Selected Publications
My full list of publications is available here.
2010

Thomas Deselaers, Bogdan Alexe, and Vittorio Ferrari. Localizing Objects while Learning Their Appearance. ECCV 2010.
European Conference on Computer Vision, Crete, Greece, September 2010.
ECCV vol. 4, LNCS 6314, pages 452-466.
Abstract

Bogdan Alexe, Thomas Deselaers, and Vittorio Ferrari. ClassCut for Unsupervised Class Segmentation. ECCV 2010.
European Conference on Computer Vision, Crete, Greece, September 2010.
ECCV vol. 6, LNCS 6316, pages 380-393
Abstract

Thomas Deselaers and Vittorio Ferrari. A Conditional Random Field for Multiple-Instance Learning. ICML 2010.
International Conference on Machine Learning, Haifa, Israel, June 2010.
Abstract paper discussion site

Thomas Deselaers and Vittorio Ferrari. Global and Efficient Self-Similarity for Object Classification and Detection. CVPR 2010.
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, June 2010.
Abstract video of the talk at CVPR 2010 code available

Bogdan Alexe, Thomas Deselaers, and Vittorio Ferrari. What is an object? CVPR 2010.
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, June 2010.
Abstract code available

Thomas Deselaers, Georg Heigold, Hermann Ney. Object Classification by Fusing SVMs and Gaussian Mixtures.. Pattern Recognition. 2010.
Vol. 43. Issue 7. July 2010. pp. 2476-2484.
Abstract
2009

Tobias Gass, Thomas Deselaers, Hermann Ney. Deformation-Aware Log-Linear Models. DAGM 2009.
31st annual symposion of the German Association for Pattern Recognition. September 9-11, 2009. Jena, Germany.
Abstract

Tobias Weyand, Thomas Deselaers, Hermann Ney. Log-Linear Mixtures for Object Recognition. BMVC 2009.
British Machine Vision Conference 2009. September 7-10, 2009. London, UK.
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Thomas Deselaers, Tobias Gass, Philippe Dreuw, Hermann Ney. Jointly Optimising Relevance and Diversity in Image Retrieval. CIVR 2009.
ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval 2009. July 8-10, 2009. Island of Santorini, Greece. </br> Abstract

Thomas Deselaers. Bildsuche, Objekterkennung und Diskriminative Modelle. Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2008.
Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen/Gesellschaft für Informatik.
Abstract
2008

Thomas Deselaers Image Retrieval, Object Recognition, and Discriminative Models. PhD Thesis. RWTH Aachen University. 2008.
Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition Group, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Abstract

Thomas Deselaers, Philippe Dreuw, Hermann Ney. Pan, Zoom, Scan - Time-coherent, Trained Automatic Video Cropping. CVPR 2008
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. June 24-27, 2008. Anchorage, AK, USA.
Video QT – Video Flash. Abstract

Georg Heigold, Thomas Deselaers Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney. Modified MMI/MPE: A Direct Evaluation of the Margin in Speech Recognition. ICML 2008
The 25th International Conference on Machine Learning. July 5-9, 2008. Helsinki, Finnland.
Abstract

Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney Features for Image Retrieval: An Experimental Comparison. Information Retrieval. 2008.
Vol. 11. Issue 2. Springer. pp. 77-107.
Project page: FIRE – Abstract
2007

Philippe Dreuw, David Rybach, Morteza Zahedia, Hermann Ney Speech Recognition Techniques for a Sign Language Recognition System. Interspeech/ICSLP 2208.
The 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing August 27-31, 2007 Antwerp, Belgium. pp. 2513-2516.
Abstract

Thomas Deselaers, Antonio Criminisi, John Winn, Ankur Agarwal. Incorporating On-demand Stereo for Real Time Recognition. CVPR 2007.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. June 19-21, 2007 Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Abstract

Daniel Keysers, Thomas Deselaers, Christian Gollan, Hermann Ney. Deformation Models for Image Recognition. PAMI 2007.
IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Vol. 29. Issue 8. IEEE. pp. 1422-1435
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Thomas Deselaers, Henning Müller, Paul D. Clough, Hermann Ney, Thomas. M. Lehmann. The CLEF 2005 Automatic Medical Image Annotation Task. IJCV 2007
International Journal of Computer Vision. Vol. 74. Issue 1. pp. 51-58.
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Daniel Keysers, Thomas Deselaers, Thomas M. Breuel. Optimal Geometric Matching for Patch-Based Object Detection. ELCVIA 2007.
Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis. Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 44-54
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2006

Thomas Deselaers, Andre Hegerath, Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney. Sparse Patch-Histograms for Object Classification in Cluttered Images. DAGM 2006
28th annual symposion of the German Association for Pattern Recognition. September 12-15, 2006. Berlin, Germany.
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Andre Hegerath, Thomas Deselaers, Hermann Ney. Patch-based Object Recognition Using Discriminatively Trained Gaussian Mixtures. BMVC 2006.
British Machine Vision Conference 2006. September 4-7, 2006. Edinburgh, UK.
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Philippe Dreuw, Thomas Deselaers, David Rybach, Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney. Tracking Using Dynamic Programming for Appearance-Based Sign Language Recognition. FG 2006
IEEE International Conference Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. April 10-13, 2006. Southampton, UK.
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2005

Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney. Improving a Discriminative Approach to Object Recognition using Image Patches. DAGM 2005.
27th annual symposion of the German Association for Pattern Recognition. LNCS 3663. pp 326-333. August 30-September 2, 2005. Vienna, Austria.
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Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney. Discriminative Training for Object Recognition using Image Patches. CVPR 2005.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. vol 2, pp 157-162. June 20-24, 2005. San Diego, CA, USA.
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2004

Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney. Features for Image Retrieval -A Quantitative Comparison. DAGM 2004.
26th annual symposion of the German Association for Pattern Recognition. LNCS 3175, pp 228-236. Aug 30-September 2, 2004. Tübingen, Germany.
Project page: FIRE – Abstract

Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers. Hermann Ney. Classification Error Rate for Quantitative Evaluation of Content-based Image Retrieval Systems. ICPR 2004.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition. vol 2, pp. 505-508. August 08-12, 2004 Cambridge, UK.
Project page: FIRE – Abstract
Patents
- John Winn, Antonio Criminisi, Ankur Agarwal, Thomas Deselaers. Recognizing Hand Poses and/or Object Classes. US Patent. 2008. Microsoft Corporation.
IPN: 0317331 A1, IPC: G06K 9/00, Application number: 11/765,264
Editorials

Henning Müller, Paul Clough, Thomas Deselaers, Barbara Caputo. Experimental Evaluation in Visual Information Retrieval Series. The Information Retrieval Series. Vol 32. 1st Edition. Springer. 2010.

Thomas Deselaers, Henning Müller, Thomas M. Deserno. Special Issue on Medical Image Annotation in ImageCLEF 2007 of Pattern Recognition Letters.

Carol Peters, Thomas Deselaers, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo, Gareth J.F. Jones, Mikko Kurimo, Thomas Mandl, Anselmo Peñas, Vivien Petras Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access. LNCS 5706. Springer.