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Computer Vision Laboratory (CVLAB) of the Graduate school of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba by Professor Kazuhiro Fukui.
Cvlab’s Datasets and Source Code

In CVLAb we study the field of Computer Vision.
In this section you will be able to find the latest Datasets, Source Codes and Papers developed in our laboratory, and download them for Educational purposes under the license of creative commons.

Lectures and Publications

Find a list of our publications in International Conferences, Domestic Conferences and Journal Papers, as well as detailed information about aur lectures at University of Tsukuba.

Become a part of Cvlab

In CVLAB we are always looking for motivated students to help us with our efforts.

If you would like to join our lab, please get in touch with us through the contact section or contact a member of our staff.

News

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About


Theory and applications of
Pattern Recognition and
Computer vision

We work on research in both viewpoints of theory and practice. Theory: considering deeply the physical natures of an addressed problem Practice: pursing concrete problems with higher social needs.


Theory

Pattern Recognition

  • Theory construction of the subspace based methods for classification
  • Multiple view image processing
  • Fusion of "appearance based method" and "geometry based method"


What is "Subspace Method?"

Subspace Method is one of very importance and effective methods for pattern recognition and computer vision. Even now, various new types of the methods based on the Subspace Method, such as "Mutual Subspace Method", have been still proposed, although Subspace Methods have been practically used for over 30years.

Subspace methods are used for
  • Character recognition
  • Face recognition
  • Object recognition
  • Voice recognition
  • Text classification
  • Data mining

If you are interested in the methods related to "Subspace Method", please visit the homepage of Workshop on Subspace Methods. There are so many latest theses about "subspace method" on the proceedings here.

Workshop on Subspace Methods

Fusion of Statistic theory and geometric theory in pattern recognition

  • Fusion of Subspace method and Factorization method

Learning

  • Method and system for learning with CG images or image sequence from TV



Extracting features from image patterns

  • Edge (Separability filter, etc)
  • Position invariant features, such as HLAC, CHLAC
  • Nonlinear feature extraction


Practical applications

Object recognition

  • Face and 3D object recognition using multiple view image sequence
  • Biometrics
  • Robot vision based on image sequences

Human sensing

  • Human detection and tracing
  • Motion recognition
  • Gazed area detection
  • Image based human interface

Understanding situation

  • Distributed multiple camera system
  • Video surveillance
  • Unusual detection
  • Implementation of various recognition method on FS (Field Server)

Hardware for image proccessing

  • Image recognition using image processing board "Visconti"

Advanced themes

  • Fusion of notion understanding and image recognition
    Mutual Subspace Method (MSM) is mathematically same as Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA). Thus, a notion space may be theoretically connected to a discrimination space generated by Mutual Subspace Method.
  • Fusion with bioinformatics
    Our Constrained Mutual Subspace Method(CMSM), Kernel constrained mutual subspace method(KCMSM)), etc, are not only used for image recognition but also various classification problems. I have a plan of applying our methods to an interesting problem related to bioinformatics.