Publications

2011 Mark S. Drew and Graham D. Finlayson. Improvement of Colorization Realism via the Structure Tensor. International Journal of Image and Graphics, 2011(to appear). [pdf] Mark S. Drew and Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze. Planckian Regression Temperature for Least Spectral Error and Least CIELAB Error. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2011(to appear). [pdf] Mark S. Drew, Ali Alsam, Ali Madooei, and Michael H. Brill. Fast Colour Vesselness. Color and Imaging Conference (CIC19), Nov. 2011, San Jose, CA. Graham D. Finlayson, David Connah, and Mark S. Drew. Lookup-Table Based Gradient Field Reconstruction. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2011(to appear). [pdf] Ghassan Hamarneh, Chris McIntosh, and Mark S. Drew. Perception-based Visualization of Manifold-Valued Medical Images using Distance-Preserving Dimensionality Reduction. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol, 30, no. 7, pp. 1314-1327 (doi 10.1109/TMI.2011.2111422), 2011. [pdf] Mark S. Drew and Amin Yazdani Salekdeh. Multispectral Image Invariant to Illumination Colour, Strength, and Shading. Digital Photography VII, San Francisco, 23-27 January 2011. [pdf] Mark S. Drew, Graham D. Finlayson, and Abhilash Jindal. Color image compression by gray-to-color mapping. Computational Imaging IX, San Francisco, 23-27 January 2011. [pdf] Tian Lan, Yang Wang, Weilong Yang, Stephen Robinovitch, and Greg Mori. Discriminative Latent Models for Recognizing Contextual Group Activities. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2011 (to appear). [pdf] Arash Vahdat, Bo Gao, Mani Ranjbar, and Greg Mori. A Discriminative Key Pose Sequence Model for Recognizing Human Interactions. Eleventh IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, 2011. [pdf] Tian Lan, Yang Wang, and Greg Mori. Discriminative Figure-Centric Models for Joint Action Localization and Recognition. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011. [pdf] Yang Wang and Greg Mori. Max-Margin Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Image Classification and Annotation. 22nd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2011. [pdf] B. Milligan, G. Mori, and R. Vaughan. Selecting and Commanding Groups in a Multi-Robot Vision Based System. 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (Video Session) (HRI), 2011. [pdf] [video] Yang Wang and Greg Mori. Hidden Part Models for Human Action Recognition: Probabilistic vs. Max-Margin. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 33(7) pp.1310-1323 2011. [pdf] Ziming Zhang, Jiawei Huang, and Ze-Nian Li. Learning Sparse Features On-Line for Image Classification. Proceeding of International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR'11), Vancouver, Canada, Jun. 2011. [pdf] 2010 Tian Lan, Yang Wang, Weilong Yang, and Greg Mori. Beyond Actions: Discriminative Models for Contextual Group Activities. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2010. [pdf] Yang Wang and Greg Mori. A Discriminative Latent Model of Image Region and Object Tag Correspondence. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2010. [pdf] Tian Lan, Yang Wang, Greg Mori, and Stephen Robinovitch. Retrieving Actions in Group Contexts. NeuralInternational Workshop on Sign Gesture Activity, 2010. [pdf] H. Jiang, M.S.Drew, and Z.N. Li. Action detection in cluttered video with successive convex matching. IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 20(1), 2010, 50-64. [pdf] Arash Vahdat and Mark S. Drew. Colour from Grey by Optimized Colour Ordering. Color Imaging Conference, San Antonio, Nov. 2010. Ziming Zhang, Ze-Nian Li, and Mark S. Drew. Learning Image Similarities via Probabilistic Feature Matching. Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Hong Kong (ICIP), 2010. Mark S. Drew and Raja Bala. Sensor Transforms to Improve Metamerism-Based Watermarking. Color Imaging Conference, San Antonio, Nov. 2010. Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze and Mark S. Drew. Improved Machine Learning for Image Category Recognition by Local Color Constancy. Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Hong Kong (ICIP), 2010. Ziming Zhang, Ze-Nian Li, and Mark S. Drew. AdaMKL: A Novel Biconvex Multiple Kernel Learning Approach. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010. Mark S. Drew and Graham D. Finlayson. Improvement of colorization realism via the structure tensor. Technical Report TR 2010-02, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Feb. 2010. [pdf] Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew, and Ze-Nian Li. Action Detection in Cluttered Video with Successive Convex Matching. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 20, no.1, Jan, 2010, pp.50-64, 2010. Yang Wang and Greg Mori. A Discriminative Latent Model of Object Classes and Attributes. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010. [pdf] Mani Ranjbar, Greg Mori, and Yang Wang. Optimizing Complex Loss Functions in Structured Prediction. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010. Weilong Yang, Yang Wang, and Greg Mori. Recognizing Human Actions from Still Images with Latent Poses. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010. [pdf] Bahman Yari Saeed Khanloo, Ferdinand Stefanus, Mani Ranjbar, Ze-Nian Li, Nicolas Saunier, Tarek Sayed, and Greg Mori. Max-Margin Offline Pedestrian Tracking with Multiple Cues. Seventh Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2010, 2010. [pdf] A. Couture-Beil, R. Vaughan, and G. Mori. Selecting and Commanding Individual Robots in a Vision-Based Multi-Robot System. Seventh Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2010. [pdf] 2009 Ghassan Hamarneh, Chris McIntosh, and Mark S. Drew. Perception-based Visualization of High-Dimensional Medical Images Using Distance Preserving Dimensionality Reduction. Tech. Report SFU-CMPT-TR-2009-22, Nov. 30, 2009. [More Info] A. Couture-Beil, R. Vaughan, and G. Mori. Selecting and Commanding Individual Robots in a Vision-Based Multi-Robot System. 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (Video Session) (HRI), 2009. [pdf] Yang Wang, Gholamreza Haffari, Shaojun Wang and Greg Mori. A Rate Distortion Approach for Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 22, 2009. [pdf] Weilong Yang, Yang Wang and Greg Mori. Efficient Human Action Detection using a Transferable Distance Function. Ninth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2009. [pdf] Weilong Yang, Yang Wang and Greg Mori. Human Action Recognition from a Single Clip per Action. nd International Workshop on Machine Learning for Vision-based Motion Analysis (at ICCV), 2009. [pdf] Yang Wang and Greg Mori. Max-Margin Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Human Action Recognition. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009. [pdf] Mohammad Norouzi, Mani Ranjbar, and Greg Mori. Stacks of Convolutional Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Shift-Invariant Feature Learning. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009. [pdf] Yang Wang and Greg Mori. Human Action Recognition by Semi-Latent Topic Models. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Special Issue on Probabilistic Graphical Models in Computer Vision (T-PAMI), 2009 (to appear). [pdf] Mark Bayazit, Alex Couture-Beil, and Greg Mori. Real-time Motion-based Gesture Recognition using the GPU. IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), 2009. [More Info] Graham D. Finlayson, Mark S. Drew, and Cheng Lu. Entropy Minimization for Shadow Removal. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2009 (to appear). [pdf] Ali Alsam and Mark S. Drew. Fast Multispectral2Gray. Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 2009 (to appear). [pdf] Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew, and Ze-Nian Li. Action Detection in Cluttered Video with Successive Convex Matching. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2009 (to appear). [pdf] Muntaseer Salahuddin, Mark S. Drew, and Ze-Nian Li. A Fast Method for Classifying Surface Textures. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2009. [pdf] Mark S. Drew, David Connah, Graham D. Finlayson, and Marina Bloj. Improved Colour to Greyscale via Integrability Correction. Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIV, 2009. [pdf] Mark S. Drew, Tim K. Lee, and Andrew Rova. Shape Retrieval with Eigen-CSS Search. Image and Vision Computing, vol. 27, 2009. [pdf] Steven Bergner, Mark S. Drew, and Torsten Moeller. A tool to create illuminant and reflectance spectra for light-driven graphics and visualization. ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol.28 (also presented at SIGGRAPH 2009 in the TOG Papers Session), 2009. [pdf] Rajeev Ramanath and Mark S. Drew. Color: Color Perception. Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, Vol.1, 2009. [pdf] Rajeev Ramanath and Mark S. Drew. Color: Color Models. Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, Vol.1, 2009. [pdf] 2008 Yang Wang and Greg Mori. Learning a Discriminative Hidden Part Model for Human Action Recognition. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 21, 2008. [pdf] Yang Wang and Greg Mori. Multiple Tree Models for Occlusion and Spatial Constraints in Human Pose Estimation. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008. [pdf] Ali Alsam and Mark S. Drew. Fast Colour2Grey. 16th Color Imaging Conference: Color, Science, Systems and Applications, Society for Imaging Science & Technology (IS&T)/Society for Information Display (SID) joint conference, 2008. [pdf] Bo Chen, William Pak Tun Ma, Yan Tan, Alexandra Fedorova, and Greg Mori. GreenRT: A Framework for the Design of Power-Aware Soft Real-Time Applications. Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA), 2008. [pdf] J. Yin, Q. Yang, D. Shen, and Z.N. Li. Activity recognition via user-trace segmentation. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 4(4), 2008. [pdf] Gholamreza Haffari, Yang Wang, Shaojun Wang, Greg Mori, and Feng Jiao. Boosting with Incomplete Information. International Conference on Machine Learning, 2008. [pdf] Alireza Fathi and Greg Mori. Action Recognition by Learning Mid-level Motion Features. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2008. [pdf] R. P. Botchen, S. Bachthaler, F. Schick, M. Chen, G. Mori, D. Weiskopf and T. Ertl. Action-based multi-field video visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2008. Jens Wawerla, Shelley Marshall, Greg Mori, Kristina Rothley, and Payam Sabzmeydani. BearCam: Automated Wildlife Monitoring At The Arctic Circle. Journal of Machine Vision Applications, To appear, 2008. [pdf] Bo Chen, Nhan Nguyen, and Greg Mori. Human Pose Estimation with Rotated Geometric Blur. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2008. [pdf] Y. Lu and Z.N. Li. Automatic object extraction and reconstruction in active video. Pattern Recognition, 2008. [pdf] Steven Bergner, Mark S. Drew, and Torsten Moeller. A tool to create illuminant and reflectance spectra for light-driven graphics and visualization. ACM Transactions on Graphics, To appear, 2008. Mark S. Drew and Steven Bergner. Spatio-Chromatic Decorrelation for Color Image Compression. Signal Processing: Image Communication, To appear, 2008. Mark S. Drew and Graham D. Finlayson. Realistic Colorization via the Structure Tensor. International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP08, To appear, 2008. Rajeev Ramanath and Mark S. Drew. Color: Color Perception. Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, To appear, 2008. Rajeev Ramanath and Mark S. Drew. Color: Color Models. Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, To appear, 2008. 2007 Alireza Fathi and Greg Mori. Human Pose Estimation using Motion Exemplars. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2007. [pdf] Yang Wang and Greg Mori. Boosted Multiple Deformable Trees for Parsing Human Poses. 2nd Workshop on HUMAN MOTION Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation (at ICCV), 2007. [pdf] Yang Wang, Payam Sabzmeydani, and Greg Mori. Semi-Latent Dirichlet Allocation: A Hierarchical Model for Human Action Recognition. 2nd Workshop on HUMAN MOTION Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation (at ICCV), 2007. [pdf] Mark S. Drew, Muntaseer Salahuddin, and Alireza Fathi. A Standardized Workflow for Illumination-Invariant Image Extraction. 15th Color Imaging Conference: Color, Science, Systems and Applications, Society for Imaging Science & Technology (IS&T)/Society for Information Display (SID) joint conference, Nov. 2007. [pdf] Mark S. Drew and Ghassan Hamarneh. Visualizing Diffusion Tensor Dissimilarity using an ICA Based Perceptual Color Metric. ICCV'07: International Conference on Computer Vision, Oct. 2007. [pdf] Z. Tauber, Z.N. Li, and M.S. Drew. Review and preview: Disocclusion by impainting for image-based rendering. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews,, 2007. [pdf] Hao Jiang, Ze-Nian Li, and Mark S. Drew. Recognizing Posture in Pictures with Successive Convexification and Linear Programming. IEEE Multimedia, 2007. [pdf] Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew, and Ze-Nian Li. Matching by Linear Programming and Successive Convexification. IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), June 2007. [pdf] Mark S. Drew, and S. Bergner. Spatio-Chromatic Decorrelation for Color Image Compression. Technical Report, TR:2007-09, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 2007. [pdf] Zinovi Tauber, Ze-Nian Li, and Mark S. Drew. Spatial Topology Graphs for Feature-Minimal Correspondence. Fourth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV2007), 2007. [pdf] Timothy K. Lee and Mark S. Drew. 3D Object Recognition by Scale-Space of Contours. First Int. Conf. on Scale Space Methods and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM'07), 2007. [pdf] Hao Jiang and Mark S. Drew. Shadow Resistant Tracking using Inertia Constraints. Pattern Recognition, 2007. [pdf] Payam Sabzmeydani and Greg Mori. Detecting Pedestrians by Learning Shapelet Features. