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• May, 2020: Congratulations to Hang Su and Aruni RoyChowdhury on successfully defending their theses!
• Feb, 2020: Congratulations to SouYoung Jin, Tsung-Yu Lin and Pia Bideau on successfully defending their theses!
• May, 2018: Congratulations to Li Yang Ku on a successful thesis defense!
• August, 2014: Congratulations to Laura Sevilla Lara on a successful thesis defense!
• April, 2014: We have completely revamped the Labeled Faces in the Wild results page and published a new technical report that describes updated reporting procedures for LFW.
• April, 2014: Subhransu Maji joins UMass Amherst as new vision faculty!!! Welcome to Prof. Maji!!!
• February, 2014: Paper accepted at CVPR 2014 :
  "The Shape-Time Random Field for Semantic Video Labeling" (Andrew Kae, Ben Marlin, and Erik Learned-Miller).
• January, 2014: Congratulations to Andrew Kae on a successful thesis defense!
• December, 2013: Congratulations to Manjunath Narayana, Jacqueline Feild and Marwan Mattar for successfully defending their theses this semester!
• September, 2013: Paper accepted at ICCV 2013 :
  "Coherent motion segmentation in moving camera videos using optical flow orientations" (Manjunath Narayana, Allen Hanson, and Erik Learned-Miller).
• August, 2013: New set of aligned LFW "deep funneled" images available on the Labeled Faces in the Wild home page.
• July, 2013: Source code for GLOC and features for GLOC are available on the GLOC project page and the Part Labels Database.
• May, 2013: Three papers are accepted to ICDAR 2013:
  
  • "Scene Text Segmentation via Inverse Rendering" ( Yahan Zhou, Jacqueline Feild, Rui Wang, Erik Learned-Miller)
  • "Improving Open-Vocabulary Scene Text Recognition" (Jacqueline Feild, Erik Learned-Miller)
  • "Using a Probabilistic Syllable Model to Improve Scene Text Recognition" (Jacqueline Feild, Erik Learned-Miller, David A. Smith)
• April, 2013: "Augmenting CRFs with Boltzmann Machine Shape Priors for Image Labeling" (Andrew Kae, Kihyuk Sohn, Honglak Lee, and Erik Learned-Miller) is accepted at CVPR 2013.
• March, 2013: Congratulations to Gary Huang for receiving the Outstanding Disseration Award from the School of Computer Science!
• December, 2012: Congratulations to Yahan Zhou for passing portfolio with distinction!
• September, 2012: "Learning to Align from Scratch" (Gary B. Huang, Marwan Mattar, Honglak Lee, and Erik Learned-Miller) is accepted at NIPS 2012.
• July, 2012: Professor Learned-Miller will be a Program Chair for CVPR 2015.
• July, 2012: Congratulations to Ben Mears for winning an NSF Fellowship!
• June, 2012: "Unsupervised Joint Alignment and Clustering using Bayesian Nonparametrics" (Marwan Mattar, Allen Hanson, and Erik Learned-Miller) is accepted at UAI 2012.
• February, 2012: Congratulations to Gary Huang for successfully defending his thesis entitled "Weakly Supervised Learning for Unconstrained Face Processing" and graduating!
  
• February, 2012: Three papers accepted into CVPR 2012!
  
