Institut für Informationsverarbeitung (TNT) - Homepage of Laura Leal-Taixé

Laura Leal-Taixé was born in Barcelona in 1984. She studied Telecommunications Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).

She went to Boston, USA in 2007 to do her Masters Thesis at Northeastern University with a fellowship from the Vodafone foundation. She worked with Prof. Dana Brooks on computer vision and image processing for medical images, presenting the thesis “Automatic Segmentation of multi-stain histology images of arteries”.

Since 2009, she is working towards her PhD degree at the Institut für Informationsverarbeitung (TNT) of the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. Her research interests include multiple target tracking and action recognition and classification. She is working on the HoloVision and Multiple people tracking projects.

Research Interests

Multiple object tracking
Motion analysis and classification

Network flow linear programming
Group and crowd analysis

News

From January 2012 to November 2012, I visited the Vision Lab at University of Michigan with Prof. Savarese.

Gerard , Stephan and I designed the new website for the TNT !

Code

CVPR 2012: The CODE of our multi-view multi-object tracker has been released! Download it here. If you use this code, please cite the corresponding paper

ICCVW 2011: The CODE of our multiple people tracker based on linear programming and including social and grouping behavior has been released! Download it here. If you use this code, please cite the corresponding paper

Publications

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Roberto Henschel, Laura Leal-Taixé, Daniel Cremers, Bodo Rosenhahn
Fusion of Head and Full-Body Detectors for Multi-Object Tracking
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), accepted as spotlight presentation, June 2018
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Roberto Henschel, Laura Leal-Taixé, Daniel Cremers, Bodo Rosenhahn
Improvements to Frank-Wolfe optimization for multi-detector multi-object tracking
arXiv preprint, May 2017
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Roberto Henschel, Laura Leal-Taixé, Bodo Rosenhahn, Konrad Schindler
Tracking with multi-level features
arXiv, July 2016
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Michele Fenzi, Laura Leal-Taixé, Jörn Ostermann, Tinne Tuytelaars
Continuous Pose Estimation with a Spatial Ensemble of Fisher Regressors
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Santiago, Chile, December 2015
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Michele Fenzi, Laura Leal-Taixé, Konrad Schindler, Jörn Ostermann
Pose Estimation of Object Categories in Videos Using Linear Programming
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii, USA, January 2015
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Roberto Henschel, Laura Leal-Taixé, Rosenhahn Bodo
Solving Multiple People Tracking In A Minimum Cost Arborescence
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW), accepted as oral presentation, 1st Workshop on Benchmarking Multi-target Tracking (BMTT), Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii, USA, January 2015
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Roberto Henschel, Laura Leal-Taixé, Bodo Rosenhahn
Efficient Multiple People Tracking Using Minimum Cost Arborescences
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), accepted as oral presentation, Münster, Germany, September 2014
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Laura Leal-Taixé, Michele Fenzi, Alina Kuznetsova, Bodo Rosenhahn, Silvio Savarese
Learning an Image-based Motion Context for Multiple People Tracking
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2014
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Laura Leal-Taixé, Michele Fenzi, Alina Kuznetsova, Bodo Rosenhahn, Silvio Savarese
Multi-target tracking with context from interaction feature strings
SUNw: Scene Understanding Workshop at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2014
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Laura Leal-Taixé
Multiple object tracking with context awareness
PhD Thesis. Leibniz University Hannover., 2014
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Alina Kuznetsova, Laura Leal-Taixé, Bodo Rosenhahn
Real-time sign language recognition using a consumer depth camera
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 3rd Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision (CDC4CV), December 2013
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Michele Fenzi, Laura Leal-Taixé, Bodo Rosenhahn, Jörn Ostermann
Class Generative Models based on Feature Regression for Pose Estimation of Object Categories
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2013
