Publications (peer reviewed or journals)

2009

• *H. Su, *M. Sun, L. Fei-Fei and S. Savarese. Learning a dense multi-view representation for detection, viewpoint classification and synthesis of object categories. To appear in International Conference in Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009; oral presentation. (*indicates equal contributions); PDF

• P. Gupta, S. Arrabolu, M. Brown, S. Savarese, "Scene Categorization from Low Definition Video", To appear in International Conference in Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009; PDF

• M. Liang, M. Sun, K.M. Carter, A.O. Hero III, S. Savarese, "Unsupervised Object Pose Classification from Short Video Sequences", To appear in the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), September 2009; PDF

• W. Choi, K. Shahid, S. Savarese, "What are they doing? : Collective Activity Classification Using Spatio-Temporal Relationship Among People", To appear in 9th International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VSWS09) in conjuction with ICCV 09. PDF

• *M. Sun, *H. Su, S. Savarese and L. Fei-Fei. A Multi-View Probabilistic Model for 3D Object Classes. To appear in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009. (*indicates equal contributions, PDF

• Golparvar-Fard M., Peña-Mora F., And Savarese S. “D4AR- A 4-Dimensional Augmented Reality Model for Automating Construction Progress Data Collection, Processing and Communication”, ITCON Special Issue: Next Generation Construction IT: Technology Foresight, Future Studies, Road mapping, and Scenario Planning, Vol 14, 2009 PDF

• Golparvar-Fard M., Savarese S. and Peña-Mora F. “Interactive Visual Construction Progress Monitoring with 4D Augmented Reality Model”, To appear Proc., Construction Research Congress, Seattle, Washington, May 22-24, 2009. CRC First Place Poster Award;

• Golparvar-Fard M., Peña-Mora F. and Savarese S. “Monitoring of Construction Performance Using Daily Progress Photograph Logs and 4D As-Planned Models ”, To appear in Proc., 2009 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, Austin, Texas, June 24-27, 2009

• Golparvar-Fard M., Peña-Mora F. and Savarese S. “Sparse Reconstruction and Geo-Registration of Daily Site Photographs for Representation of As-Built Construction Scene and Automatic Construction Progress Data Collection”, To appear Proc., 2009 International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Austin, TX, June 24-27,2009.

2008

• S. Savarese and L. Fei-Fei. "View synthesis for recognizing unseen poses of object classes". European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, 2008 PDF

• S. Savarese, R. Spronk, D. G. Stork, and A. DelPozo, “Reflections on praxis and facture in a devotional portrait diptych: A computer analysis of the mirror in Hans Memling’s Virgin and Child and Maarten van Nieuwenhove”, IS&T/SPIE 20th Annual Symposium Electronic Imaging, Jan Jose, CA, Januray 29-31st, 2008, PDF  

• S. Savarese, A. Del Pozo, JC. Niebles, L. Fei-Fei, “Spatial-Temporal Correlations for Unsupervised Action Classification”, IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, Copper Mountain, Colorado January 8-9, 2008. PDF

2007 & before

• S. Savarese and L. Fei-Fei. "3D generic object categorization, localization and pose estimation". IEEE Intern. Conf. in Computer Vision (ICCV). - Brazil, October, 2007 Accepted as Oral, PDF

• A. DelPozo, and S. Savarese, "Detecting Specular Surfaces on Natural Images", Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Minnesota, USA, June 2007 , PDF

• S. Savarese, J. Winn and A. Criminisi, "Discriminative Object Class Models of Appearance and Shape by Correlatons", Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York, USA, June 2006 , PDF

• M. Andreetto, S. Savarese, and P. Perona, "Carving from ray-tracing constraints: IRT-carving", Proc. of 3D Data Processing Visualization and Trasmission, June 2006 - PDF

• S. Savarese, M. Andreetto, H. Rushmeier, F. Bernardini and P. Perona, "3D Reconstruction by Shadow Carving: Theory and Practical Evaluation", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) , 71(3), 305-336, March 2006 - PDF

• S. Savarese, M. Chen and P. Perona, "Local Shape from Mirror Reflections",International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 64(1), 31–67, 2005, - PDF

• S. Savarese, L. Fei-Fei and P. Perona, "What do reflections tell us about the shape of a mirror?", in Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization [sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH], Los Angeles, August 7-8, 2004 - PDF

• S. Savarese, M. Chen and P. Perona, "Recovering local shape of a mirror surface from reflection of a regular gridI", in Proc. of European Conference of Computer Vision, Prague, May 2004. PDF

• S. Savarese, M. Chen and P. Perona, "Second Order Local Analysis for 3D Reconstruction of Specular Surfaces", in Proc. of 3D Data Processing Visualization and Trasmission, Italy, June 2002. - Abstract

• S. Savarese and P. Perona, "Local Analysis for 3D Reconstruction of Specular Surfaces -- part II", in Proc. of European Conference of Computer Vision, Denmark, May 2002. PDF

• S. Savarese, H. Rushmeier, F. Bernardini and P. Perona,
  "Implementation of a Shadow Carving System for Shape Capture", in Proc. of 3D Data Processing Visualization and Trasmission, Padua, Italy, June 2002. PDF

• S. Savarese and P. Perona, "Local Analysis for 3D Reconstruction of Specular Surfaces", in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Kawa'i, USA, December 2001. PDF

• S. Savarese, H. Rushmeier, F. Bernardini and P. Perona,
  "Shadow Carving", in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, Vancouver, Canada, June 2001. PDF

Abstracts

• S. Savarese, A. Del Pozo, D. Baker, D.J. Simons,"When are reflections useful in perceiving the shape of shiny surfaces?", Proc. of Vision ScienceS Society, Florida, May 2008

• M. Golparvar Fard, S. Savarese, F. Pena-Mora, "Interactive Visual Construction Progress Monitoring with 4D Augmented Reality Model", ICCBE-XI, Beijing, October 16-18, 2008

• A. Del Pozo, S. Savarese, D. Baker, D. J. Simons, "Why do we see some surfaces as reflective?", Proc. of Vision ScienceS Society, Florida, May 2008

• S. Savarese, L. Fei-Fei and P. Perona, "Can We See the Shape of a Mirror?", Proc. of Vision ScienceS Society, Florida, May 2003 - Abstract

Patents

• F. Bernardini, B. Henning, H. Rushmeier, S. Savarese, G. Taubin,"System, method, and program product for acquiring accurate object silhouettes for shape recovery", IBM US Patent 6,455,835, (2001) - Abstract

Thesis

• PhD Thesis: S. Savarese, "Shape Reconstruction from Shadows and Reflections", Caltech, 2005 (141 pages pdf)

• Tesi di Laurea: S. Savarese, "3-D Reconstruction with Weakly Structured
  Lightning Techniques", Laurea Thesis, University of Naples, 1998. Link

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