Research

My main research interests are directed along developing statistical models and machine learning algorithms for:

human tracking and activity analysis
image and scene representation modeling
sequence analysis and multimedia content analysis.

Events

Recent publications

Multi-Person Visual Focus of Attention from Head Pose and Meeting Contextual Cues
S. Ba and J.-M. Odobez,
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, accepted for publication, november 2009.

Viw-Based Appearance Model Online Learning for 3D Deformable Face Tracking
Stéphanie Lefèvre and Jean-Marc Odobez,
in Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Angers, May 2010.

Topic Models for Scene Analysis and Abnormality Detection
J. Varadarajan and J.M. Odobez,
in Proc. ICCV Visual Surveillance workshop (ICCV-VS), Kyoto, Ocotber 2009.

Dynamic Partitioned Sampling For Tracking With Discriminative Features
S. Duffner, J.M. Odobez and E. Ricci,
in British Machine Vision Conference, London, September 2009.

Learning Large Margin Likelihood for Realtime Head Pose Tracking
E. Ricci and J.M Odobez,
in IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Cairo, Nov. 2009.

Investigating the use of Visual Focus of Attention for Audio-Visual Speaker Diarisation
G. Garau, S. Ba, J.M. Odobez and H. Bourlard,
in ACM Multimedia (ACM MM) conference, Bejing, October 2009.

Contextual classification of image patches with latent aspect models
F. Monay and P. Quelhas and and J.-M. Odobez and D. Gatica-Perez,
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 20 pages, 2009.

Multi-Camera Multi-Person 3D Space Tracking with MCMC in Surveillance Scenarios
Jian Yao and Jean-Marc Odobez,
in European Conference on Computer Vision, workshop on Multi Camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications (ECCV-M2SFA2), Marseille, Oct. 2008.

Fast Human Detection from Videos Using Covariance Features
Jian Yao and Jean-Marc Odobez,
in 8th European Conference on Computer Vision Visual Surveillance workshop (ECCV-VS), Marseille, Oct. 2008.

Predicting Two Facets of Social Verticality in Meetings from Five-minute Time Slices and Nonverbal Cues
D. Jayagopi, S. Ba, J.-M. Odobez, and D. Gatica-Perez,
in Proc. Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), Special Session on Social Signal Processing, Chania, Oct. 2008.

Tracking the Visual Focus of Attention for a Varying Number of Wandering People
K. Smith, S. Ba, J.-M. Odobez and D. Gatica-Perez,
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 30. No. 7. pp. 1212-1229, July 2008.

A Thousand Words in a Scene
P. Quelhas, F. Monay, J.-M. Odobez, D. Gatica-Perez and T. Tuytelaars,
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 29. No. 9. pp. 1575-1590, Sept 2007.