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Laura Leal-Taixé, Bodo Rosenhahn
Pedestrian interaction in tracking: the social force model and global optimization methods
Modeling, Simulation and Visual Analysis of Crowds: A multidisciplinary perspective, Springer, September 2012, edited by Saad Ali, Ko Nishino, Dinesh Manocha and Mubarak Shah
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Michele Fenzi, Ralf Dragon, Laura Leal-Taixé, Bodo Rosenhahn, Jörn Ostermann
3D Object Recognition and Pose Estimation for Multiple Objects using Multi-Prioritized RANSAC and Model Updating
Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), accepted as oral presentation , Graz, Austria, August 2012
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S. Maleschlijski, G. H. Sendra, A. Di Fino, L. Leal-Taixé, I. Thome, A. Terfort, N. Aldred, M. Grunze, A. S. Clare, B. Rosenhahn, A. Rosenhahn
Three dimensional tracking of exploratory behavior of barnacle cyprids using stereoscopy
Biointerphases. Journal for the Quantitative Biological Interface Data., Springer, August 2012
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Laura Leal-Taixé, Gerard Pons-Moll, Bodo Rosenhahn
Branch-and-price global optimization for multi-view multi-object tracking
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Providence, Rhode Island, USA., June 2012
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Laura Leal-Taixé, Gerard Pons-Moll, Bodo Rosenhahn
Exploiting pedestrian interaction via global optimization and social behaviors
Theoretic Foundations of Computer Vision: Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, Springer, April 2012, edited by F. Dellaert, J.-M. Frahm, M. Pollefeys, L. Leal-Taixé, B. Rosenhahn
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Gerard Pons-Moll, Laura Leal-Taixé, Juergen Gall, Bodo Rosenhahn
Data-driven Manifolds for Outdoor Motion Capture
Theoretic Foundations of Computer Vision: Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, Springer, April 2012, edited by F. Dellaert, J.-M. Frahm, M. Pollefeys, L. Leal-Taixé, B. Rosenhahn
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Gerard Pons-Moll, Andreas Baak, Juergen Gall, Laura Leal-Taixe, Meinard Mueller, Hans-Peter Seidel, Bodo Rosenhahn
Outdoor Human Motion Capture using Inverse Kinematics and von Mises-Fisher Sampling
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), November 2011
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Laura Leal-Taixé, Gerard Pons-Moll, Bodo Rosenhahn
Everybody needs somebody: modeling social and grouping behavior on a linear programming multiple people tracker
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW). 1st Workshop on Modeling, Simulation and Visual Analysis of Large Crowds, November 2011
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Gerard Pons-Moll, Laura Leal-Taixé, Tri Truong, Bodo Rosenhahn
Efficient and Robust Shape Matching for Model Based Human Motion Capture
33rd Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) , September 2011
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Stojan Maleschlijski, Laura Leal-Taixé, Sebastian Weiße, Alessio Di Fino, Nicholas Aldred, A. S. Clare, G. Hernán Sendra, Bodo Rosenhahn, Axel Rosenhahn
A stereoscopic approach for three dimensional tracking of marine biofouling microorganisms
Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology (MIAAB). Heidelberg, Germany, September 2011
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Laura Leal-Taixé, Matthias Heydt, Axel Rosenhahn, Bodo Rosenhahn
Understanding what we cannot see: automatic analysis of 4D digital in-line holographic microscopy data
Video Processing and Computational Video, Springer, July 2011, edited by D. Cremers, M.A. Magnor, M.R. Oswald, L. Zelnik-Manor
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Laura Leal-Taixé, Matthias Heydt, Sebastian Weiße, Axel Rosenhahn, Bodo Rosenhahn
Classification of swimming microorganisms motion patterns in 4D digital in-line holography data
32nd Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), Springer, Vol. 6376, pp. 283-292, 2010
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Laura Leal-Taixé, Matthias Heydt, Axel Rosenhahn, Bodo Rosenhahn
Automatic tracking of swimming microorganisms in 4D digital in-line holography data
IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC), Snowbird, Utah, USA., December 2009
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Laura Leal-Taixé, Ahmet U. Coskun, Bodo Rosenhahn, Dana H. Brooks
Automatic segmentation of arteries in multi-stain histology images
World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich (Germany), September 7th-12th, 2009
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