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2013

Vasileios Zografos, Liam Ellis, and Rudolf Mester:
Discriminative Subspace Clustering
Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR, 2013)

Christian Conrad, and Rudolf Mester:
Learning Multi-View Correspondences via Subspace-Based Temporal Coincidences
In Proc. Scandinavian Conferences on Image Analysis (SCIA, 2013)
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In this work we present an approach to automatically learn pixel correspondences between pairs of cameras. We build on the method of Temporal Coincidence analysis (TCA) and extend it from the pure temporal (i.e. single-pixel) to the spatiotemporal domain. Our approach is based on learning a statistical model for local spatiotemporal image patches, determining rare, and expressive events from this model, and matching these events across multiple views. Accumulating multi-image coincidences of such events over time allows to learn the desired geometric and photometric relations. The presented method also works for strongly different viewpoints and camera settings, including substantial rotation, and translation. The only assumption that is made is that the relative orientation of pairs of cameras may be arbitrary, but fixed, and that the observed scene shows visual activity. We show that the proposed method outperforms the single pixel approach to TCA both in terms of learning speed and accuracy.

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2012

Christian Conrad, and Rudolf Mester:
Learning Geometrical Transforms between Multi Camera Views using Canonical Correlation Analysis
In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC, 2012)
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In this work, we study unsupervised learning of correspondences relations (point-to-point, or point-to-point-set) in binocular video streams. This is useful for low level vision tasks in stereo vision or motion estimation as well as in high level applications like object tracking. In contrast to popular probabilistic methods for unsupervised (feature) learning, often involving rather sophisticated machinery and optimization schemes, we present a sampling-free algorithm based on Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA), and show how 'correspondence priors' can be determined in closed form. Specifically, given video streams of two views of a scene, our algorithm first determines pixel correspondences on a coarse scale. Subsequently it projects those correspondences to the original resolution. For each point in video channel A, regions of high probability containing the corresponding point in image channel B are determined, thus forming correspondence priors. Such correspondence priors may then be plugged into probabilistic and energy based formulations of specific vision applications. Experimental results show the applicability of the proposed method in very different real world scenarios where the binocular views may be subject to substantial spatial transformations.

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David Dederscheck, Thomas Müller and Rudolf Mester:
Illumination Invariance for Driving Scene Optical Flow using Comparagram Preselection
accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2012), June 3-7, 2012, in Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
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In the recent years, advanced video sensors have become common in driver assistance, coping with the highly dynamic lighting conditions by nonlinear exposure adjustments. However, many computer vision algorithms are still highly sensitive to the resulting sudden brightness changes. We present a method that is able to estimate the relative intensity transfer function (RITF) between images in a sequence even for moving cameras. The according compensation of the input images can improve the performance of further vision tasks significantly, here demonstrated by results from optical flow. Our method identifies corresponding intensity values from areas in the images where no apparent motion is present. The RITF is then estimated from that data and regularized based on its curvature. Finally, built-in tests reliably flag image pairs with 'adverse conditions' where no compensation could be performed.

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Alvaro Guevara, Christian Conrad, and Rudolf Mester:
Curvature oriented clustering of sparse motion vector fields
In Proc. IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis & Interpretation (SSIAI)
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We present an approach to unveil the underlying structure of dynamic scenes from a sparse set of local flow measurements. We first estimate those measurements at carefully selected locations, and subsequently group them into a finite set of different dense flow field hypotheses. These flow fields are represented as parametric functional models, and the number of flow models (=clusters) is determined by an information-theory based approach. Methodically, the grouping task is a two-step clustering scheme, whose intra-cluster modeling step exploits prior knowledge on real flow fields by enforcing low curvature, and the individual covariance matrices of the sparse local flow measurements are introduced in a principled way. The method has been tested successfully on both stereo and general motion sequences from the standard Middlebury database

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Rudolf Mester
A Bayesian view on matching and motion estimation
In Proc. IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis & Interpretation (SSIAI)
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This paper formulates the problem of estimating motion or geometric transforms between images in a Bayesian manner, stressing the relation between continuous and discrete formulations and emphasizing the necessity to employ stochastic distributions on function spaces

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2011

Rudolf Mester:
Recursive live dense reconstruction: some comments on established and imaginable new approaches.
In Live Dense Reconstruction Workshop, Proc. IEEE ICCV 2011, Barcelona, Spain, November 2011.

Alvaro Guevara, Christian Conrad, and Rudolf Mester:
Boosting segmentation results by contour relaxation
In Proc. IEEE Intern. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2011), pages 1405 ¿1408, Brussels, September 2011.

Müller, Thomas ; Rabe, Clemens ; Rannacher, Jens ; Franke, Uwe ; Mester, Rudolf:
Illumination-Robust Dense Optical Flow Using Census Signatures .
In: Mester, Rudolf ; Felsberg, Michael (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition
(33th DAGM symposium Frankfurt, Germany August 30th-September 2nd, 2011).
Berlin / Heidelberg : Springer Verlag, 2011, S. 236-245. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Nr. 6835) - ISBN 978-3-642-23122-3

Mester, Rudolf ; Felsberg, Michael (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition
(33th DAGM symposium Frankfurt, Germany August 30th-September 2nd, 2011).
Berlin / Heidelberg : Springer Verlag, 2011. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Nr. 6835) - ISBN 978-3-642-23122-3

Friedrich, Holger:
Applications of Spherical Harmonics in Robot Vision.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011. 147 Seiten.
Stichwörter: spherical harmonics; robot navigation; omnidirectional vision

Conrad, Christian ; Guevara, Alvaro ; Mester, Rudolf:
Learning multi-view correspondences from temporal coincidences.
(2011 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) Colorado Springs, CO, USA, June 20-25, 2011).
2011.

