| Address: | Institut für Numerische Simulation Wegelerstr. 4 (Flachbau) 53115 Bonn Germany |
| Office: | We4 C1 |
| Phone: | +49 228 733522 |
| E-Mail: | cristian.sminchisescu ins.uni-bonn.de |
The field of artificial intelligence emerged at the intersection of mathematics, physics, computer science and cognitive science, with the quest of creating computer programs that learn from experience. The challenge is to build robots able to perceive, see the real world, and act intelligently in unexpected, uncertain circumstances, as humans do. Computational visual perception and motion capture technologies started more than a century ago with Helmholtz's mathematics of the eye and the emerging photographic techniques. Nowadays recognizing visual objects, understanding video content and transferring this into 3-dimensional models is the basis of advanced special effects, digital libraries and image indexing systems, or the construction of humanoid robots that can localize objects, recognize people, comprehend actions and interact with the world seamlessly. Our research group at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science at the University of Bonn develops new computational methods for artificial intelligence and visual recognition, aiming at creating programs able to understand the visual world from images and at building mathematical models that can be fitted into the `mind' of an intelligent agent.
C. Sminchisescu will give a tutorial on Structured Prediction at 3DPTV 2010, Paris.
September 2009: Our group’s team (Carreira, Li, Sminchisescu) scored the winning entry in the PASCAL VOC 2009 Object Class Segmentation Challenge.
October 2008: We have obtained state-of-the art results in the HumanEva benchmark, for 3D human pose estimation. See our structured prediction and mixture of experts methods.
July 7-11th, 2008, C. Sminchisescu will be lecturing at the AERFAI Summer School on New Trends in Pattern Recognition for Motion Analysis (PRMA'08), Barcelona.
March 2008: Group's coverage in the University Press.
November 2007: C. Sminchisescu talks on Hierarchical Models for 3D Reconstruction at Harvard and on Spectral Latent Variable Models at MIT.
C. Sminchisescu served as Area Chair for IEEE ICCV'07.
February 2007: The group becomes part of the Hausdorff Center of Excellence.
June 2006: Workshop on Learning, Representation and Context for Human Sensing in Video at IEEE CVPR, New York.
June 2006: Tutorial on Tracking People at IEEE CVPR, New York.
April 2006: C. Sminchisescu talks on BM3E: Discriminative Density Propagation at CMU.