Michael J. Black

Professor
Brown University
Department of Computer Science

 


Office hours: CIT 521, Wed 3:00-4:00, Thurs 3:00-4:00.

Teaching: CS26-4, Topics in Computer Vision, W 3:00-5:20, Rm 506.


Research Interests

My Computer Vision Research focuses on estimating optical flow from sequences of images. In particular I study
o the statistics of natural images and image motion;
o articulated human motion estimation and full body tracking;
o the representation and detection of motion discontinuities;
o the estimation of optical flow and the recognition of motion events;
o high-dimensional robust learning and inference.
My research on Neural Engineering, Computational Neuroscience, and Brain-machine Interface focuses on
o statistical models of neural coding;
o probabilistic methods for neural decoding;
o developing neural prostheses using implanted microelectrode arrays;
o bionic systems that couple brains and robots.
Call for papers:
       IJCV Special Issue on Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion and Pose Estimation (EHuM)

Recent Vision Papers:

Recovering human pose and shape in strong lighting (ICCV'07) <very cool>

Steerable random fields (ICCV'07)

A database and evaluation methodology for optical flow, (ICCV'07)

Detailed human shape and pose from images (CVPR'07)

Efficient belief propagation with learned higher-order MRFs (ECCV 2006)

Spatial statistics of optical flow (ICCV'05, Marr Prize honorable mention)

Fields of Experts (CVPR'05)

Tracking loose-limbed people (CVPR'04)