Lourdes Agapito

I hold the position of Reader in Computer Vision at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, at Queen Mary University of London where I am a member of the Vision Laboratory and the Centre for Intelligent Sensing.

My research area is Non-Rigid and Articulated Motion Analysis. My particular interest is on developing methods for accurate recovery of the 3D shape of deformable and articulated objects from monocular video sequences. I am the holder of an ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council.

RESEARCH TEAM

Postdocs

• Chris Russell :(started October 2010)
  
• Anastasios Roussos : (started October 2010)
  
• Sara Vicente : (started November 2011)

Current PhD Students

• Joao Fayad : Piecewise models for 3D reconstruction of non-rigid objects. (started Jan 2009)
  
• Ravi Garg : Dense 3D reconstruction of non-rigid structure. (started Dec 2009)
  
• Nikolaos Pitelis : Learning deformable 3D models. (started October 2010)
  
• Rui Yu : Learning dense 3D models from video. (started October 2012)
  

RECENT NEWS

• February 2013: 3 papers accepted to CVPR 2013.
  - A Variational Formulation for Dense Non Rigid Structure from Motion (oral) Ravi Garg, Anastasios Roussos, Lourdes Agapito. See our results!
  - Learning Manifolds as Connected Linear Subspaces Nikolaos Pitelis, Chris Russell, Lourdes Agapito.
  - Looking Beyond the Image: Unsupervised Learning for Object Saliency and Detection Parthipan Siva, Chris Russell, Tao Xiang, Lourdes Agapito.
  
  

• December 2012: Our paper "A Variational Approach to Video Registration with Subspace Constraints" has been accepted to IJCV (see project webpage for videos and new dataset).

• September 2012: My PhD student Marco Paladini has been awarded the 2011 BMVA Sullivan Prize for his PhD Thesis with title "Deformable and Articulated 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video Sequences". The Sullivan prize is awarded each year by the British Machine Vision Association to the best doctoral thesis submitted to a UK University, in the field of Computer Vision.

• August 2012: New papers accepted to ECCV'12 and ISMAR'12.

• April 2012: I have been invited to lecture at the International Computer Vision Summer School ICVSS 2012 this July in Sicily.

• April 2012: Opening (1 PhD studentship) - Starting Sept 2012. I am looking for an outstanding candidate to work on dense non-rigid and articulated 3D reconstruction from monocular video. If you are interested please email me directly.

• December 2011: New papers accepted to IJCV and PAMI.

• November 2011: Slides from the Tutorial on Non-Rigid Registration and Reconstruction I gave at ICCV 2011 together with Adrien Bartoli and Alessio Del Bue.

• July 2011: New paper accepted to ICCV 2011.PDF CODE
  Automated Articulated Structure and 3D Shape Recovery from Point Correspondences Joao Fayad, Chris Russell and Lourdes Agapito, in IEEE International Conference in Computer Vision (ICCV 2011 Barcelona, Spain, November 2011.

• March 2011: New paper accepted to CVPR 2011.PDF CODE
  Energy Based Multiple Model Fitting for Non-Rigid SFM Chris Russell, Joao Fayad and Lourdes Agapito, in IEEE Conference in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011 Colorado Springs, USA, June 2011.

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