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007. Maryam Moslemi Naeini, Greg Dutton, Kristina Rothley, and Greg Mori. Action Recognition of Insects Using Spectral Clustering. IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, May 2007. [pdf] Andrew Rova, Greg Mori, and Lawrence M. Dill. One Fish, Two Fish, Butterfish, Trumpeter: Recognizing Fish in Underwater Video,. IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, 2007. [pdf] Chris McIntosh, Ghassan Hamarneh, and Greg Mori. Human Limb Delineation and Joint Position Recovery Using Localized Boundary Models. IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, 2007. [pdf] 2006 Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew, and Ze-Nian Li. Convex Quadratic Programming for Object Localization. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), 2006. Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew, and Ze-Nian Li. Detecting Human Action in Active Video. IEEE Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), 2006. Y. Lu, and Ze-Nian Li. Object Extraction and Reconstruction in Active Video. Canadian Conf on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2006), 2006. Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew, and Ze-Nian Li. Successive Convex Matching for Action Detection. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006. [pdf] Yang Wang, Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew, Ze-Nian Li, and Greg Mori. Unsupervised Discovery of Action Classes. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006. [pdf] Zinovi Tauber, Ze-Nian Li, and Mark S. Drew. Review and Preview: Disocclusion by Impainting for Image-based Rendering. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, In Press, 2006. Zinovi Tauber, Ze-Nian Li, and Mark S. Drew. Review and preview: Disocclusion by Inpainting for Image-based Rendering. Technical Report TR 2006-04, Simon Fraser University, 2006. [pdf] Graham D. Finlayson, Steven D. Hordley, Cheng Lu, and Mark S. Drew. On the Removal of Shadows From Images. IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Jan. 2006. [pdf] Mark S. Drew and Graham D. Finlayson. Analytic Solution for Separating Spectra into Illumination and Surface Reflectance Components. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 2006. [pdf] Cheng Lu and Mark S. Drew. Practical Scene Illuminant Estimation via Flash/No-Flash Pairs. CIC14: Color Imaging Conference, 2006. [pdf] Cheng Lu and Mark S. Drew. Automatic Compensation for Camera Settings for Images Taken under Different Illuminants. CIC14: Color Imaging Conference, 2006. [pdf] Cheng Lu, Mark S. Drew, and Graham D. Finlayson. Shadow Removal via Flash/Noflash Illumination. IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP'06), 2006. [pdf] Mark S. Drew, Cheng Lu, and Graham D. Finlayson. Removing Shadows using Flash/Noflash Image Edges. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2006), 2006. [pdf] Mark S. Drew, Cheng Lu, and Graham D. Finlayson. Ambient Shadow Detection and Removal via Flash/Noflash Pairs. Technical Report CMPT2006-05, 2006. [pdf] Oliver Schulte and Mark S. Drew. An Algorithmic Proof that the Family Conservation Laws are Optimal for the Current Reaction Data. High Energy Physics e-Print Archive, Technical Report HEP-PH/0602011, 2006. [link] Oliver Schulte and Mark S. Drew. An Algorithmic Proof that The Family Conservation Laws are Optimal for the Current Reaction Data. Technical Report CMPT2006-03, 2006. [pdf] Greg Mori and Jitendra Malik. Recovering 3d Human Body Configurations Using Shape Contexts. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2006. [pdf] Xiaoxing Li, Greg Mori, and Hao Zhang. Expression-Invariant Face Recognition with Expression Classification. Third Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2006. [pdf] Oliver van Kaick and Greg Mori. Automatic Classification of Outdoor Images by Region Matching. Third Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2006. [pdf] Serge Belongie, Greg Mori, and Jitendra Malik. Matching with Shape Contexts. Statistics and Analysis of Shapes, eds. H. Krim and T. Yezzi, Birkhäuser, 2006. [link] 2005 H. Jiang and M. S. Drew. Shadow Resistant Tracking using Inertia Constraints. Pattern Recognition 2005, to appear. H. Jiang, Z.-N. Li, and M. S. Drew. Linear Programming for Matching in Human Body Gesture Recognition. ICCV 2005 Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG 2005), Beijing, Oct. 2005. C. Lu and M. S. Drew. Shadow Segmentation and Shadow-Free Chromaticity via Markov Random Fields. Color Imaging Conference, Scottsdale, Nov. 2005. G. D. Finlayson, M. S. Drew, and C. Lu. Obtaining Intrinsic Images. U.S. Patent Application, 2005. H. Jiang, M. S. Drew, and Z.-N. Li. Linear Programming Matching and Appearance-Adaptive Object Tracking. Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR05), St. Augustine, FL, Nov. 2005, LNCS vol. 3757, pp. 203-219. [pdf] Greg Mori. Guiding Model Search Using Segmentation . IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision ,2005. [pdf] Greg Mori, Serge Belongie, and Jitendra Malik. Efficient Shape Matching Using Shape Contexts . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence ,Nov 2005. [pdf] J. Yin, D. Shen, Q. Yang and Z.N. Li, Activity recognition through goal-based segmentation, Proc. The 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005), pp. 28-33, 2005. H. Jiang, Z.N. Li, and M.S. Drew, Human posture recognition with convex programming, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), 2005. Z. Tauber, Z.N. Li, and M.S. Drew, Review and Preview: Disocclusion by impainting for image-based rendering, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, 2005 (accepted, minor revision). 2004 G. Mori, X. Ren, A. Efros, and J. Malik. Recovering Human Body Configurations: Combining Segmentation and Recognition . IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,2004. [pdf] G. Mori, A. Berg, A. Efros, A. Eden, and J. Malik. Video Based Motion Synthesis by Splicing and Morphing . University of California, Berkeley Tech Report: UCB//CSD-04-1337 ,June 2004 . [pdf] Y. Lu, J.Z. Zhang, Q.M.J. Wu and Z.N. Li, A survey of motion-parallax-based 3-D reconstruction algorithms, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, 34(4), 2004, 532-548. [pdf] H. Jiang, M.S. Drew, and Z.N. Li, Optimizing motion estimation with linear programming and detail-preserving variational method, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004), Vol. 1, pp. 738-745, 2004. [pdf] Y. Lu and Z.N. Li, Active video object extraction, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004), 2004. [pdf] 2003 A.A. Efros, A.C. Berg, G. Mori and J. Malik. Recognizing Action at A Distance . IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision ,2003 . [pdf] Greg Mori and Jitendra Malik. Recognizing Objects in Adversarial Clutter: Breaking a Visual CAPTCHA . IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,2003 . [pdf] Y. Lu, C. Lu, and Z.N. Li, A modified space frequency decomposition algorithm for visual motion, IEEE Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2003), Vol. 2, pp. 801-804, 2003. [pdf] 2002 Greg Mori and Jitendra Malik. Estimating Human Body Configurations using Shape Context Matching . European Conference on Computer Vision ,2002 . [pdf] Z.N. Li, X. Zhong and M.S. Drew, Spatial-temporal joint probability images for video segmentation, Pattern Recognition, 35(9), 2002, 1847-1867.[pdf] M.S. Drew, Z.N. Li and Z. Tauber, Illumination color covariant locale-based visual object retrieval, Pattern Recognition, 35(8), 2002, 1687-1704. [pdf] J. Au, Z.N. Li, and M.S. Drew, Object segmentation and tracking using video locales, Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2002), Vol. 2, pp. 544-547, 2002. [pdf] Z.N. Li and J. Au, On Automatic Extraction of Video Objects, SPIE Conf. on Electronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology, Vol. 4925, pp. 253-264, 2002. 2001 Greg Mori, Serge Belongie, and Jitendra Malik. Shape Contexts Enable Efficient Retrieval of Similar Shapes . IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,2001 . [pdf] Greg Mori and Jitendra Malik. Estimating Human Body Configurations using Shape Context Matching . IEEE Workshop on Models versus Exemplars in Computer Vision ,2001 . [pdf] J. Wei and Z.N. Li, On active camera control and camera motion recovery with Foveate Wavelet Transform, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 23(8), 2001, 896-903. [pdf] J. Wang and Z.N. Li, Locale-based multiple cue algorithm for object segmentation, IEEE Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2001), pp. 1052-1055, 2001. T.K. Lee, M.S. Atkins, and Z.N. Li, Indentation and protrusion detection and its applications, in Proc. of the third International Conference on Scale Space and Morphology in Computer Vision, Kerckhove M ed.,  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, vol. 2106, pp. 335-343, 2001. 