Björn Stenger
   Computer Vision Group, Toshiba Research Europe

Most Recent Work






Expressive Visual Text-To-Speech Using Active Appearance Models
R. Anderson, B. Stenger, V. Wan, R. Cipolla
CVPR, June 2013, to appear.


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Lip Tracking for 3D Face Registration
R. Anderson, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
MVA, May 2013.
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An Image-Based System for Change Detection on Tunnel Linings
S. Stent, R. Gherardi, B. Stenger, K. Soga, R. Cipolla
MVA, May 2013.
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Object Recognition and Registration from 3D Data






Demisting the Hough Transform for 3D Shape Recognition and Registration
O. J. Woodford, M.-T. Pham, A. Maki, F. Perbet, B. Stenger
BMVC, September 2011.
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A New Distance for Scale-Invariant 3D Shape Recognition and Registration
M.-T. Pham, O. J. Woodford, F. Perbet, A. Maki, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
ICCV, November 2011.
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3D Capture of Deformable Surfaces

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Color Photometric Stereo for Multicolored Surfaces
R. Anderson, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
ICCV, November 2011.
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Augmenting Depth Camera Output Using Photometric Stereo
R. Anderson, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
Machine Vision Applications, June 2011.
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Video Normals From Colored Lights
G. J. Brostow, C. Hernández, G. Vogiatzis, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
IEEE TPAMI, Vol. 33, No. 10, pages 2104-2114, October 2011.
[pdf] [project page] [video part 1, part 2]

Non-Rigid Photometric Stereo with Colored Lights
C. Hernández, G. Vogiatzis, G. J. Brostow, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
ICCV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2007.
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Object Tracking







Online Multiple Classifier Boosting for Object Tracking
T.-K. Kim, T. Woodley, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
Online Learning for Computer Vision (CVPR WS), San Francisco, June 2010.
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Learning to Track With Multiple Observers
B. Stenger, T. Woodley, R. Cipolla
CVPR, Miami, June 2009.
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Tracking Using Online Feature Selection and a Local Generative Model
T. Woodley, B. Stenger, R. Cipolla
BMVC, Warwick, September 2007.
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Human Computer Interaction






A Vision-based System for Display Interaction
B. Stenger, T. Woodley, T.-K. Kim, R. Cipolla
HCI, Cambridge, UK, September 2009.
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AIDIA - Adaptive Interface for Display InterAction
B. Stenger, T. Woodley, T.-K. Kim, C. Hernández, R. Cipolla
BMVC, Leeds, September 2008.
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[demo at IFA 2008 video]
[text input via hand tracking using Dasher: video]




A Real-Time Hand Gesture Interface Implemented on a Multi-Core Processor
T. Ike, N. Kishikawa, B. Stenger
Machine Vision Applications (MVA), pages 9-12, Tokyo, Japan, May 2007.
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Template-Based Hand Pose Recognition Using Multiple Cues
B. Stenger
ACCV, pages 551-560, Hyderabad, India, January 2006.
[pdf] [poster] [video]


Machine Learning for Computer Vision







Correlated Probabilistic Trajectories for Pedestrian Motion Detection
F. Perbet, A. Maki, B. Stenger
ICCV, Kyoto, Sep/Oct 2009.
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Random Forest Clustering and Application to Video Segmentation
F. Perbet, B. Stenger, A. Maki
BMVC, London, September 2009.
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Discriminative Feature Co-occurrence Selection for Object Detection
T. Mita, T. Kaneko, B. Stenger, O. Hori
IEEE TPAMI, Vol. 30, No. 7, pages 1257-1269, July 2008.
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Incremental Linear Discriminant Analysis Using Sufficient Spanning Sets and Its Applications
T.-K. Kim, B. Stenger, J. Kittler, R. Cipolla
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2010.

Incremental Linear Discriminative Analysis
Using Sufficient Spanning Set Approximations

T.-K. Kim, S.-F. Wong, B. Stenger, J. Kittler, R. Cipolla
CVPR, Minneapolis, USA, June 2007.
[pdf] [poster] [code]



A Framework for 3D Object Recognition Using the Kernel Constrained Mutual Subspace Method
K. Fukui, B. Stenger, O. Yamaguchi
Proc. ACCV, Hyderabad, India, pages 315-324, January 2006.
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Topology Free Hidden Markov Models: Application to Background Modeling
B. Stenger, V. Ramesh, N. Paragios, F. Coetzee, J. M. Buhmann
Proc. 8th ICCV, Vol. I, pages 294-301, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.
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Body Pose Estimation

A Single Camera Motion Capture System for Human-Computer Interaction
R. Okada, B. Stenger
Trans. IEICE, Vol. E91-D, No.7, pages 1855-1862, July 2008.
[pdf] [video]

A Video Motion Capture System for Interactive Games
R. Okada, N. Kondoh, B. Stenger
Proc. Machine Vision Applications (MVA), pages 186-189, Tokyo, Japan, May 2007.
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Virtual Fashion Show Using Real-time Markerless Motion Capture
R. Okada, B. Stenger, T. Ike, N. Kondoh
Proc. ACCV, Hyderabad, India, pages 801-810, January 2006.
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Pose Estimation and Tracking Using Multivariate Regression
A. Thayananthan, R. Navaratnam, B. Stenger, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 29, Issue 9, July 2008, Pages 1302-1310.
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Multivariate Relevance Vector Machines for Tracking
A. Thayananthan, R. Navaratnam, B. Stenger, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
Proc. ECCV, Vol. 3, pages 124-138, Graz, Austria, May 2006.
[pdf] [poster] [code] [video]



Hand Pose Estimation

Model-Based Hand Tracking Using a Hierarchical Bayesian Filter
B. Stenger, A. Thayananthan, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
IEEE TPAMI, Vol. 28, No. 9, pages 1372-1384, September, 2006.
[pdf] [data] [video]

Model-Based Hand Tracking Using A Hierarchical Bayesian Filter
B. Stenger, PhD Thesis, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, March 2004.
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Hand Pose Estimation Using Hierarchical Detection
B. Stenger, A. Thayananthan, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
Intl. Workshop on HCI, pages 105-116, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2004.
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Filtering Using a Tree-Based Estimator
B. Stenger, A. Thayananthan, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
Proc. 9th ICCV, Vol. II, pages 1063-1070, Nice, France, October 2003.
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Learning a Kinematic Prior for Tree-Based Filtering
A. Thayananthan, B. Stenger, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
Proc. BMVC, Vol. 2, pages 589-598, Norwich, UK, September 2003.
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Shape Context and Chamfer Matching in Cluttered Scenes
A. Thayananthan, B. Stenger, P. H. S. Torr, R. Cipolla
CVPR, Vol. I, pages 127-133, Madison, USA, June 2003.
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Model-Based 3D Tracking of an Articulated Hand
B. Stenger, P. R. S. Mendonça,, R. Cipolla.
CVPR, Vol. II, pages 310-315, Kauai, USA, December 2001.
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