Projects

pose-aware Pose-Aware Person Recognition

People Involved : Vijay Kumar, Anoop Namboodiri, Manohar Paluri, C. V. Jawahar

Person recognition methods that use multiple body regions have shown significant improvements over traditional face-based recognition. One of the primary challenges in full-body person recognition is the extreme variation in pose and view point. In this work, (i) we present an approach that tackles pose variations utilizing multiple models that are trained on specific poses, and combined using pose-aware weights during testing. (ii) For learning a person representation, we propose a network that jointly optimizes a single loss over multiple body regions. (iii) Finally, we introduce new benchmarks to evaluate person recognition in diverse scenarios and show significant improvements over previously proposed approaches on all the benchmarks including the photo album setting of PIPA.

 

thumbnailPanoramic Stereo Videos With A Single Camera

People Involved : Rajat Aggarwal, Amrisha Vohra, Anoop M. Namboodri

We present a practical solution for generating 360° stereo panoramic videos using a single camera. Current approaches either use a moving camera that captures multiple images of a scene, which are then stitched together to form the final panorama, or use multiple cameras that are synchronized. A moving camera limits the solution to static scenes, while multi-camera solutions require dedicated calibrated setups. Our approach improves upon the existing solutions in two significant ways: It solves the problem using a single camera, thus minimizing the calibration problem and providing us the ability to convert any digital camera into a panoramic stereo capture device. It captures all the light rays required for stereo panoramas in a single frame using a compact custom designed mirror, thus making the design practical to manufacture and easier to use. We analyze several properties of the design as well as present panoramic stereo and depth estimation results.

 

spiral1 Motion Trajectory Based Video Retrieval

People Involved : Koustav Ghosal & Anoop Namboodiri

Extracting robust motion trajectories from videos is an active problem in Computer Vision. The task is more challenging in unconstrained videos in presence of dynamic background, blur, camera motion and affine irregularities. But once extracted, one can retrieve the videos based on them by giving an online (temporal) sketch as a query. But different individuals have different perception about motion trajectories and hence sketch differently. Through this work we are trying to extract robust trajectories from unconstrained videos and then model the sketch in a way so that the perceptual variability among different sketches is removed.

 

encryptedSemantic Classification of Boundaries of an RGBD Image

People Involved :Nishit Soni, Anoop M. Namboodiri, C. V. Jawahar, Srikumar Ramalingam

 

 

 

 

finepose Fine Pose Estimation of Known Objects in Cluttered Scene Images

People Involved :Sudipto Banerjee, Sanchit Aggarwal, Anoop M. Namdoodiri