HW4

Due: 11/22 11:59pm EEE Dropbox

Select and read one of the following research papers on recognition and object detection. Write a concise (2-3 page) summary of the paper. Your writeup should explicitly address the following questions.
  1. What problem is the paper trying to solve? Where does it stand relative to other methods? Specifically, what aspects of the problem does the paper claim to address that were shortcomings of previously proposed methods?
  2. What techniques were used? Provide a summary of the major components of the algorithm. You should try to highlight those details of the algorithm which are most relevant/important to the claims of the paper.
  3. How does the paper evaluate the proposed technique? Is the evaluation sufficient?
  4. What are the shortcomings of the paper? Where do you expect the technique to fail?
  5. How would you improve the method proposed in the paper? Be creative and suggest ideas for possible future directions.
You should submit your writeup as a single pdf file to the EEE dropbox by the deadline.
  • ``Distinctive image features from scale-invariant keypoints'' D. Lowe. IJCV 2004. link
  • ``Robust real-time object detection'' P. Viola, M. Jones. IJCV 2002. link
  • ``Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection'' N. Dalal, B. Triggs. CVPR 2005. link
  • ``Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part-Based Models'' P. Felzenszwalb, R. Girshick, D. McAllester, D. Ramanan. PAMI 2009. link
  • ``Beyond Bags of Features: Spatial Pyramid Matching for Recognizing Natural Scene Categories'' S. Lazebnik, C. Schmid, J. Ponce. CVPR 2006. link
  • ``Shape matching and object recognition using shape contexts'' S. Belongie, J. Malik, J. Puzicha. PAMI 2002. link
  • ``Pictorial structures for object recognition'' P. Felzenszwalb, D. Huttenlocher. IJCV 05. link
  • ``Active appearance models'' T. Cootes, G. Edwards, C. Taylor. PAMI 2001. link
  • ``An Implicit Shape Model for Combined Object Categorization and Segmentation'' B. Liebe, A. Leonardis, B. Schiele. LNCS 2006. link
  • ``Names and Faces in the News'' T. Berg, et al. CVPR 04. link
  • ``Modeling the Shape of the Scene: A Holistic Representation of the Spatial Envelope'' A. Oliva, A. Torralba. IJCV 01. link