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Björn Stenger
Vision Program LeaderRakuten Institute of Technology (RIT)
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2024/11 - BMVC 2024 paper: Text Removal In E-Commerce Images: A Comparison Of Inpainting Methods
2024/10 - ECCV 2024 paper: Linearly Controllable GAN: Unsupervised Feature Categorization and Decomposition for Image Generation and Manipulation
2024/05 - IEEE Access 2024 paper: Caption-Guided Interpretable Video Anomaly Detection Based on Memory Similarity
2024/01 - IEICE 2024 paper: Efficient Action Spotting Using Saliency Feature Weighting
2024/01 - CODS-COMAD demo: Text2Illustration: Sampling and Composing Creatives With Text
2023/06 - MVA 2023 paper: Age Prediction From Face Images Via Contrastive Learning
2023/06 - CVPR 2023 paper: PCT-Net: Full Resolution Image Harmonization Using Pixel-Wise Color Transformations [code]
2023/01 - WACV 2023 paper: Online Knowledge Distillation for Multi-task Learning [code]
2022/08 - ICPR 2022 paper: Action Spotting in Soccer Videos Using Multiple Scene Encoders
2022/03 - AAAI WS paper: UserBERT: Modeling Long- and Short-Term User Preferences via Self-Supervision
2021/06 - CVPR 2021 paper: Facial Action Unit Detection Using Transformers
2021/05 - MVA 2021 papers - to be updated
2021/05 - MVA 2021 Tutorial on Generative Image Models
2020/06 - CVPR WS Biometrics paper: Seamless Payment System Using Face and Low-Energy Bluetooth
2020/06 - CVPR paper: Deblurring by Realistic Blurring
2020/04 - CHI paper: EMI: An Expressive Mobile Interactive Robot
2020/04 - Welcome to Jose Carranza (Costa Rica Institute of Technology, INRIA)
2019/11 - ICCV workshop paper: 3D Hand Pose Estimation from RGB Using Privileged Learning with Depth Data
2019/04 - Welcome to Mijung Kim (Yonsei U, Stony Brook U, Ghent U)
2019/09 - Welcome to M Rasyid Aqmar (IT Bandung, Tokyo Tech, Osaka U))
2019/08 - Paper accepted at ICDM 2019: Learning Classifiers on Positive and Unlabeled Data with Policy Gradient
2019/07 - Attending ICVSS 2019
2019/06 - Welcome to Philip K. Lee (Stanford) as summer intern!
2019/05 - Welcome to Panayiotis Panayiotou (Pani) (ETH Zurich) as summer intern!
2019/04 - Welcome to Lu Yan (Tokyo Tech)!
2019/03 - Two papers accepted at MVA 2019: Photo Booth, Video Summarization
2019/02 - Welcome Yuan Chen (University of Waterloo) as intern!
2018/11 - ICDM paper: Deep Heterogeneous Autoencoders for Collaborative Filtering
2018/10 - ICIP paper: Dense ByNet: Residual Dense Network for Image Super Resolution
2018/10 - Computer vision internships 2019 available for graduate students. Thanks to everyone who applied!
2018/09 - Welcome Ryo Sobue, Ray Sekine Choi, and Chenfei Wang as an interns!
2018/08 - TIP paper: Trajectories As Topics: Multi-Object Tracking by Topic Discovery (extension of AAAI 2015 paper)
2018/07 - 12th International Computer Vision Summer School
2018/06 - @CVPR 2018, winning bid for CVPR 2022 in New Orleans 🎷
2018/05 - Welcome Miao Jiang as a summer intern!
2018/03 - Kelvin Cheng presents Mixed Reality Experience at the FC Barcelona Museum.
2018/02 - Code for image super-resolution from ICIP 2017 ByNet paper available here.
2018/01 - Computer vision summer internship offer (for PhD students). Thanks to everyone who applied!
2017/12 - Presentation at GPU Tech Conference (GTC)
2017/12 - New arXiv paper: Depth-Based 3D Hand Pose Estimation: From Current Achievements to Future Goals (→ CVPR)
2017/11 - Rakuten Floor Plan (R-FP-500) data from MVA 2017 paper is available.
2017/10 - Tomoyuki Mukasa presents work on 3D scene capture at ICCV workshop "Geometry Meets Deep Learning".
2017/10 - Welcome Bhaskar Rao from IIT Bombay!
Link to [prior work]
Projects
S. Yuan, B. Stenger, T.-K.Kim
ICCV Workshop: Observing and Understanding Hands in Action, November 2019.
A method for accurate RGB hand pose estimation, with privileged learning on large depth data (BigHand2.2M).
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{YuanICCVHands2019,
author = {Yuan, S. and Stenger, B. and Kim, T.-K.},
title = {3D Hand Pose Estimation from RGB Using Privileged Learning
with Depth Data},
booktitle = {ICCV Workshop: Observing and Understanding Hands in Action},
year = {2019},
month = {November}
}
T. Li, C.-C. Wang, Y. Ma, P. Ortal, Q. Zhao, B. Stenger, Y. Hirate.
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), November 2019.
Policy network improves learning from positive and unlabeled data (common in e-commerce).
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{LiICDM2019,
author = {Li, T. and Wang, C.-C. and Ma, Y. and Ortal, P. and Zhao, Q.
and Stenger, B. and Hirate, Y.},
title = {Learning Classifiers on Positive and Unlabeled Data with
Policy Gradient},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)},
year = {2019},
month = {November}
}
M. Nakazawa, T. Mukasa, B. Stenger
Machine Vision Applications (MVA), May 2019.
