• Learning Hierarchical Shape Models from Examples. Alex Levinshtein, Cristian Sminchisescu, and Sven Dickinson. EMMCVPR 2005. St Augustine, Florida, USA.
• Learning Decompositional Shape Models from Examples. Masters thesis. University of Toronto. 2005.
• Qualitative 3D Surface Reconstruction from Images. Alex Levinshtein, Cristian Sminchisescu, and Sven Dickinson. Snowbird Learning, April 2008. (Poster)
• TurboPixels: Fast Superpixels Using Geometric Flows. Alex Levinshtein, Adrian Stere, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, David J. Fleet, Sven J. Dickinson, and Kaleem Siddiqi. TPAMI 2009 (vol. 31, no. 12). (Supplementary material including code, Just code, including precompiled binaries for Linux and Windows (32 bit) , 64 bit Windows code thanks to Shaul Oren, A modified superpixels.m function that computes the superpixel segmentation image and not just the superpixel boundaries)
• Multiscale Symmetric Part Detection and Grouping. Alex Levinshtein, Cristian Sminchisescu, and Sven Dickinson. ICCV 2009. Kyoto, Japan. (Poster, Supplementary material, Code)
• Optimal Contour Closure by Superpixel Grouping. Alex Levinshtein, Cristian Sminchisescu, and Sven Dickinson. ECCV 2010. Crete, Greece. (Poster, Supplementary material, Code)
• Spatiotemporal Closure. Alex Levinshtein, Cristian Sminchisescu, and Sven Dickinson. ACCV 2010. Queenstown, New Zealand. (Presentation, Website with supplementary material, Spatiotemporal Closure Code, Temporal Turbopixels Code)
• Low and Mid-level Shape Priors For Image Segmentation. PhD thesis. University of Toronto. 2010.

• Fast superpixels with application to image and video segmentation. Purdue University. December 9th, 2010. Lafayette, IN, USA. (ppt)
• Low and mid-level shape constraints for segmentation. University of Manchester. April 9th, 2009. Manchester, UK. (ppt)
• Learning Hierarchical Shape Models from Examples. 2005-2007. (EMMCVPR 2005, Group Talk (UofT), Montreal Student Workshop, Technion - Israeli Institute of Technology)

• Book/friend recommendations for Indigo's online bookstore. Spring 2009. (report, presentation)

Arish Qazi and I have recently started a new medical image processing seminar. For information and updates about the seminar, please see this website.