James Elder
Professor & York Research Chair in Human and Computer Vision
Affiliations
Co-Director, Centre for AI & Society (CAIS)
Principal Investigator, Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Urban Mobility (ISSUM)
Core Member, Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA)
Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Psychology
Associate Member, Graduate Program in Mathematics & Statistics
Co-Director, Centre for AI & Society (CAIS)
Principal Investigator, Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Urban Mobility (ISSUM)
Core Member, Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA)
Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Psychology
Associate Member, Graduate Program in Mathematics & Statistics
Research laboratory
James Elder
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Psychology
Research laboratory
Affiliations
Director, NSERC CREATE Training Program in Data Analytics & Visualization
Core Member, Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA)
Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Psychology
Director, NSERC CREATE Training Program in Data Analytics & Visualization
Core Member, Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA)
Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Psychology
Recent News
- June 30, 2023 – James Elder awarded York Research Chair in Human and Computer Vision
- Feb 14, 2023 – Keynote presentation by James Elder at the 1st Monocular Depth Estimation Challenge Workshop @ WACV23
- Nov 11, 2022 – Launch of the York University Centre for AI & Society
- Nov 11, 2022 – Bracing for Impact Conference: The Future of AI for Society
- Oct 11, 2022 – Spotting Frankensteins: Why humans beat AI at detecting freakish fakes
- Sept 16, 2022 – Study: Even smartest AI models don’t match human visual processing
- June 13, 2022 – Human Vision Postdoctoral Fellowship Position available in Elderlab
- March 28, 2022 – Postdoctoral Fellowship Position in Computer Vision available in Elderlab
- March 8, 2022 – Vector Institute for AI highlights York startup AttentiveVision
- Sept 10, 2021 – Research collaboration with Justus Liebig University Giessen shows that the brains of hockey spectators follow the advice of the Great Wayne Gretzky
- Sept 2, 2021 – Call for Participation: ICCV 2021 Doctoral Consortium
- July 1, 2021 – Elderlab PhD candidate Maria Koshkina won runner-up for the Sportlogiq best paper award
- Jan 8, 2021 – Postdoctoral Fellowship Position in Computer Vision available in Elderlab
- Dec 09, 2020 – AttentiveVision wins People’s Choice Award at the 2020 VISTA Innovation & Technology Symposium
See AttentiveVision CEO Kartikeya Bhargava’s presentation here. - Nov 16, 2020 – Elder lab leads collaborative team awarded CFI Exceptional Opportunities grant to develop Agile AI-Powered Autonomous Robotics for COVID-19 Disinfection
- July 23, 2020 – Postdoctoral Fellowship Position in Computer Vision available in Elderlab
- May 30, 2020 – PhD student Gong Cheng wins Best Computer Vision Paper Award at the 2020 Computer and Robot Vision Conference
- Jan 31, 2020 – James Elder’s keynote talk at the BMVA Workshop on 3D Worlds from 2D Images: Single-View 3D Shape from Contour
- Jan 13, 2020 – Postdoctoral Fellowship Position in Computer Vision available in Elderlab
- Jan 13, 2020 – Postdoctoral Fellowship Position in Human Vision available in Elderlab
- March 1, 2019 – ISSUM Research Project Manager position available
- Feb 9, 2019 – Radio interview on attentive puck tracking (APT) – starts at the 26m45s mark
- Jam 7, 2019 – Researchers from Elderlab invent novel computer vision system for automatic hockey videography
- Dec 10, 2018- Software/Systems Engineer Position available in Elderlab
- Dec 10, 2018 – Postdoctoral Fellowship Position in Computer Vision available in Elderlab
- Dec 6, 2018 – Elderlab develops computer vision system to extract 3D building models from a single image
- The Elderlab’s Visionary Approach to Artificial Intelligence
- James Elder awarded York Research Chair in Human and Computer Vision
- Professor James Elder wins major ORF grant to support sustainable urban mobility
Recent Publications
- Class-conditional Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation
Wang, Y., Li, Y., Elder, J.H., Wu, R., Lu, H. (2024). Computational Visual Media - A General Framework for Jersey Number Recognition in Sports Video
Koshkina, M. & Elder, J.H. (2024). Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops - The Second Monocular Depth Estimation Challenge
Spencer, J. et al. (2023). IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) - Sparse Shape Encoding for Topologically Improved Instance Segmentation
Liu, K. & Elder, J.H. (2023). Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) - What Does the Occluding Contour Tell Us about Quantitative Shape?
