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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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