Conrad, Christian ; Guevara, Alvaro ; Mester, Rudolf:
T. Rare Events as a Powerful Cue for Finding Multi-View Correspondences .
(Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis, SSBA 2011, Linköping, March 2011).
2011.

Mester, Rudolf, Conrad, Christian ; Guevara, Alvaro:
Multichannel Segmentation Using CR: Fast Super-Pixels and Temporal Propagation .
(Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2011, Ystad, May 2011 (Springer LNCS series)).
2011.

Guevara, Alvaro ; Mester, Rudolf:
Kernels for Reconstructing Nonideally Sampled Nonbandlimited Signals .
(IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Nice (F), 28-30 June 2011).
2011.

Dederscheck, David ; Lenhart, Christine ; Friedrich, Holger ; Mester, Rudolf:
Running on Optical Rails (submitted to International Journal of Computer Vision IJCV) .
2011.
Stichwörter:  Optical Rails, view based navigation

Guevara, Alvaro ; Mester, Rudolf:
Wiener crosses borders: interpolation based on second order models .
Proc. SPIE 7870 (Electronic Imaging)
(IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2011 San Francisco, USA January 23 - 27, 2011).
2011.
Stichwörter:  Interpolation; MMSE; Wiener
[doi>10.1117/12.871198]

2010

Guevara, Alvaro ; Wolenski, Peter:
Convergence results for a self-dual regularization of convex problems .
Talk or presentation: 10th International Conference on Parametric Optimization and Related Topics (paraoptX) 2010, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie,
Karlsruhe, 23.09.2010
Stichwörter:  convex and parametric optimization; converegence results; self-dual regularization

Guevara, Alvaro ; Conrad, Christian ; Mester, Rudolf:
Grouping visual objects based on flow structure .
Poster presentation at Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) 2010, Berlin Institute of Technology,
Berlin, 27.09.2010

Conrad, Christian ; Guevara, Alvaro ; Mester, Rudolf:
Learning Temporal Coincidences .
Poster presentation at Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) 2010, Berlin Institute of Technology,
Berlin, 27.09.2010

Mester, Rudolf ; Guevara, Alvaro ; Conrad, Christian ; Friedrich, Holger:
Learning visual motion and structure as latent explanations from huge motion data sets .
Poster presentation at Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) 2010, Berlin Institute of Technology,
Berlin, 27.09.2010

Guevara, Alvaro ; Mester, Rudolf:
Minimum Variance Image Interpolation from Noisy and Aliased Samples .
Proc. SSIAI
(IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI) Austin, Texas, USA May 23-25, 2010).
2010.
Stichwörter:  nonideal sampling; minimum mean square error (MMSE) reconstruction; interpolation

Dederscheck, David ; Zahn, Martin ; Friedrich, Holger ; Mester, Rudolf:
Optical Rails: Slicing the View .
Poster presentation at Omnivis Workshop 2010 in conjunction with "Robotics: Science and Systems",
Zaragoza, Spain, 27.06.2010
Stichwörter:  Optical Rails; occlusion-aware view-based navigation

Dederscheck, David ; Zahn, Martin ; Friedrich, Holger ; Mester, Rudolf:
Optical Rails: View-Based Track Following with Hemispherical Environment Model and Orientation View Descriptors .
(20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR 2010 Istanbul, Turkey August 23-26, 2010).
2010.

Guevara, Alvaro ; Mester, Rudolf:
Optimal reconstruction from samples for continuous and discrete signals: an statistical approach .
Poster presentation at DAGStat 2010, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany,
Dortmund, 24.03.2010

Fürtig, Andreas ; Friedrich, Holger ; Mester, Rudolf:
Robust Pixel Classification for RoboCup .
ZBS e.V.
(16. Workshop Farbbildverarbeitung Applikationszentrum (APZ) Ilmenau, Germany October 7-8, 2010).
2010. - ISBN 978-3-00-032504-5
Stichwörter:  pixel based classification; image statistics

Guevara, Alvaro ; Mester, Rudolf:
Signal Reconstriction from Noisy, Aliased, and Nonideal Samples: What Linear MMSE Approaches Can Achieve .
(2010 European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO-2010 Aalborg, Denmark August 23-27, 2010).
2010, S. 1291-1295.

