Lourdes Agapito

I hold the position of Reader in Computer Vision at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science , Queen Mary University of London where I am a member of the Vision Laboratory . I am currently working on non-rigid structure from motion. My particular interest is on developing methods for accurate recovery of the 3D shape of deformable and articulated objects from video sequences. I am the holder of an ERC Starting Grant, funded by the European Research Council.

Postdocs

Chris Russell :(started October 2010)
Tassos Roussos : (started October 2010)
Francesco Setti : (started July 2010)

PhD Students

Marco Paladini: Recovery of non-rigid and articulated 3D structure (started Sep 2007)
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)

Openings (1 PhD studentship) - Starting Sept 2011

If you are interested please email me directly.

Former Group Members

Jae Hak Kim : Segmentation and tracking for deformable and articulated structure.
Alessio Del Bue completed his Ph.D. in July 2006 with title "Deformable 3-D Modelling from Uncalibrated Video Sequences''.
Xavier Llado was employed as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant on my EPSRC First Grant with title Non-rigid structure from motion from September 2004 to September 2006.

Publications

Recent research news

March 2011 - New paper accepted to CVPR 2011: • PDF CODE
Energy Based Multiple Model Fitting for Non-Rigid Structure from Motion,
Chris Russell Joao Fayad and Lourdes Agapito.
in IEEE Conference in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009 Colorado Springs, USA, June 2011.

June 2010 - 3 Papers accepted to ECCV 2010

June 2010 I am looking for outstanding candidates for 1 PhD Studentship and 2 Postdoc positions on the HUMANIS-ERC (Closing date for applications 16 June) project, starting in September 2010. Here is a link to the advert.

November 2009 - CODE RELEASE - Metric Projections for Non-Rigid and Articulated Structure from motion

Here is the code for our CVPR 2011 paper We have just released the Matlab code of our CVPR 2009 work. There are demo scripts and example sequences on which to run the code.

June 2009 - BMVC 2009 paper

"Non-rigid structure from motion using quadratic deformation models" J. Fayad, A. Del Bue, L. Agapito, P. Aguiar

April 2009 - PhD positions

I have a PhD opening starting in September '09 on the HUMANIS-ERC project. If you are interested please email me directly.

April 2009 - Tutorial on Computer Vision in the Non-Rigid World

I will be giving a tutorial at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 20 April 2009 on non-rigid registration and non-rigid structure from motion together with Adrien Bartoli and Alessio Del Bue. Slides

March 2009 - New paper accepted for publication at CVPR 2009.

"Factorization for Non-Rigid and Articulated Structure using Metric Projections" M. Paladini, A. Del Bue, J. Xavier, M. Stosic, M. Dodig, L. Agapito

January 2009 -New Team

New team recruited on ERC Grant. Postdoc: Dr. Jae-Hak Him. PhD students: Mr. Marco Paladini, Mr. Joao Fayad.

August 2008 - Positions available

I am now recruiting 1 Postdoc and 2 PhD students to work on the ERC HUMANIS project . If you are interested in applying please look at the advert on the Department's webpage. The closing date is Wednesday 24th September 2008.

Spring 2008 - ERC Starting Grant

I am lucky enough to be one of the research scientists to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant, funded by the European Research Council. This is a new European scheme of individual grants to fund five year research projects to up-and-coming independent research leaders by supporting the creation of excellent new research teams. Building on our recent work on non-rigid structure from motion, the focus of this project is to use the exciting scenario of human motion analysis to develop computer vision algorithms able to recover detailed 3D models of humans or other non-rigid objects in a completely automated way, using only the original footage and purely from image measurements.

January 2008 - New Grant with Adrien Bartoli

I have been awarded a British Council Alliance project to collaborate with Adrien Bartoli and Omar Ait-Aider from the LASMEA laboratory of the CNRS in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Dr. Lourdes Agapito

Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London.

ph.+44 (0)207 882 7898

email lourdes@dcs.qmul.ac.uk