Svetlana Lazebnik

SVETLANA LAZEBNIK

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Office: 3308 Siebel Center
Phone: 217-300-2422
Email: slazebni -at- illinois.edu

I received my Ph.D. at UIUC in May 2006 under the supervision of Prof. Jean Ponce. From August 2007 to December 2011 I was an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and as of January 2012, I have returned as faculty to UIUC. My research specialty is computer vision. The main themes of my research include object recognition and scene interpretation, modeling and organization of large-scale photo collections, and machine learning techniques for visual recognition problems.

My research is supported by the National Science Foundation under grants IIS 1228082 (project webpage) and IIS 0916829, Microsoft Research, Xerox, ARO, and the DARPA Computer Science Study Group.

CODE AVAILABLE

Spatial pyramid (updated 2/29/2012)
SuperParsing (released 9/17/2010)
Binary codes (released 6/2011)

PUBLICATIONS, CV

PH.D. STUDENTS

Joseph Tighe
Yunchao Gong

TEACHING

Spring 2013: CS543/ECE549 Computer Vision
Fall 2012: CS440/ECE448 Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2011: Artificial Intelligence (at UNC)
Spring 2011: Computer Vision (at UNC)

SELECTED PROJECTS

Image Parsing -- PowerPoint Overview

Finding Things: Image Parsing with Regions and Per-Exemplar Detectors
J. Tighe and S. Lazebnik, CVPR 2013
SuperParsing: Scalable Nonparametric Image Parsing with Superpixels
J. Tighe and S. Lazebnik, ECCV 2010
Project webpage, IJCV article

Similarity-Preserving Binary Codes -- PowerPoint Overview

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

Landmark Photo Collections -- PowerPoint Overview

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
IJCV article, browsing webpage

OLDER PROJECTS

PERSONAL

I was born in Kiev, Ukraine. If you want to learn more about my birth 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 April 23, 2013