example, at CIVR conference, Tempe Arizona . paper on Query By Semantic Example accepted in Conference on Image and Video Retrieval .
2005:
	12/05: paper on Layered Dynamic Textures presented at the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference 11/05: paper on Mixtures of Dynamic Textures presented at International Conference on Computer Vision 10/05: SVCL awarded a NSF grant for research on Understanding Video of Crowded Environments 8/05: Gustavo Carneiro gives an oral presentation at the ACM SIGIR conference on Semantic Image Annotation and Retrieval 7/05: SVCL is awarded a generous gift from Google Inc. 6/05: Antoni Chan gives an oral presentation at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, on Probabilistic Kernels for Autoregressive Processes 6/05: two other SVCL papers are presented at the  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition as posters 6/05: Nuno Vasconcelos chairs the demo session at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 6/05: Dashan Gao gives an oral presentation at the Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computational Vision, on visual saliency 5/05: Antoni Chan gives an oral presentation at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, on Classification and Retrieval of Traffic Video 5/05: Nuno Vasconcelos awarded a Fellowship from the Chris and Warren Hellman  Foundation 4/05: Nuno Vasconcelos awarded a CAREER grant from NSF 2/05: Paper by Vasconcelos and Lippman (MIT) appears on the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
2004:
	12/04: Dashan Gao gives an oral presentation at the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, on discriminant saliency 12/04: Nuno Vasconcelos awarded a grant from the UC Academic Senate 7/04: Paper by Vasconcelos appears in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 6/04: Paper by Vasconcelos appears in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

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