Face similarity search for digital signage enjoyed by over 12K baseball fans.
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{NakazawaMVA2019,
author = {Nakazawa, M. and Mukasa, T. and Stenger, B.},
title = {A Photo Booth That Finds Your Sports Player Lookalike},
booktitle = {MVA},
year = {2019},
month = {May},
pdf = {nakazawa_mva2019.pdf}
}
W. Luo, B. Stenger, X. Zhao, T.-K.Kim
IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 29(1), January 2019.
Multi-target object tracking with a topic discovery approach.
[bibtex]
@InJournal{LuoTIP2019},
title = {Trajectories as Topics: Multi-Object Tracking by Topic Discovery},
author = {Luo, W. and Stenger, B. and Zhao, X. and Kim, T.-K.},
booktitle = {IEEE Trans. Image Processing},
year = {2019},
volume = {29},
number = {1},
month = {January},
pdf = {luo_tip2018.pdf}
}
T. Li, Y. Ma, J. Xu, B. Stenger, C. Liu, Y. Hirate.
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), November 2018.
Autoencoder-based recommender system that takes into account multiple data sources, including the purchase history.
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{LiICDM2018,
author = {Li, T. and Ma, Y. and Xu, J. and Stenger, B. and Liu, C.
and Hirate, Y.},
title = {Deep Heterogeneous Autoencoders for Collaborative Filtering},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)},
year = {2018},
month = {November},
pdf = {li_icdm2018.pdf}
}
J. Xu, Y. Chae, B. Stenger, A. Datta
ICIP, October 2018.
CNN-based image super-resolution with high speed & low distortion, improved over ICIP 2017 paper.
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{XuICIP2018,
author = {Xu, J. and Chae, Y. and Stenger, B. and Datta, A.},
title = {Dense ByNet: Residual Dense Network for Image Super Resolution},
booktitle = {Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP)},
year = {2018},
month = {October},
pdf = {xu_icip2018.pdf}
}
S. Yuan, G. Garcia-Hernando, B. Stenger, G. Moon, J. Y. Chang, K. M. Lee, P. Molchanov, J. Kautz, S. Honari, L. Ge, J. Yuan, X. Chen, G. Wang, F. Yang, K. Akiyama, Y. Wu, Q. Wan, M. Madadi, S. Escalera, S. Li, D. Lee, I. Oikonomidis, A. Argyros, and T.-K. Kim,
CVPR, June 2018.
Analysis of the top performing methods in the Hands in the Million Challenge.
[arxiv] [bibtex]
@InProceedings{YuanCVPR2018,
author = {Yuan, S. and Garcia-Hernando, G. and Stenger, B. and Moon, G.
and Chang, J. Y. and Lee, K. M. and Molchanov, P. and
Kautz, J. and Honari, S. and Ge, L. and Yuan, J. and
Chen, X. and Wang, G. and Yang, F. and Akiyama, K. and Wu, Y.
and Wan, Q. and Madadi, M. and Escalera, S. and Li, S. and
Lee, D. and Oikonomidis, I. and Argyros, A. and Kim, T.-K.},
title = {3D Hand Pose Estimation: From Current Achievements
to Future Goals},
booktitle = {CVPR},
year = {2018},
month = {June}
}
J. Xu, Y. Chae, B. Stenger,
ICIP, September 2017.
CNN-based image super-resolution with high speed & quality.
[bibtex][code]
@InProceedings{XuICIP2017,
author = {Xu, J. and Chae, Y. and Stenger, B.},
title = {{ByNet-SR}: Image Super Resolution with a
Bypass Connection Network},
year = {2017},
month = {September},
booktitle = {ICIP}
}
S. Yuan, Q. Ye, B. Stenger, S. Jain, T.-K. Kim,
CVPR, July 2017.
We captured a new standard dataset for 3D hand pose estimation. Depth maps are accurately annotated with 3D joint locations using a magnetic tracking system. We show that training a CNN on this data achieves accurate results. The data was used in the Hands in the Million Challenge.
[arxiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{YuanCVPR2017,
author = {Yuan, S. and Ye, Q. and Stenger, B.
and Jain, S. and Kim, T.-K."},
title = {BigHand2.2M Benchmark: Hand Pose Data Set
and State of the Art Analysis},
booktitle = {CVPR},
year = {2017},
month = {July}
}
S. Dodge, J. Xu, B. Stenger,
MVA, May 2017.
Wall segmentation using fully convolutional networks (FCN) and applications in furniture fitting and 3D modeling
[R-FP dataset] [video] [bibtex]
@InProceedings{DodgeMVA2017,
author = {Dodge, S. and Xu, J. and Stenger, B.},
title = {Parsing Floor Plan Images},
year = {2017},
month = {May},
booktitle = {MVA}
}
J. Xu, B. Stenger, T. Kerola, T. Tung,
WACV, March 2017.
Estimating 3D room geometry from a single panorama image using surface normal estimation, 2D object detection and 3D object pose estimation
[arxiv] [bibtex]
@InProceedings{XuWACV2017,
author = {Xu, J. and Stenger, B. and Kerola T. and Tung, T.},
title = {Pano2CAD: Room Layout From A Single Panorama Image},
year = {2017},
month = {March},
booktitle = {WACV}
}