Research Group on Visual Computation

Conference Articles
2020
[1]Gabriela Csurka, Zoltan Kato, Andor Juhasz, Martin Humenberger, Estimating Low-Rank Region Likelihood Maps, In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, Washington, USA, pp. 1-10, 2020, IEEE. [bibtex]
2019
[2]Hichem Abdellali, Robert Frohlich, Zoltan Kato, Robust Absolute and Relative Pose Estimation of a Central Camera System from 2D-3D Line Correspondences, In Proceedings of ICCV Workshop on Computer Vision for Road Scene Understanding and Autonomous Driving, Seoul, Korea, 2019. [bibtex]
[3]Hichem Abdellali, Robert Frohlich, Zoltan Kato, A Direct Least-Squares Solution to Multi-View Absolute and Relative Pose from 2D-3D Perspective Line Pairs, In Proceedings of ICCV Workshop on 3D Reconstruction in the Wild, Seoul, Korea, 2019. [bibtex]
2018
[4]Hichem Abdellali, Zoltan Kato, Absolute and Relative Pose Estimation of a Multi-View Camera System using 2D-3D Line Pairs and Vertical Direction, In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-8, 2018, IEEE. [bibtex] [doi]
[5]Robert Frohlich, Zoltan Kato, Simultaneous Multi-view Relative Pose Estimation and 3D Reconstruction from Planar Regions, In Proceedings of ACCV Workshop on Advanced Machine Vision for Real-life and Industrially Relevant Applications (Gustavo Carneiro, Shaodi You, eds.), volume 11367 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Perth, Australia, pp. 467-483, 2018, Springer. [bibtex]
2017
[6]Nora Horanyi, Zoltan Kato, Multiview Absolute Pose Using 3D - 2D Perspective Line Correspondences and Vertical Direction, In Proceedings of ICCV Workshop on Multiview Relationships in 3D Data, Venice, Italy, pp. 1-9, 2017, IEEE. [bibtex]
[7]Nora Horanyi, Zoltan Kato, Generalized Pose Estimation from Line Correspondences with Known Vertical Direction, In Proceedings of International Conference on 3D Vision, Qingdao, China, pp. 1-10, 2017, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf]
[8]Laszlo Kormoczi, Zoltan Kato, Filling Missing Parts of a 3D Mesh by Fusion of Incomplete 3D Data, In Proceedings of Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Antwerp, Belgium, 2017, Springer. [bibtex]
2016
[9]Robert Frohlich, Zoltan Kato, Alain Tremeau, Levente Tamás, Shadi Shabo, Yona Waksman, Region based fusion of 3D and 2D visual data for Cultural Heritage objects, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 2404-2409, 2016, IEEE. [bibtex]
[10]Robert Frohlich, Stefan Gubo, Zoltan Kato, 3D-2D Data Fusion in Cultural Heritage Applications, In Proceedings of ICVGIP Workshop on Digital Heritage, Guwahati, India, 2016, Springer. [bibtex]
2015
[11]Csaba Molnar, Zoltan Kato, Ian Jermyn, A New Model for the Segmentation of Multiple, Overlapping, Near-Circular Objects, In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 1-5, 2015, IEEE. [bibtex]
[12]Daniel Barath, Jozsef Molnar, Levente Hajder, Optimal Surface Normal from Affine Transformation, In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, volume 1, Berlin, Germany, pp. 305 - 316, 2015. [bibtex]
[13]Zoltan Kato, Levente Tamas, Relative Pose Estimation and Fusion of 2D Spectral and 3D Lidar Images, In Proceedings of the Computational Color Imaging Workshop (Alain Trémeau, Raimondo Schettini, Shoji Tominaga:, eds.), volume 9016 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Saint-Etienne, France, pp. 33-42, 2015, Springer. [bibtex]
2014
[14]József Molnár, Rui Huang, Zoltan Kato, 3D Reconstruction of Planar Surface Patches: A Direct Solution, In Proceedings of ACCV Workshop on Big Data in 3D Computer Vision (C. V. Jawahar, Shiguang Shan, eds.), volume 9008 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Singapore, pp. 286-300, 2014, Springer. [bibtex]
