News

Accepted paper: “MROP: Modulated Rank-One Projections for compressive radio interferometric imaging” by Olivier Leblanc, Chung San (Taylor) Chu, Laurent Jacques, and Yves Wiaux at Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. See the paper here.

Accepted paper: “Compressive radio-interferometric sensing with random beamforming as rank-one signal covariance projections” by Olivier Leblanc, Yves Wiaux, and Laurent Jacques at IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. See the paper here.

Accepted paper: “MPL: Lifting 3D Human Pose from Multi-view 2D Poses” by Seyed Abolfazl Ghasemzadeh, A. Alahi, and C. De Vleeschouwer, to be presented at “T-CAP: Towards a Complete Analysis of People: Fine-grained Understanding for Real-World Applications” workshop at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV, Milan, 1-4 Oct 2024).

MPL is a 3D human pose lifter that takes multi-view 2D poses as its inputs. The main challenge in multi-view 3D human pose estimation is lack of real-life images paired with 3D. This challenge is bypassed in MPL by relying on a two-stage framework consisting of an off-the-shelf 2D pose estimator and a multi-view 3D pose lifter. More information here

Accepted paper: “Sequential Representation Learning via Static-Dynamic Conditional Disentanglement " by Mathieu Cyrille Simon, Pascal Frossard and Christophe De Vleeschouwer (arXiv preprint), to be presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV, Milan, 1-4 Oct 2024).

Unsupervised disentangled representation learning within sequential data, focusing on separating time-independent and time-varying factors in videos. This disentanglement is expected to facilitate numerous downstream generation or classification tasks and enhance model explainability.

Accepted paper: “Keypoint Promptable Re-Identification” by Vladimir Somers, A. Alahi and C. De Vleeschouwer (arXiv preprint), to be presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV, Milan, 1-4 Oct 2024).

KPR is SOTA re-identification method, with optional keypoint prompts, that is robust to multi-person occlusions and plug-and-play with any pose estimator (or through manual keypoint selection). More information here.

Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Space Robotics (ISpaRo24): Antoine Legrand, Renaud Detry and Christophe De Vleeschouwer, “Leveraging neural radiance fields for pose estimation of an unknown space object during proximity operations” (arXiv), ISpaRo 2024.

On Tuesday, May 28th, 2024, 14h, we’ll be glad to welcome Ulugbek Kamilov from Washington University, St. Louis, USA, for a joint ISPGroup / LINMA2120 Seminar entitled “Computational Imaging: Restoration Deep Networks as Implicit Priors.” More information here and here.

New postdoc position opened in the research group of Prof. Laurent Jacques to work on the QuadSense project, a new project funded by the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research - FNRS.

More information (application procedure, project topic, …) → check here ←

Olivier Leblanc got the best contribution award at the Biomedical and Astronomical Signal Processing conference (BASP'23) for his work entitled “Interferometric Lensless Imaging – Rank-one Projections of Image Frequencies with Speckle Illuminations.”

Best Presentation Award at AI4Space workshop in ECCV 2022, by A. Legrand, R. Detry, C. De Vleeschouwer, “End-to-end Neural Estimation of Spacecraft Pose with Intermediate Detection of Keypoints”, AI4Space workshop, ECCV 2022.

Dr Vincent Schellekens receives the ICTEAM Best Thesis Award for his thesis entitled “Extending the Compressive Statistical Learning Framework: Quantization, Privacy, and Beyond”. Congratulations Vincent!!

Dr Amirafshar Moshtaghpour receives the ICTEAM Best Thesis Award for his thesis entitled “Computational Interferometry for Hyperspectral Imaging”. Congratulations Amir!!

Best paper award at Computer Vision in Sports workshop in CVPR2019 for the joint work with ULiège: A. Cioppa, A. Deliege, M. Istasse, C. De Vleeschouwer, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, ARTHuS: Adaptive Real-Time Human Segmentation in Sports through Online Distillation, Computer Vision in Sports, CVPR 2019.

Welcome to Long Beach! See our 4 contributions to ICML 2019 and CVPR2019:

• S. Carbonnelle and C. De Vleeschouwer, Layer rotation: a surprisingly simple indicator of generalization in deep networks?, Workshop on Identifying and Understanding Deep Learning Phenomena, ICML 2019.
• M. Istasse, J. Moreau, and C. De Vleeschouwer, Associative Embedding for Team Discrimination, Computer Vision in Sports, CVPR 2019.
• A. Cioppa et al., ARTHuS: Adaptive Real-Time Human Segmentation in Sports through Online Distillation, Computer Vision in Sports, CVPR 2019, joint work with ULiège.
• B. Brummer and C. De Vleeschouwer, Natural Image Noise Dataset, New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop, CVPR 2019.

Profs C. De Vleeschouwer and L. Jacques have been awarded the 45th “de Boelpaepe” prize (2015-2016) by the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium) for their scientific research on image processing with wavelet analysis and sparsity methods.

Congrats to Simon Carbonnelle, member of the ISPGroup, and his collaborators in the “OneBonsai” team which won ArcelorMittal Belgium’s first hackathon in the two categories “Artificial Intelligence” and “Best Overall”.

Organizing the Workshop on “Regularized Inverse Problem Solving and High-Dimensional Learning Methods”. Plenary speakers: G. Peyré (ENS, Paris, France) and U. Kamilov (WUSTL, USA)

Organizing in UCL the regular workshop “FNRS Wavelet Contact Group on Wavelet and Applications” this time dedicated to random binary embeddings, compressive sensing and signal sampling on graphs, thanks to the invitation of Sjoerd Dirksen (RWTHAachen, Germany) and Gilles Puy (Technicolor, Rennes, France), the two plenary speakers.

ISPGroup contributes to ICCV 2013:

• Accepted paper: “Discriminative Label Propagation for Multi-object Tracking with Sporadic Appearance Features”, by Amit Kumar K.C. and C. De Vleeschouwer.
• Invited talk: “Autonomous sport production”, in Workshop on Vision-based Sports Analytics, by C. Verleysen and C. De Vleeschouwer.