EYE-SPY (includes Project Tacrea): Vision-based matching and
registration of objects, images and contours [Webpage construction in
progress]
Research Awards and Achievements
2007, CVPR’07-ICCV’07 double oral achievement with PhD
student Minh-Tri Pham. One of only two first-second author pairings in the
world to be awarded two prestigious oral presentations in CVPR’2007 and
ICCV’2007.
2007, PyCV packge, incorporating world’s fastest method for
training Adaboost cascade face detector. Our team, led by Minh-Tri
Pham, released PyCV, an open source package incorporating the
world's fastest method for training an Adaboost cascade face detector.
Downloaded 2,000+ times in first two months
2007 (with PhD student Minh-Tri Pham), PREMIA 2nd Best Student Paper Prize
for ICCV'07 paper
2005, Best Paper Award, IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera
Systems (PROCAMS)
1996, Best Paper Prize, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
1994, Best Science Paper Prize, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
Citations
Google Scholar
(search terms with reasonably correct returns as of Sept 2008. Part of the
problem is that my surname gets mis-OCR'ed as "Chain", instead of "Cham".)
M.T. Pham*, V.D.D. Hoang* and T.J. Cham, Detection with multi-exit
asymmetric boosting, In CVPR, 2008. [PDF]
D. Xu, T.J. Cham, S.C. Yan and S.F. Chang, Near duplicate image
identification with spatially aligned pyramid matching, In CVPR, 2008.
[PDF]
M.T. Pham* and T.J. Cham. Fast training and selection of Haar features
using statistics in boosting-based face detection. In ICCV 2007. [PDF]
M.T. Pham* and T.J. Cham. Online learning asymmetric boosted classifiers
for object detection. In CVPR 2007. [PDF]
X. Chen* and T.J. Cham. High distortion and non-structural image matching via feature
co-occurrence. In CVPR 2007. [PDF]
J. Summet*, M. Flagg*, T.J. Cham, J.M. Rehg and R. Sukthankar. Shadow
elimination and blinding light suppression for interactive projected displays. IEEE Trans.
VCG, 13(3):508-517, 2007.
M.S. Brown, P. Song* and T.J. Cham. Image pre-conditioning for out-of-focus
projector blur. In CVPR 2006. [PDF]
P. Song* and T.J. Cham. A theory for photometric self-calibration of
multiple overlapping projectors and cameras. In PROCAMS 2005.
Joint Best Paper Award. [PDF]
X. Chen* and T.J. Cham. Learning feature distance measures for image
correspondences. In CVPR 2005. [PDF]
T.J. Cham, J.M. Rehg, R. Sukthankar and G. Sukthankar. Shadow elimination
and occluder light suppression for multi-projector displays. In CVPR
2003. [PDF]
D.E. DiFranco*, T.J. Cham and J.M. Rehg. Recovery of 3D articulated models
from 2D correspondences. In CVPR 2001. [PDF]
R. Sukthankar, T.J. Cham and G. Sukthankar. Dynamic shadow elimination for
multi-projector presentation systems. In CVPR 2001. [PDF]
T.J. Cham and J.M. Rehg. Dynamic feature ordering for efficient spatial
registration. In ICCV 1999. [PDF]
V. Pavlovic, J.M. Rehg, T.J. Cham and K. Murphy*. A dynamic Bayesian
network approach to figure tracking using learned dynamical models. In ICCV
1999. [PDF]
T.J. Cham and J.M. Rehg. A multiple hypothesis approach to figure
tracking. In CVPR 1999. [PDF]
T.J. Cham and R. Cipolla. Automated B-spline curve representation
incorporating MDL and error-minimizing control point insertion strategies.
IEEE PAMI, 21(1):49-53, 1999. [PDF]
T.J. Cham and R. Cipolla. A statistical framework for long-range feature
matching in uncalibrated image mosaicing. In CVPR 1998. [PDF]
T.J. Cham and R. Cipolla. Stereo coupled active contours. In CVPR
1997. [PDF]
Tat-Jen Cham. Geometric Representation and Grouping of Image Curves. Ph.D
Thesis, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, 1996. [PDF]
T.J. Cham and R. Cipolla. Geometric saliency of curve correspondences and
grouping of symmetric contours. In ECCV 1996. Joint Best Paper Prize.
[PDF]
T.J. Cham and R. Cipolla. Symmetry detection through local skewed
symmetries. IVC, 13(5):439-450, 1995. Joint Best Science Paper Prize
at BMVC'94. [Scanned
PDF]
M.S. Brown, T.J. Cham and P. Song. Minimizing Image Blur in an Image
Projected onto a Display Surface by a Projector. US Patent Application
20070286514, filed June 2006, pending. [USPTO
link]
R. Sukthankar, T.J. Cham, G. Sukthankar, J.M. Rehg. Wireless Multi-User
Multi-Projector Presentation System. US Patent #7,006,055. Issued Feb
28, 2006. [USPTO
link]
T.J. Cham and J.M. Rehg. Method for Efficiently Tracking Object Models in
Video Sequences via Dynamic Ordering of Features. US Patent #6,795,567.