[15]Frank Boochs, Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Christian Degrigny, Maciej Karaszewski, Ashish Karmacharya, Zoltan Kato, Marcello Picollo, Robert Sitnik, Alain Trémeau, Despoina Tsiafaki, Levente Tamas, Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage: Key Questions in 3D Optical Documentation of Material Culture for Conservation, Study and Preservation, In Proceedings of International Conference on Progress in Cultural Heritage. Documentation, Preservation, and Protection (Marinos Ioannides, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Eleanor E. Fink, Roko Zarnic, Alex-Yianing Yen, Ewald Quak, eds.), volume 8740 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Limassol, Cyprus, pp. 11-24, 2014, Springer. [bibtex]
[16]József Molnár, Robert Frohlich, Dmitry Chetverikov, Zoltan Kato, 3D Reconstruction of Planar Patches Seen by Omnidirectional Cameras, In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Wollongong, Australia, pp. 1-8, 2014, IEEE. [bibtex]
[17]Attila Tanács, András Majdik, József Molnár, Atul Rai, Zoltan Kato, Establishing Correspondences between Planar Image Patches, In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 1-7, 2014, IEEE. (Best Paper Award) [bibtex]
[18]Attila Tanács, András Majdik, Levente Hajder, József Molnár, Zsolt Sánta, Zoltan Kato, Collaborative Mobile 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes, In Proceedings of ACCV Workshop on Intelligent Mobile and Egocentric Vision (C. V. Jawahar, Shiguang Shan, eds.), volume 9010 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Singapore, pp. 486-501, 2014, Springer. [bibtex] [doi]
[19]Levente Tamas, Robert Frohlich, Zoltan Kato, Relative Pose Estimation and Fusion of Omnidirectional and Lidar Cameras, In Proceedings of the ECCV Workshop on Computer Vision for Road Scene Understanding and Autonomous Driving (Lourdes de Agapito, Michael M. Bronstein, Carsten Rother, eds.), volume 8926 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 640-651, 2014, Springer. [bibtex]
[20]Praveer Singh, Zoltan Kato, Josiane Zerubia, A Multilayer Markovian Model for Change Detection in Aerial Image Pairs with Large Time Differences, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 924-929, 2014, IEEE. [bibtex]
[21]Zsolt Santa, Zoltan Kato, Affine Alignment of Occluded Shapes, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 2155-2160, 2014, IEEE. [bibtex] [doi]
[22]Robert Frohlich, Levente Tamas, Zoltan Kato, Homography Estimation between Omnidirectional Cameras without Point Correspondences, In Proceedings of ICRA Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-classical Cameras, Hong Kong, 2014, IEEE. [bibtex]
2013
[23]Levente Tamas, Zoltan Kato, Targetless Calibration of a Lidar - Perspective Camera Pair, In Proceedings of ICCV Workshop on Big Data in 3D Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia, pp. 668-675, 2013, IEEE. [bibtex]
[24]Levente Kovács, Processing Geotagged Image Sets for Collaborative Compositing and View Construction, In Proceedings of ICCV Workshop on Computer Vision for Converging Perspectives, Sydney, Australia, pp. 460-467, 2013. [bibtex] [pdf]
[25]Zsolt Santa, Zoltan Kato, Pose Estimation of Ad-hoc Mobile Camera Networks, In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, pp. 1-8, 2013, IEEE. [bibtex] [doi]
[26]Viktor Varjas, Attila Tanacs, Car Recognition from Frontal Images in Mobile Environment, In Proceedings of International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (G. Ramponi, S. Loncaric, A. Carini, K. Egiazarian, eds.), Trieste, Italy, pp. 812-816, 2013, IEEE. (ISBN 978-953-184-187-0) [bibtex] [pdf]
[27]Endre Juhasz, Attila Tanacs, Zoltan Kato, Evaluation of Point Matching Methods for Wide-baseline Stereo Correspondence on Mobile Platforms, In Proceedings of International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (Giovanni Ramponi, Sven Loncaric, Alberto Carini, Karen Egiazarian, eds.), Trieste, Italy, pp. 806-811, 2013. (ISBN 978-953-184-187-0) [bibtex]