  • "Learning Hierarchical Representations for Face Verification" (Gary B. Huang, Honglak Lee, Erik Learned-Miller)
  • "Distribution Fields for Tracking" (Laura Sevilla Lara, Erik Learned-Miller)
  • "Background Modeling using Adaptive Pixelwise Kernel Variances in a Hybrid Feature Space" (Manjunath Narayana, Allen Hanson, Erik Learned-Miller)
• February, 2012: "Bounding the Probability of Error for High Precision Optical Character Recognition" (Gary B. Huang, Andrew Kae, Carl Doersch, Erik Learned-Miller) accepted into JMLR 2012.
• June, 2011: Congratulations to vision lab alumnus Matthew Blaschko, who has been offered and accepted a tenure-track job at Ecole Centrale de Paris.
• April, 2011: Piyanuch Silapachote successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, titled "Biologically Inspired Vision Systems". Congratulations to Dr. Silapachote!
• March, 2011: David Smith will be joining Google in NYC as a Software Engineer after completing his Masters degree this spring as a Baystate Scholar. Congratulations David!
• February, 2011: "Online Domain-Adaptation of a Pre-Trained Cascade of Classifiers" (Vidit Jain, Erik Learned-Miller) is accepted as an oral presentation at CVPR 2011.
• February, 2011: "Enforcing Similarity Constraints With Integer Programming For Better Scene Text Recognition" (David Smith, Jacqueline Feild, Erik Learned-Miller) is accepted as a poster at CVPR 2011.
• July, 2010: Vidit Jain successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, titled "Using Context to Enhance the Understanding of Face Images". He has accepted a job with Yahoo! Research in Bangalore, India. Congratulations to Dr. Jain!
• July, 2010: Erik Learned-Miller, in collaboration with Graphics graduate student Blake Foster and Graphics professor Rui Wang, has produced a real-time pan-tilt camera using off-the-shelf components and a new tracking algorithm. The work, including all of the components used, and freely downloadable software, is detailed on the UMass Graphics blog. It was recently a featured item on the Make Magazine blog.
• March, 2010: Laura Sevilla Lara and David Smith created a proof-of-concept demo of a currency recognition application running on an iPhone.
• March, 2010: Vidit Jain is organizing the workshop Face Detection: Where we are, and what next? at ECCV 2010.
• March, 2010: "Improving State-of-the-Art OCR through High-Precision Document-Specific Modeling" (Andrew Kae, Gary B. Huang, Carl Doersch, and Erik Learned-Miller) is accepted for publication at CVPR 2010.
• December, 2009: Marwan Mattar led Team Mosaic to a first place prize at the UMass Innovation Challenge. [UMass News, CS News]
• April, 2009: Jacqueline Kenney received a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations to Jackie!
• April, 2009: Marwan Mattar recieved an Isenberg Scholar Award for the 2009/2010 academic year. [UMass News]
• April, 2009: "Learning on the fly: Font free approaches to difficult OCR problems" (Andrew Kae, Erik Learned-Miller) is accepted for publication at ICDAR 2009.
• January, 2009:"Scene text recognition using similarity and a lexicon with sparse belief propagation" (Jerod Weinman, Allen Hanson, Erik Learned-Miller) is accepted for publication in the PAMI Special Issue on Probabilistic Graphical Models, 2009.
• December, 2008: "Nonparametric Curve Alignment" (Marwan Mattar, Michael Ross, Erik Learned-Miller) is accepted for publication at ICASSP 2009.
• October, 2008: Vision Lab alumnus Matthew Blaschko receives Best Student Paper award at ECCV 2008 for his paper "Learning to Localize Objects with Structured Output Regression".
• October, 2008: Professor Learned-Miller will be running a workshop titled Faces in Real-Life Images at this year's European Conference on Computer Vision with co-organizers Andras Ferencz and Frederic Jurie.
• September, 2008: Paul Dickson accepts a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hampshire College. Congratulations to Paul!
• June, 2008: Vision Lab alumnus Matthew Blaschko receives Best Paper award at CVPR 2008 for his paper "Beyond Sliding Windows: Object Localization by Efficient Subwindow Search".
• June, 2008: "Efficiently Learning Random Fields for Stereo Vision with Sparse Message Passing" (Jerod Weinman, Lam Tran, Chris Pal) is accepted for publication at ECCV 2008.
• May, 2008: "Towards unconstrained face recognition." (Gary B. Huang, Manjunath Narayana, and Erik Learned-Miller) is accepted for publication at the Workshop on Perceptual Organzation in Computer Vision (POCV) at CVPR'08.
• March, 2008: Vidit Jain's paper titled "Selective Hidden Random Fields: Exploiting Domain-Specific Saliency for Event Classificationi" is accepted for publication at CVPR'08.
• January, 2008: Jerod Weinman accepts tenure track faculty position at Grinnell College! Congratulations to Jerod!
• October, 2007 : Erik Learned-Miller selected as Outstanding Reviewer for ICCV 2007.
• October, 2007 : The Vision Lab has published a new database of faces, Labeled Faces in the Wild for studying the problem of unconstrained face recognition.
• October, 2007 : Lab members present two papers at ICCV in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• July, 2007 : Professors Learned-Miller and Hanson receive a grant from the National Eye Institute to develop technology to assist people with visual impairments.
• February, 2007 : Vision Lab meetings will be held Thursdays from 4:00-5:00 pm in room 304 of the Computer Science Building. Everyone is welcome but please read the paper for the week if you plan to attend. Papers will be sent out to the vismeetlist preceeding the talk.
• April, 2006 : Professor Erik Learned-Miller has received a 5-year NSF CAREER Award entitled, 'Toward a Self-Taught Vision System'.
• January, 2006 : Vision Lab meetings will be held on Thursdays from 2:40-3:40 in CS Building room 203. Everyone is welcome (but please read the paper). Click here for the schedule of papers we will be discussing.
• January, 2006 : Dima Lisin has accepted a postdoc position with Dr. Stella X. Yu in the Computer Science Department at Boston College.