Video Object Segmentation through Spatially Accurate and Temporally Dense Extraction of Primary Object Regions

Video Object Segmentation through Spatially Accurate and Temporally Dense Extraction of Primary Object Regions
Dong Zhang1, Omar Javed2, Mubarak Shah1
1Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV)
University of Central Florida
2SRI International

1: About the author

(1): Dong Zhang

1): He is now a Ph.D student in UCF CRCV(1Center for Research in Computer Vision, University of Central Florida) under the supervision of Dr. Mubarak Shah. His research interests are Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence:

Image/Video Segmentation

Scene Understanding

Human Activity Analysis

Structure from Motion

Tracking

2): His Educations:

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 2011 -- 2015 (expected)

Ph.D., Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 2011

B.S., Automation, Zhejiang University, China, 2007

(2): Omar Javed

Graduated from UCF with a Ph.D. in May 2005

Worked at ObjectVideo in Reston, Virginia from Jan 2005 to Feb 2010.

Joined the SRI International-Sarnoff Corporation as a Vision Technology Leader in March 2010.

He is an associate editor for the Machine Vision & Applications Journal. (I was also an Area Chair for CVPR 2008).

(3): Mubarak Shah

Dr. Mubarak Shah, Trustee Chair Professor of Computer Science, is the founding director of the Center for Research in Computer Vision at UCF. His research interests include: video surveillance, visual tracking, human activity recognition, visual analysis of crowded scenes, video registration, UAV video analysis, etc. Dr. Shah is a fellow of IEEE, AAAS, IAPR and SPIE. In 2006, he was awarded a Pegasus Professor award, the highest award at UCF. He is ACM distinguished speaker. He was an IEEE Distinguished Visitor speaker for 1997-2000 and received IEEE Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 1997. He received the Harris Corporation's Engineering Achievement Award in 1999, the TOKTEN awards from UNDP in 1995, 1997, and 2000; Teaching Incentive Program award in 1995 and 2003, Research Incentive Award in 2003 and 2009, Millionaires' Club awards in 2005 and 2006, University Distinguished Researcher award in 2007, honorable mention for the ICCV 2005 Where Am I? Challenge Problem, and was nominated for the best paper award in ACM Multimedia Conference in 2005. He is an editor of international book series on Video Computing; editor in chief of Machine Vision and Applications journal, and an associate editor of ACM Computing Surveys journal. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on PAMI, and a guest editor of the special issue of International Journal of Computer Vision on Video Computing.

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