Publications

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2018

Conferences

Deformable GANs for Pose-based Human Image Generation
A Siarohin, E Sangineto, S Lathuiliere, N Sebe
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, USA​, 2018.
[PDF][BibTex]

Every Smile is Unique: Landmark-Guided Diverse Smile Generation
W Wang, X Alameda-Pineda, D Xu, E Ricci, P Fua, N Sebe
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, USA​, 2018.
[PDF][BibTex]

Group Consistent Similarity Learning via Deep CRFs for Person Re-Identification
Dapeng Chen, Dan Xu, Hongsheng Li, Nicu Sebe, Xiaogang Wang
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, USA​, 2018. (Oral)

Structured Attention Guided Convolutional Neural Fields for Monocular Depth Estimation
Dan Xu, Wei Wang, Hao Tang, Hong Liu, Nicu Sebe, Elisa Ricci
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, USA​, 2018. (Spotlight)
[PDF][BibTex]

PAD-Net: Multi-Tasks Guided Prediction-and-Distillation Network for Simultaneous Depth Estimation and Scene Parsing
Dan Xu, Wanli Ouyang, Xiaogang Wang, Nicu Sebe
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, USA​, 2018.

Plug-and-Play CNN for Crowd Motion Analysis: An Application in Abnormal Event Detection
M. Ravanbakhsh, M. Nabi, H. Mousavi, E. Sangineto, and N. Sebe
IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Lake Tahoe, US, March 2018. (Oral)
[PDF][BibTex]

FontMatcher: Font Image Paring for Harmonious Digital Graphic Design
S. Choi, K. Aizawa, and N. Sebe
ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI), Tokyo, Japan, March 2018. (Oral)
[PDF][BibTex]

Journals

  • Quantization based Hashing: A General Framework for Scalable Image and Video Retrieval
    J. Song, L. Gao, L. Liu, X. Zhu, and N. Sebe
    Pattern Recognition, (PR), 75:175-187, March 2018. [PDF][BibTex]
  • Deep appearance and motion learning for egocentric activity recognition
    X. Wang, L. Gao, J. Song, X. Zhen, N. Sebe, and H. T. Shen
    Neurocomputing, 275:438-447, January 2018. [PDF][BibTex]

    • 2017

    Conferences

    Learning Deep Structured Multi-Scale Features using Attention-Gated CRFs for Contour Prediction
    D. Xu, W. Ouyang, X. Alameda-Pineda, E. Ricci, X. Wang, and N. Sebe
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Long Beach, December 2017.
    [PDF][BibTex]

    Multi-Scale Continuous CRFs as Sequential Deep Networks for Monocular Depth Estimation
    D. Xu, E. Ricci, W. Ouyang, X. Wang, and N. Sebe
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu, July 2017. (Spotlight Oral)
    [PDF][BibTex]

    Learning Cross-Modal Deep Representations for Robust Pedestrian Detection
    D. Xu, W. Ouyang, E. Ricci, X. Wang, and N. Sebe
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu, July 2017.
    [PDF][BibTex]

    Viraliency: Pooling Local Virality
    X. Alameda-Pineda, A. Pilzer, D. Xu, N. Sebe, and E. Ricci
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu, July 2017.
    [PDF][BibTex]

    Spatio-Temporal Vector of Locally Max Pooled Features for Action Recognition in Videos
    I. Duta, B. Ionescu, K. Aizawa, and N. Sebe
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu, July 2017.
    [PDF][BibTex]

    How to Make an Image More Memorable? A Deep Style Transfer Approach
    A. Siarohin, G. Zen, C. Majtanovic, X. Alameda-Pineda, E. Ricci and N. Sebe
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Bucharest, June 2017.
    [PDF][BibTex]

    Simple, Efficient and Effective Encodings of Local Deep Features for Video Action Recognition
    I. Duță, B. Ionescu, K. Aizawa and N. Sebe
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Bucharest, June 2017.
    [PDF][BibTex]

    A Cross-modal Adaptation Approach for Brain Decoding
    P. Ghaemmaghami, M. Nabi, Y. Yan, G. Riccardi, and N. Sebe
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, USA, March 2017.
    [PDF][BibTex]

    Spatio-temporal VLAD Encoding for Human Action Recognition in Videos
    I. Duta, B. Ionescu, K. Aizawa, and N. Sebe
    International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), Reykjavik, Iceland, January 2017.
    [PDF][BibTex]

    Generative Adversarial Nets for Abnormal Event Detection in Crowd
    M. Ravanbakhsh, M. Nabi, E. Sangineto, L. Marcenaro, C. Regazzoni, and N. Sebe
    International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Beijing, China, September 2017.
    (Second Best Student Paper Award)
    [PDF][BibTex]

    Journals

    • Efficient Human Action Recognition using Histograms of Motion Gradients and VLAD with Descriptor Shape Information
      I. Duta, J. Uijlings, B. Ionescu, K. Aizawa, A. Hauptmann and N. Sebe
      Multimedia Tools and Applications, (MTA), 76(21): 22445–22472, November 2017. [PDF][BibTex]
    • Indoor Localization via Multi-View Images and Videos
      G. Lu, Y. Yan, N. Sebe, and C. Kambhamettu
      Computer Vision and Image Understanding, (CVIU), 161:145-160, August 2017. [PDF][BibTex]
    • The Many Shades of Negativity
      Z. Ma, Y. Yang, X. Chang, N. Sebe, and A. Hauptmann
      IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, (TMM), 19(7):1558-1568, July 2017. [PDF][BibTex]
    • The S-Hock dataset: A new Benchmark for Spectator Crowd Analysis
      F. Setti, D. Conigliaro, P. Rota, C. Bassetti, N. Conci, N. Sebe, and M. Cristani
      Computer Vision and Image Understanding, (CVIU), 159:47-58, June 2017. [PDF][BibTex]
    • Detecting Anomalous Events in Videos by Learning Deep Representations of Appearance and Motion
      D. Xu, Y. Yan, E. Ricci, and N. Sebe
      Computer Vision and Image Understanding, (CVIU), 159:47-58, June 2017. [PDF][BibTex]

      • Book Chapters

      • SALSA: A multimodal dataset for the automated analysis of free-standing social interactions
        X. Alameda-Pineda, R. Subramanian, E. Ricci, O. Lanz, and N. Sebe
        in Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision, V. Murino, M. Cristani, S. Shah, and S. Savarese, Eds., pp. 321-340, Elsevier, 2017.
        [PDF][BibTex]
      • Exploring Multitask and Transfer Learning Algorithms for Head Pose Estimation in Dynamic Multiview Scenarios
        E. Ricci, Y. Yan, A.K. Rajagopal, R. Subramanian, R. Vieriu, O. Lanz, and N. Sebe
        in Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision, V. Murino, M. Cristani, S. Shah, and S. Savarese, Eds., pp. 67-87, Elsevier, 2017.
        [PDF][BibTex]
      • Utilizing Implicit User Cues for Multimedia Analytics
        R. Subramanian, S. O. Gilani, and N. Sebe
        in Research Frontiers of Multimedia, S-F. Chang, Ed., Morgan and Claypool, 2017. [PDF][BibTex]
      • Multimodal analysis of free-standing conversational groups
        X. Alameda-Pineda, E. Ricci, and N. Sebe
        in Research Frontiers of Multimedia, S-F. Chang, Ed., Morgan and Claypool, 2017. [PDF][BibTex]

        • 2016

        Conferences

        Recurrent Face Aging
        W. Wang, Z. Cui, Y. Yan, J. Feng, S. Yan, X. Shu, and N. Sebe
        IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR), 2016. (Oral)
        [PDF][BibTex]

        Self-Adaptive Matrix Completion for Heart Rate Estimation from Face Videos under Realistic Conditions
        S. Tulyakov, X. Alameda-Pineda, E. Ricci, L. Yin, J. Cohn, and N. Sebe
        IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR), 2016. (Oral)
        [PDF][BibTex]

