Publications

2011

paper
Jie Yu, Dirk Farin, Bernt Schiele
Multi-target Tracking in Crowded Scenes
DAGM-Symposium, p. 406-415, Aug 2011, Frankfurt, Germany
paper
Stephan Kopf, Benjamin Guthier, Dirk Farin, Jungong Han
Analysis and Retargeting of Ball Sports Video
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), p. 9-14, Jan 2011, Kona, Hawaii
Jungong Han, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
A Mixed-Reality System for Broadcasting Sports Video to Mobile Devices
IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 72-84, 2011

2010

paper
Jie Yu, Dirk Farin, Christof Krueger, Bernt Schiele
Improving Person Detection using Synthetic Training Data
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), p. 3477-3480, Sep 2010, Hong Kong, China

2009

paper
Jie Yu, Dirk Farin, Hartmut S. Loos
Multi-cue Based Visual Tracking in Clutter Scenes with Occlusions
6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, p. 158-163, Sep 2009, Genoa, Italy
paper
Philipp Merkle, Yannick Morvan, Aljoscha Smolic, Dirk Farin, Karsten Mueller, Peter H. N. de With, Thomas Wiegand
The effects of multiview depth video compression on multiview rendering
Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 24, no. 1-2, p. 73-88, Jan 2009, best paper award

2008

paper
Jungong Han, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Broadcast Court-Net Sports Video Analysis Using Fast 3-D Camera Modeling
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 18, no. 11, p. 1628-1638, Nov 2008
Dirk Farin, Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora
Recent Developments in Panoramic Image Generation and Sprite Coding
IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, p. 64-69, Oct 2008, Cairns, Australia
paper
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
System architecture for free-viewpoint video and 3D-TV
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 54, p. 925-932, May 2008
paper
Philipp Merkle, Yannick Morvan, Aljoscha Smolic, Dirk Farin, Karsten Mueller, Peter H. N. de With, Thomas Wiegand
The Effect of Depth Compression on Multiview Rendering Quality
IEEE Conference on 3D-TV, p. 245-248, May 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Joint Optimization of Depth and Texture Coding for H.264 Multi-View Video
5th Joint Philips and NXP Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Feb 2008, Veldhoven, Netherlands
paper
Goran Petrovic, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Toward 3D-IPTV: Design and Implementation of a Stereoscopic and Multiple-Perspective Video Streaming System
SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Applications, vol. 6803, p. 505-512, Jan 2008, San Jose, USA

2007

slides
paper
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Joint Depth/Texture Bit-Allocation For Multi-View Video Compression
Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Nov 2007, Lisboa, Portugal, best paper award finalist
Ping Li, Dirk Farin, Rene Klein Gunnewiek, Peter H. N. de With
Texture-Independent Feature-Point Matching (TIFM) from Motion Coherence
8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, p. 789-799, Nov 2007, Tokyo, Japan
paper
Goran Petrovic, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
A distributed delivery model for 3D-video streams
International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications (IMMERSCOM), p. 55-62, Oct 2007, Bussolengo (Verona), Italy
paper
Frank Schmidt, Dirk Farin, Daniel Cremers
Fast Matching of Planar Shapes in Sub-cubic Runtime
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
paper
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Depth-Image Compression based on an R-D Optimized Quadtree Decomposition for the Transmission of Multiview Images
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) , vol. 5, p. 105-108, Sep 2007, San Antonio, USA
paper
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Incorporating Depth-Image Based View-Prediction into H.264 for Multiview-Image Coding
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 1, p. 205-208, Sep 2007, San Antonio, USA
paper
Dirk Farin, Wolfgang Effelsberg, Peter H. N. de With
Floor-Plan Reconstruction from Panoramic Images
ACM Multimedia, Sep 2007, Augsburg, Germany
Jungong Han, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
A Real-Time Augmented-Reality System for Sports Broadcast Video Enhancement
ACM Multimedia, p. 337-340, Sep 2007, Augsburg, Germany
paper
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Multiview Depth-Image Compression Using an Extended H.264 Encoder
Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, vol. 4678-2007, p. 675-686, Aug 2007, Delft, Netherlands
Ping Li, Dirk Farin, Rene Klein Gunnewiek, Peter H. N. de With
Descriptor-Free Smooth Feature-Point Matching for Images Separated by Small/Mid Baselines
8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, p. 427-438, Aug 2007, Delft, Netherlands
paper
Dirk Farin, Rick Peerlings, Peter H. N. de With
Depth-Image Representation Employing Meshes for Intermediate-View Rendering and Coding
3DTV-CON 2007 - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video, May 2007, Kos Island, Greece
Ping Li, Dirk Farin, Rene Klein Gunnewiek, Peter H. N. de With
Contrast-Invariant Feature Point Correspondence
32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), p. 477-480, Apr 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii
paper
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Predictive coding of depth images across multiple views
Proceedings of SPIE, Stereoscopic Displays and Applications, vol. 6490, Jan 2007, San Jose, USA
slides
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
A Generic Software-Framework For Distributed, High-Performance Processing of Multi-View Video
SPIE Real-Time Image Processing, vol. 6496, Jan 2007, San Jose, USA
Jungong Han, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Generic 3-D Modeling for Content Analysis of Court-Net Sports Sequences
ACM MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM), p. 279-288, Jan 2007, Singapore, Singapore

