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)1.39.63.55.48

Fax: +33.(0)1.39.63.55.75

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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. 

 

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Teaching

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris / Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan

• 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:  Neva Cherniavsky and Bryan Russell

Phd students: 

• Oliver Whyte (2nd year, co-advised with A. Zisserman)

M.Sc. students: 

• 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)

 

Publications

• · List of publications (sorted by year)

Demos

	Object Retrieval in Videos
	Person Retrieval in Videos
	Web-scale particular object and building search

 

 

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Selected Projects

	Get out of my picture! Internet-based inpainting Oliver Whyte, Josef Sivic and Andrew Zisserman In BMVC 2009 | PDF | Project page In BMVC 2009 | PDF | Bibtex | 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
	Automatic annotation of human actions in video Olivier Duchenne, Ivan Laptev, Josef Sivic, Francis Bach and Jean Ponce In ICCV 2009 | PDF | Bibtex | AVI
	"Who are you?'': Learning person specific classifiers from video 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, 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, 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, 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
	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 Object Categories in Image Collections 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

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