Organizers

From CVPR10

VLFeat

Dr. Andrea Vedaldi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Visual Geometry Group at Oxford University since 2008. He received the Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2008 and 2005 respectively, and the B.S. degree from the University of Padova, Italy in 2003. He is recipient of the UCLA "Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science" and "Outstanding Master of Science in Computer Science" awards. His primary research interests are image representations and machine learning applied to computer vision. He is co-author of VLFeat, an open source library of computer vision algorithms.

Brian Fulkerson is a Ph.D candidate in the UCLA Vision Lab. He graduated from UCSD in 2004 and received his M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2006. He is the co-author of VLFeat, and participated in the DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges with the Golem Group. His research interests include category recognition, object class localization, and robotics.

GIL

Dr. Hailin Jin is a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe System Incorporated. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University in Saint Louis. Before joining Adobe in 2004, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. His current research interests include image stitching, 3D reconstruction, structure and motion estimation, level set methods, and image-based modeling and rendering.

OpenCV - Willow Garage

Dr. Gary Rost Bradski is a Senior Scientist at Willow Garage. Gary leverages his experience in robotics, machine learning and computer vision research at Stanford University's AI Lab to Willow Garage's personal robot and the autonomous vehicle programs. Dr. Bradski holds a joint appointment as Consulting Professor in Stanford University's Computer Sciences Department and has more than 50 publications, along with 13 issued patents and 18 pending. He developed and manages the Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV) that is used globally in research, government and commercial applications, Dr. Bradski has also been responsible for the open source statistical Machine Learning Library and the Probabilistic Network Library. More recently Dr. Bradski organized the vision team for Stanley, the Stanford robot that won the DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous race in 2005 and most recently helped found the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot (STAIR) project under the leadership of Professor Andrew Ng. Dr. Bradski recently published a new book for O'Reilly Press: Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library.

Dr. Radu Bogdan Rusu is a Research Scientist at Willow Garage. Dr. Rusu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany in 2009 with summa cum laude, and his postgraduate diploma and engineering diploma (M.Sc. Eng. equivalent) in Automation and Computer Science in 2005 and 2004 respectively from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN), Romania. During his Ph.D. studies, Dr. Rusu was affiliated with the AIC (Artificial Intelligence Center) at SRI (Stanford Research Institute) as an International Visiting Researcher working on the Leaving Flatland project, and more recently, Willow Garage, working on 3D semantic mapping techniques for mobile robots. Dr. Rusu's current research interests include real time perception and 3D semantic mapping in the context of mobile manipulation platforms.

Vadim Pisarevsky is the chief developer of OpenCV. Graduated from cybernetics dept. NNSU in 1998, master degree in applied math. Worked as software engineer and the team leader of OpenCV project at Intel Corp in 2000-2008. Since May 2008 he is an employee of Computer Vision Center "Argus" and continues the work on OpenCV by the contract with Willow Garage.