Dederscheck, David ; Zahn, Martin ; Friedrich, Holger ; Mester, Rudolf:
Slicing the View: Occlusion-Aware View-Based Robot Navigation .
In: Goesele, Michael ; Roth, Stefan ; Kuijper, Arjan ; Schiele, Bernt ; Schindler, Konrad (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition
(32th DAGM symposium Darmstadt, Germany September 22-24, 2010).
Berlin / Heidelberg : Springer Verlag, 2010, S. 111-120. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Nr. 6376) - ISBN 978-3-642-15985-5
Stichwörter:  Optical Rails; occlusion-aware view-based navigation

2009

Dederscheck, David ; Friedrich, Holger ; Lenhart, Christine ; Zahn, Martin ; Mester, Rudolf:
'Featuring' Optical Rails: View-Based Robot Guidance Using Orientation Features on the Sphere .
2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops
(9th IEEE Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-classical Cameras (OMNIVIS2009) Kyoto, Japan 04.10.2009).
IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009, S. 2156-2163. - ISBN 9781424444427 (book) 9781424444410 (dvd)
Stichwörter:  Optical Rails, robot navigation, spherical harmonics, view based
[doi>10.1109/ICCVW.2009.5457547]

2008

Kondermann, Claudia ; Mester, Rudolf ; Garbe, Christoph:
A Statistical Confidence Measure for Optical Flows .
In: Forsyth, David ; Torr, Philip ; Zisserman, Andrew (Hrsg.) : Computer Vision - ECCV 2008
(The 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008) Marseille October 12-18, 2008).
Springer Verlag, 2008. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Nr. 5302-5305)

Wedel, Andreas ; Franke, Uwe ; Badino, Hernán ; Cremers, Daniel:
B-Spline Modeling of Road Surfaces for Freespace Estimation .
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (to appear)
(IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Einhoven, The Netherlands June 4-6, 2008).
2008.

Preusser, T. ; Scharr, Hanno ; Krajsek, Kai ; Kirby, R. M.:
Building blocks for computer vision with stochastic partial differential equations .
In: International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 80 (2008), Nr. 3, S. 375 - 405

Vaudrey, Tobi ; Badino, Hernán ; Gehrig, Stefan:
Integrating Disparity Images by Incorporating Disparity Rate .
Second Workshop Robot Vision
(Second Workshop Robot Vision Auckland, New Zealand February 2008).
2008.

Garbe, Christoph S. ; Krajsek, Kai ; Pavlov, Pavel ; Andres, Björn ; Mühlich, Matthias ; Stuke, Ingo ; Mota, Cicero ; Böhme, Martin ; Haker, Martin ; Schuchert, Tobias ; Scharr, Hanno ; Aach, Til ; Barth, Erhardt ; Mester, Rudolf ; Jähne, Bernd:
Nonlinear analysis of multi-dimensional signals: local adaptive estimation of complex motion and orientation patterns .
In: Dahlhaus, Rainer ; Kurths, Jürgen ; Maass, Peter ; Timmer, Jens (Hrsg.) : Mathematical Methods in Time Series Analysis and Digital Image Processing.
Berlin Heidelberg : Springer, 2008, (Understanding Complex Systems), S. 231-288. - ISBN 978-3-540-75631-6. ISSN 1860-0832

Friedrich, Holger ; Dederscheck, David ; Rosert, Eduard ; Mester, Rudolf:
Optical Rails. View-based Point-To-Point Navigation using Spherical Harmonics .
In: Rigoll, Gerhard (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition
(30th DAGM Symposium München 10.-13. Juni 2008).
Berlin : Springer Verlag, 2008, S. 345-354. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Nr. 5096) - ISBN 978-3-540-69320-8
Stichwörter:  view based navigation; spherical harmonics

Krajsek, Kai ; Menzel, M. ; Zwanger, M. ; Scharr, Hanno:
Riemannian Anisotropic Diffusion for Tensor Valued Images. .
In: Forsyth, D. ; Torr, P. ; Zisserman, A. (Hrsg.) : Computer Vision - ECCV 2008
(ECCV 2008 Marseille, France October 12-18, 2008).
Berlin : Springer, 2008, S. 326-339. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Bd. 5305)

Dederscheck, David ; Friedrich, Holger ; Lenhart, Christine ; Penc, Joachim ; Rosert, Eduard ; Scherer, Maximilian ; Mester, Rudolf:
Running on Optical Rails: Theory, Implementation and Testing of Omnidirectional View-based Point-To-Point Navigation .Version: 29.09 2008.  http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00325385/en/.
- Online Ressource,  - The 8th Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-classical Cameras - OMNIVIS - INRIA a CCSD electronic archive server based on P.A.O.L (France)
Stichwörter:  Optical Rails, robot navigation, spherical harmonics, view based

Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf ; Scharr, Hanno:
Statistically Optimal Averaging for Image Restoration and Optical Flow Estimation .
In: Rigoll, Gerhard (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition
(30th DAGM Symposium München 10.-13. Juni 2008).
Berlin : Springer Verlag, 2008, S. 466-475. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Nr. 5096)
Stichwörter:  recipient of DAGM price 2008

Badino, Hernán ; Vaudrey, Tobi ; Franke, Uwe ; Mester, Rudolf:
Stereo-based Free Space Computation in Complex Traffic Scenarios .
Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation
(Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA March 2008).
2008.

Franke, Uwe ; Gehrig, Stefan ; Badino, Hernán ; Rabe, Clemens:
Towards Optimal Stereo Analysis of Image Sequences .
Second Workshop Robot Vision
(Second Workshop Robot Vision Auckland, New Zealand February 2008).
2008.

