Contact:
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Publications

Joint Training of a Convolutional Network and a Graphical Model for Human Pose Estimation
Jonathan Tompson, Arjun Jain, Yann LeCun, Christoph Bregler
arxiv.org/abs/1406.2984 (pdf) (accepted at NIPS 2014)
MoDeep: A Deep Learning Framework Using Motion Features for Human Pose Estimation
Arjun Jain, Jonathan Tompson, Yann LeCun, and Chris Bregler
arxiv.org/abs/1406.2984 (pdf) (accepted at ACCV 2014)
Learning Human Pose Estimation Features with Convolutional Networks
Arjun Jain, Jonathan Tompson, Mykhaylo Andriluka, Graham W. Taylor, Christoph Bregler
Int. Conf. on Learning Representations, (ICLR) 2014 (pdf)
Cryptagram: Photo Privacy for Online Social Media
Matt Tierney, Ian Spiro, Chris Bregler, Lakshmi Subramanian
ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN), 2013 (pdf)
Realtime Facial Animation with On-the-fly Correctives
Hao Li, Jihun Yu, Yuting Ye, Chris Bregler
ACM SIGGRAPH Technical Paper, 2013 (pdf) (video)
Markerless Motion Capture in the Crowd
Ian Spiro, Thomas Houston, Christoph Bregler
Collective Intelligence, 2012, (PDF)
What Romney and Obama's Body Language Says to Voters
Co-produced by Chris Bregler
NY Times, October 2, 2012 (web)
The Eye of the Crowd
Keynote by Christoph Bregler
Ends of Audience, London, 2012, invited paper forthcoming in Journal of Participation
How to Win: The High Dive
Co-produced by Chris Bregler
NY Times, August 9, 2012 (web)
One With the Water
Co-produced by Chris Bregler
NY Times, July 27, 2012 (web)
3D skeletal reconstruction from low-resolution multi-view images
Mayank Rana, Graham Taylor, Ian Spiro, Christoph Bregler
CVPR Int. Workshop on Human Activity Understanding from 3D Data, 2012 (pdf)
Video Based Speech Animation
Book Chapter with Malcolm Slaney,
Audiovisual Speech Processing. Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., G. Bailly & P. Perrier ,Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press. in press, 2012
Non-Rigid Models in Science and Entertainment
Christoph Bregler
Invited Talk & Abstract in Journal of Perception, APGV-ECVP Joint Symposium, Toulouse, August 28th, 2011
Learning Invariance by Imitation
Graham Taylor, Ian Spiro, Christoph Bregler, and Rob Fergus
Proc. of the 24th IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2011 (web)
Evolution of Sports Talk: Next Gen Motion Capture: From the Silver Screen to the Stadium
Christoph Bregler
ESPN / MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, March 4th, 2011 (VIDEO)
3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation from Multi-view Imagery
Atul Kanaujia, Niels Haering, Graham Taylor, Chris Bregler
IEEE Proc. of CVPR Workshop of Human Activity Understanding from 3D Data, 2011.
Pose-Sensitive Embedding by Nonlinear NCA Regression
G. Taylor, R. Fergus, I. Spiro, G. Williams and C. Bregler
Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 23, 2011
Experiments in Crowd Gaming (Squidball 3) at Ars Electonica 2010 Festival
Sep 2-7, 2010 Ars Electronica 2010 Program
New York Times Magazine Interactive Feature for Mariano Rivera's Pitching Motion
July 4th, 2010 (web)
Convolutional Learning of Spatio-temporal Features
G. Taylor, R. Fergus, Y. LeCun and C. Bregler
Proc. of the 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010 (PDF)
Hands by hand: crowd-sourced motion tracking for gesture annotation
I. Spiro, G. Taylor, G. Williams, C. Bregler
IEEE CVPR Workshop on Automatic Vision with Humans in the Loop, 2010 (PDF)
Body Motion Analysis for Multi-Modal Identity Verification
G. Williams, G. Taylor, K. Smolskiy, C. Bregler
IEEE Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, 2010 (PDF)
Learning local spatio-temporal features for activity recognition
G. Taylor, C. Bregler
Snowbird Learning Workshop, 2010 (PDF)
