Yaser Sheikh
Location: (Pittsburgh, PA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yaser
Keywords: Computer Vision, Distributed Sensing, Nonrigid Structure from Motion, 3D reconstruction, Human Detection, Human Tracking, Human Activity Recognition
Posted on: Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Graphics / Visualization, HCI / CSCW
Research Interests:
My research focuses on understanding real world scenes from cameras. Specifically, the following three themes span most of my work:
* Distributed Sensing: The proliferation of cameras in everyday life, first with camcorders and now with cellphone cameras, is introducing many interesting computational paradigms. How can we best understand the world with these hundreds of millions of cameras that see everything?
* Dynamic Scene Analysis: The interaction, in video, of motion induced by moving cameras and and the motion induced by dynamic objects, in particular, intrigues me. I’m working on developing methods to reconstruct dynamic scenes from moving cameras.
* Human Activity Analysis: “Human action is purposeful” wrote Ludwig Von Mises. I am interested in inferring human intention from actions, exploring the tendency of people to behave similarly in similar situations.
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