The Vision and Media Lab
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.