Alex Berg Computer Vision Stony Brook University

	Alex Berg ... Stony Brook University 1418 Computer Science Stony Brook, NY 11794 `aberg - - at - - cs.stonybrook.edu`
	Publications
	I am an assistant professor at Stony Brook University as of Sept 1, 2010. I completed a Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley with Jitendra Malik, and have had the chance to work with many wonderful people.

I am interested in all aspects of computer vision and related problems in other fields. My thesis was on shape and object recognition in images using a new take on deformable templates. I also work on large scale machine learning algorithms for object recognition and detection, image retrieval, recognizing and synthesizing human action in video, recovering human body poses from photographs, detecting and identifying human faces in images, detecting vehicles in images, and more...

Note for potential graduate students.

You can find my papers and citations on Google Scholar here.

News

Invited Speaker at Information Theory and Applications (ITA)
Our paper on neural representation during short term visual memory was accepted to NeuroImage.
Invited Speaker BIGVISION workshop at NIPS 2012.
Invited Speaker NAE JA Frontiers of Engineering, Irvine CA.
Invited speaker San Francisco Bay Area Computer Vision Meeting at Stanford University.
I will be an area chair for CVPR 2013
Keynote speaker at Rutgers end of year Perecptual Science Forum .
Efficient Classification for Additive Kernel SVMs to appear in TPAMI (with Subhransu Maji and Jitendra Malik)
2 papers related to natural language description of images accepted, one each to ACL and NAACL.
3 papers accepted to CVPR 2012.
Speaking at Mysore Park Workshop on Computer Vision in Mysore, India.
Speaking at nips workshop on similarity learning
NIPS paper accepted "Fast and Balanced: Efficient Label Tree Learning for Large Scale Object Recognition" with Jia Deng and Fei-Fei Li.
Speaking at the Frontiers In Computer Vision Workshop.
I am organizing a 6+2 week summer workshop at JHU-CLSP with Tamara Berg on modeling the relationship between visually descriptive language and images
3 Papers accepted to CVPR 2011.
I will be an area chair for CVPR 2012.
Describable Visual Attributes for Face Verification and Image Search to appear in TPAMI (with Neeraj Kumar, Peter Belhumeur and Shree Nayar).
Teaching computer vision
Simple demo code for interfacing the Kinect with Matlab on OSX (or linux) using a mex file!
I am organizing the Large Scale Learning for Vision workshop at CVPR 2011.
Using Digital Photography to Examine Grazing in Montane Meadows to appear in Rangeland Ecology & Management (with Susan McIlroy and Barbara Allen-Diaz).

Publications

You can find my papers and citations on Google Scholar here.

