Josef Sivic 

INRIA - Willow Project

Laboratoire 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. 

 


News: INRIA Summer School in Grenoble, 9-13 July 2012


Teaching

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 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


Phd students: 

  • Oliver Whyte (3rd year, co-advised with A. Zisserman)
  • Vincent Delaitre (2nd year, co-advised with I. Laptev)
  • Petr Gronat (2nd year, co-advised with T. Pajdla)
  • Warith Harchaoui (1st year, co-advised with I. Laptev)
  • Guillaume Seguin (1st year, co-advised with I. Laptev)


M.Sc. students: 

  • 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:


Publications


Demos

Object Retrieval in Videos

Person Retrieval in Videos

       

Web-scale particular object and building search

 

 

 

Selected Projects

  

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

In ICCV 2009 | PDF | Bibtex | AVI

Josef Sivic, Mark Everingham and Andrew Zisserman

In CVPR 2009 | PDF | Bibtex | AVI

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

In CVPR 2008 | PDF | Bibtex


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
In CVPR 2008 | PDF | Bibtex


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

In CVPR 2004 | PDF | Bibtex


Video Google: A Text Retrieval Approach to Object Matching in Videos

Josef Sivic, Andrew  Zisserman
In ICCV 2003 | PDF | Bibtex  | Project page and Demo