Nataliya Shapovalova

I am a PhD student in the Vision and Media Lab at Simon Fraser University. I work on Action Recognition from Videos under the supervision of Dr. Greg Mori.

Research Interests

• High Level Image/Video Understanding
• Stereo Vision
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Machine Learning

Short Bio

I got B.A. degree with distinction in Computer Science from NTU "KhPI" (Kharkiv, Ukraine) in 2006. I joined the Erasmus Mundus master program in VIsion and roBOTics (VIBOT) and got M.S degree with distinction in 2009 from Heriot-Watt University (UK), University of Burgundy (France) and University of Girona (Spain).

Benchmarks

Best results on 3 out of 9 classes in Action Classification PASCAL VOC 2010
Team: Nataliya Shapovalova, Wenjuan Gong, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Josep M. Gonfaus, Marco Pedersoli, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Joost van de Weijer, Jordi Gonzalez (Computer Vision Centre, Spain)

Publications

N. Shapovalova, W. Gong, M. Pedersoli, J. Gonzalez, "On Importance of Context and Interactions in Action Recognition," in IbPRIA 2011