Friedrich, Holger ; Dederscheck, David ; Rosert, Eduard ; Mester, Rudolf:
View-based navigation using spherical harmonics and 'optical rails' .
In: Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (Veranst.):
Proceedings SSBA 2008
(Symposium on Image Analysis Lund, Sweden March 12-14, 2008).
2008, S. 47-50.

Friedrich, Holger ; Dederscheck, David ; Mutz, Martin ; Mester, Rudolf:
View-based Robot Localization Using Illumination-invariant Spherical Harmonics Descriptors .
In: Ranchordas, Alpesh ; Araujo, Helder (Hrsg.) : INSTICC and University of Madeira (Veranst.):
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computer Vision and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications
(3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP/VISGRAPP) Funchal, Madeira, Portugal 22.-25.01.2008). Bd. 2.
2008, S. 543-550. - ISBN 978-989-8111-22-7
Stichwörter:  robot localization, spherical harmonics, illumination invariance, PCA

2007

Badino, Hernán:
A Robust Approach for Ego-Motion Estimation Using a Mobile Stereo Platform .
In: Jähne, Bernd ; Mester, Rudolf ; Barth, E. ; Scharr, Hanno (Hrsg.) : Complex Motion
(First International Workshop on Complex Motion (IWCM) Günzburg, Germany Oct. 12 - 14, 2004).
Springer Verlag, 2007. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Nr. 3417) - ISBN 978-3-540-69864-7

Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf:
A Unified Theory for Steerable and Quadrature Filters .
In: Braz, J. ; Ranchordas, A. ; Araújo, H. ; Jorge, J. (Hrsg.) : Advances in Computer Graphics and Computer Vision
(International Conferences VISAPP and GRAPP 2006 Setúbal, Portugal February 25-28, 2006).
Berlin : Springer Verlag, 2007, S. 201-214. - ISBN 978-3-540-75272-1
Stichwörter:  steerable filters, Lie group theory, LOCOMOTOR

Gehrig, Stefan ; Badino, Hernán ; Gall, Jürgen:
Accurate and Model-Free Pose Estimation of Crash Test Dummies .
In: Klette, Reinhard ; Maetxas, Dimitris ; Rosenhahn, Bodo (Hrsg.) : Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation.
Springer Verlag, 2007, S. 443-466.

Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf:
Bayesian Model Selection for Optical Flow Estimation .
In: Hamprecht, F.A. ; Schnörr, C. ; Jähne, B. (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition
(29th DAGM Symposium Heidelberg September 12th-14th, 2007).
2007, S. 142-151. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Nr. 4713) - ISBN 978-3-540-74933-2
Stichwörter:  optical flow

Jähne, B. ; Mester, Rudolf ; Barth, E. ; Scharr, Hanno (Hrsg.):
Complex Motion .
(First International Workshop on Complex Motion (IWCM) Günzburg Oct. 12 - 14, 2004)
Springer Verlag, 2007
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Nr. 3417).
- 235 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-540-69864-7

Badino, Hernán ; Franke, Uwe ; Mester, Rudolf:
Free Space Computation Using Stochastic Occupancy Grids and Dynamic Programming .
Workshop on Dynamical Vision, ICCV
(International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Rio de Janeiro October 2007).
2007.
Stichwörter:  stereo; stochastic occupancy grids; Kalman filter; free space analysis

Kominiarczuk, Jakub K. ; Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf:
Highly Accurate Orientation Estimation Using Steerable Filters .
Proceedings ICIP 2007 (to appear)
(IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2007) San Antonio, USA September 16th-19th, 2007).
IEEE Computer Society Press, 2007.

Mester, Rudolf:
Statistical certainty models in image processing .
Proceedings of the IEEE/SP 14th Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing
(IEEE/SP 14th Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing Madison, Wisconsin (USA) August 26-29, 2007).
2007, S. 581-585.
[doi>10.1109/SSP.2007.4301325]

Friedrich, Holger ; Dederscheck, David ; Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf:
View-based Robot Localization Using Spherical Harmonics: Concept and First Experimental Results .
In: Hamprecht, F.A. ; Schnörr, C. ; Jähne, B. (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition
(29th DAGM Symposium Heidelberg September 12th-14th, 2007).
Berlin : Springer Verlag, 2007, S. 21-31. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Nr. 4713) - ISBN 978-3-540-74933-2
Stichwörter:  robot localization, spherical harmonics

Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf:
Wiener-optimized discrete filters for differential motion estimation .
In: Jähne, Bernd ; Barth, Erhard ; Mester, Rudolf ; Scharr, Hanno (Hrsg.) : Complex Motion (IWCM04)
(1st International Workshop on Complex Motion (IWCM04) Reisensburg/Günzburg, Germany October 12-14).
Heidelberg : Springer Verlag, 2007, S. 30-41. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS); http://www.springeronline.com/978-3-540-69864-7 Bd. 3417) - ISBN 978-3-540-69864-7
Stichwörter:  IWCM; motion estimation; LOCOMOTOR

2006

Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf:
A maximum likelihood estimator for choosing the regularization parameters in global optical flow methods .
Proceedings ICIP 2006
(International Conference on Image processing Atlanta 8-11 October).
2006.

