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185.118.167.97Dear Author, Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 1 Computer vision is starting to become practical and success2 ful. The academic computer vision community has grown 3 immensely in recent years and there is a rapidly growing 4 computer vision industry ranging from high-tech giants to 5 humble start-ups. In particular, the technology that computer 6 vision relies on—computers, the internet, and cameras—is 7 ever-improving in quality and power. Indeed the advances 8 in technology alone may lead future historians of computer 9 vision to conclude that researchers in the 1970's and 1980's 10 were crazy romantics to address such a difficult problem with 11 the hardware available at that time. 12 Nevertheless the rapid growth of computer vision and 13 its freewheeling interdisciplinary nature, which continually 14 borrows and adapts techniques from different disciplines, 15 has led to its own dangers. The field risks being faction16 alized into groups of researchers using different techniques 17 and with the same ideas being re-invented under different 18 names. The experimental meDkvkthodology can also be criticized 19 by sometimes valuing complex models which yield gains of 20 a few percentage points in performance on a dataset rather 21 than simpler and more insightful models. Hence, as com22 puter vision matures there is growing need for papers which 23 address the fundamental issues of computer vision in a rig24 orous mathematics manner and which are carefully tested by 25 well-designed experiments. A. L. Yuille (B) Department of Statistics, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, 8967 Math Sciences Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554, USA e-mail: alan.l.yuille@gmail.com J. Luo (B) Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, 611 Computer Studies Building, Rochester, NY 14627, USA e-mail: jiebo.luo@gmail.com This special issue contains seven papers which satisfy 26 these requirements. They range over some of the major topics 27 in computer vision—geometry, lighting, learning, probabilis- 28 tic modeling—and help illustrate the richness of the field, the 29 power and sophistication of the techniques being used, and 30 the practical success on real world tasks. 31 Three of the papers address the fundamental issues 32 of geometry, lighting, and the interactions between them. 33 Firstly, "A Simple Prior-FreeMethod for Non-rigid Structure- 34 from-Motion Factorization" (NRSfM) contains an elegant 35 mathematical analysis of the problem of non-rigid structure 36 from motion using the factorization approach. This analy- 37 sis shows that the problem can be solved "prior-free" and 38 leads naturally to a practical algorithm for NRSfM. Secondly, 39 "Decomposing global light transport using time of flight 40 imaging" shows how to decompose time of flight videos into 41 direct, subsurface scattering, and interreflection components. 42 This can be applied to recover projective depth from the 43 direct component in the presence of global scattering, to iden- 44 tify and label different types of global illumination effects, 45 to measure the parameters of subsurface scattering materi- 46 als from a single point of view; to performi edge detection, 47 and to adjust subsurface scattering to render novel images of 48 the scene. Thirdly, "A Closed-Form, Consistent and Robust 49 Solution to Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo Via Local Dif- 50 fuse Reflectance Maxima" addresses the classic Generalized 51 Bas Relief (GBR) ambiguity which involves both lighting 52 and geometry. This paper contains insightful mathematical 53 analysis of the interaction of geometry and lighting. They 54 introduce the concept of LDR maxima and shows that this 55 can yield a closed form solution for the GBR parameters 56 which is robust, consistent, and gives good results on real 57 world scenes. 58 The remaining four papers involve learning which is, 59 arguably, the most important factor in the growing success of 60 123 Journal: 11263 MS: 0706 TYPESET DISK LE CP Disp.:2014/2/22 Pages: 2 Layout: Large Author Proof uncorrected proof Int J Comput Vis 61 computer vision systems. The first two papers—"The Shape 62 Boltzmann Machine: A Strong Model of Object Shape" and 63 "Face Alignment by Explicit Shape Regression"—address 64 the topics of shape modeling and object alignment. The 65 Shape Boltzmann Machine (SBM) is a model for shape, 66 based on deep Boltzmann machines, which is learnt from 67 training data and is used for segmentation, detection, inpaint68 ing and graphics. The SBM capture shape sufficiently well 69 that samples from it look realistic. By contrast, the paper on 70 face alignment uses a regression approach to address this 71 classic and important problem. This method significantly 72 outperforms alternative methods is speed and accuracy. The second two papers apply learning to motion problems. The first paper, on "Max-Margin Early Event Detector', using the 73 maximum-margin framework to train temporal event detec- 74 tors to recognize partial events, enabling early detection. This 75 work extends structured output SVM to sequential data. This 76 method is successfully applied to detect facial expressions, 77 hand gestures, and human activities. The second paper on 78 "Multi-Target Tracking by Online Learning a CRF Model 79 of Appearance and Motion Patterns" applies online learning 80 to multi-target tracking. The tracking problem is formulated 81 using an online learned CRF model containing unary func- 82 tions based on motion and appearance models for discrim- 83 inating targets, together with binary functions which differ- 84 entiate g pairs of tracklets. 85 123 Journal: 11263 MS: 0706 TYPESET DISK LE CP Disp.:2014/2/22 Pages: 2 Layout: Large Author Proof Subject: Option to publish AMTA papers in IEEE Xplore Dear Author, The AMTA Board of Directors is pleased to announce that an agreement with IEEE AP-S has been reached for mutual technical co-sponsorship of our annual events for 2016. The agreement includes AMTA's participation in the IEEE Conference Publication Program. As an author of an AMTA paper, this provides you with the opportunity to have your AMTA 2016 paper published in the IEEE Xplore online digital library. The advantage of participating in this is that your paper wDkvkill be given much wider exposure than AMTA publication alone. 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