Multiple-voxel pattern analysis of selective representation of visual working memory
Xufeng Han, Alexander C. Berg, Hwamee Oh, Dimitris Samaras, Hoi-Chung Leung
Accepted NeuroImage 2013
BabyTalk: Understanding and Generating Simple Image Descriptions
Girish Kulkarni, Visruth Premraj, Vicente Ordonez, Sagnik Dhar, Siming Li, Yejin Choi, Alexander C. Berg, Tamara L Berg
accepted IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2013.
Efficient Classification for Additive Kernel SVMs
Subhransu Maji, Alexander C. Berg, Jitendra Malik
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Jan. 2013, v35,I1,pp. 66-77
Collective Generation of Natural Image Descriptions
Polina Kuznetsova, Vicente Ordonez, Alexander C. Berg, Tamara Berg Yejin Choi
ACL 2012 (Jeju)
Detecting Visual Text
J. Dodge, A. Goyal, X. Han, A. Mensch, M. Mitchell, K. Stratos, K. Yamaguchi, A.C.Berg, T.L. Berg, Y. Choi, H. Daumé III
NAACL 2012 (Montreal)
Modeling Guidance and Recognition in Categorical Search: Bridging Human and Computer Object Detection
Gregory Zelinsky, Yifan Peng, Alexander Berg, Dimitris Samaras VSS 2012
DCMSVM: Distributed Parallel Training For Single-Machine Multiclass Classifiers [supp.]
Xufeng Han, Alexander C. Berg
CVPR 2012 (Providence)
Hedging Your Bets: Optimizing Accuracy-Specificity Trade-offs in Large Scale Visual Recognition [supp.]
Jia Deng, Jonathan Krause, Alexander C. Berg, Fei-Fei Li (cite as L. Fei-Fei)
CVPR 2012 (Providence)
Understanding and Predicting Importance in Images
A.C.Berg, T.L. Berg, H. Daumé III, J. Dodge, A. Goyal, X. Han, A. Mensch, M. Mitchell, A. Sood, K. Stratos, K. Yamaguchi
CVPR 2012 (Providence)
Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections
Mitchell, M., Dodge, J., Goyal, A., Yamaguchi, K., Stratos, K., Han, X., Mensch, A., Berg, A. C., and Berg, T. L., Daumé III, H.
EACL 2012 (Avignon)
Fast and Balanced: Efficient Label Tree Learning for Large Scale Object Recognition[pdf]
Jia Deng, Sanjeev Satheesh, Alexander C. Berg, Fei-Fei Li (cite as L. Fei-Fei)
NIPS 2011 (Granada)
Describable Visual Attributes for Face Verification and Image Search [pdf]
Neeraj Kumar, Alexander C. Berg, Peter N. Belhumeur, Shree K. Nayar
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), October 2011
Using Digital Photography to Examine Grazing in Montane Meadows [JREM page]
Susan McIlroy, Barbara Allen-Diaz, Alexander C. Berg
Journal of Rangeland Ecology & Management, March 2011
Composing Simple Image Descriptions using Web-scale N-grams[pdf]
Siming Li, Girish Kulkarni, Tamara Berg Alexander C. Berg, Yejin Choi
CoNLL 2011 (Portland)
Hierarchical Semantic Indexing for Large Scale Image Retrieval[pdf]
Jia Deng, Alexander C. Berg, Fei-Fei Li (cite as L. Fei-Fei)
CVPR 2011 (Colorado Springs)
Baby Talk: Understanding and Generating Simple Image Descriptions[pdf]
Girish Kulkarni, Visruth Premraj, Sagnik Dhar, Siming Li, Yejin Choi, Alexander C. Berg, Tamara Berg
CVPR 2011 (Colorado Springs)
Who are you with and where are you going?
Kota Yamaguchi, Alexander C. Berg, Tamara Berg, Luis Ortiz
CVPR 2011 (Colorado Springs)
What does classifying more than 10,000 image categories tell us? [pdf]
Jia Deng, Alexander C. Berg, Kai Li, Fei-Fei Li (cite as L. Fei-Fei)
ECCV 2010 (Crete)
Automatic Attribute Discovery and Characterization [pdf]
Tamara L. Berg, Alexander C. Berg, Jonathan Shih
ECCV 2010 (Crete)
Max-Margin Additive Models for Detection [pdf] [ppt]
Subhransu Maji, Alexander C. Berg
ICCV 2009 (Kyoto)
Attribute and Simile Classifiers for Face Verification [pdf] [ppt]
Neeraj Kumar, Alexander C. Berg, Peter N. Belhumeur, Shree K. Nayar
ICCV 2009 (Kyoto)
Finding Iconic Images
Tamara L. Berg, Alexander C. Berg
Proceedings of the 2nd Internet Vision Workshop, 2009
Classification using Intersection Kernel Support Vector Machines is Efficient [pdf][CODE]
Subhransu Maji, Alexander C. Berg, Jitendra Malik
CVPR 2008
Parsing Images of Architectural Scenes [pdf]
Alexander C. Berg, Floraine Grabler, Jitendra Malik
ICCV 2007
Detecting Categories in News Video using Acoustic, Speech and Image Features [pdf]
Slav Petrov, Arlo Faria, Alexander C. Berg, Pascal Michaillat, Andreas Stolcke, Dan Klein, Jitendra Malik
(video) TREC 2006
SVM-KNN: Discriminative Nearest Neighbor Classification for Visual Category Recognition [pdf] [ps]
Hao Zhang, Alexander C. Berg, Michael Maire, Jitendra Malik
CVPR 2006
Recovering Human Body Configurations using Pairwise Constraints Between Parts [pdf] [ps]
Xiaofeng Ren, Alexander C. Berg, Jitendra Malik
ICCV 2005
Shape Matching and Object Recognition using Low Distortion Correspondence [pdf] [ps] [ppt]
Alexander C. Berg, Tamara L. Berg, Jitendra Malik
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2005
Shape Matching and Object Recognition using Low Distortion Correspondence [pdf] [ps]
Alexander C. Berg, Tamara L. Berg, Jitendra Malik
U.C. Berkeley Technical Report, Dec. 2004
Names and Faces [pdf] [ps]
Tamara L. Berg, Alexander C. Berg, Jaety Edwards, Michael Maire, Ryan White, Yee Whye Teh, Erik Learned-Miller, David A. Forsyth
In submission
Who's in the Picture [pdf] [ps]
Tamara L. Berg, Alexander C. Berg, Jaety Edwards, David A. Forsyth
NIPS 2004
Names and Faces in the News [pdf] [ps]
Tamara L. Berg, Alexander C. Berg, Jaety Edwards, Michael Maire, Ryan White, Yee Whye Teh, Erik Learned-Miller, David A. Forsyth
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2004, Washington D.C., pp 848-854.
Video Based Motion Synthesis by Splicing and Morphing [pdf] [ps]
Gregory P. Mori, Alexander C. Berg, Alexei A. Efros, Ashley Eden, Jitendra Malik
U.C. Berkeley Technical Report UCB/CSD-4-1337
Recognizing Action at a Distance [pdf] [ps]
Alexei A. Efros, Alexander C. Berg, Gregory P. Mori, Jitendra Malik
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2003, Nice, pp 726-733.
Geometric Blur for Template Matching [pdf] [ps]
Alexander C. Berg, Jitendra Malik
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2001, Hawaii, pp I.607-614
Approximating Aggregate Queries about Web Pages via Random Walks [pdf] [ps]
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Alexander C. Berg, Steve Chien, Jittat Fakcharoenphol, Dror Weitz
Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2000, Cairo, pp 535-544
Shape Matching and Object Recognition [pdf] [ps]
Alexander C. Berg
Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science Division, U.C. Berkeley, December 2005

Note for potential graduate students: You do not need to contact me. Stony Brook admissions are done centrally. See this link. Unfortunately I can not respond to very many e-mails about applying. That said I am always interested in very well qualified large-scale machine learning and computer vision students.