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• March, 15th 2012: CVPR 2012 paper accepted

Our paper "Irregular lattices for complex shape grammar facade parsing" by Riemenschneider, Krispel, Thaller, Donoser, Havemann, Fellner and Bischof was accepted to the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2012.

• September, 10th 2011: ISMAR paper accepted

Our paper "Robust Planar Target Tracking and Pose Estimation from a Single Concavity" from Michael Donoser, Peter Kontschieder and Horst Bischof, was accepted as a full paper at ISMAR 2011.

• June, 28th 2011: 2 BMVC papers accepted

Our papers "Discriminative Learning of Contour Fragments for Object Detection" (ORAL) by P. Kontschieder, H. Riemenschneider, M. Donoser and H. Bischof and "Image Labelling as a Label Puzzle Game" (POSTER) by P. Kontschieder, S. Rota Bulò, M. Donoser, M. Pelillo and Bischof, H. were accepted to the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2011.

• January, 21th 2011: SCIA paper accepeted

Our paper "Highy Consistent Sequential Segmentation" from M. Donoser, M. Urschler, H. Riemenschneider and H. Bischof was accepted for oral presentation at the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis; SCIA 2011.

• June, 28th 2010: 1 DAGM and 4 ICPR papers accepted

Our papers "Object Tracking by Structure Tensor Analysis" by M. Donoser, S. Kluckner and H. Bischof (ICPR-Oral), "Shape Prototype Signatures for Action Recognition" from M. Donoser, H. Riemenschneider and H. Bischof (ICPR - Poster), "Shape Guided Maximally Stable Extremal Region (MSER) Tracking" by M. Donoser, H. Riemenschneider and H. Bischof (ICPR-Poster), "Detecting Paper Fibre Cross Sections in Microtomy Images" from P. Kontschieder, M. Donoser and H. Bischof (ICPR-Poster) and "Unsupervised Facade Segmentation using Repetitive Patterns" by A. Wendel, M. Donoser and H. Bischof (DAGM-Poster) got accepted.

• June, 10th 2010: ECCV 2010 paper accepted

Our paper "Using Partial Edge Contour Matches for Efficient Object Category Localization" by Hayko Riemenschneider, Michael Donoser and Horst Bischof was accepted for presentation at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in Crete, Greece.

• May, 31th 2010: Best Scientific Paper Award at OAGM 2010

Our paper "MSER Templates for 3D Pose Tracking" by Peter Kontschieder, Michael Donoser and Horst Bischof was awarded with the Best Scientific Paper Price at the Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition

• February, 3th 2010: CVPR 2010 accepted

Our paper "Linked Edges as Stable Region Boundaries" from Donoser, M., Riemenschneider, H. and Bischof, H. was accepted to CVPR 2010. (PDF)

• July, 15th 2009: 2 ACCV 2009 and 1 BMVC 2009 paper accepted

Our papers "Efficient Partial Shape Matching of Outer Contours" from Donoser, M., Riemenschneider, H. and Bischof, H. (Oral - PDF+PPT) ACCV 2009 and "Beyond Pairwise Shape Similarity Analysis" from Kontschieder, P., Donoser, M. and Bischof, H. (Poster) ACCV 2009 and "Bag of Optical Flow Volumes for Image Sequence Recognition" from Riemenschneider, H., Donoser, M. and Bischof, H., (Poster) BMVC 2009 were accepted.

• June, 10th 2009: ICCV 2009 accepted

Our paper "Saliency Driven Total Variational Segmentation by Michael Donoser, Martin Urschler begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Martin Hirzer and Horst Bischof was accepted to the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009 (PDF)

• May, 14th 2009: Best Scientific Paper Award at OAGM 2009

Our paper "Finding Stable Extremal Region Boundaries" from Hayko Riemenschneider, Michael Donoser, and Horst Bischof was awarded with the Best Scientific Paper Award at the Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition

• March, 5th 2009: New Virtual Habitat Group Homepage is online

The official homepage of the Virtual Habitat Group goes online: http://vh.icg.tugraz.at

• December, 10th 2008: Best Scientific Paper Award at ICPR 2008

Our paper "Using Web Search Engines to Improve Text Recognition" from Donoser M., Wagner, S. and Bischof, H. was awarded with the Best Scientific Paper Price at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008) in Tampa Bay, Florida. A picture can be found here.

• December, 8th 2008: 2 Orals and 4 Posters at ICPR 2008

Two oral and four poster presentations at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008) in Tampa Bay, Florida.

• September, 3rd 2008: Oral Presentation at BMVC 2008

Oral presentation of our paper "Fast Non-Rigid Object Boundary Tracking", M. Donoser and H. Bischof at the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2008) in Leeds, UK.

• May, 12th 2008: Award of State Styria

I got the Josef-Krainer 2008-Award of the state styria for outstanding scientific work in the field of computer vision. A picture can be found here.

Curriculum Vitae

You can find my CV including a publication list here [Last Update: January, 2012].

PhD

My Phd Thesis on 3D Paper Structure Analysis using Computer Vision was finished in April 2007.

Lectures

• Introduction to Scientific Working WS 2011/12

The homepage for Introduction to Scientific Working (Einführung in das Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten) for the WS 2011/2012 can be found here.

• Seminar Mustererkennung WS 2011/2012

The homepage for Seminar Mustererkennung can be found here.

• AK Computer Vision WS 2011/2012 - VO

The homepage of the VO of AK Computer Vision 2011/12 can be found here

• AK Computer Vision WS 2011/2012 - KU]

The homepage of the KU of AK Computer Vision 2011/12 can be found here

Research

You can find a more detailed summary of my main research topics (including CODE and EXAMPLES) at the VH research page. But in general, my main computer vision interests lie on five different topics.:

1. Image Acquisition: A novel concept for digitization of embedded materials based on serial sectioning and light microscopy was developed in cooperation with the Institute of Paper, Pulp and Fiber Technology. The fully automated concept allows to digitize the 3D structure of different materials in high resolution, sufficient sample size and moderate operating time and costs. For more details see "Image Acquisition".

2. Unsupervised Color Segmentation: We have developed unsupervised color segmentation methods yielding state-of-the-art computer vision results on reference data sets like Berkeley in an efficient manner. The method can also be used to segment huge 3D data sets and image sequences. For more details see"Unsupervised Color Segmentation".

3. Tracking: We introduced a method which allows to track Maximally Stable Extremal Regions through image sequences in a robust and efficent way. The accurate tracking locations make the algorithm perfectly suited for different applications like face and hand tracking or the automated acquisition of training data for learning different views of objects-of-interests. For more details see "Tracking of MSERs".

4. Shape Matching: Recent research focused on a novel partial shape matching concept, which allows to efficiently match contours of different shapes and measure their similarity. Matching results are provided within milliseconds. Promosing results on the well known MPEG-7 database were achieved. For more details see "Partial Shape Matching"

5. Edge Detection: We proposed a novel edge detction method, which exploits mid-level cues analyzing adjacent region support in addition to local discontinuities in image brightness. Our method provides results in an automatically linked, and labeled manner by returning the most stable connected edges in an efficient manner and does not require any learning step. For more details see "Edge Detection"

Projects

I was part of a project called 3D_Paper_Structure_Analysis, which was a cooperation with the Institute of Paper, Pulp and Fiber Technology and which succesfully ended in September 2008. For more details see "Project Digitized Paper Structure" or the official homepage of the Institute for Paper, Pulp and Fiber Technology (www.ipz.tugraz.at).

Publications

A list of my publications can be found at the publication page. A comprehensive list of all publications from my Virtual Habitat group can be found at the Virtual Habitat page.