2006

paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Generic Framework for Parallel and Distributed Processing of Video-Data
4th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA), vol. LNCS 4331, p. 823-832, Dec 2006, Sorrento, Italy
paper
Jungong Han, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With, Weilun Lao
Real-Time Video Content Analysis Tool for Consumer Media Storage System
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 52, no. 3, p. 870-878, Aug 2006
Ping Li, Dirk Farin, Rene Klein Gunnewiek, Peter H. N. de With
On Creating Depth Maps from Monoscopic Video using Structure from Motion
IEEE Workshop on Content Generation and Coding for 3D-television, Jun 2006, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Ping Li, Dirk Farin, Rene Klein Gunnewiek, Peter H. N. de With
On Creating Depth Maps from Monoscopic Video using Structure from Motion
27th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, p. 508-515, Jun 2006, Noordwijk, Netherlands
paper
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Design Considerations for View Interpolation in a 3D Video Coding Framework
27th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, Jun 2006, Noordwijk, Netherlands
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Shortest Circular Paths on Planar Graphs
27th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, p. 117-124, Jun 2006, Noordwijk, Netherlands
web
paper
Dirk Farin, Yannick Morvan, Peter H. N. de With
View Interpolation Along a Chain of Weakly Calibrated Cameras
IEEE Workshop on Content Generation and Coding for 3D-Television, Jun 2006, Eindhoven, Netherlands
web
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Enabling Arbitrary Rotational Camera Motion Using Multisprites With Minimum Coding Cost
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, no. 4, p. 492-506, Apr 2006
paper
Yannick Morvan, Peter H. N. de With, Dirk Farin
Platelet-based coding of depth maps for the transmission of multiview images
Proceedings of SPIE, Stereoscopic Displays and Applications, vol. 6055, p. 93-100, Jan 2006, San Jose, USA
paper
Jungong Han, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Multi-level analysis of sports video sequences
SPIE Conference on Multimedia Content Analysis, Management, and Retrieval, Jan 2006, San Jose, USA
paper
Jungong Han, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With, Weilun Lao
An Automatic Analyzer for Sports Video Databases Using Visual Cues and Real-World Modeling
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Jan 2006, Las Vegas,
Dirk Farin, Jan Nesvadba
Content Analysis for Multimedia Applications and Home Servers
International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Jan 2006
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Automatic Video-Object Segmentation Employing Multi-Sprites with Constrained Delay
International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), p. 479-480, Jan 2006, Las Vegas, USA

2005

web
paper
Dirk Farin
Automatic Video Segmentation Employing Object/Camera Modeling Techniques
PhD thesis, Dec 2005
paper
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Coding Depth Images with Piecewise Linear Functions for Multi-view Synthesis
European Signal Processing Conference, Sep 2005, Antalya, Turkey
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Misregistration Errors in Change Detection Algorithms and How to Avoid Them
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 2, p. 438-441, Sep 2005, Genova, Italy
paper
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Novel Coding Technique for Depth Images using Quadtree Decomposition and Plane Approximation
Visual Communications and Image Processing, vol. 5960, p. 1187-1194, Jul 2005, Beijing, China
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Evaluation of a Feature-Based Global-Motion Estimation System
Visual Communications and Image Processing, vol. 5960, p. 1331-1342, Jul 2005, Beijing, China
slides
paper
Dirk Farin, Jungong Han, Peter H. N. de With
Fast Camera Calibration for the Analysis of Sport Sequences
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Jul 2005, Amsterdam, Netherlands
paper
Xinguo Yu, Dirk Farin
Current and Emerging Topics in Sports Video Processing
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Jul 2005, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Milan Pastrnak, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Adaptive Decoding of MPEG-4 Sprites for Memory-Constrained Embedded Systems
26th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, p. 137-144, May 2005, Brussels, Belgium
paper
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Coding Of Depth-Maps Using Piecewise Linear Functions
26th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, vol. 1, p. 121-128, May 2005, Brussels, Belgium
paper
Jungong Han, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With, Weilun Lao
Automatic Tracking Method for Sports Video Analysis
26th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, p. 309-316, May 2005, Brussels, Belgium
slides
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Reconstructing Virtual Rooms From Panoramic Images
26th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, p. 301-308, May 2005, Brussels, Belgium
paper
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Matching-Pursuit dictionary pruning for MPEG-4 video object coding
Internet and multimedia systems and applications, vol. 1, p. 476-481, Feb 2005, Grindelwald, Switzerland
slides
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Estimating Physical Camera Parameters based on Multi-Sprite Motion Estimation
SPIE Image and Video Communications and Processing, vol. 5685, p. 489-500, Jan 2005, San Jose, USA