[28]Zsolt Santa, Zoltan Kato, Correspondence-Less Non-Rigid Registration of Triangular Surface Meshes, In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 2275-2282, 2013, IEEE. [bibtex] [doi]
2012
[29]Zsolt Santa, Zoltan Kato, A Unifying Framework for Non-linear Registration of 3D Objects, In Proceedings of International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, Kassa, Slovakia, pp. 547-552, 2012, IEEE. [bibtex] [doi]
[30]Zsolt Santa, Zoltan Kato, Elastic Registration of 3D Deformable Objects, In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Fremantle, Australia, pp. 1-7, 2012, IEEE. [bibtex] [doi]
[31]Jhimli Mitra, Zoltan Kato, Soumya Ghose, Desire Sidibe, Robert Martí, Xavier Llado, Arnau Oliver, Joan C. Vilanova, Fabrice Meriaudeau, Spectral clustering to model deformations for fast multimodal prostate registration, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, pp. 2622-2625, 2012, IEEE. [bibtex]
[32]Csaba Molnar, Zoltan Kato, Ian Jermyn, A Multi-Layer Phase Field Model for Extracting Multiple Near-Circular Objects, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, pp. 1427-1430, 2012, IEEE. [bibtex]
[33]Csaba Domokos, Zoltan Kato, Simultaneous Affine Registration of Multiple Shapes, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, pp. 9-12, 2012, IEEE. [bibtex]
[34]Zoltan Kato, A Unifying Framework for Correspondence-less Linear Shape Alignment, In International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (A. Campilho, M. Kamel, eds.), volume 7324 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 277-284, 2012, Springer. [bibtex] [pdf]
2011
[35]Jhimli Mitra, Zoltan Kato, Robert Marti, Arnau Oliver, Xavier Llado, Soumya Ghose, Joan C. Vilanova, Fabrice Meriaudeau, A Non-linear Diffeomorphic Framework for Prostate Multimodal Registration, In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Noosa, Queensland, Australia, pp. 31-36, 2011, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf]
[36]Attila Tanacs, Zoltan Kato, Fast Linear Registration of 3D Objects Segmented from Medical Images, In Proceedings of International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, Shanghai, China, pp. 299-303, 2011, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf]
[37]Jozsef Nemeth, Zoltan Kato, Ian Jermyn, A Multi-Layer 'Gas of Circles' Markov Random Field Model for the Extraction of Overlapping Near-Circular Objects, In Proceedings of Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (Jacques Blanc-Talon, Wilfried Philips, Dan Popescu, Paul Scheunders, Richard Kleihorst, eds.), volume 6915 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Ghent, Belgium, pp. 171-182, 2011, Springer. [bibtex] [pdf]
2010
[38]Csaba Domokos, Zoltan Kato, Affine puzzle: Realigning deformed object fragments without correspondences, In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (Kostas Daniilidis, Petros Maragos, Nikos Paragios, eds.), volume 6312 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Crete, Greece, pp. 777-790, 2010, Springer. [bibtex] [pdf]
[39]Attila Tanács, Nataša Sladoje, Joakim Lindblad, Zoltan Kato, Estimation of linear deformations of 3D objects, In Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing, Hong Kong, China, pp. 153-156, 2010, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf]
[40]Milán Leskó, Zoltan Kato, Antal Nagy, Imre Gombos, Zsolt Török, László Vígh Jr, László Vígh, Live Cell Segmentation in Fluorescence Microscopy via Graph Cut, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Istambul, Turkey, pp. 1485-1488, 2010, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf]
[41]Dmitry Chetverikov, József Molnár, An Experimental Study of Image Components and Data Metrics for Illumination-Robust Variational Optical Flow, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 1694-1697, 2010. [bibtex]
2009
[42]Tamas Blaskovics, Zoltan Kato, Ian Jermyn, A Markov Random Field Model for Extracting Near-Circular Shapes, In Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 1073-1076, 2009, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf]
[43]Jozsef Nemeth, Csaba Domokos, Zoltan Kato, Nonlinear Registration of Binary Shapes, In Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 1001-1004, 2009, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf]
[44]Csaba Domokos, Zoltan Kato, Affine Alignment of Compound Objects: A Direct Approach, In Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 169-172, 2009, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf]
[45]Jozsef Nemeth, Csaba Domokos, Zoltan Kato, Recovering Planar Homographies between 2D Shapes, In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 2170-2176, 2009, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf]
[46]Attila Tanács, Csaba Domokos, Nataša Sladoje, Joakim Lindblad, Zoltan Kato, Recovering Affine Deformations of Fuzzy Shapes, In Proceedings of Scandinavian Conferences on Image Analysis (Arnt-Børre Salberg, Jon Yngve Hardeberg, Robert Jenssen, eds.), volume 5575 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Oslo, Norway, pp. 735-744, 2009, Springer. [bibtex] [pdf]
2008
[47]Csaba Domokos, Zoltan Kato, Binary Image Registration Using Covariant Gaussian Densities, In International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (A. Campilho, M. Kamel, eds.), volume 5112 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, pp. 455-464, 2008, Springer. [bibtex] [pdf]
[48]Csaba Domokos, Zoltan Kato, Joseph M. Francos, Parametric Estimation of Affine Deformations of Binary Images, In Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 889-892, 2008, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
2007
[49]Csaba Benedek, Tamas Sziranyi, Zoltan Kato, Josiane Zerubia, A Multi-Layer MRF Model for Object-Motion Detection in Uregistered Airborne Image-Pairs, In Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing, volume VI, San Antonio, Texas, USA, pp. 141-144, 2007, IEEE. [bibtex]
2006
[50]Peter Horvath, Ian Jermyn, Zoltan Kato, Josiane Zerubia, An improved `gas of circles' higher-order active contour model and its application to tree crown extraction, In Proceedings of Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (Prem Kalra, Shmuel Peleg, eds.), volume 4338 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Madurai, India, pp. 152-161, 2006, Springer. [bibtex] [pdf]
[51]Peter Horvath, Ian Jermyn, Zoltan Kato, Josiane Zerubia, A Higher-Order Active Contour Model for Tree Detection, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, volume 2, Hong Kong, China, pp. 130-133, 2006, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf]
[52]Zoltan Kato, Ting Chuen Pong, A Multi-Layer MRF Model for Video Object Segmentation, In Proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (P. J. Narayanan, Shree K. Nayar, Heung-Yeung Shum, eds.), volume 3852 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Hyderabad, India, pp. 953-962, 2006, Springer. [bibtex] [pdf]
2004
[53]Zoltan Kato, Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Unsupervised MRF Color Image Segmentation, In Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (Andreas Hoppe, Sarah Barman, Tim Ellis, eds.), volume 1, Kingston, UK, pp. 37-46, 2004. [bibtex] [pdf]
2003
[54]Xiaowen Ji, Zoltan Kato, Zhiyong Huang, Non-Photorealistic Rendering and Content-Based Image Retrieval, In Proceedings of Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, Canmore, Canada, pp. 153-162, 2003. [bibtex] [pdf]
[55]Zoltan Kato, Ting Chuen Pong, Guo Qiang Song, Unsupervised segmentation of color textured images using a multi-layer MRF model, In Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing, volume I, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 961-964, 2003. [bibtex] [pdf]
