Research overview

I direct the Computer Vision Group at the University of Michigan. In my group we explore a number of critical problems in the area of computer vision. We focus on the analysis and modeling of visual scenes from static images as well as video sequences. Our research goals include: i) the semantic understanding of materials, objects, and actions within a scene; ii) modeling the spatial organization and layout of the scene and its behavior in time. We develop algorithms that enable the design of machines that can perform real-world visual tasks such as autonomous navigation, visual surveillance, or content-based image and video indexing. My group's research is sponsored by US government agencies such as NSF and Navy as well as industrial partners such as Ford, Toyota, Google, TWR and KLA-Tencor.

• I will be teaching an online course in Computer Vision in the fall 2012. As for May 2012 more than 8000 students have already registered! For information please click here.
• I will be area chair in CVPR 2013.
• I received the 2012 TWR Automotive Endowed Research Award!
• Our most recent work on Semantic Structure from Motion with my student Ying-ze Bao received a best student paper award in IEEE CORP 2011 workshop, in conjuction with ICCV 2011
• Derek Hoiem and I co-authored a book entitled Representations and Techniques for 3D Object Recognition and Scene Interpretation, Synthesis lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2011. ISBN-10: 1608457281. Click here or here for more information.
• I spoke at the Frontiers in Computer Vision Workshop in August 2011
• We are organizing the third IEEE international workshop on 3D Representation and Recognition (3dRR-11). 3dRR-11 will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on November 7th, in conjuction with ICCV 2011. Click here for more details
• I am an area chair for ICCV 2010.
• I received the NSF career award 2011! More details are here.
• I reveived a 2010 Google Research award!
• I am an area chair and the workshops chair for CVPR 2010; Check out the call for proposals!
• We are organizing the second IEEE international workshop on 3D Representation for Recognition (3dRR-09). 3dRR-09 will take place in Kyoto, on September 28th 2009, in conjuction with ICCV 2009. Click here for more details

• Fall 2011: Computer Vision (EECS  442)
• Fall 2010: Advanced Topics in Mobile Computer Vision (EECS 598)
• Fall 2010: Computer Vision (EECS  442)
• Winter 2009: Image Processing (EECS 556)
• Fall 2009: Computer Vision (EECS  442)
• Winter 2009: Special Topics in Computer Vision (EECS 598)
• Fall 2008: Computer Vision (EECS  442)