Two papers were accepted to the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV): A Simple Model for Intrinsic Image Decomposition with Depth Cues and Elastic Fragments for Dense Scene Reconstruction. The latter was selected for full oral presentation at the conference (2.5% acceptance rate).

A new paper on simulation of human motion was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2013.

The papers Guided Policy Search and Parameter Learning and Convergent Inference for Dense Random Fields were accepted to ICML 2013.

The paper Dense Scene Reconstruction with Points of Interest was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2013.

Mixamo released a character modeling tool based on our assembly-based modeling work. The modeling tool is called Fuse and is a polished version of the system developed by Siddhartha Chaudhuri for his PhD thesis.

The paper Efficient Nonlocal Regularization for Optical Flow was accepted to ECCV 2012. Congratulations Philipp!

The paper Continuous Inverse Optimal Control with Locally Optimal Examples was accepted to ICML 2012. Congratulations Sergey!

Four papers were accepted to SIGGRAPH 2012: A Probabilistic Model for Component-Based Shape Synthesis, Optimizing Locomotion Controllers Using Biologically-Based Actuators and Objectives, An Algebraic Model for Parameterized Shape Editing, and Continuous Character Control with Low-Dimensional Embeddings.

Philipp Krähenbühl won the Outstanding Student Paper award at NIPS 2011 for our paper Efficient Inference in Fully Connected CRFs with Gaussian Edge Potentials. This year NIPS received 1,400 submissions, 306 of which were accepted for publication. Three of these were picked for the award. (See the conference book for more details.)