The Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory (CVIP Lab) was established in 1994 at the University of Louisville and is committed to excellence in research, teaching and trai...
Cast shadows induced by moving objects often cause serious problems to many vision applications. We present in this paper an online statistical learning approach to model the backg...
We describe a simple and robust method for surface mesostructure acquisition. Our method builds on the observation that specular reflection is a reliable visual cue for surface me...
In this paper, we address the problem of representing human actions using visual cues for the purpose of learning and recognition. Traditional approaches model actions as space-ti...
The aim of this paper is to address recognition of natural human actions in diverse and realistic video settings. This challenging but important subject has mostly been ignored in...
Ivan Laptev, Marcin Marszalek, Cordelia Schmid, Be...