Identifying People based on their Motion Signature
G. Williams, G. Taylor, I. Spiro, C. Bregler
Snowbird Learning Workshop, 2010 (PDF)
ILM's Multitrack: A new visual tracking framework for high-end VFX production
C. Bregler, K. Bhat, J. Saltzman, B. Allen
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Production Talks
Improving Acoustic Speaker Verification with Visual Body-Language Features
C. Bregler, G. Williams, S. Rosenthal, I. McDowall
Proc. IEEE ICASSP 2009 (PDF)
Large Displacement Optical Flow
T. Brox, C. Bregler, J. Malik
Proc. IEEE CVPR 2009 (PDF)
Body Signature Recognition
G. Williams, C. Bregler, P. Hackney, S. Rosenthal, I. McDowall, K. Smolskiy
NYU TR-2008-915 (PDF)
NEWS: The 2008 IEEE Longuet-Higgins Prize for "Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision that withstood the test of time" was awarded to the 1998 Paper:
Tracking People with Twists and Exponential Maps
Christoph Bregler and Jitendra Malik
Proc. IEEE CVPR 1998, (PDF), (ps.gz)
Non-Rigid Structure-From-Motion: Estimating Shape and Motion with Hierarchical Priors
L. Torresani, A. Hertzmann, C Bregler
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 30, No. 5, May 2008 (PDF)
Motion Capture Technology for Entertainment
C Bregler
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, to appear 2007, (PDF)
Symmetries of Dance
Y. Liu, X. Yang, M. Spivak, C Bregler
CMU-RI 2007, May 2007
Learning Motion Style Synthesis from Perceptual Observations
Lorenzo Torresani, Peggy Hackney, Chris Bregler
Proc. of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2007 (PDF)
Learning To Synthesize Motion Styles
Lorenzo Torresani, Peggy Hackney, Chris Bregler
Learning at Snowbird 2006 (web)
Squidball: An Experiment in Large Scale Motion Capture and Game Design
C. Bregler, C. Castiglia. J. DeVincenzo, L. Dubois, K. Feeley, T. Igoe, J. Meyer, M. Naimark, A. Postelnicu, M. Rabinovich, S. Rosenthal, K. Salen, J. Sudol, B. Wright
Proc. Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN) 2005, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (PDF) (web)
US Patent 6,888,549: Method, apparatus and computer program for capturing motion of a cartoon and retargetting the motion to another object
Christoph Bregler, Lorie Loeb
Issued May 3, 2005
Mood Swings: Expressive Speech Animation
Erika Chuang, Chris Bregler
Transactions on Graphics 2005 (to appear (PDF))
Speaking with Hands: Creating Animated Conversational Characters from Recordings of Human Performance
M. Stone, D. DeCarlo, I. Oh, C. Rodriguez, A. Stere, A. Lees, C. Bregler
Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2004.
Estimation of skeletal kinematics through high feature density video based motion capture
Gene Alexander, Tom Andriacci, Chris Bregler
Eighth International Symposium on the 3-D Analysis of Human, 2004.
Twist based Acquisition and Tracking of Animal and Human Kinematics
Christoph Bregler, Jitendra Malik, Kathy Pullen
Int. Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2004, 56(3), 179-194, 2004. (PDF)
Learning Non-Rigid 3D Shape from Video
Lorenzo Torresani, Aaron Hertzmann, Christoph Bregler
Proc. Of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2003. (PDF)
Nonrigid Modeling of Body Segments for Improved Bone Motion Esitmation
Eugene J. Alexander, Christoph Bregler, Tom P. Andriacchi
Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, Vol. 4, Number 3 & 4, pp. 351-364, 2003. (PDF)
Facial Expression Space Learning,
Erika Chuang, Hrishi Deshpande, Christoph Bregler
Proc. Pacific Graphics, 2002.
Turning to the Masters: Motion Capturing Cartoons
Christoph Bregler, Lorie Loeb, Erika Chuang, Hrishi Deshpande
ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 (web)
Motion Capture assisted Animation: Texturing and Synthesis
Kathy Pullen, Christoph Bregler
ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 (PDF)
 
