Björn Stenger (Projects 2001-2015)

Computer Vision for Infrastructure Applications



Detecting Change for Multi-View, Long-Term Surface Inspection
S. Stent, R. Gherardi, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
BMVC, September 2015.
[pdf]

Reconstructing Fukushima: A Case Study
A. Seki, O. J. Woodford, S. Ito, B. Stenger, M. Hatakeyama, J. Shimamura.
3DV, December 2014.
[pdf]



An Image-Based System for Change Detection on Tunnel Linings
S. Stent, R. Gherardi, B. Stenger, K. Soga, R. Cipolla
MVA, May 2013. (Best Paper Award)
[pdf]


Human Body Shape Estimation

Virtual Fitting by Single-Shot Body Shape Estimation
M. Sekine, K. Sugita, F. Perbet, B. Stenger, M. Nishiyama.
Int. Conf. on 3D Body Scanning Technologies, p. 406-413, October 2014.
[pdf] [video] [press]





Human Body Shape Estimation Using a Multi-Resolution Manifold Forest
F. Perbet, S. Johnson, M.-T. Pham, B. Stenger.
CVPR, June 2014.
[pdf][video]



Visual Text-To-Speech






Expressive Visual Text-To-Speech as an Assistive Technology for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions
S. Cassidy, B. Stenger, L. Van Dongen, K. Yanagisawa, R. Anderson, V. Wan, S. Baron-Cohen, R. Cipolla
CVIU, 2015.
[pdf]






Expressive Visual Text-To-Speech Using Active Appearance Models
R. Anderson, B. Stenger, V. Wan, R. Cipolla
CVPR, June 2013.
[pdf]






An Expressive Text-Driven 3D Talking Head
R. Anderson, B. Stenger, V. Wan, R. Cipolla
SIGGRAPH poster, July 2013.
[pdf]

to fill in






Lip Tracking for 3D Face Registration
R. Anderson, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
MVA, May 2013.
[pdf]

to fill in






Dense Active Appearance Models Using a Bounded Diameter Minimum Spanning Tree
R. Anderson, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
BMVC, September 2012.
[pdf] [talk on videolectures]



3D Capture of Deformable Surfaces

to fill in






Color Photometric Stereo for Multicolored Surfaces
R. Anderson, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
ICCV, November 2011.
[pdf]






Augmenting Depth Camera Output Using Photometric Stereo
R. Anderson, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
Machine Vision Applications, June 2011.
[pdf]

Video Normals From Colored Lights
G. J. Brostow, C. Hernández, G. Vogiatzis, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
IEEE TPAMI, Vol. 33, No. 10, pages 2104-2114, October 2011.
[pdf] [project page] [video part 1, part 2]

Non-Rigid Photometric Stereo with Colored Lights
C. Hernández, G. Vogiatzis, G. J. Brostow, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
ICCV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2007.
[pdf]




3D Object Recognition and Registration






Demisting the Hough Transform for 3D Shape Recognition and Registration
O. J. Woodford, M.-T. Pham A. Maki, F. Perbet, B. Stenger
BMVC, September 2011.
[pdf]

to fill in






Distances and Means of Direct Similarities
M.-T. Pham O. J. Woodford, F. Perbet, A. Maki, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
IJCV, September 2014.
[pdf]

A New Distance for Scale-Invariant 3D Shape Recognition and Registration
M.-T. Pham O. J. Woodford, F. Perbet, A. Maki, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
ICCV, November 2011.
[pdf] [project page] [video]



Object Tracking







Online Multiple Classifier Boosting for Object Tracking
T.-K. Kim, T. Woodley, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
Online Learning for Computer Vision (CVPR WS), San Francisco, June 2010.
[pdf]






Learning to Track With Multiple Observers
B. Stenger, T. Woodley, R. Cipolla
CVPR, Miami, June 2009.
[pdf]




Tracking Using Online Feature Selection and a Local Generative Model
T. Woodley, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
BMVC, Warwick, September 2007.
[pdf]



Human Computer Interaction






A Vision-based System for Display Interaction
B. Stenger, T. Woodley, T.-K. Kim, R. Cipolla
HCI, Cambridge, UK, September 2009.
[pdf]

AIDIA - Adaptive Interface for Display InterAction
B. Stenger, T. Woodley, T.-K. Kim, C. Hernández, R. Cipolla
BMVC, Leeds, September 2008.
[pdf]
[video - demo at IFA 2008]





