About Me
My name is Silvino Barreiros. I currently attend the University of Central Florida and am pursueing a degree in Computer Science. Orignally I am from Naples Florida where I spent my first 18 years of my life. Some of my hobbies are sports, programming, video games, and music. In the furture I hope to recieve a masters degree in computer science and find a career in biomedical engineering.
REU 2009 Project
My REU project this summer was work on TRECVID. TRECVID is a part of the TREC conference. The conference is sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The goal of the conference series is to encourage research in information retrieval by providing a large test collection. The TRECVID competition uses this large test collection and a uniform scoring procedure to help participants compare their results.
The UCF TRECVID team consisted of myself along with three others; Jason Hochreiter, Benjamin Mears, and Sean McMillian. Together we worked on high level feature extraction for the TRECVID competition. High level feature extraction consisted of search for twenty unqiue features in the test set provided. Some examples of these features include; boat ship, person eating, and night time.
To accomplish this task we implemented a system that uses the bag of words approach to feature recognition. Our system uses Harris- Laplace with SIFT to generate descriptors. We then use SVM to generate the classifier for the feature. We use this classifier to make a descision on weather a image will contain that feature. Through out the summer we also tried multiple approaches to ensure our system is performing as accurately as possible. These inlcude: