The main theme for the Computer Vision Colloquium during the Winter Semester 2008-2009 will be Sensor Fusion. It is a continuation of the Summer Semester 2008 Colloquium. We will be discussing well-known methodologies for sensor fusion including: classifier ensembles, boosting, fuzzy techniques for combining classifiers, the Dempster-Shafer method, Belief propagation, neural networks etc.

Meeting Time and Place: Unless otherwise specified, the colloquium meets every Wednesday 14:00 - 15:30 at the LME Seminar room 09.150.

Scheduled Discussion Topics

Date	Topic	Papers for Discussion or Discussion Leader
27. August	Multisensor Fusion	J. K. Hackett and M. Shah, "Multi-sensor Fusion: a Perspective," International Conference on Robotics and Applications, pp. 1324-1330, 1990.
3. September	C A N C E L L E D
10. September	Classifier Fusion	D. Ruta and B. Gabrys, "An Overview of Classifier Fusion Methods," Computing and Information Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-10,2000.
17. September	Classifier Ensembles	R. Polikar, "Bootstrap-Inspired Techniques in Computation Intelligence," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp. 59-72, 2007. N. C. Oza and K. Tumer, "Classifier Ensembles: Select Real-World Applications," Information Fusion, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 4-20, 2008.
24. September Special Meeting Place: ISA House, Haberstr. 2	Viola-Jones Detector (by popular demand)	P. Viola and M. Jones, "Robust Real-Time Face Detection," International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 137-154, 2004. P. Viola, M. Jones and D. Snow, "Detecting Pedestrians Using Patterns of Motion and Appearance," International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 153-161, 2005.
1. October Special Meeting Place: ISA House, Haberstr. 2	Fuzzy Classifier Fusion	L. I. Kuncheva, "'Fuzzy' versus 'Nonfuzzy' in Combining Classifiers Designed by Boosting," IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 729-741, 2003.
8. October	C A N C E L L E D
15. October	Dempster-Shafer	R. R. Yager, "On the Dempster-Shafer Framework and New Combination Rules", Information Sciences, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 93-137, 1987.
22. October Special Meeting Place: ISA House, Haberstr. 2	Dempster-Shafer	R. R. Murphy, "Dempster-Shafer Theory for Sensor Fusion in Autonomous Mobile Robots," IEEE Transcations on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 197-206, 1998.
29. October	C A N C E L L E D
5. November	Image Level Fusion	Z. Zhang and R. S. Blum, "A Categorization of Multiscale-decomposition-based Image Fusion Schemes with a Performance Study for a Digital Camera Application," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 87, No. 8, pp. 1315-1326, 1999.
12. November	Sensor Fusion and Belief Propagation	I. Bloch, "Information Combination Operators for Data Fusion: a Comparative Review with Classification," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 52-67, 1996.
19. November	Sensor Fusion and Neural Nets	K . Tumer and J. Ghosh, "Analysis of Decision Boundaries in Linearly Combined Neural Classifiers," Pattern Recognition, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 341-348, 1996.
26. November Special Meeting Place: ISA House, Haberstr. 2	Sensor Fusion and Neural Nets	S. B. Cho and J. H. Kim, "Multiple Network Fusion using Fuzzy Logic," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 497-501, 1995.

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