Mühlich, Matthias ; Aach, Til:
A Theory for Multiple Orientation Estimation .
Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
(European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Graz 2006).
2006.
Stichwörter:  LOCOMOTOR

Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf:
A Unified Theory for Steerable and Quadrature Filters .
Proceedings VISAPP
(VISAPP Setúbal, Portugal February 25-28, 2006).
2006.
Stichwörter:  steerable filters, Lie group theory, LOCOMOTOR

Gehrig, Stefan ; Badino, Hernán ; Payson, Pascal:
Accurate and Model-Free Pose Estimation of Small Objects for Crash Video Analysis .
Proc. British Machine Vision Conference
(BMVC06 Edinburgh, England September).
2006.

Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf:
Marginalized maximum a posteriori hyper-parameter estimation for global optical flow techniques .
Proceedings MaxEnt 2006
(26 th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt 2006) Paris, France July 8-13, 2006).
2006.

Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf:
On the equivalence of variational and statistical differential motion estimation .
Proceedings SSIAI 2006
(2006 Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation Denver, Colorado March 26-28, 2006).
2006.
Stichwörter:  Bayesian motion estimation, LOCOMOTOR

Badino, Hernán ; Franke, Uwe ; Rabe, Clemens ; Gehrig, Sfefan:
Stereo-vision based detection of moving objects under strong camera motion .
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computer Vision and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications
(International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Setubal, Portugal February).
2006.

Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf:
The Edge Preserving Wiener Filter for Scalar and Tensor Valued Images .
In: Franke, Katrin ; Müller, Klaus-Robert ; Nickolay, Bertram ; Schäfer, Ralf (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition
(28th DAGM Symposium Berlin 12.-14. September 2006).
Berlin : Springer, 2006, S. 91-100. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Bd. 4174)
Stichwörter:  Wiener filter; edge preserving filtering; LOCOMOTOR

2005

Franke, Uwe ; Rabe, Clemens ; Badino, Hernán ; Gehrig, Sfefan:
6D-Vision: Fusion of Stereo and Motion for Robust Environment Perception .
In: Kropatsch, Walter ; Sablatnig, Robert ; Hanbury, Allan (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition
(27th DAGM Symposium Vienna, Austria August 31th - September 2nd, 2005).
Springer Verlag, 2005. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Nr. 3663)

Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
A fast algorithm for statistically optimized orientation estimation .
In: Kropatsch, Walter ; Sablatnig, Robert ; Hanbury, Allan (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition 2005
(DAGM 2005 - 27th Annual meeting of the German Association for Pattern Recognition Vienna, Austria August 31th - September 2nd, 2005).
Heidelberg : Springer Verlag, 2005, S. 238-245. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Bd. 3663)
Stichwörter:  orientation estimation; structure tensor; total least squares; equilibration, LOCOMOTOR

Mester, Rudolf:
Editorial .
In: Signal Processing: Image Communication: Special Issue on Advanced Aspects of Motion Estimation 20 (2005), Nr. 6, S. 503-509

Mühlich, Matthias:
Estimation in Projective Spaces and Applications in Computer Vision .
Frankfurt : ?, 2005.
Zugl.: Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2005.
- 203 Seiten.
Stichwörter:  orientation estimation; structure tensor; total least squares; equilibration

Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
Optimal Estimation of Homogeneous Vectors .
Proc. SCIA 2005
(Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis 2005 Joensuu, Finland July 2005).
Heidelberg : Springer, 2005.
Stichwörter:  Homogeneous Vectors, Estimation Theory, LOCOMOTOR

Krajsek, Kai ; Mester, Rudolf:
Signal and noise adapted filters for differential motion estimation .
In: Kropatsch, Walter ; Sablatnig, Robert ; Hanbury, Allan (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition 2005
(DAGM 2005 - 27th Annual meeting of the German Association for Pattern Recognition Vienna, Austria August 30th - September 2nd, 2005).
Heidelberg : Springer Verlag, 2005, S. 476-484. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Bd. 3663)
Stichwörter:  motion estimation; filter design, LOCOMOTOR

Mester, Rudolf (Hrsg.):
Special Issue on Advanced Aspects of Motion Estimation .
Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2005
(Signal Processing: Image Communication Bd. 20, Nr. 6).
- 90 Seiten. ISSN 0923-5965

Mühlich, Matthias:
Subspace Estimation with Uncertain and Correlated Data .
In: Klette, Reinhard ; Kozera, Ryszard ; Noakes, Lyle ; Weickert, Joachim (Hrsg.) : Geometric Properties from Incomplete Data
(Geometric Properties from Incomplete Data Dagstuhl 21.03.-26.03.04).
Dordrecht, Boston, London : Kluwer, 2005, S. 355-374.
Stichwörter:  Subspace Estimation, LOCOMOTOR

2004

Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
A Statistical Extension of Normalized Convolution and its Usage for Image Interpolation and Filtering .
EUSIPCO-2004 Proceedings (in print)
(12th European Signal Processing Conference (Eusipco) Vienna, Austria September 6-10, 2004).
2004.
Stichwörter:  LOCOMOTOR

Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
A statistical unification of image interpolation, error concealment, and source-adapted filter design .
In: IEEE Computer Society (Hrsg.) : Image Analysis and Interpretation, 2004
(6th IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI '04) Lake Tahoe, USA 28-30 March 2004).
Los Alamitos : IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004, S. 128-132. - ISBN 0-7803-8387-7
Stichwörter:  LOCOMOTOR

Mester, Rudolf:
Special Session on the Convergence of Computer Vision and Visual Communication .
In: van den Schaar, Michaela (Hrsg.) : Proceedings PCS 2004
(Picture Coding Symposium 2004 San Francisco December 2004).
2004.

