Title: Real Time Detection of Moving Foreground Objects Speaker: Prof. Minglun Gong, Memorial University of Newfoundland Duration: 2010年3月3日,3:00-4:00 pm Location: 311 Room, MMW Abstract: This talk discusses the problem of detecting moving foreground objects from live video sequences. In particular, we deal with the difficult scenarios where the background texture might change spatially and temporally. Three algorithms are presented, which incrementally improve the accuracy of the detection. All three algorithms utilize support vector machine based background models, which are trained online to adapt to temporal background changes. The algorithms are also designed for efficient parallel execution on the Graphics Processing Units and achieve real-time processing speed on middle class graphics cards. Empirical experiments on a variety of datasets demonstrate the competitiveness of the proposed approach. Bio: Minglun Gong obtained his Ph.D. from University of Alberta in 2003, his M.Sc. from Tsinghua University in 1997, and his B.Engr. from Harbin Engineering University in 1994. After graduation, he was a faculty member at Laurentian University for four years before joined the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2007. Minglun’s research interests include a variety of topics in computer graphics, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and optimization techniques. He has published over 50 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and served as program committee member and reviewer for international journals and conferences. He has been a member of IEEE and ACM since 2004. |