Thomas Berg

I'm a PhD student in the computer science department at Columbia University. My advisor is the notorious P.N.B. I'm working on fine-grained visual categorization, recognition of—and distinguishing between—object classes that look very similar. I think much of biometrics falls into this category, and some of my work has been on face recognition.

Publications

1. Birdsnap: Large-scale Fine-grained Visual Categorization of Birds, T. Berg, J. Liu, S. W. Lee, M. L. Alexander, D. W. Jacobs, and P. N. Belhumeur, in Proc. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2014. [paper] [supplementary material] [bibtex] [poster] [video spotlight] [birdsnap.com] [Birdsnap for iPhone]

2. How Do You Tell a Blackbird from a Crow?, T. Berg and P. N. Belhumeur, in Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), December 2013. Oral presentation. [paper] [supplementary material] [bibtex] [poster] [slides] [presentation video]

3. POOF: Part-Based One-vs-One Features for Fine-Grained Categorization, Face Verification, and Attribute Estimation, T. Berg and P. N. Belhumeur, in Proc. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2013. FGVC2 Workshop Best Poster Award. [paper] [bibtex] [poster]

4. Tom-vs-Pete Classifiers and Identity-Preserving Alignment for Face Verification, T. Berg and P. N. Belhumeur, in Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), September 2012. Oral presentation. Mark Everingham Prize. [paper] [bibtex] [slides] [presentation video]