About

I am a postdoc in the Computer Vision Lab at Caltech, working with Professor Pietro Perona. I completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science in Fall 2009, at UC Berkeley under the guidance of Professor Jitendra Malik.

Contact

MC 136-93
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

mmaire@caltech.edu

Publications

Object Detection and Segmentation from Joint Embedding of Parts and Pixels

Michael Maire, Stella X. Yu, and Pietro Perona
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011
[PDF] [Poster] [Slides] [Code]

Occlusion Boundary Detection and Figure/Ground Assignment from Optical Flow

Patrik Sundberg, Thomas Brox, Michael Maire, Pablo Arbelaez, and Jitendra Malik
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011
[PDF]

Contour Detection and Hierarchical Image Segmentation

Pablo Arbelaez, Michael Maire, Charless Fowlkes, and Jitendra Malik
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2011
[PDF] [Datasets and Code]

Simultaneous Segmentation and Figure/Ground Organization using Angular Embedding

Michael Maire
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010
[PDF] [Poster] [Code]

From Contours to Regions: An Empirical Evaluation

Pablo Arbelaez, Michael Maire, Charless Fowlkes, and Jitendra Malik
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009
[PDF] [Poster] [Code]

Using Contours to Detect and Localize Junctions in Natural Images

Michael Maire, Pablo Arbelaez, Charless Fowlkes, and Jitendra Malik
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008
[PDF] [Slides] [Software] [Code]

SVM-KNN: Discriminative Nearest Neighbor Classification for Visual Category Recognition

Hao Zhang, Alexander C. Berg, Michael Maire, and Jitendra Malik
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006
[PDF]

Making Latin Manuscripts Searchable using gHMM's

Jaety Edwards, Yee Whye Teh, David A. Forsyth, Roger Bock, Michael Maire, and Grace Vesom
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2004
[PDF]

Names and Faces in the News

Tamara L. Berg, Alexander C. Berg, Jaety Edwards, Michael Maire, Ryan White, Yee Whye Teh, Eric Learned-Miller, and David A. Forsyth
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2004
[PDF]

Recognition by Probabilistic Hypothesis Construction

Pierre Moreels, Michael Maire, and Pietro Perona
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2004
[PDF]
Theses

Contour Detection and Image Segmentation

Michael Maire
Ph.D. Thesis
University of California, Berkeley, 2009
[PDF]

Dynamic Code Updates

Michael Maire
Undergraduate Thesis
California Institute of Technology, 2003
[PDF] [PS]