Research

Vision-Based Activity Analysis

• Recent publications on activity/action recognition
  

• Public datasets
  • KTH Action Dataset
  • Weizmann Action Dataset
  • MSR Action Recognition Datasets (simple but can be used for cross-test)
  • Hollywood Movie Dataset 1 (original)   Hollywood Movie Dataset 2 (extended)
  • TRECVID Surveillance Event Detection
  • Semantic Description of Human Activities (ICPR 2010 Contest)
  • UCF Youtube Action Dataset
  • UCF Sports Action Dataset
  • VIRAT Event Video Dataset (Released CVPR 2011)
  • HMDB Human Motion Recognition Dataset (Released ICCV 2011)
• Statistical and Structural Recognition of Human Actions (ECCV 2010 Tutorial)
• Frontier of Human Activity Analysis (CVPR 2011 Tutorial)

Motion Segmentation & Subspace Segmentation

• Recent publications on 3d motion segmentation
• Public Dataset
  • HOPKINS 155 Motion Segmentation Dataset
  • Berkeley Motion Segmentation Dataset (Not strictly rigid body segmentation and hence not trivial subspace segmentation. With dense annotation)

Large-scale feature combination and optimization in vision

• Literature on Feature Fusion /Large-Scale Optimization

Technique in high-dimensional data analysis, rank minimization

• Compressive Sensing: the Big Picture
  
• Nuit Blanche (Blog dedicated to Compressive Sensing)
• Low-Rank Matrix Recovery and Completion via Convex Optimization (Maintained by Prof. Yi Ma’s group)
• Tutorial on Low-Rank Matrix Recovery (focussed on Robust PCA by Ma, Lin, and Wright).

(Update: Nov 11, 2011)