Syllabus and Schedule

Below is the syllabus and a rough schedule for the tutorial. 

• [8:40 – 8:50] Introduction, motivation and welcome remarks by the organizers 
• [8:50 – 10:00] Detection and tracking
  • Face detection (by Raghuraman Gopalan)
  • Wide area tracking in single and multiple views (by Amit Roy Chowdhury)

• [10:30 – 11:40] Articulated pose estimation and tracking
  • Motion models for people tracking (by David Fleet)
  • Part-based models for pose estimation (by Deva Ramanan)
• [11:40 – 12:15] Activity recognition
  • On human action (by Aaron Bobick)
    

lunch (1h 35min)

• [1:50 – 3:00] Activity recognition  (cont.)
  • Facial expression analysis (by Fernando De la Torra and Jeffrey Cohn) 
  • Benchmarking datasets for human activity recognition (by Haowei Liu and Rogerio Feris)

• [3:30 – 4:40] Applications
  • Computer vision in cars (by Mohan Trivedi)
  • Security and surveillance (by Shaogang Gong)