Qian, Y. & Elder, J.H. (2023). Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) - A Uniform Transformer-based Structure for Feature Fusion and Enhancement for RGB-D Saliency Detection
Wang, Y., Xu, J., Zhang, L., Li, Y., Elder, J.H., Lu, H. (2023). Pattern Recognition - Attentive Sensing for Long-range Face Recognition
Perroni Filho, H., Trajcevski, A., Bhargava, K., Javed, N. & Elder, J.H. (2023). WACVW - Blind Image Super-Resolution with Degradation-Aware Adaptation
Wang, Y., Ming, J., Jia, X., Elder, J.H., Lu & H.(2022). ACCV - Sensorimotor System Design of Socially Intelligent Robots
Trajcevski, A., Perroni Filho, H., Javed, N., Naheyan, T., Bhargava, K. & Elder, J.H. (2022). AI for De-Escalation Workshop, ICPR - The Time-course of Real-world Scene Perception: Spatial and Semantic Processing
Anderson MD, Elder JH, Graf EW, Adams WJ. (2022). iScience - A Reliable Online Method for Joint Estimation of Focal Length and Camera Rotation
Qian, Y. & Elder, J.H. (2022). ECCV, 249-265, Springer. - Deep Learning Models Fail to Capture the Configural Nature of Human Shape Perception
Baker, N. & Elder, J.H. (2022). iScience, 25(9), 104913. - VCSeg: Virtual Camera Adaptation for Road Segmentation
Cheng, G. & Elder, J.H. (2022) . Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 277-286. - Scaling Depth from Shadow Offset
Cavanagh, P., Casati, R. & Elder, J.H. (2021). Journal of Vision, 21(12):11. - Hockey Videos Reveal Contextual Modulation of Predictive Eye Movements
Goettker, A., Pidaparthy, H., Braun, D.I., Elder, J.H. & Gegenfurtner, K.R. (2021) Current Biology 31, R973-R992. - Automatic Play Segmentation of Hockey Videos
Pidaparthy, H., Dowling, M.H. & Elder, J.H. (2021) 7th International Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports, Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 4585-4593 - Contrastive Learning for Sports Video: Unsupervised Player Classification
Maria Koshkina, Hemanth Pidaparthy, James H. Elder (2021) Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 4528-4536 - Synergistic Saliency and Depth Prediction for RGB-D Saliency Detection
Wang, Y., Li, Y., Elder, J.H., Wu, R., Lu, H. & Zhang, L. (2020) Proc. Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 336-352. - Geometry-guided Adaptation for Road Segmentation
Cheng, G., Wang, Y., Qian, Y. & Elder, J.H. (2020) Proc. 17th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) - Keep your Eye on the Puck: Automatic Hockey Videography
Pidaparthy, H. & Elder, J.H.(2019) Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications in Computer Vision (WACV 2019). - LS3D: Single-View Gestalt 3D Surface Reconstruction from Manhattan Line Segments
Qian, Y., Ramalingam, S. & Elder, J.H.(2019) Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), LNCS 11364, 399-416.
- The Role of Global Cues in the Perceptual Grouping of Natural Shapes
Elder, J.H., Oleskiw, T.D. & Fruend, I (2018) Journal of Vision, 18(12):14. - Frequency Tuning of Natural Shape Perception Revealed by Classification Image Analysis
Wilder, J., Fruend, I. & Elder, J.H. (2018) Journal of Vision Science, 18(8):9. - Shape from Contour: Computation and Representation
Elder, J.H. (2018) Annual Review of Vision Science, 4:423-450.