Josef Sivic
Département d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure
23, avenue d'Italie
CS 81321
75214 Paris Cedex 13
Office: 48 (Directions)
E-mail: Josef dot Sivic at ens dot fr
Tel: +33.(0)1 3963 5548
Fax: +33.(0)1 3963 5575
I am a full-time researcher at INRIA working in the Willow project at the Department of Computer Science of the Ecole Normale Supérieure. I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford working with Prof. Andrew Zisserman. My thesis dealing with efficient visual search of images and videos was awarded the Sullivan Thesis Prize and was short-listed for the BCS Distinguished Dissertation award - the prize for the best Computer Science thesis in the UK. Before coming to France I spent six months as a post-doc in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT, working with Prof. William Freeman.
Teaching
INRIA Visual Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School, Grenoble, 9-13 July 2012
ENS/INRIA Visual Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School, Paris, 25-29 July 2011
Computer Vision and Machine Learning Winter School, ENS Lyon, 24-28 January 2011
INRIA Visual Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School, Grenoble, 26-30 July 2010
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris / Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
- Object Recognition and Computer Vision, Fall 2012
- Object Recognition and Computer Vision, Fall 2011
- Object Recognition and Computer Vision, Fall 2010
- Object Recognition and Computer Vision, Fall 2009
- Object Recognition and Computer Vision, Fall 2008
(co-lecturing with J. Ponce, C. Schmid and I. Laptev)
Students and Collaborators
Post-docs: Karteek Alahari, Visesh Chari
Phd students:
- Mathieu Aubry
- Piotr Bojanowski (co-advised with I. Laptev, J. Ponce and C. Schmid)
- Vincent Delaitre (co-advised with I. Laptev)
- Petr Gronat (co-advised with T. Pajdla)
- Warith Harchaoui (co-advised with I. Laptev)
- Guillaume Seguin (co-advised with I. Laptev)
Graduated:
- Dr. Oliver Whyte (Phd 2012, now at Microsoft), co-advised with A. Zisserman and J. Ponce
Phd thesis: Removing Camera Shake Blur and Unwanted Occluders from Photographs
M.Sc. students:
- Piotr Bojanowski, 2012 (co-advised with I. Laptev and C. Schmid)
- Michael Mathieu, 2011 (co-advised with I. Laptev)
- Guillaume Seguin, 2011 (co-advised with I. Laptev)
- Ugo Jardonnet, 2010 (co-advised with T. Cour and I. Laptev)
- Jose Lezama, 2010 (co-advised with I. Laptev)
- Vincent Delaitre, 2010 (co-advised with I. Laptev)
- Warith Harchaoui, 2009 (co-advised with I. Laptev)
- Mathieu Prevot, 2008 (co-advised with B. Russell)
- Oliver Whyte, 2008 (co-advised with A. Zisserman)
- Jan Knopp, visiting student, 2008 (co-advised with T. Pajdla)
Former collaborators:
- Mikel Rodriguez (post-doctoral fellow, 2010-2011)
- Neva Cherniavsky (post-doctoral fellow, 2009-2010)
- Bryan Russell (post-doctoral fellow, 2008-2010)
Publications
Professional activities
- Area Chair: CVPR 2011, ICCV 2011, ECCV 2012, CVPR 2013, ICCV 2013
- Journal editorial board: IJCV
Demos
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Selected Projects
| Scene semantics from long-term observation of people V. Delaitre, D. Fouhey, I. Laptev, J. Sivic, A. Gupta and A. Efros In ECCV 2012 | PDF | Project page |
| People watching: human actions as a cue for single-view geometry D. Fouhey, V. Delaitre, A. Gupta, A. Efros, I. Laptev and J. Sivic In ECCV 2012 | PDF | Project page |
| What makes Paris look like Paris? Carl Doersch, Saurabh Singh, Abhinav Gupta, Josef Sivic and Alexei Efros In SIGGRAPH 2012 | PDF | Project page |
| Data-driven crowd analysis in videos Mikel Rodriguez, Josef Sivic, Ivan Laptev and Jean-Yves Audibert In ICCV 2011 | PDF | Project page |
| Density-aware person detection and tracking in crowds. Mikel Rodriguez, Ivan Laptev, Josef Sivic and Jean-Yves Audibert In ICCV 2011 | PDF | Project page |
| Learning person-object interactions for action recognition in still images Vincent Delaitre, Josef Sivic and Ivan Laptev In NIPS 2011 | PDF | Project page |
| Automatic alignment of paintings and photographs depicting a 3D scene Bryan Russell, Josef Sivic, Jean Ponce and Helene Dessales In 3rd International IEEE Workshop on 3D Representation for Recognition (2011) | PDF | Project page |
| Visual localization by linear combination of image descriptors Akihiko Torii, Josef Sivic and Tomas Pajdla In 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Vision (2011) | PDF |
| Deblurring shaken and partially saturated images Oliver Whyte, Josef Sivic and Andrew Zisserman IEEE Workshop on Color and Photometry in Computer Vision (2011) PDF | Project page |
| Track to the future: Spatio-temporal video segmentation with long-range motion cues Jose Lezama, Karteek Alahari, Josef Sivic and Ivan Laptev In CVPR 2011| PDF | Project page |
| Avoiding confusing features in place recognition Jan Knopp, Josef Sivic, and Tomas Pajdla In ECCV 2010 | PDF | Project page |
| Descriptor learning for efficient retrieval James Philbin, Michael Isard, Josef Sivic, and Andrew Zisserman In ECCV 2010 | PDF |
| Non-uniform deblurring for shaken images Oliver Whyte, Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman and Jean Ponce In CVPR 2010 | PDF | Project page |
| Recognizing human actions in still images: a study of bag-of-features and part-based representations Vincent Delaitre, Ivan Laptev and Josef Sivic In BMVC 2010 | PDF |
| Get out of my picture! Internet-based inpainting Oliver Whyte, Josef Sivic and Andrew Zisserman In BMVC 2009 | PDF | Project page |
| Segmenting Scenes by Matching Image Composites Bryan Russell, Alexei A. Efros, Josef Sivic, Bill Freeman and Andrew Zisserman In NIPS 2009 | PDF | Bibtex | Project page |
| Automatic annotation of human actions in video Olivier Duchenne, Ivan Laptev, Josef Sivic, Francis Bach and Jean Ponce |
"Who are you?'': Learning person specific classifiers from video Josef Sivic, Mark Everingham and Andrew Zisserman | |
| SIFT Flow: Dense Correspondence across Different Scenes Ce Liu, Jenny Yuen, Antonio Torralba, Josef Sivic and William T. Freeman In ECCV 2008 | PDF | Bibtex | Project page |
| Creating and Exploring a Large Photorealistic Virtual Space Josef Sivic, Biliana Kaneva, Antonio Torralba, Shai Avidan and William T. Freeman In IEEE Workshop on Internet Vision, at CVPR’08 | PDF | Bibtex | Supplementary Video |
| Unsupervised Discovery of Visual Object Class Hierarchies Josef Sivic, Bryan Russell, Andrew Zisserman, William T. Freeman and Alexei A. Efros |
| Geometric LDA: A Generative Model for Particular Object Discovery James Philbin, Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman In BMVC 2008 | PDF | Bibtex | Extended journal version |
| Lost in Quantization: Improving Particular Object Retrieval in Large Scale Image Databases James Philbin, Ondrej Chum, Michael Isard, Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman |
| Total Recall: Automatic Query Expansion with a Generative Feature Model for Object Retrieval Ondrej Chum, James Philbin, Josef Sivic, Michael Isard, Andrew Zisserman In ICCV 2007 | PDF | Bibtex | Project page and Demo |
| Object retrieval with large vocabularies and fast spatial matching James Philbin, Ondrej Chum, Michael Isard, Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman In CVPR 2007 | PDF | Bibtex | Project page and Demo |
| Using Multiple Segmentations to Discover Objects and their Extent in Image Collections Bryan C. Russell, Alexei A. Efros, Josef Sivic, William T. Freeman, Andrew Zisserman In CVPR 2006 | PDF | Bibtex | Project page and source code |
| Hello! My name is... Buffy -- Automatic Naming of Characters in TV Video Mark Everingham, Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman In BMVC 2006 | PDF | Bibtex | Project page | Extended Journal Version Winner of best industrial paper prize |
| Finding people in repeated shots of the same scene Josef Sivic, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Richard Szeliski In BMVC 2006 | PDF | Bibtex | Extended Technical Report |
| Person spotting: video shot retrieval for face sets Josef Sivic, Mark Everingham, Andrew Zisserman In CIVR 2005 | PDF | Bibtex | Project page and Demo |
| Discovering objects and their location in images Josef Sivic, Bryan C. Russell, Alexei A. Efros, Andrew Zisserman, William T. Freeman In ICCV 2005 | PDF | Bibtex | Source Code (pLSA) |
| Object Level Grouping for Video Shots Josef Sivic, Frederick Schaffalitzky, Andrew Zisserman In ECCV 2004 | PDF | Bibtex | Extended Journal Version |
| Video Data Mining Using Configurations of Viewpoint Invariant Regions Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman |
| Video Google: A Text Retrieval Approach to Object Matching in Videos Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman In ICCV 2003 | PDF | Bibtex | Project page and Demo |