Comaniciu, D. ; Kanatani, K. ; Mester, Rudolf (Hrsg.):
Statistical Methods in Video Processing .
(ECCV 2004 Workshop SMVP 2004 Prague, Czech Republic May 16, 2004)
Bd. 3247. Berlin : Springer, 2004.
- 199 Seiten. ISBN 3-540-23989-8
Stichwörter:  3D scene reconstruction, 3D shape inference, computational geometry, computer vision , image processing, image sequences, multi-body motion segmentation, probabilistic tracking

Mester, Rudolf:
Towards a unified theory of motion estimation: bridging the gap between differential and matching approaches .
In: van den Schaar, Michaela (Hrsg.) : Proceedings PCS 2004
(Picture Coding Symposium 2004 San Francisco December 2004).
2004.

Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
Unbiased Errors-In-Variables Estimation Using Generalized Eigensystem Analysis .
In: Comaniciu, Dorin ; Kanatani, Kenichi ; Mester, Rudolf ; Suter, David (Hrsg.) : Statistical Methods in Video Processing
(2nd Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing (SMVP) during the 8th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Prague, Czech Republic May 11-14, 2004).
Berlin : Springer Verlag, 2004, S. 38-49. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Bd. 3247) - ISBN 3-540-23989-8
Stichwörter:  LOCOMOTOR

2003

Mester, Rudolf:
A new view at differential and tensor-based motion estimation schemes .
In: Michaelis, B. ; Krell, G. (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition 2003
(25th annual conference of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung (DAGM) Magdeburg 10.-12. September 2003).
Heidelberg : Springer Verlag, 2003, S. 321-329. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Bd. 2781) - ISBN 3-540-40861-4
Stichwörter:  LOCOMOTOR

Aach, T. ; Toth, D. ; Mester, Rudolf:
Motion estimation in varying illumination using a Total Least Squares distance measure .
Proceedings PCS 2003
(Picture Coding Symposium 2003 Saint-Malo, France April 23-25, 2003).
2003.
Stichwörter:  LOCOMOTOR

Mester, Rudolf:
On the mathematical structure of direction and motion estimation .
Proceedings Physics in Signal and Image Processing
(3rd International Symposium on Physics in Signal and Image Processing (PSIP) Grenoble, France January 29-31, 2003).
2003, S. 129-132.
Stichwörter:  LOCOMOTOR

Mester, Rudolf:
Special session on Advanced Methods for Motion Analysis .
(IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2003) Barcelona, Spain September 2003).
2003.
Stichwörter:  LOCOMOTOR

Mester, Rudolf:
The generalization, optimization and information-theoretic justification of filter-based and autocovariance-based motion estimation .
In: IEEE Computer Society Press (Hrsg.) : Proceedings ICIP 2003
(IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) Barcelona, Spain September 14-17, 2003).
2003, S. III-81-4. - ISBN 0-7803-7751-6
Stichwörter:  LOCOMOTOR

until 2003

Mester, Rudolf:
A system-theoretical view on local motion estimation .
In: IEEE standard office (Hrsg.) : 45th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
(IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation Santa Fe, USA April 2002).
IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002, S. 201 - 205. - ISBN 0-7695-1537-1
Stichwörter:  LOCOMOTOR

Mester, Rudolf:
Some steps towards a unified motion estimation procedure .
(45th IEEE MidWest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) Tulsa, Oklahoma August 4-7, 2002).
2002.
Stichwörter:  LOCOMOTOR

Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
A considerable improvement in non-iterative homography estimation using TLS and equilibration .
In: Pattern Recognition Letters 22 (2001), Nr. 11, S. 1181-1189

Aach, T. ; Mester, Rudolf:
Bayesian Illumination-invariant Change Detection using a Total Least Squares Test Statistic .
(Colloque GRETSI 2001 Toulouse, France September 2001).
2001.

Aach, T. ; Dümbgen, L. ; Toth, D. ; Mester, Rudolf:
Bayesian Illumination-invariant Motion Detection .
In: IEEE Computer Society Press (Hrsg.) : Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Image Processing
(IEEE Signal Processing Society 2001 International Conference on Image Processing Thessaloniki, Greece October 7-10, 2001).
2001.

