ABOUT VIRTUAL HABITAT

Virtual Habitat is a work-group at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at Graz University of Technology. The group has its focus on scientific research in the computer vision fields of object recognition, unsupervised edge detection and segmentation and 3D modeling from digital images. An overview of our current research topics including downloadable content on the Project page. The Publication page lists our recent publications. For general questions, please send us an email .

NEWS

Here you can find the most important news on our members, publications, awards and presentations. A more exhaustive news list can be found at our News page.
2012-04-05 2 accepted papers for CVPR 2012
Link Papers "Irregular lattices for complex shape grammar facade parsing" by Riemenschneider, Krispel, Thaller, Donoser, Havemann, Fellner and Bischof and "Structured Local Predictors for Image Labelling", by Rota Bulo, Kontschieder, Pelillo and Bischof were accepted to the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2012.
 
2011-09-13 ISMAR 2011 full paper accepted
Link Our paper, "Robust Planar Target Tracking and Pose Estimation from a Single Concavity" from Michael Donoser, Peter Kontschieder and Horst Bischof, was accepted as a full paper at ISMAR 2011.
 
2011-07-01 2 accepted BMVC 2011 papers
Link Our papers "Discriminative Learning of Contour Fragments for Object Detection" (ORAL) by P. Kontschieder, H. Riemenschneider, M. Donoser and H. Bischof and "Image Labelling as a Label Puzzle Game" (POSTER) by P. Kontschieder, S. Rota Bulo, M. Donoser, M. Pelillo and Bischof, H. were accepted to the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2011.
 
2011-06-30 ICCV 2011 paper accepted
Link Our paper "Structured Class-Labels in Random Forests for Image Labelling" from Kontschieder, P., Rota Bulo, S., Bischof, H, and Pelillo, M. was accepted for oral presentation at ICCV 2011.
 
2010-07-09 ECCV 2010 paper accepted (27.68% acceptance rate)
Link Our paper "Using Partial Edge Contour Matches for Efficient Object Category Localization" by Hayko Riemenschneider, Michael Donoser and Horst Bischof (PDF) was accepted to the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010.
ECCV is a a highly competitive computer vison conference with low acceptance rates of below 30 percent, having a CiteSeer impact factor rankings in the top 7% of all computer science journals and conferences.
 
2010-06-01 Best Scientific Paper at OAGM 2010
Link Our paper "MSER Templates for 3D Pose Tracking" from Peter Kontschieder, Michael Donoser and Horst Bischof got the Best Scientific Paper Award at the 34th Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (AAPR). OAGM is the most important, annual computer vision conference in Austria organized by the AAPR, the Austrian chapter of the IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition).
 
2010-03-09 CVPR 2010 paper accepted (26.8% acceptance rate)
Link Our paper "Linked Edges as Stable Region Boundaries" by Michael Donoser, Hayko Riemenschneider and Horst Bischof was accepted to CVPR 2010 (PDF). CVPR is a highly competitive computer vison conference with low acceptance rates of below 30 percent, having a CiteSeer impact factor rankings in the top 10% of all computer science journals and conferences.
 
2009-06-12 ICCV 2009 paper accepted (25% acceptance rate)
Link Our paper "Saliency Driven Total Variational Segmentation" from Michael Donoser, Martin Urschler, Martin Hirzer and Horst Bischof (PDF) was accepted to the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in Kyoto, Japan. ICCV is the top-ranked computer vison conference with low acceptance rates of below 30 percent, having a CiteSeer impact factor rankings in the top 5% of all computer science journals and conferences.
 
2009-05-26 Best Scientific Paper at OAGM 2009
Link Our paper "Finding Stable Extremal Region Boundaries" from Hayko Riemenschneider, Michael Donoser and Horst Bischof received the Best Scientific Paper Award at the Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (OAGM). OAGM is the most important, annual computer vision conference in Austria organized by the AAPR, the Austrian chapter of the IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition).
 

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