        Recognizing Emotions from Abstract Paintings using Kernel Matrix Completion
        X. Alameda-Pineda, Y. Yan, E. Ricci, and N. Sebe
        International Conference on Pattern Recognition(CVPR), 2016.
        [PDF][BibTex]

        Academic Coupled Dictionary Learning for Sketch-based Image Retrieval
        D. Xu, X. Alameda-Pineda, J. Song, E. Ricci, and N. Sebe
        ACM International Conference on Multimedia(MM), 2016. (Oral)
        [PDF][BibTex]

        Joint Graph Learning and Video Segmentation via Multiple Cues and Topology Calibration
        J. Song, L. Gao, M. Puscas, F. Nie, F. Shen and N. Sebe
        ACM International Conference on Multimedia(MM), 2016. (Oral)
        [PDF][BibTex]

        Multi-Paced Dictionary Learning for Cross-Domain Retrieval and Recognition
        D. Xu, J. Song, X. Alameda-Pineda, E. Ricci and N. Sebe
        International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR),2016.(Oral)(Best Scientific Paper Award!!!)
        [PDF][BibTex]

        Sparse-coded Cross-domain Adaptation from the Visual to the Brain Domain
        P. Ghaemmaghami, M. Nabi, Y. Yan, and N. Sebe
        International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR), 2016. (Oral)
        [PDF][BibTex]

        Boosting VLAD with Double Assignment using Deep Features for Action Recognition in Videos
        I. Duta, T. Anh Nguyen, K. Aizawa, B. Ionescu, and N. Sebe
        International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR),2016.(Oral)
        [PDF][BibTex]

        Recurrent Convolutional Face Alignment
        W. Wang, S. Tulyakov, and N. Sebe
        Asian Conference on Computer Vision(ACCV),2016.(Oral)
        [PDF][BibTex]

        Sparse Code Filtering for Action Pattern Mining
        W. Wang, Y. Yan, L. Nie, L. Zhang, S. Winkler, and N. Sebe
        Asian Conference on Computer Vision(ACCV),2016.(Oral)
        [PDF][BibTex]

