Svetlana Lazebnik

SVETLANA LAZEBNIK

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office: 244 Fred Brooks Building
Phone: (919) 962-1942
Email: lazebnik -at- cs.unc.edu

As of January 1, 2012, I have moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Stay tuned for my new website.

I received my Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May of 2006 under the supervision of Jean Ponce. During the course of my dissertation work, I have also collaborated with Cordelia Schmid and the LEAR group at INRIA Rhône-Alpes. In August of 2007, I have left the cornfields of Central Illinois for the forests of North Carolina. My research specialty is computer vision. The main themes of my research include:

Developing effective image representations for recognition, from low-level patch vocabularies to high-level semantic concepts
Integrating statistical and geometric techniques for comprehensive 2D and 3D scene description
Modeling and organizing large-scale Internet image collections

My research is supported by the National Science Foundation under grants IIS 0845629 (project webpage) and IIS 0916829, Microsoft Research, Xerox, ARO, and the DARPA Computer Science Study Group.

CODE AVAILABLE

Spatial pyramid (updated 10/29/2010)
SuperParsing (released 9/17/2010)
Binary codes (released 6/2011)

PUBLICATIONS, CV

PH.D. STUDENTS

Joseph Tighe
Yunchao Gong

TEACHING

Fall 2011: Artificial Intelligence (590)
Spring 2011: Computer Vision (776)
Fall 2010: Artificial Intelligence (590)
Spring 2010: Computer Vision (776)
Fall 2009: Statistical Learning Techniques in Image Analysis (875)
Spring 2009: Computer Vision (776)
Fall 2008: Computational Photography (790-096)
Spring 2008: Computer Vision (776)
Fall 2007: Computer Vision and the Web (790-096)

SELECTED PROJECTS

Image Parsing -- PowerPoint Overview

Understanding Scenes on Many Levels
J. Tighe and S. Lazebnik, ICCV 2011
SuperParsing: Scalable Nonparametric Image Parsing with Superpixels
J. Tighe and S. Lazebnik, ECCV 2010
Project webpage, code, poster

Landmark Photo Collections

Building Rome on a Cloudless Day
J.-M. Frahm, P. Georgel, D. Gallup, T. Johnson, R. Raguram, C. Wu, Y.-H. Jen, E. Dunn, B. Clipp, S. Lazebnik, and M. Pollefeys, ECCV 2010
Project webpage, video, UNC spotlight
Modeling and Recognition of Landmark Image Collections Using Iconic Scene Graphs
X. Li, C. Wu, C. Zach, S. Lazebnik and J.-M. Frahm, ECCV 2008
Project webpage, data, poster
IJCV paper, updated results

Similarity-Preserving Binary Codes

Iterative Quantization: A Procrustean Approach to Learning Binary Codes
Y. Gong and S. Lazebnik, CVPR 2011
Project webpage (includes code and data)
Locality Sensitive Binary Codes from Shift-Invariant Kernels
M. Raginsky and S. Lazebnik, NIPS 2009

OLDER PROJECTS

PERSONAL

I was born in Kiev, Ukraine, on March 7, 1979. If you want to learn more about this momentous date, you can read this essay I wrote in high school.
My husband and scientific collaborator: Maxim Raginsky.
I take photos from time to time. Check out my Flickr account.

Last updated January 14, 2012