2002
[56]Zoltan Kato, Xiaowen Ji, Tamas Sziranyi, Zoltan Toth, Laszlo Czuni, Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Stochastic Paintbrush Transformation, In Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing, volume 1, New York, USA, pp. 944-947, 2002. [bibtex] [pdf]
[57]Zoltan Kato, Ting Chuen Pong, Guo Qiang Song, Multicue MRF Image Segmentation: Combining Texture and Color, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, volume 1, Quebec, Canada, pp. 660-663, 2002, IEEE. [bibtex] [pdf]
2001
[58]Zoltan Kato, Ting Chuen Pong, A Markov Random Field Image Segmentation Model Using Combined Color and Texture Features, In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (Wladyslaw Skarbek, ed.), volume 2124 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Warsaw, Poland, pp. 547-554, 2001, Springer. [bibtex] [pdf]
1998
[59]Zoltan Kato, Ting Chuen Pong, John Chung Mong Lee, Motion Compensated Color Video Classification Using Markov Random Fields, In Proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (Roland Chin, Ting Chuen Pong, eds.), volume 1351 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Hong Kong, China, pp. 738-745, 1998, Springer. [bibtex] [pdf]
1997
[60]Zoltan Kato, Ting Chuen Pong, John Chung Mong Lee, Color Image Classification and Parameter Estimation in a Markovian Framework, In Proceedings of Workshop on 3D Computer Vision (Hung Tat Tsui, Chi Kit Ronald Chung, eds.), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, pp. 75-79, 1997. [bibtex] [pdf]
1996
[61]Tamas Sziranyi, Josiane Zerubia, David Geldreich, Zoltan Kato, Cellular Neural Network in Markov Random Field Image Segmentation, In Proceedings of International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and their Applications, Seville, Spain, pp. 139-144, 1996. [bibtex]
1995
[62]Zoltan Kato, Josiane Zerubia, Mark Berthod, Unsupervised Parallel Image Classification Using a Hierarchical Markovian Model, In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision, Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. 169-174, 1995. [bibtex] [pdf]
[63]Zoltan Kato, Mark Berthod, Josiane Zerubia, Wojciech Pieczynski, Unsupervised Adaptive Image Segmentation, In Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, volume 4, Detroit, Michigan, USA, pp. 2399-2402, 1995. [bibtex] [pdf]
1994
[64]Josiane Zerubia, Zoltan Kato, Mark Berthod, Multi-Temperature Annealing: A New Approach for the Energy-Minimization of Hierarchical Markov Random Field Models, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, volume 1, Jerusalem, Israel, pp. 520-522, 1994, IEEE. [bibtex]
1993
[65]Zoltan Kato, Mark Berthod, Josiane Zerubia, A Hierarchical Markov Random Field Model for Image Classification, In Proceedings of International Workshop on Image and Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing, Cannes, France, 1993. [bibtex]
[66]Zoltan Kato, Mark Berthod, Josiane Zerubia, Multiscale Markov Random Field Models for Parallel Image Classification, In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision, Berlin, Germany, pp. 253-257, 1993. [bibtex]
[67]Zoltan Kato, Mark Berthod, Josiane Zerubia, Parallel Image Classification using Multiscale Markov Random Fields, In Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, volume 5, Minneapolis, USA, pp. 137-140, 1993. [bibtex]
1992
[68]Zoltan Kato, Josiane Zerubia, Mark Berthod, Satellite Image Classification Using a Modified Metropolis Dynamics, In Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, volume 3, San-Francisco, California, USA, pp. 573-576, 1992. [bibtex]



Hichem Abdellali has been awarded the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) degree...

2022-04-30


Hichem Abdellali has been awarded the KÉPAF Kuba Attila prize...

2021-06-24