        Journals

        • SALSA: A Novel Dataset for Multimodal Group Behavior Analysis
          X. Alameda-Pineda, J. Staiano, R. Subramanian, L. Batrinca, E. Ricci, B. Lepri, O. Lanz, and N. Sebe
          IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, (TPAMI), 38(8):1706-1720, August 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • A Multi-task Learning Framework for Head Pose Estimation under Target Motion
          Y. Yan, E. Ricci, R. Subramanian, G. Liu, O. Lanz, and N. Sebe
          IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, (TPAMI), 38(6):1070-1083, June 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Optimized Graph Learning Using Partial Tags and Multiple, Features for Image and Video Annotation
          J. Song, L. Gao, F. Nie, H. T. Shen, and N. Sebe
          IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 25(11):4999-5011, November 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Category Specific Dictionary Learning for Attribute Specific Feature Selection
          W. Wang, Y. Yan, S. Winkler, and N. Sebe
          IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 25(3):1465-1478, March 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Collaborative Sparse Coding for Multi-view Action Recognition
          W. Wang, Y. Yan, L. Zhang, R. Hong, and N. Sebe
          IEEE Multimedia (TMM), 23(4):80-87, October-December 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Deep and Fast: Deep Learning Hashing with Semi-supervised Graph Construction
          J. Song, L. Gao, Y. Yan, F. Zou, and N. Sebe
          Image and Vision Computing (IVC), 55(part 2):101-108, November 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Perceptual Attributes Optimization for Multivideo Summarization
          L. Nie, R. Hong, L. Zhang, Y. Xia, D. Tao, and N. Sebe
          IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, (TCYB), 46(12):2991-3003, December 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Crowd behavior representation: An attribute-based approach
          H. Rabiee, J. Haddadnia, H. Mousavi, M. Nabi, V. Murino, and N. Sebe
          Springerplus, 5(1):1179, December 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • ASCERTAIN: Emotion and Personality Recognition using Commercial Sensors
          R. Subramanian, J. Wache, M. K. Abadi, R. L. Vieriu, S. Winkler and N. Sebe
          IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC), 25(3):1465-1478, March 2016. [PDF][BibTex][Dataset]
        • Event-based Media Processing and Analysis: A Survey of the Literature
          C. Tzelepis, Z. Ma, V. Mezaris, B. Ionescu, I. Kompatsiaris, G. Boato, N. Sebe, and S. Yan
          Image and Vision Computing, (IVC), 53:3-19, September 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • A Modified Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors Approach for Fast Video Classification
          I. Mironică, I. Duţă, B. Ionescu, and N. Sebe
          Multimedia Tools and Applications, (MTP), 53:3-19, September 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Computational Modeling of Affective Qualities of Abstract Paintings
          A. Sartori, D. Culibrk, Y. Yan, R. Job, and N. Sebe
          IEEE Multimedia, 53:3-19, September 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Learning Personalized Models for Facial Expression Analysis and Gesture Recognition
          G. Zen, L. Porzi, E. Sangineto, E. Ricci, and N. Sebe
          IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, (TMM), 18(4):775-788, April 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Multimodal Personality Recognition in Collaborative Goal-Oriented Tasks
          L. Batrinca, N. Mana, B. Lepri, N. Sebe, and F. Pianesi
          IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, (TMM), 18(4):659-673, April 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • A Distance-Computation-Free Search Scheme for Binary Code Databases
          J. Song, H. T. Shen, J. Wang, Z. Huang, N. Sebe, J. Wang
          IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, (TMM), 18(3):484-495, March 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Active Domain Adaptation with Noisy Labels for Multimedia Analysis
          G. Liu, Y. Yan, R. Subramanian, J. Song, G. Lu, and N. Sebe
          World Wide Web, (WWW), 19(2):199-215, February 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Fisher Kernel Temporal Variation-based Relevance Feedback for Video Retrieval
          I. Mironica, B. Ionescu, J. Uijlings, and N. Sebe
          Computer Vision and Image Understanding, (CVIU), 143:38-51, February 2016. [PDF][BibTex]
        • Where Am I in the Dark: Exploring Active Transfer Learning on the Use of Indoor Localization based on Thermal Imaging
          G. Lu, Y. Yan, L. Ren, P. Saponaro, N. Sebe, C. Kambhamettu
          Computer Vision and Image Understanding, (CVIU), 173(1):83-92, January 2016. [PDF][BibTex]

          • 2015

          Conferences

          The S-Hock Dataset: Analyzing Crowds at the Stadium
          Davide Conigliaro, Paolo Rota, Francesco Setti, Chiara Bassetti, Nicola Conci, Nicu Sebe, Marco Cristani
          IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex][Dataset]

