Esa Rahtu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Vision Tampere University of Technology Address: Tietotalo, Korkeakoulunkatu 1 P.O. Box 553, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland Tel. +358 294 482778 Email: firstname.lastname@tut.fi LinkedIn profile Google Scholar DBLP arXiv

About me

I am an Assistant Professor at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in Finland. Prior to joining TUT, I was an an acting professor at the Machine Vision Group at the University of Oulu. I'm collaborating closely with Computer Vision Group at TUT, Center for Machine Vision Research at the University of Oulu, and Prof. Juho Kannala at Aalto University. In addition, I am a Co-Founder and Technical Advisor of IndoorAtlas Ltd., where I have previously acted as a CTO for several years.

I received my Ph.D. degree from the University of Oulu in 2007. My thesis was selected as the best doctoral thesis of the year by the Pattern Recognition Society of Finland. Afterwards, I was awarded the highly competitive three-year postdoctoral scholarship from the Academy of Finland. During my Ph.D. studies and posdoc I conducted long-term visits to Computer Vision Group at the University of Freiburg and the Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford.

I have co-authored more than 50 papers and my H-index is 21 according to Google Scholar. My main research interestest are in computer vision and deep learning.

News

• Most recent versions of some of our manuscripts can be found from arxiv.org via this link.
• If you are interested in computer vision and looking for a BSc or MSc thesis topic, please come and talk.
• I'm currently seeking a post-doctoral researcher to work with me at Tampere University of Technology. More information can be found from the following link:
  • Post-doctoral researcher position
• You might also be interested in the Post-doctoral position offered by Prof. Juho Kannala from Aalto University.

Teaching

Upcoming courses:

• Spring 2018: Robot vision (Tampere University of Technology)

Previous courses

• Spring 2017: Digital filters (University of Oulu)
• Fall 2016: Signal processing systems (University of Oulu)
• Spring 2016: Statistical signal processing (University of Oulu)
• Spring 2016: Machine vision (University of Oulu)
• Fall 2015: Digital video processing (University of Oulu)
• Fall 2015: Computer Vision Methods for Medical and Biomedical Image Analysis (University of Oulu)
• Spring 2015: Artificial intelligence (University of Oulu)
• Fall 2014: Digital image processing (University of Oulu)
• Fall 2014: Computer Vision Methods for Medical and Biomedical Image Analysis (University of Oulu)
• Spring 2014:Artificial intelligence (University of Oulu)

Links to some of my collaborators

• Andrew Zisserman
• Andrea Vedaldi
• Juho Kannala
• Simo Särkkä
• Janne Heikkilä
• Matthew Blaschko
• Ross Girshick
• Subhransu Maji

Publications and projects

For the latest works see also Google Scholar and arXiv.

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Peer-reviewed scientific articles

1. Tavakoli H, Borji A, Laaksonen J, Rahtu E (2017)
Exploiting inter-image similarity and ensemble of extreme learners for fixation prediction using deep features.
Neurocomputing 244, 10-18 .
2. Tiulpin A, Thevenot J, Rahtu E, Saarakkala S (2017)
A novel method for automatic localization of joint area on knee plain rediographs.
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA)
3. Otani M, Nakashima Y, Rahtu E, Heikkilä J, Yokoa N (2016)
Video summarization using deep semantic features.
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
4. Otani M, Nakashima Y, Rahtu E, Heikkilä J, Yokoa N (2016)
Learning joint representations of videos and sentences with web image search.
European Conference on Computer Vision - Web-scale Vision and Social Media (ECCV-WS)
5. Laskar Z, Huttunen S, Herrera Castro D, Rahtu E, Kannala J (2016)
Robust loop closures for scene reconstruction by combining odometry and visual corre-spondences.
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
6. Solin A, Särkkä S, Kannala J, Rahtu E (2016)
Terrain navigation in the magnetic landscape: Particle filtering for indoor positioning.
European Navigation Conference (ECN)
7. Melekhov I, Kannala J, Rahtu E (2016)
Siamese network features for image matching.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
8. Iman A, Tavakoli H, Rahtu E, Laaksonen J (2016)
On the contribution of saliency in visual tracking.
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)
9. Linna M, Kannala J, Rahtu E (2015)
Online face recognition system based on local binary patterns and facial landmark tracking.
Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS)
10. Särkkä S, Tolvanen V, Kannala J, Rahtu E (2015)
Adaptive Kalman filtering and smoothing for gravitation tracking in mobile systems.
Indoor Positioning and Navigation Conference (IPIN)
11. Tavakoli H, Rahtu E, Heikkilä J (2015)
Analysis of sampling techniques for learning binarized statistical image features using fixations and salience.
European Conference on Computer Vision - workshop (ECCV-WS)
12. Tapaswi M, Parkhi O, Rahtu E, Sommerlade E, Stiefelhagen R, Zisserman A (2014)
Total Cluster: A person agnostic clustering method for broadcast videos.
Indian Conference on Computer Vision (ICVGIP)
13. Blaschko M B, Mittal A, Rahtu E (2014)
An O(n log n) cutting plane algorithm for structured output ranking.
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)
14. Rantalankila P, Kannala J, Rahtu E (2014)
Generating object segmentation proposals using global and local search.
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
15. Vedaldi A, Mahendran S, Tsogkas S, Maji S, Girshick R, Kannala J, Rahtu E, Kokkinos I, Blaschko M B, Weiss D, Taskar B, Simonyan K, Saphra N, and Mohammed S (2014)
Understanding objects in detail with fine-grained attributes.
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
16. Tavakoli H, Rahtu E, Heikkilä J (2014)
Analysis of sampling techniques for learning binarized statistical image features using fixations and salience.
ECCV 2014 Second International Workshop of Computer Vision With Local Binary Patterns Variants
17. Tavakoli H, Rahtu E, Heikkilä J (2014)
Emotional valience recognition, analysis of salience and eye movements.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
18. Linder N, Turkki R, Walliander M, Mårtenson A, DiwanV, Rahtu E, Pietikäinen M, Lundin M, and Lundin M, (2014)
A malaria diagnostic tool based on computer vision screening and visualization of plas-modium falciparum candidate areas in digitized blood smears.
PLoS ONE, 9(8):e104855
19. Chen J, Zhao G, Salo M, Rahtu E, and Pietikäinen M (2013)
Automatic dynamic texture segmentation using local descriptors and optical flow.
IEEE transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
20. Tavakoli H, Rahtu E, Heikkilä J (2013)
Stochastic bottom-up fixation prediction and saccade generation.
Image and Vision Computing (IVC)
21. Blaschko M B, Kannala J, and Rahtu (2013)
Non maximal suppression in cascaded ranking models.
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA)
22. Tavakoli H, Rahtu E, Heikkilä J (2013)
Temporal saliency for fast background subtraction.
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) workshops, Part I (BMC), LNCS 7728
23. Tavakoli H, Rahtu E, Heikkilä J (2013)
Saliency detection using joint temporal and spatial decorrelation.
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA)
24. Chai Y, Rahtu E, Zisserman A, Lempitsky V, and Van Gool L, (2012)
Discriminative co-segmentation method for image classification.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
25. Rahtu E and Kannala J, (2012)
BSIF: binarized statistical image features.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
26. Linder N, Konsti J, Turkki R, Rahtu E, Lundin M, Nordling S, Ahonen T, Pietikäinen M, and Lundin J, (2012)
Identification of tumor epithelium and stroma in tissue microarrays using texture analysis.
Diagnostic Pathology
27. Rahtu E, Heikkilä J, Ojansivu V, and Ahonen T (2012)
Local phase quantization for blur-insensitive image analysis.
Image and Vision Computing (IVC)
28. Rahtu E, Kannala J, and Blaschko M B (2011)
Learning a Category Independent Object Detection Cascade.
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
