Tutorial on Towards Solving Real-World Vision Problems with RGB-D Cameras, Portland, OR, USA, June 2013, in conjunction with CVPR'13. Organizers: Xiaofeng Ren (Amazon), Pushmeet Kohli (Microsoft Research Cambridge), and Juergen Gall (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems).

The CVPR'12 paper Interactive Object Detection has been nominated for the ITG Innovation Award.

The book Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision - Research Topics and Applications edited by Andrea Fossati (ETH Zurich), Juergen Gall (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems), Helmut Grabner (upicto), Xiaofeng Ren (Intel Labs), Kurt Konolige (Industrial Perception) can be ordered from Springer. The book features contributions from Jamie Shotton, Hans-Peter Seidel, Michael J. Black, Trevor Darrell, Dieter Fox, and many more...

Souce code for the CVPR'12 paper Real-time Facial Feature Detection using Conditional Regression Forests has been released.

Data for the ECCV'12 paper Motion Capture of Hands in Action using Discriminative Salient Points has been released.

The work on Real Time Head Pose Estimation presented by Gabriele Fanelli wins 3rd prize of the Kinect gesture demo competition at CVPR'12. 

Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, Firenze, Italy, 12 October 2012, in conjunction with ECCV'12. Organizers: Andrea Fossati (ETH Zurich), Juergen Gall (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems), Helmut Grabner (ETH Zurich), Xiaofeng Ren (Intel Labs), Kurt Konolige (Willow Garage), Seungkyu Lee (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology), and Miles Hansard (Queen Mary University London).

Visual Understanding and Applications with RGB-D Cameras, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI). Guest Editors: Michael Beetz (TU Munich), Daniel Cremers (TU Munich), Juergen Gall (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems), Wanqing Li (University of Wollongong), Zicheng Liu (Microsoft Research Redmond), Dejan Pangercic (TU Munich), Juergen Sturm (TU Munich), and Yu-Wing Tai (KAIST).