Expertise Centre for Digital Media
Hasselt University

Address:
Room: 1.06
Wetenschapspark 2,
3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.
Tel:    +32 (0) 11 26 84 71
Fax:   +32 (0) 11 26 84 99

Email: cosmin [dot] ancuti [at] uhasselt [dot] be
"Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times"
High Hopes, Pink Floyd
Contact:
Journals and Book Chapters:
Conference  Proceedings:
SIGGRAPH Sketches (oral presentation) and Posters:
Coduta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti  and Philippe Bekaert, " Layer-based Single Image Dehazing by Per-Pixel Haze Detection ". In Conference Abstracts and Applications ACM SIGGRAPH  ASIA, (sketch-oral presentation),  Seoul, Korea, December, 2010.

Coduta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti  and Philippe Bekaert "Fusion-based Image And Video Decolorization", In Conference Abstracts and Applications ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, (sketch-oral presentation),  Seoul, Korea, December, 2010.

Coduta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti  and Philippe Bekaert "An Effective Grayscale Conversion with Applications to Image Enhancement", In Conference Abstracts and Applications ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, (sketch-oral presentation),  Yokohama, Japan, December, 2009.

Cosmin Ancuti, Coduta O. Ancuti  and Philippe Bekaert, "Image Deblurring by Corresponding  Regions". In Conference Abstracts and Applications ACM SIGGRAPH 2008, (poster)  Los Angeles, USA, August 11-15, 2008.

Cosmin Ancuti, Tom Haber, Tom Mertens  and  Philippe Bekaert, "Video enhancement using reference photographs". In Conference Abstracts and Applications ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 (sketch-oral presentation),  San Diego, USA,  August 5-9, 2007.


Publications:
 
 


Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and  Philippe Bekaert, "Enhancing by Saliency-guided Decolorization", In  Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IEEE CVPR), to appear,  Colorado Springs, USA, 2011. [project page]

Mark Gerrits, Bert de Decker, Cosmin Ancuti,  Tom Haber, Codruta O. Ancuti and  Philippe Bekaert, "Stroke-based Creation of Depth Maps".   IEEE Internation Conference on Multimedia & Expo,  (IEEE ICME), to appear, Barcelona, 2011. [project page]

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti,  Chris Hermans and  Philippe Bekaert.  "Image and  Video Decolorization by Fusion". In Proc. of 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), (oral presentation, 4% rate of acceptance), New Zealand , Nov., 2010. [project page]

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Chris Hermans and  Philippe Bekaert. " A Fast Semi-Inverse Approach to Detect and  Remove the Haze from a Single Image". In Proc. of 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), New Zealand , November, 2010. [project page]

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and  Philippe Bekaert. "Decolorizing Images for Robust Matching". In Proceedings of 17th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing  (IEEE ICIP), pg. 149- 153  , Hong Kong ,September, 2010.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and  Philippe Bekaert. " Effective Single Image Dehazing by Fusion". In Proceedings of 17th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing  (IEEE ICIP), pg. 3541- 3545  , Hong Kong ,Sep., 2010.

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti and  Philippe Bekaert. "Video Super-Resolution Using High Quality Photographs". In Proceedings of 35th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP), pg. 862 - 865 ,  Dallas, USA, 2010.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and  Philippe Bekaert. "CC-SIFT: Exploiting Chromatic Contrast for Wide-Baseline Matching". In Proceedings of 35th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP), pg. 938 - 941  , Dallas, USA, 2010.

Cosmin Ancuti , Codruta O.Ancuti and  Philippe Bekaert. A Patch-Based Approach to Restore Videos Using Additional Stills ". In Proceedings of  IEEE ELMAR , ISBN: 978-1-4244-6371-8,  pg  143-146, Zadar, Croatia, 2010

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and  Philippe Bekaert. " Guiding visual attention in grayscale images for auditory substitution systems  ". In Proceedings of  IEEE ELMAR , ISBN: 978-1-4244-6371-8,  pg  139-142, Zadar, Croatia, 2010

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti  and Philippe Bekaert, "A Framework to Improve Matching Results of Widely  Separated Views". In Proceedings of International Conference on  Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Vol 1, pg. 474-480, Angers, France,  May,  2010.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti  and Philippe Bekaert, " Robust Grayscale Conversion for Vision-Substitution Systems". In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Vol. 1, pg. 130-136,  Angers, France,  May 17-21,  2010.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti  and Philippe Bekaert, "ColEnViSon: Color Enhanced Visual Sonifier. A Polyphonic Audio Texture and Salient Scene Analysis.". In Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) , Lisbon, Portugal,  Feb. 5-8,  2009.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti  and Philippe Bekaert, "Preserving visual saliency in image to sound substitution systems". In Proceedings of SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging  (HVEI 2009), San Jose, USA,  January 19-21 , 2009.

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti  and Philippe Bekaert, "Robust matching of images across large viewpoint changes". In Proceedings of Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP 2008), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ,  September 1-3 , 2008.

Cosmin Ancuti and Philippe Bekaert, "SIFT-CCH: Increasing the SIFT distinctness by Color Co-occurrence Histograms" In Proceedings of  5th IEEE International Symposium on Image  and Signal Processing and Analysis, Istambul, September 27-29 , 2007.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and Philippe Bekaert, "Active Systems Decisions Enhancement Using User Model in Pervasive Computing Enviroments" In Proceedings of   IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services, July 15-20 , 2007.

Cosmin Ancuti and Philippe Bekaert, "More effective image matching with Scale Invariant Feature Transform". In Proceedings of Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, Budmerice, Slovakia, April 26 - 28, 2007.




Cosmin Ancuti,  PhD
 
Research Interests:
My area of interests includes video/image enhancement techniques, computational photography and low level computer vision.
Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Chris Hermans and  Philippe Bekaert. "A Fast Semi-Inverse Approach to Detect and  Remove the Haze from a Single Image". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer,  to appear, 2011. [project page]

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti,  Chris Hermans and  Philippe Bekaert. "Image and  Video Decolorization by Fusion". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer,  to appear, 2011. [project page]

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta Orniana Ancuti  and Philippe Bekaert, "Deblurring by Matching". In Computer  Graphics  Forum  (EUROGRAPHICS 2009) ,Vol. 28, Nr. 2, pp. 619 - 628, Blackwell publishing,  2009.

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta Orniana Ancuti  and Philippe Bekaert, "An Efficient Two Steps Algorithm for Wide Baseline Image Matching". Journal of Visual Computer (Proc. of Comp. Graph. Int.), 25 : 5-7, pp. 677 - 686, Wiley & sons, Dec. 2009.

Cosmin Ancuti, Tom Haber, Tom Mertens  and Philippe Bekaert, "Video enhancement using reference photographs",
Journal of Visual Computer (Proc. of Computer Graphics International),  24 : 7-9, pp. 709 - 717, Wiley & sons, Jan. 2009.

Cosmin Ancuti and Philippe Bekaert, "A scale invariant detector based on local energy model for matching images".
Journal of WSCG (Proc. of  Intl. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision), Czech Rep., 2007.

Cosmin Ancuti and Philippe Bekaert, "Increasing the number of matches for local scale invariant feature points". In Journal of Computer Graphics & Geometry ,  Vol. 9,  Nr. 3, 2007.