Issued Sept 21 2004. [USPTO
link]
T.J. Cham and J.M. Rehg. Method for efficiently registering object models
in images via dynamic ordering of features. US Patent #6,618,490. Issued
Sept 9 2003. [USPTO
link]
T.J. Cham and J.M. Rehg. Method for Object Registration Via Selection of
Models with Dynamically Ordered Features. US Patent #6,597,801. Issued
July 22 2003. [USPTO
link]
T.J. Cham and J.M. Rehg. Sample Refinement Method of Multiple Mode
Probability Density Estimation. US Patent #6,353,679. Issued Mar 5
2002. [USPTO
link]
T.J. Cham and J.M. Rehg. Multiple Mode Probability Density Estimation with
Application to Multiple Hypothesis Tracking. US Patent #6,314,204.
Issued Nov 6 2001. [USPTO
link]
T.J. Cham and J.M. Rehg. Multiple Mode Probability Density Estimation with
Application to Sequential Markovian Decision Processes. US Patent
#6,226,409. Issued May 1 2001. [USPTO
link]
International Invited Talks
International Workshop on Computer Vision, MIRU Conference, Hiroshima,
Japan, July 2007
GVU Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA, July 2005
Joint Intel-CMU Seminar, Intel Research Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 2005
Machine Learning and Perception Seminar, Microsoft Cambridge, England,
August 2004
EECS Seminar, U.C. Berkeley, CA, USA, February 1999
FX! Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, USA, February 1999
Seminar, Pixar Corporation, Richmond, CA, USA, February 1999
Research Grants
Co-Principal Investigator, AcRF Tier 1 Research Grant, $179K,
2008-2011, Human Gait Recognition with Statistical Learning. PI: Dr XU
Dong.
Principal Investigator, Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA) Grant,
$515K, 2006-2008, Project Tacrea: Localization in Urban Areas based
on Imagery from Mobile Cameras
Principal Investigator, NTU-Georgia Tech collaboration grant, $300K,
2006-2008, Perceptual Fidelity in Projector-Based Ubiquitous Interactive
Displays
Principal Investigator, Academic Research Fund RGM grant, $100K,
2006-2009, Project SmartSpace
Recipient, NTU Research Outcome Award & Recognition (ROAR), in-kind
support for 3 PhD studentships: valued at $150K, 2006-
Faculty Fellow, Singapore-MIT Alliance Computer Science Program,
discretionary funds and research manpower support: valued at approx $400K,
2003-2006
Principal Investigator, Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA) Grant,
$117K, 2002-2005, Geometry-Appearance
Modeling for Object Detection and Recognition in Video and Multi-Spectral
Image Sequences
Principal Investigator, NTU Start-Up Grant, $100K, 2002-2003, Interactive
Display Walls based on Camera-Projector Systems
Research Staff
[Classification: Research Fellow => with Doctoral degree,
Research Associate => with Masters degree, Project Officer => with Bachelors
degree]
Current
Rudianto Sugiyarto, Research Associate
PHAM Minh Tri, Project Officer
Arridhana Ciptadi, Project Officer
Former
Zahoor Zafrulla, Research Associate
Miana Aprilia Husada, Project Officer
Research Students
Current
PHAM Minh Tri, PhD candidate. Thesis: Principled Asymmetric Boosting
Approaches to Rapid Training and Classification in Face Detection. Thesis
under review since July 2008.
HOANG Duc Viet Dung, MEng candidate, joined 2007.
HUANG Yi, PhD candidate, joined 2007. Co-supervised with Dr XU Dong as
main supervisor.
LI Gang, PhD candidate, joined January 2008.
ZHANG Yukuan, PhD candidate, joined July 2008.
TENG Xiao, PhD candidate, joined July 2008.
Former
SONG Peng, PhD 2007. Thesis: Photometric Calibration and Out-of-Focus
Blur Compensation for Projector Camera Systems.
Subsequently research fellow, Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
CHEN Xi, PhD, 2008. Thesis: Learning Transformation Invariance for
Pairwise Image Matching.
Subsequently team leader, Siemens Medical Instruments, Singapore
PONG Hon Keat, PhD, 2008. Thesis: Multispectral Object Detection Using
3D Models Cascade and Region Mutual Information.
Subsequently research fellow, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE),
NTU, Singapore
FENG Zhou, MEng, 2008. Thesis: Human Action Capture and Classification.
Subsequently CEO, Singapore9.com, property investment consultancy
David DiFranco, MIT VI-A Masters, 1999-2000.
Subsequently employed in Tripos Inc., New Jersey
Shyam Krishnamoorthy, Masters-level summer intern, MIT Media Lab, 2001.
Subsequently employed at Microsoft, Redmond