2000 Z.N. Li and J. Wei, Spatio-temporal joint probability images for video segmentation, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2000), Vol. II, pp. 295-298, 2000. M.S. Drew, Z.N. Li, and X. Zhong, Video dissolve and wipe detection via spatio-temporal images of chromatic histogram differences, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2000), Vol. III, pp. 929-932, 2000. Z.N. Li, Z. Tauber and M.S. Drew, Locale-based object search under illumination change using chromaticity voting and elastic correlation, IEEE Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2000), 2000. Z. Tauber, Z.N. Li, and M.S. Drew, Locale-based visual object retrieval under illumination change, Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2000), Vol. 4, pp. 43-46, 2000. M.S. Drew, Z. Tauber and Z.N. Li, Feature localization and search by object model under illumination change, IS\&T/SPIE Symp. on Electronic Imaging 2000, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2000, pp. 399-410, 2000. J. Wang and Z.N. Li, Kernel-based multiple cue algorithm for object segmentation, IS\&T/SPIE Symp. on Electronic Imaging 2000, Image and Video Communications and Processing, SPIE Proceedings Volume 3974, pp. 462-473, 2000. 1999 J. Wei and Z.N. Li, An efficient two-pass MAP-MRF algorithm for motion estimation based on mean field theory, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 9(6), 1999, 960-972. [ps] Z.N. Li, O. Zaiane and Z. Tauber, Illumination invariance and object model in content-based image and video retrieval, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 10(3), 1999, 219-244. [pdf] M.S. Drew, J. Wei and Z.N. Li, Illumination-invariant image retrieval and video segmentation, Pattern Recognition, 32(8), 1999, 1369-1388. Z.N. Li and F. Tong, Reciprocal-wedge transform in active stereo, Int. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 13(1), 1999, 25-48. J. Wei and Z.N. Li, On active camera control with Foveate Wavelet Transform, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 99), Vol. 1, pp. 369-374, 1999. Z.N. Li, Search by object model and object tracking in C-BIRD, Proc. 5th Conf. on Hypertexts and Hypermedia: Products, Tools \& Methods (H2PTM 99), pp. 243-254, 1999. J. Wei, I. Gertner and Z.N. Li, A novel motion-based active video indexing method, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS 99), Vol. 2, pp. 460-465, 1999. 1998 M.S. Drew, J. Wei and Z.N. Li, On illumination invariance in color object recognition, Pattern Recognition, 31(8), 1998, 1077-1087. P. Gvozdjak and Z.N. Li, From nomad to explorer: active object recognition on mobile robots, Pattern Recognition, 31(6), 1998, 773-790. O.R. Zaiane, J. Han, Z.N. Li, and J. Hou, Mining multimedia data, Proc. CASCON 98: Meeting of Minds, pp. 83-96, 1998. J. Wei and Z.N. Li, Efficient disparity-based gaze control with Foveate Wavelet Transform, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 98), pp. 866-871, 1998. Z.N. Li, O. Zaiane and B. Yan, C-BIRD: Content-Based Image Retrieval from Digital libraries using illumination invariance and recognition kernel, Proc. 9th Int. Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 98), pp. 361-366, 1998. J. Wei and Z.N. Li, Foveate Wavelet Transform for camera motion recovery from videos, Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 98), Vol. 2, pp. 1445-1448, 1998. O.R. Zaiane, J. Han, Z.N. Li, J.Y. Chiang, S. Chee, MultiMediaMiner: a system prototype for multimedia data mining, Proc. ACM-SIGMOD Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD 98), Seattle, pp. 581-583, 1998. Z.N. Li and X.O. Ren, Compensating perspective distortion caused by camera pan-tilt movements, Vision Interface 98, pp. 221-228, 1998. J. Wei, M.S. Drew and Z.N. Li, Illumination invariant video segmentation by hierarchical robust thresholding, IS\&T/SPIE Symp. on Electronic Imaging 98, Storage \& Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI, SPIE Vol. 3312, pp. 188-201, 1998. M.S. Drew, J. Wei and Z.N. Li, Illumination-invariant color object recognition via compressed chromaticity histograms of color-channel-normalized images, Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV 98), pp. 533-540, 1998. 1997 J. Wei and Z.N. Li, An enhancement to MRMC scheme in video compression, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 7(3), 1997, 564-568. J. Wei and Z.N. Li, Motion compensation in color video with illumination variations, Proc. Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 97), Vol. 3, pp. 614-617, 1997. 1996 Z.N. Li and G. Hu, Analysis of disparity gradient based cooperative stereo, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 5(11), 1996, 1493-1506. F. Tong and Z.N. Li, Camera model for reciprocal-wedge transform, Image and Vision Computing, 14(5), 1996, 339-351. Z.N. Li, On multi-resolution and variable-resolution, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 719-724, 1996. Z.N. Li and B. Yan Recognition kernel for content based search, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 472-477, 1996. 1995 J. Ens and Z.N. Li, Real-time motion stereo on SFU pyramid, Real-time Imaging, 1(6), 1995, 385-396. F. Tong and Z.N. Li, Reciprocal-wedge transform for space-variant sensing, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 17(5), 1995, 500-511. Z.N. Li, F. Tong and X.O. Ren, Applying reciprocal-wedge transform to ego motion, IASTED Int. Conf. on Robotics and Manufacturing, pp. 256-259, 1995. Z.N. Li and H.W. Chin, Depth and occlusion recovery in motion stereo, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 3890-3895, 1995. P. Gvozdjak and Z.N. Li, From NOMAD to explorer --- active object recognition on mobile robots, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 4079-4084, 1995. X.O. Ren, W.A. Gruver, and Z.N. Li, Implementation of an intelligent service robot using purposive vision, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 3684-3689, 1995. 1994 Z.N. Li, Stereo correspondence based on line matching in Hough space using dynamic programming, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 24(1), 1994, 144-152. K. Tate and Z.N. Li, Depth map construction from range-guided multiresolution stereo matching, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 24(1), 1994, 134-144. F. Tong and Z.N. Li, Reciprocal-wedge transform in motion stereo, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1060-1065, 1994. Z.N. Li, Disparity gradient revisited, Int. Symp. on Information, Computer, and Control, pp. 468-473, 1994. G. Hu and Z.N. Li, A non-iterative intersection preserving line thinning algorithm, in Thinning Methodologies for Pattern Recognition, C.Y. Suen and P.S.P. Wang (eds.), Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence Vol. 8, pp. 67-89, WSP, 1994. 1993 G. Hu and Z.N. Li, An X-crossing preserving skeletonization algorithm, Int. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 7(5), 1993, 1031-1053. Z.N. Li and D. Zhang, Fast line detection in a hybrid pyramid, Pattern Recognition Letters, 14(1), 1993, 53-63. Z.N. Li, B. Yao, and F. Tong, Linear generalized Hough transform and its parallelization, Image and Vision Computing, 11(1), 1993, 11-24. Z.N. Li and F. Tong, Variable-resolution motion stereo using reciprocal-wedge transform, Proc. Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 912-915, 1993. J. Ens and Z.N. Li, Real-time motion stereo, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 93), pp. 130-135, 1993. Z.N. Li and D. Zhang, Real-time line-based motion stereo, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Vol. II, pp. 367-372, 1993 (invited). F. Tong and Z.N. Li, The reciprocal-wedge transform for space-variant sensing, Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV 93), pp. 330-334, 1993. Z.N. Li, Real-time pyramidal vision, in Computer Vision: Systems, Theory, and Applications, A. Basu and X. Li (eds.), pp. 54-76, WSP, 1993. 1992 Z.N. Li and G. Hu, On edge preservation in multiresolution images, CVGIP: Graphical Modeling and Image Processing, 54(6), 1992, 461-472. F. Tong and Z.N. Li, On improving the accuracy of line extraction in Hough space, Int. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 6(5), 1992, 831-847. J.W. Han and Z.N. Li, Deductive-ER: deductive entity-relationship data model and its data language, Information and Software Technology, 34(3), 1992, 192-204. Z.N. Li, Hierarchical LIGHT in a pyramid machine, Proc. Int. Conf. on Manufacturing Automation, pp. 401-406, also selected to be reprinted in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1713, pp. 185-193, 1992. Z.N. Li and D. Zhang, Fast line detection in a hybrid pyramid, Proc. Vision Interface 92, pp. 143-150, 1992. J. Ens, Z.N. Li, F. Tong, D. Zhang, S. Atkins and W.S. Luk, A hybrid pyramidal vision machine for real time object recognition, Proc. 5th Conf. of North American Transputer Users Group, [A.M. Veronis and Y. Paker (eds.), Transputer Research and Applications 5], IOS Press, pp. 90-103, 1992. 1991 F. Tong and Z.N. Li, Backprojection for stereo matching using transputers, Proc. SPIE Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems, SPIE Vol. 1615 (Machine Vision Architectures, Integration, and Applications), pp. 373-385, 1991. Z.N. Li, Vision in pyramids - object recognition in real time, Proc. Int. Conf. on CAD/CAM, Robotics, and FOF, pp. 344-349, 1991. Z.N. Li, B.G. Yao and F. Tong, A linear generalized Hough transform and its parallel implementation, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 91), pp. 672-673, 1991. Z.N. Li, F. Tong and R.G. Laughlin, Parallel algorithms for line detection on a 1xN array processor, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2312-2318, 1991. 1990 K. Tate and Z.N. Li, A multiresolution approach to range-guided stereo matching, SPIE Symposium on Advances in Intelligent Systems, Sensor Fusion III: 3-D Perception and Recognition, Nov. 1990. 1989 Z.N. Li, Uncertainty management in a pyramid vision system, Int. Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 3(1), 1989, 59-85. Z.N. Li, Dynamic programming in Hough space for line matching in stereopsis, SPIE Symposium on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems '89, SPIE Vol. 1195 (Mobile Robots), pp. 209-220, 1989. G. Hu and Z.N. Li, Line thinning via merge-split in run-length sequences of line cross sections, SPIE Symposium on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems '89, SPIE Vol. 1192, pp. 170-180, 1989. Z.N. Li and G. Hu, Quantitative evaluation on edge preservation in multiresolution images, Proc. 3rd IEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing and Its Applications, pp. 623-627, 1989. G. Hu and Z.N. Li, Detecting line intersections using a histogram of line width, Proc. Int. Conf. on Image Processing, pp. 568-572, 1989. B.G. Yao and Z.N. Li, Some extensions on generalized Hough transform, Proc. Int. Conf. on Image Processing, pp. 573-577, 1989. J.W. Han and Z.N. Li, DERDL --- a knowledge-based data language for a deductive entity-relationship model, Proc. Int. Conf. on Computing and Information, [R. Janicki and W.W. Koczkodaj (eds), Computing and Information, Elsevier], pp. 317-326, 1989. 1988 Z.N. Li, Preserving edges in images with reduced resolutions, Proc. Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 768-771, 1988. Z.N. Li and J.W. Han, Empirical comparisons of evidential reasoning mechanisms, Proc. 1st Int. Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 241-252, 1988, Distinguished Paper Award (co-recipient). Z.N. Li and Q. Song, Multiresolution modeling and matching using salient features, Proc. Vision Interface '88, pp. 139-145, 1988. Z.N. Li and L. Uhr, Evidential reasoning in a computer vision system, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 2, J.F. Lemmer and L.N. Kanal (eds.) (A collection of selected and revised papers from the conference proceedings [19]), pp. 403-412, Elsevier, 1988. 1987 Z.N. Li and L. Uhr, Pyramid vision using key features to integrate image-driven bottom-up and model-driven top-down processes, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC-17 (2), 1987, 250-263. Z.N. Li, Comparisons of reasoning mechanisms for computer vision, Proc. AAAI 87 Workshop on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 287-294, 1987. 1986 Z.N. Li and L. Uhr, A pyramidal approach for the recognition of neurons using key features, Pattern Recognition, 19 (1), 1986, 55-62. Z.N. Li and L. Uhr, Evidential reasoning in parallel hierarchical vision programs, Proc. AAAI 86 Workshop on ``Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence'', pp. 175-182, 1986. J.W Han and Z.N. Li, DQL -- The deductive augmentation of relational database query language QUEL, in Automated Analysis of Legal Texts, A.A. Martino and F.S. Natali (eds.), pp. 861-874, Elsevier, 1986. 1985 Z.N. Li and L. Uhr, Comparative timing for a neuron recognition program on serial and pyramid computers, Proc. Computer Architecture for Pattern Analysis and Image Database Management, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 99-106, 1985.