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By lambertoballan, September 14, 2016

I am co-organizing a special issue for the Computer Vision and Image Understanding journal on “Computer Vision and the Web”, together with Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia University), Gang Hua (Microsoft Research Asia), Thomas Mensink (Univ. of Amsterdam), Greg Mori (Simon Fraser Univ.) and Rahul Sukthankar (Google Research). You can see all the details on the call for papers.

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By lambertoballan, July 28, 2016

Our paper “Knowledge Transfer for Scene-specific Motion Prediction”, by L. Ballan, F. Castaldo, A. Alahi, F. Palmieri and S. Savarese, has been accepted to ECCV 2016. A pre-print is available on arXiv.

When given a single frame of the video, humans can not only interpret the content of the scene, but also they are able to forecast the near future. This ability is mostly driven by their rich prior knowledge about the visual world, both in terms of (i) the dynamics of moving agents, as well as (ii) the semantic of the scene. We exploit the interplay between these two key elements to predict scene-specific motion patterns.