Mester, Rudolf ; Aach, T. ; Dümbgen, L.:
Illumination-invariant change detection using a statistical colinearity criterion .
In: Radig, B. ; Florczyk, S. (Hrsg.) : Pattern Recognition: Proceedings 23rd DAGM Symposium
(Pattern Recognition: Proceedings 23rd DAGM Symposium München September 12-14, 2001).
Springer Verlag, 2001, S. 170-177. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Bd. 2191) - ISBN 3-540-42596-9

Mester, Rudolf ; Mühlich, Matthias:
Improving Motion and Orientation Estimation Using an Equilibrated Total Least Squares Approach .
In: IEEE Computer Society Press (Hrsg.) : Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Image Processing
(IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) Thessaloniki, Greece October 7-10, 2001).
2001, S. 640-643.

Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
Subspace Methods and Equilibration in Computer Vision .
In: Austvoll, I. (Hrsg.) : Proceedings of the 12th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis
(Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis Bergen, Norwegen Juni 2001).
Stavanger, Norwegen : NOBIM, 2001.

Mester, Rudolf:
Orientation estimation: conventional techniques and a new non-differential method .
(European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO'2000) Tampere, Finnland September 2000).
2000.

Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
A Note on Error Metrics and Optimization Criteria in 3D Vision .
In: Girod ; Niemann ; Seidel (Hrsg.) : Proc. IEEE Intern. Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization
(IEEE Intern. Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization Erlangen, Germany November 1999).
St. Augustin : Infix, 1999, S. 149-156.

Trautwein, S. ; Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
Estimating Consistent Motion From Three Views: An Alternative To Trifocal Analysis .
In: Solina, Franc ; Leonardis, Ales (Hrsg.) : Proceedings of Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP'99)
(Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP'99) Ljubljana (Slowenien) September 1999).
Springer, 1999, S. 311-320. (Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) Bd. 1689)

Feiden, Dirk ; Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
Robuste Bewegungsschätzung aus monokularen Bildsequenzen von planaren Welten .
In: Förstner, W. ; Buhmann, W. (Hrsg.) : Mustererkennung 1999
(21. DAGM-Symposium Bonn September 1999).
Springer Verlag, 1999, S. 349-356. (Informatik aktuell)

Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
Ein verallgemeinerter Total Least Squares Ansatz zur Schätzung der Epipolargeometrie .
In: Levi ; Ahlers ; May (Hrsg.) : Mustererkennung 1998
(Jahrestagung der Dt. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung (DAGM'98) Stuttgart September 1998).
Springer Verlag, 1998, S. 349-356.

Mühlich, Matthias ; Mester, Rudolf:
The Role of Total Least Squares in Motion Analysis .
In: Burkhardt ; Neumann (Hrsg.) : Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
(European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Freiburg Juni 1998).
Springer Verlag, 1998, S. 305-321. (Lecture Notes on Computer Science Bd. 1407)

Mester, Rudolf:
Stabilitäts- und Zuverlässigkeitsaspekte im Zusammenhang mit dem Structure from Motion Problem .
(Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung (DGPF) 1997 Frankfurt am Main September 1997).
1997.

Mester, Rudolf:
Stochastische Modelle und Methoden in der Bildsequenzanalyse .
In: Hill, B. (Hrsg.) : Proc. Aachener Symposium zur Signaltheorie´97
(Aachener Symposium zur Signaltheorie´97 Aachen März 1997).
1997.

Hötter, M. ; Mester, Rudolf ; Müller, F.:
Detection and description of moving objects by stochastic modelling and analysis of complex scenes .
In: Signal Processing: Image Communication 8 (1996), S. 281-293

Hötter, M. ; Mester, Rudolf ; Meyer, M.:
Detection of Moving Objects Using a Robust Displacement Estimation Including a Statistical Error Analysis .
(13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Wien August 1996). Bd. IV.
1996, S. 249-255.

Hötter, M. ; Mester, Rudolf ; Müller, F.:
Moving Object Detection in Image Sequences using Texture Features .
Proc. 5th International Workshop on Time-varying Image Processing and Moving Object Recognition
(5th International Workshop on Time-varying Image Processing and Moving Object Recognition Florenz September 1996).
1996.

Mester, Rudolf ; Hötter, M. ; Pöchmüller, W.:
Umwelterfassung mit bewegten Kameras .
In: Mertsching, Bärbel (Hrsg.) : Aktives Sehen in technischen und biologischen Systemen
(Workshop der GI-Fachgruppe 1.0.4 Bildverstehen Hamburg Dezember 1996).
1996, S. 117-126. (Proceedings in Artificial Intelligence)

Hötter, M. ; Mester, Rudolf ; Meyer, M.:
Detection of Moving Objects in Natural Scenes by a Stochastic Multi-Feature Analysis of Video Sequences .
(29th Annual 1995 International IEEE Carnahan Conference on Security Technology Sanderstead, Surrey, England Oktober 1995).
1995, S. 47-52.

Aach, T. ; Kaup, A. ; Mester, Rudolf:
On texture analysis: Local energy transforms versus quadrature filters .
In: Signal Processing 45 (1995), Nr. 2, S. 173-182

Mester, Rudolf ; Hötter, M.:
Robust displacement vector estimation including a statistical error analysis .
Proc. 5th International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications
(5th International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications Edinburgh, UK).
London : Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), 1995, S. 168-172.

