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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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