          Optimal Graph Learning with Partial Tags and Multiple Features
          Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song, Feiping Nie, Yan Yan, Nicu Sebe          , Heng Tao Shen
          IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Regressing a 3D Face Shape from a Single Image
          Sergey Tulyakov, Nicu Sebe
          IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Unsupervised Tube Extraction using Transductive Learning and Dense Trajectories
          Mihai Marian Puscas, Enver Sangineto, Dubravko Culibrk, Nicu Sebe
          IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Localize Me Anywhere, Anytime: A Multi-task Point-Retrieval Approach
          Guoyu Lu, Yan Yan, Li Ren, Jingkuan Song, Nicu Sebe, Chandra Kambhamettu
          IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Analyzing Free-standing Conversational Groups: A Multimodal Approach
          Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Yan Yan, Elisa Ricci, Oswald Lanz, Nicu Sebe
          ACM Multimedia(ACM MM), 2015.(Oral)(Best Paper Award!!!)
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Who’s Afraid of Itten: Using the Art Theory of Color Combination to Analyze Emotions in Abstract Paintings
          Andreza Sartori, Dubravko Culibrk, Yan Yan, Nicu Sebe
          ACM Multimedia(ACM MM), 2015.(Oral)
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Supervised Hashing with Pseudo Labels for Scalable Multimedia Retrieval
          Jingkuan Song, Lianli Gao, Yan Yan, Dongxiang Zhang, Nicu Sebe
          ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Looking at Mondrian’s Victory Boogie-Woogie: What do I feel?
          Andreza Sartori, Yan Yan, Gozde Ozbal, Almila Akdag Salah, Albert Ali Salah, Nicu Sebe
          International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2015.(Oral)
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Inferring Painting Style with Multi-task Dictionary Learning
          Gaowen Liu, Yan Yan, Elisa Ricci, Yi Yang, Yahong Han, Stefan Winkler, Nicu Sebe
          International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Complex Event Detection via Event Oriented Dictionary Learning
          Yan Yan, Yi Yang, Haoquan Shen, Deyu Meng, Gaowen Liu, Alex Hauptmann, Nicu Sebe
          AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Learning Deep Representations of Appearance and Motion for Anomalous Event Detection
          Dan Xu, Elisa Ricci, Yan Yan, Jingkuan Song, Nicu Sebe
          British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2015. (Oral) 
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Facial Expression Recognition under a Wide Range of Head Poses
          Radu-Laurentiu Vieriu, Sergey Tulyakov, Stanislau Semeniuta, Enver Sangineto, Nicu Sebe
          IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          The More the Merrier: Analysing the Affect of a Group of People in Images
          Abhinav Dhall, Jyoti Joshi, Karan Sikka, Roland Goecke, Nicu Sebe
          IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Inference of Personality Traits and Affect Schedule by Analysis of Spontaneous Reactions to Affective Videos
          Mojtaba Khomami Abadi, Juan Abdon Miranda Correa, Julia Wache, Heng Yang, Ioannis Patras, Nicu Sebe
          IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Attribute-Guided Dictionary Learning
          Wei Wang, Yan Yan, Nicu Sebe
          ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2015.  
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Implicit User-centric Personality Recognition based on Physiological Responses to Emotional Videos
          Julia Wache, Ramanathan Subramanian, Mojtaba Khomami Abadi, Radu-Laurentiu Vieriu, Nicu Sebe, Stefan Winkler
          ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2015.  
          [PDF][BibTex][Dataset]

          Beyond Bag-of-Words: Fast Video Classification with Fisher Kernel Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors
          Ionut Mironica, Ionut Duta, Bogdan Ionescu, Nicu Sebe
          IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2015.  
          [PDF][BibTex]

          An Eye-tracking Dataset for Animal-centric PASCAL Object Classes
          Syed Omer Gilani, Ramanathan Subramanian, Yan Yan, David Melcher, Nicu Sebe, Stefan Winkler
          IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2015.  
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Real-life Violent Social Interaction Detection
          P. Rota, N. Conci, J. Rehg,           N. Sebe
          International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2015.  
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Cluster Encoding For Modelling the Temporal Variation in Video
          Negar Rostamzadeh, Jasper Uijlings, Ionut Mironica, Mojtaba Khomami Abadi, Bogdan Ionescu, Nicu Sebe
          International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2015. 
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Emotions in Abstract Art: Does Texture Matter?
          Andreza Sartori, Berhan Senyazar, Alkim Almila Akdag Salah, Albert AliSalah, Nicu Sebe
          International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Movie Genre Classification by Exploiting MEG Brain Signals
          Pouya Ghaemmaghami, Mojtaba Khomam Abadi, Seyed Mostafa Kia1, Paolo Avesani, Nicu Sebe
          International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), 2015.
          [PDF][BibTex]

          Journals

          • A Multi-task Learning Framework for Head Pose Estimation under Target Motion
            Yan Yan, Elisa Ricci, Ramanathan Subramanian, Gaowen Liu, Oswald Lanz, Nicu Sebe
            IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), in press. [PDF][BibTex]
          • Event Oriented Dictionary Learning for Complex Event Detection
            Yan Yan, Yi Yang, Deyu Meng, Gaowen Liu, Wei Tong, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Nicu Sebe
            IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 24(6):1867-1878, 2015. [PDF][BibTex]