Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are ideal capturing devices for high-resolution urban 3D reconstructions using multi-view stereo. Nevertheless, practical considerations such as safety usually mean that access to the scan target is often only available for a short amount of time, especially in urban environments.
IVUL got 5 papers accepted to CVPR in total including 3 poster and 2 oral presentation.
Prof. Ghanem gives an invited talk on learning to detect human activity in untrimmed video at GTC Europe 2017
IVUL hosted the 2nd annual ActivityNet Large Scale Action Recognition Challenge during CVPR 2017.
IVUL got 3 papers accepted to ICCV 2017! These papers address research problems in convolutional sparse coding, line drawing analysis, and 3D object detection.
Abdullah Hamdi participates in global UNESCO event on “Youth and their Social Impact” in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Adel Bibi and Matthias Mueller have been accepted to participate in the ICVSS (International Computer Vision Summer Schoole) 2017 in Italy. Admission into this summer school is quite competitive in the vision community.
Forbes ME ranks Hachid among the top 50 best startups in Saudi Arabia
Our paper on binary optimization using MPEC reformulation got accepted to AAAI2017. Check it out in the publication tab
Prof. Ghanem was awarded a TAQADAM grant from Sabb Bank for a project that focuses on developing AR on wearable devices for the sensory impaired.
An IVUL Ph.D. student (Victor Escorcia) participated in the Deep Learning Summer School. He was selected among many students/researchers worldwide to attend this event, where he had the opportunity to interact with and learn from leaders in the field of deep learning.
An IVUL Ph.D. student (Fabian Caba) participates in the Computer Vision Summer School.