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Qifa Ke
Systems Scientist, RI/CS

No longer a member of RI.

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Research interests

Video analysis, image understanding, subspace learning

Research interest keywords

artificial intelligence, computer graphics, computer vision, geometric modeling, image compression, image processing, machine learning, stereo vision, video systems, and visual tracking

Past Labs & Groups

Vision for Safe Driving - Computer vision algorithms and systems for automotive safe driving applications.

Past Projects

Reconfigurable Vision Machine - Developing new hardware and software for high performance computer vision.

Textureless Layers - Techniques for the 3D reconstruction of scenes consisting of constant intensity piecewise planar regions (layers).

Recent publications [View all 14 publications]

• Quasiconvex Optimization for Robust Geometric Reconstruction
  Q. Ke and T. Kanade
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 29, No. 10, October, 2007, pp. 1834 - 1847. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1512 KB] copyrighted

• Uncertainty Models in Quasiconvex Optimization for Geometric Reconstruction
  Q. Ke and T. Kanade
  2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Vol. 1, June, 2006, pp. 1199 - 1205. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [646 KB] copyrighted

• Quasiconvex Optimization for Robust Geometric Reconstruction
  Q. Ke and T. Kanade
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-57, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [980 KB] copyrighted

• Quasiconvex Optimization for Robust Geometric Reconstruction
  Q. Ke and T. Kanade
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005), Vol. 2, October, 2005, pp. 986 - 993. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [293 KB] copyrighted

• Robust L1 Norm Factorization in the Presence of Outliers and Missing Data by Alternative Convex Programming
  Q. Ke and T. Kanade
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern > Recognition (CVPR 2005), June, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [849 KB] copyrighted

• Real-Time and 3D Vision for Autonomous Small and Micro Air Vehicles
  T. Kanade, O. Amidi, and Q. Ke
  43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2004), December, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1335 KB] copyrighted

• Robust Subspace Clustering by Combined Use of kNND Metric and SVD Algorithm
  Q. Ke and T. Kanade
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004), IEEE, June, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [422 KB] copyrighted

• Textureless Layers
  Q. Ke, S. Baker, and T. Kanade
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [412 KB] copyrighted

• A Robust Subspace Approach to Extracting Layers from Image Sequences
  Q. Ke
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-CS-03-173, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3211 KB], ps.gz [3244 KB] copyrighted

• Transforming Camera Geometry to A Virtual Downward-Looking Camera: Robust Ego-Motion Estimation and Ground-Layer Detection
  Q. Ke and T. Kanade
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2003), June, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1020 KB] copyrighted