Research overview

In the vision lab at the University of Michigan we explore a number of critical problems in the area of computer vision. We focus on the analysis and modeling of visual scenes from static images as well as video sequences. Our research goals include: i) the semantic understanding of materials, objects, and actions within a scene; ii) modeling the spatial organization and layout of the scene and its behavior in time. The algorithms developed in our group enable the design of machines that can perform real-world visual tasks such as autonomous navigation, visual surveillance, or content-based image and video indexing.

Address: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
1301 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122
Rooms 4336, 4338

Faculty/Director: Prof Silvio Savarese

Assistant: Ann Pace; Tel: (734) 763-5022; Email: ampace at eecs.umich.edu

Join the vision lab: We are always looking for outstanding prospective PhD candidates. If you are interested in joining the Vision Lab as a PhD candidate, please apply for admission to the department, indicating in your application your interest in the UMich Vision Lab, Systems, ECE department. If you are interested in a Postdoctoral Researcher position, please contact Prof. Savarese.

• S. Savarese will be the chair of CVPR 2010 Workshops - if interested in submitting a proposal please visit the relevant webpage (the deadline is Nov 22, 2009).
• S. Savarese, T. Tuytelaars, and L. Van Gool are co-editors of the December 2009 CVIU special issue on 3D Representation for Object and Scene Recognition. Click here to read our editorial.
• We are organizing the second IEEE international workshop on 3D Representation for Recognition (3dRR-09). 3dRR-09 will take place in Kyoto, on September 28th 2009, in conjuction with ICCV 2009. Click here for more details
• Two papers (one oral and one poster) have been accepted to the upcoming ICCV 09. Congratulations to H. Su, M. Sun, L. Fei-Fei and to P. Gupta, S. Arrabolu, M. Brown respectively
• One paper has been accepted to the upcoming BMCV 09. Congratulations to M. Liang, M. Sun, K. Carter, A. Hero.
• One paper has been accepted to the upcoming 9th International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VSWS09) in conjuction with ICCV 09. Congratulations to W. Choi and K. Shahid.
• Our paper “Interactive Visual Construction Progress Monitoring with 4D Augmented Reality Model” with M. Golparvar-Fard, and F. Peña-Mora has won the CRC First Place Poster Award at Construction Research Congress, Seattle, 2009!