A Real-Time Hand Gesture Interface Implemented on a Multi-Core Processor
T. Ike, N. Kishikawa, B. Stenger
Machine Vision Applications (MVA), pages 9-12, Tokyo, Japan, May 2007.
[pdf]


Template-Based Hand Pose Recognition Using Multiple Cues
B. Stenger
ACCV, pages 551-560, Hyderabad, India, January 2006.
[pdf] [poster]


Machine Learning for Computer Vision







Correlated Probabilistic Trajectories for Pedestrian Motion Detection
F. Perbet, A. Maki, B. Stenger
ICCV, Kyoto, Sep/Oct 2009.
[pdf]





Random Forest Clustering and Application to Video Segmentation
F. Perbet, B. Stenger, A. Maki
BMVC, London, September 2009.
[pdf]






Discriminative Feature Co-occurrence Selection for Object Detection
T. Mita, T. Kaneko, B. Stenger, O. Hori
IEEE TPAMI, Vol. 30, No. 7, pages 1257-1269, July 2008.
[pdf]




Incremental Linear Discriminant Analysis Using Sufficient Spanning Sets and Its Applications
T.-K. Kim, B. Stenger, J. Kittler, R. Cipolla
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2010.
[pdf]

Incremental Linear Discriminative Analysis
Using Sufficient Spanning Set Approximations

T.-K. Kim, S.-F. Wong, B. Stenger, J. Kittler, R. Cipolla
CVPR, Minneapolis, USA, June 2007.
[pdf] [poster] [code]



A Framework for 3D Object Recognition Using the Kernel Constrained Mutual Subspace Method
K. Fukui, B. Stenger, O. Yamaguchi
Proc. ACCV, Hyderabad, India, pages 315-324, January 2006.
[pdf]
Topology Free Hidden Markov Models: Application to Background Modeling
B. Stenger, V. Ramesh, N. Paragios, F. Coetzee, J. M. Buhmann
Proc. 8th ICCV, Vol. I, pages 294-301, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.
[pdf]


Body Pose Estimation

A Single Camera Motion Capture System for Human-Computer Interaction
R. Okada, B. Stenger
Trans. IEICE, Vol. E91-D, No.7, pages 1855-1862, July 2008.
[pdf]

A Video Motion Capture System for Interactive Games
R. Okada, N. Kondoh, B. Stenger
Proc. Machine Vision Applications (MVA), pages 186-189, Tokyo, Japan, May 2007.
[pdf]


Virtual Fashion Show Using Real-time Markerless Motion Capture
R. Okada, B. Stenger, T. Ike, N. Kondoh
Proc. ACCV, Hyderabad, India, pages 801-810, January 2006.
[pdf]




Pose Estimation and Tracking Using Multivariate Regression
A. Thayananthan R. Navaratnam, B. Stenger, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 29, Issue 9, July 2008, Pages 1302-1310.
[pdf]

Multivariate Relevance Vector Machines for Tracking
A. Thayananthan R. Navaratnam, B. Stenger, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
Proc. ECCV, Vol. 3, pages 124-138, Graz, Austria, May 2006.
[pdf] [poster] [code]



Hand Pose Estimation

Model-Based Hand Tracking Using a Hierarchical Bayesian Filter
B. Stenger, A. Thayananthan, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
IEEE TPAMI, Vol. 28, No. 9, pages 1372-1384, September, 2006.
[pdf] [data]

Model-Based Hand Tracking Using A Hierarchical Bayesian Filter
B. Stenger, PhD Thesis, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, March 2004.
[pdf]

Hand Pose Estimation Using Hierarchical Detection
B. Stenger, A. Thayananthan, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
Intl. Workshop on HCI, pages 105-116, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2004.
[pdf]

Filtering Using a Tree-Based Estimator
B. Stenger, A. Thayananthan, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
Proc. 9th ICCV, Vol. II, pages 1063-1070, Nice, France, October 2003.
[pdf]

Learning a Kinematic Prior for Tree-Based Filtering
A. Thayananthan, B. Stenger, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
Proc. BMVC, Vol. 2, pages 589-598, Norwich, UK, September 2003.
[pdf]



Shape Context and Chamfer Matching in Cluttered Scenes
A. Thayananthan, B. Stenger, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
CVPR, Vol. I, pages 127-133, Madison, USA, June 2003.
[pdf]


Model-Based 3D Tracking of an Articulated Hand
B. Stenger, P. R. S. Mendonça,, R. Cipolla.
CVPR, Vol. II, pages 310-315, Kauai, USA, December 2001.
[pdf]