2004

Milan Pastrnak, Peter Poplavko, Peter H. N. de With, Dirk Farin
Data-flow timing Models of Dynamic Multimedia Applications for Multiprocessor Systems
4th IEEE International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (SoCRT), p. 206-209, Jul 2004, Banff, Alberta, Canada
paper
Stephan Kopf, Thomas Haenselmann, Dirk Farin, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Automatic generation of video summaries for historical films
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), vol. 3, p. 2067-2070, Jun 2004, Taipei, Taiwan
slides
paper
Dirk Farin, Magnus Pfeffer, Peter H. N. de With, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Corrisor Scissors: A Semi-Automatic Segmentation Tool Employing Minimum-Cost Circular Paths
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), p. 1177-1180, Jun 2004, Singapore, Singapore
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Video-Object Segmentation using Multi-Sprite Background Subtraction
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), vol. 1, p. 343-346, Jun 2004, Taipei, Taiwan
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Estimating Physical Camera Parameters for 3DAV video coding
25th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, p. 201-208, Jun 2004, Kerkrade, Netherlands
paper
Stephan Kopf, Thomas Haenselmann, Dirk Farin, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Automatic Generation of Summaries for the Web
SPIE Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, vol. 5307, p. 417-428, Jan 2004, San Jose, USA
web
slides
paper
Dirk Farin, Susanne Krabbe, Wolfgang Effelsberg, Peter H. N. de With
Robust Camera Calibration for Sport Videos using Court Models
SPIE Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia, vol. 5307, p. 80-91, Jan 2004, San Jose, USA
web
slides
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Minimizing MPEG-4 Sprite Coding-Cost Using Multi-Sprites
SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing, vol. 5308/1, p. 234-245, Jan 2004, San Jose, USA, best paper award

2003

slides
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Robust Background Estimation for Complex Video Sequences
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 1, p. 145-148, Sep 2003, Barcelona, Spain
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With, Wolfgang Effelsberg
A Segmentation System with Model Assisted Completion of Video Objects
Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), vol. 5150, p. 366-377, Jul 2003, Lugano, Switzerland
paper
Juergen Vogel, Joerg Widmer, Dirk Farin, Martin Mauve, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Priority-Based Distribution Trees for Application-Level Multicast
2nd Workshop on Network and System Support for Games (ACM NETGAMES 2003), p. 148-157, May 2003, Redwood City, USA
slides
Dirk Farin
Video-Object Segmentation: from MPEG-4 Coding to Behaviour Analysis
Zoran corporation, May 2003
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Optimal Partitioning of Video Sequences for MPEG-4 Sprite Encoding
24th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, p. 79-86, May 2003, Veldhoven, Netherlands, best paper award
slides
Dirk Farin
Automatic Video-Object Segmentation for MPEG-4 Coding and Object-Behaviour Analysis
DFG Rundgespraech "Information Retrieval", Mar 2003
paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Recognition of User-Defined Video Object Models using Weighted Graph Homomorphisms
SPIE Image and Video Communications and Processing, vol. 5022, p. 542-553, Jan 2003, Santa Clara, USA

2002

paper
Dirk Farin, Niels Mache, Peter H. N. de With
A Software-Based High-Quality MPEG-2 Encoder Employing Scene Change Detection and Adaptive Quantization
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 48, no. 4, p. 887-897, Nov 2002
paper
Dirk Farin, Wolfgang Effelsberg, Peter H. N. de With
Robust Clustering-Based Video-Summarization with Integration of Domain-Knowledge
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), vol. 1, p. 89-92, Aug 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland
paper
Dirk Farin, Michael Kaesemann, Peter H. N. de With, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Rate-Distortion Optimal Adaptive Quantization and Coefficient Thresholding for MPEG Coding
23rd Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, p. 131-138, May 2002, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

2001

paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
A New Similarity Measure for Sub-Pixel Accurate Motion Analysis in Object-Based Coding
5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI), vol. 12, p. 244-249, Jul 2001, Orlando, USA
paper
Dirk Farin, Niels Mache, Peter H. N. de With
A Software-based High-Quality MPEG-2 Encoder Employing Scene Change Detection and Adaptive Quantization
International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), p. 148-149, Jun 2001, Los Angeles, USA
paper
Thomas Brox, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Multi-Stage Region Merging for Image Segmentation
22nd Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, p. 189-196, May 2001, Enschede, Netherlands, best paper award
paper
Dirk Farin, Niels Mache, Peter H. N. de With
SAMPEG, a Scene Adaptive Parallel MPEG-2 Software Encoder
Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), vol. 4310, p. 272-273, Jan 2001, San Jose, USA

2000

paper
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With
Towards Real-Time MPEG-4 Segmentation: A Fast Implementation of Region-Merging
21st Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, p. 173-180, May 2000, Wassenaar, Netherlands

1998

web
paper
Dirk Farin
Szenenadaptive, parallele Codierung von hochaufgeloesten Videosequenzen unter Beruecksichtigung der Wahrnehmungsphysiologie
Diploma thesis, 121 pages, Nov 1998

1997

paper
Dirk Farin
Entwicklung eines Protokolls fuer die Uebertragung von Video- und Audiodaten ueber unzuverlaessige Netzwerkverbindungen
Study thesis, 100 pages, Dec 1997