Space-Time Tracking
Lorenzo Torresani,  Christoph Bregler
Proc. ECCV 2002 (PDF)
Tracking and Modelling Non-Rigid Objects with Rank Constraints
Lorenzo Torresani, Danny Yang, Gene Alexander, Christoph Bregler
Proc. IEEE CVPR 2001
(CVPR Best Student Paper Award)
Twist based Acquisition and Tracking of Animal and Human Kinematics
Christoph Bregler, Jitendra Malik, Kathy Pullen
To appear in Int. Journal on Computer Vision
 
Synthesis of Cyclic Motions with Texture
Kathy Pullen and Christoph Bregler
Submitted to ACM Transactions on Graphics

Nonrigid Modeling of Body Segments for Improved Bone Motion Esitmation
Eugene J. Alexander, Christoph Bregler, Tom P. Andriacchi
Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, Special Issue on Biomechanics, 2001

Limb Segment Pose from Range Data Streams Through Homogenous Factorization
Eugene J. Alexander, Christoph Bregler, Tom P. Andriacchi
BED-Vol.50, Bioengineering Conference ASME 2001

Accessible Animation and Customizable Graphics via Simplicial Configuration Modeling
Tom Ngo, Jenny Dana, Doug Cutrell, Bruce Donald, Lorie Loeb, and Shunhui Zhu Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2000 Proceedings) (pdf)
Glottal characteristics of male speakers: Acoustic correlates and comparison with female data
H. Hanson and E. Chuang, JASA, 1999 pd
Animating by Multi-level Sampling
Katherine Pullen and Christoph Bregler
Proc. IEEE Computer Animation 2000 , (pdf, ps)
Recovering Non-Rigid 3D Shape from Image Streams
Christoph Bregler, Aaron Hertzmann and Henning Biermann
Proc. IEEE CVPR 2000 , (pdf, ps.gz)
US Patent 5,880,788: Automated synchronization of video image sequences to new soundtracks
Christoph Bregler
Issued March-9, 1999, (patent-server)
Tracking People with Twists and Exponential Maps
Christoph Bregler and Jitendra Malik
Proc. IEEE CVPR 1998, (ps.gz), Extended version to appear in Int. Journal of Computer Vision
Video Rewrite: Driving Visual Speech with Audio
Christoph Bregler, Michele Covell, and Malcolm Slaney
Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 97, in Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, (1997) (pdf,ps.gz)
Learning and Recognizing Human Dynamics in Video Sequences
Christoph Bregler
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (1997) (ps.gz)
Learning Appearance Based Models: Mixtures of Second Moment Experts
Christoph Bregler, Jitendra Malik
Advances in Neural Information Precessing Systems 9. (1996) (ps.gz)
Eigen-Points
Michele Covell, Christoph Bregler
Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, 1996.
Finding Naked People
Margaret M. Fleck, David A. Forsyth, Christoph Bregler
Proc. 4'th European Conf. Computer Vision, Cambridge, UK, 1996. (ps)
Nonlinear Manifold Learning for Visual Speech Recognition
Christoph Bregler, Stephen M. Omohundro
Int. Conf. Computer Vision, M.I.T. 1995
Nonlinear Image Interpolation using Manifold Learning
Christoph Bregler, Stephen M. Omohundro
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, MIT Press, 1995.
"Eigenlips" for Robust Speech Recognition
Christoph Bregler, Yochai Konig
Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Adelaide, Australia, 1994. (ps) (ps.gz)
Surface Learning with Applications to Lipreading
Christoph Bregler, Stephen M. Omohundro
in Cowan, J.D., Tesauro, G., and Alspector, J. (eds.), Advances in Neural Information Precessing Systems 6. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1994. (ps) (ps.gz)
Improving Connected Letter Recognition by Lipreading
Christoph Bregler, Herman Hild, Stefan Manke, Alex Waibel
in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Minneapolis, 1993. (ps) (ps.gz)
Bimodal Sensor Integration on the Example of "Speachreading"
Christoph Bregler, Stefan Manke, Herman Hild, Alex Waibel
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Neural Networks, San Francisco, 1993

Invited Book Chapters / Papers:

Probabilistic Models of Verbal and Body Gestures
C.Bregler, S.Omohundro, M.Covell, M.Slaney, S.Ahmad, D.A.Forsyth, J.A.Feldman
as chapter in Computer Vision in Man-Machine Interfaces (R. Cipolla and A.Pentland eds), Cambridge University Press, 1998. (DRAFT)
Order Information by Cambridge University Press
Video Rewrite
C.Bregler, M.Covell, M.Slaney
Machines that Learn, Snowbird, Utah, 1998
and
Imagina, Monaco, 1998
Learning Visual Motion Models for Lip Reading
Christoph Bregler, Stephen M. Omohundro
to appear as chapter in Motion-Based Recognition, (M. Sha and R. Jain eds), Kluwer Academic Press, 1996.
Order Information by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Finding Objects in Image Databases by Grouping
J. Malik, D. Forsyth, M. Fleck, H. Greenspan, T. Leung, C. Carson, S. Belongie, and C. Bregler
Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP-96), special session on ``Images in Digital Libraries''
A Hybrid Approach to Bimodal Speech Recognition
C.Bregler, S.Omohundro, Y.Konig
in Proc. of 28th Annual Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA 1994

 

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