Mester, Rudolf ; Hötter, M.:
Zuverlässigkeit und Effizienz von Verfahren zur Verschiebungsvektorschätzung .
In: Sagerer ; Posch ; Kummert (Hrsg.) : Mustererkennung
(17. DAGM Symposium Bielefeld September 1995).
Springer Verlag, 1995, S. 285-294. (Informatik aktuell)

Aach, T. ; Kaup, A. ; Mester, Rudolf:
Change detection in image sequences using Gibbs random fields: a Bayesian approach .
(IEEE Workshop Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems Sendai, Japan Oktober 1993).
1993.

Aach, T. ; Kaup, A. ; Mester, Rudolf:
Statistical model-based change detection in moving video .
In: Signal Processing 31 (1993), Nr. 2, S. 165-180

Mester, Rudolf ; Franke, U.:
Spectral entropy-activity classification in adaptive transform coding .
In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 10 (1992), Nr. 5, S. 913-917

Aach, T. ; Kaup, A. ; Mester, Rudolf:
A statistical framework for change detection in image sequences .
Proc. 13th GRETSI
(Symposium on signal and image processing Juan-Les-Pins September 1991).
1991, S. 1149-1152.

Mester, Rudolf ; Aach, T. ; Franke, U.:
Image segmentation experiments using the contour relaxation algorithm .
In: Zeitschrift für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung (1991), Nr. 4, S. 127-132

Aach, T. ; Kaup, A. ; Mester, Rudolf:
Combined displacement estimation and segmentation of stereo image pairs based on Gibbs random fields .
Proceedings ICASSP '90
(Intern. Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP'90 Albuquerque April 1990).
1990, S. 2301-2304.

Aach, T. ; Dawid, H. ; Mester, Rudolf:
3D-Segmentierung von Kernspintomogrammen unter Verwendung eines stochastischen Objektformmodells .
In: Giani, G. ; Repges, R. (Hrsg.) : Medizinische Informatik und Statistik 71
(Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Datenverarbeitung und Statistik (GMDS) Aachen September 1989).
Springer Verlag, 1989, S. 306-309.

Mester, Rudolf ; Franke, U. ; Aach, T.:
Fortschritte in der Modellierung natürlicher Bilder .
In: ITG Fachbericht 107 "Stochastische Modelle und Methoden in der Informationstechnik" (1989), S. 29-34

Mester, Rudolf:
Regionenorientierte Bildsegmentierung unter Verwendung stochastischer Bildmodelle .
Düsseldorf : VDI Verlag, 1989
(VDI Fortschrittberichte Bd. 10, Nr. 106).
Zugl.: Aachen, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik, RWTH, Ph.D. Dissertation, 1988

Aach, T. ; Mester, Rudolf ; Franke, U.:
Top-down image segmentation using object detection and contour relaxation .
Proceedings ICASSP 1989
(Intern. Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP'89 Glasgow Mai 1989).
1989, S. 1703-1706.

Franke, U. ; Mester, Rudolf ; Aach, T.:
Constrained iterative restoration techniques: A powerful tool in region based texture coding .
In: Lacoume, J. L. et al. (Hrsg.) : Signal Processing IV: Theories and Applications
(European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO-88 Grenoble, France September 1988).
Elsevier, 1988, S. 1145-1148.

Aach, T. ; Mester, Rudolf ; Franke, U.:
From texture energy measures to quadrature filter pairs - A system theoretical view of texture feature extraction .
In: Lacoume, J. L. et al. (Hrsg.) : Signal Processing IV: Theories and Applications
(European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO-88 Grenoble, France September 1988).
Elsevier, 1988, S. 827-830.

Mester, Rudolf ; Franke, U.:
Image segmentation on the basis of statistical models for region oriented image coding .
(Picture Coding Symposium 88 Turin September 1988).
1988.

Mester, Rudolf ; Franke, U. ; Aach, T.:
Image segmentation using likelihood ratio tests and Markov region shape models .
In: Lacoume, J. L. et al. (Hrsg.) : Signal Processing IV: Theories and Applications
(European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO-88 Grenoble, France September 1988).
Elsevier, 1988, S. 837-840.

Franke, U. ; Mester, Rudolf:
Region based image representation with variable contour and texture reconstruction quality .
In: Hsing, T. R. (Hrsg.) : Proc. SPIE 1988
(Cambridge Symposium on Visual Communications and Image Processing 88 Cambridge/Mass. November 1988).
1988, S. 178-186.

Franke, U. ; Mester, Rudolf:
Representation of the texture signals in region-based image coding schemes: A comparative study .
(Picture Coding Symposium 88 Turin September 1988).
1988.

Mester, Rudolf ; Franke, U. ; Aach, T.:
Segmentation of image pairs and sequences by contour relaxation .
In: Bunke, H. et al. (Hrsg.) : Erschienen in Informatik Fachberichte 180
(DAGM Symposium Mustererkennung Zürich September 1988).
Springer Verlag, 1988, S. 104-110.

Mester, Rudolf ; Franke, U.:
Statistical model based image segmentation using region growing, contour relaxation and classification .
In: Hsing, T. R. (Hrsg.) : Proc. SPIE 1988
(Cambridge Symposium on Visual Communications and Image Processing 88 Cambridge/Mass. November 1988).
1988, S. 616-624.



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