29. Tavakoli H, Rahtu E, Heikkilä J (2011)
Fast and efficient saliency detection using sparse sampling and kernel density estimation.
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA
30. Päivärinta J, Rahtu E, Heikkilä J (2011)
Volume local phase quantization for blur-insensitive dynamic texture classification.
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA)
31. Huttunen S, Rahtu E, Kunttu I, Gren J, Heikkilä J (2011)
Real-time detection of landscape scenes.
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA)
32. Pramila A, Keskinarkaus A, Rahtu E, Seppänen T (2011)
Segmentation based watermark recovery from a dual layer hologram with a digital camera.
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA)
33. Rahtu E, Kannala J, Salo M, and Heikkilä J (2010)
Segmenting salient objects from images and videos.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
34. Rahtu E, Salo M, and Heikkilä J (2010)
Compressing sparse feature vectors using random ortho-projections.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
35. Heikkilä J, Rahtu E, and Ojansivu V (2010)
Improved blur insensitivity for decorrelated local phase quantization.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
36. Hanni J, Rahtu E, and Ojansivu V (2010)
The structural form in image categorization.
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)
37. Kannala J, Rahtu E, Brand SS, and Heikkilä J (2009)
Dense and deformable motion segmentation for wide baseline images.
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA)
38. Rahtu E and Heikkilä J (2009)
A simple and efficient saliency detector for background subtraction.
Workshop on Visual Surveillance (ICCV-VS)
39. Rahtu E, Nikkanen J, Kannala J, Lepistö L, and Heikkilä J (2009)
Applying visual object categorization and memory colors for automatic color constancy.
International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP)
40. Ahonen T, Rahtu E, Ojansivu V, and Heikkilä J (2008)
Recognition of blurred faces using local phase quantization.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
41. Ojansivu V, Rahtu E & Heikkilä J (2008)
Rotation invariant blur insensitive texture analysis using local phase quantization.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
42. Kannala J, Rahtu E, Brandt S, and Heikkilä J (2008)
Object recognition and segmentation by non-rigid quasi-dense matching.
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
43. Rahtu E, Salo M, and Heikkilä J (2007)
Nonlinear functionals in the construction of affine invariants.
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA)
44. Rahtu E, Salo M, and Heikkilä J (2007)
Affine registration using multiscale approach.
Finnish Signal Processing Symposium (FINSIG)
45. Rahtu E, Salo M, and Heikkilä J (2006)
Multiscale autoconvolution histograms for affine invariant pattern recognition.
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
46. Rahtu E, Salo M, and Heikkilä J (2006)
A new affine invariant image transform based on ridgelets.
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
47. Rahtu E, Salo M, Heikkilä J, and Flusser J (2006)
Generalized affine moment invariants for object recognition.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
48. Teynor A, Rahtu E, Lokesh S, and Burkhardt (2006)
Properties of patch based approaches for recognition of visual object classes.
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (DAGM)
49. Rahtu E, Salo M, and Heikkilä J (2006)
A new convexity measure based on a probabilistic interpretation of images.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
50. Rahtu E, Salo M, and Heikkilä J (2005)
Affine invariant pattern recognition using multiscale autoconvolution.
IEEE transactions on pattern recognition and machine intelligence (TPAMI)
51. Rahtu E, Salo M, and Heikkilä J (2005)
A new efficient method for producing global affine invariants.
International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP)
52. Kannala J, Rahtu E, and Heikkilä J (2005)
Affine registration with multi-scale autoconvolution.
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
53. Kannala J, Rahtu E, Heikkilä J, and Salo M (2005)
A new method for affine registration of images and point sets.
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA)
54. Rahtu E, Salo M, and Heikkilä J (2004)
Convexity recognition using multi-scale autoconvolution.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
55. Rahtu E and Heikkilä J (2004)
Object classification with multi-scale autoconvolution.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)

Book chapters

56. Heikkilä J, Rahtu E, and Ojansivu V (2013)
Local phase quantization for blur insensitive texture description.
Local Binary Patterns: New Variants and Application, Springer, 49-84
57. Rahtu E and Heikkilä J (2009)
Affine invariant features in pattern recognition.
Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, World Scientific, 235-256.

Thesis

58. Rahtu E (2007)
A multiscale framework for affine invariant pattern recognition and registration.
Doctoral dissertation, Acta Universitatis Ouluensis C Technica 282.
59. Rahtu E (2004)
Object recognition using multi-scale autoconvolution.
M.Sc. thesis, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland.