About me:

I graduated from High School #73 in Tula, Russia. After that, I received my MS in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, FUPM Deparment. Now I am a PhD candidate at the Computer Science Department at Cornell University and will graduate in September 2003. Starting October 2003, I will be a postdoc at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England.

I work in the area of computer vision under the supervision of Prof. Ramin Zabih. You can find out more about my research from these links:



• Research statement ([.pdf] [.ps])
  
• Resume ([.pdf] [.ps] [.txt])
  
• Results for some of our algorithms
  
• Software implementing some of our algorithms
  

Selected publications:

• Visual Correspondence Using Energy Minimization and Mutual Information. ([abstract] [.pdf])
  Junhwan Kim, Vladimir Kolmogorov and Ramin Zabih.
  To appear in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2003.
  
• Computing Geodesics and Minimal Surfaces via Graph Cuts. ([abstract] [.pdf] [.ps.gz])
  Yuri Boykov and Vladimir Kolmogorov.
  To appear in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2003.
  
• Generalized Multi-camera Scene Reconstruction Using Graph Cuts. ([abstract] [.pdf])
  Vladimir Kolmogorov, Ramin Zabih and Steven Gortler.
  To appear in Fourth International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), July 2003.
  
• Multi-camera Scene Reconstruction via Graph Cuts. ([abstract] [.pdf] [.ps.gz] [implementation for two cameras])
  Vladimir Kolmogorov and Ramin Zabih.
  In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2002 (best paper award).
  
• What Energy Functions can be Minimized via Graph Cuts? ([abstract] [.pdf] [implementation])
  Vladimir Kolmogorov and Ramin Zabih.
  To appear in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).
  Earlier version appeared in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2002 (best paper award).
  
• An Experimental Comparison of Min-Cut/Max-Flow Algorithms for Energy Minimization in Computer Vision. ([abstract] [.pdf] [.ps.gz] [implementation])
  Yuri Boykov and Vladimir Kolmogorov.
  In Third International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), September 2001.
  Expanded version submitted to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).
  
• Computing Visual Correspondence with Occlusions using Graph Cuts. ([abstract] [.ps.gz] [implementation])
  Vladimir Kolmogorov and Ramin Zabih.
  In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), July 2001.
  Also available as Cornell Technical Report.
  

Contact information:

E-mail:
vnk@cs.cornell.edu

Office:
5151 Upson Hall, Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 14853
Phone: (607) 255-3042
Fax: (607) 255-4428 (Put my name on the first page)

Home:
1085 Warren Rd #2, Ithaca NY, 14850
Phone: (607) 257-6943