Computer Vision Research

ECCV 2002 paper on "TensorFaces".
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ICPR 2002 paper.     CVPR 2003 paper.     CVPR 2005 paper.
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Paper on "Graphics with a Vision" in a Computer Graphics special issue on "Applications of Computer Vision to Computer Graphics".
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Foveated Active Vision Demo

Videre article introducing a new paradigm for vision research involving the development of active perception systems for realistic artificial animals inhabiting physics-based virtual worlds.
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Animat vision demos
ICCV "animat vision" paper. Reference | .ps.gz

Color-based tracking of heads and other 3D objects at video frame rates.
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T-PAMI paper on "Analysis and Synthesis of Facial Image Sequences Using Physical and Anatomical Models".
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Facial Motion Analysis Demo

T-PAMI paper on "Shape and Nonrigid Motion Estimation through Physics-Based Synthesis"".
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T-PAMI paper on "Dynamic 3D Models with Local and Global Deformations: Deformable Superquadrics".
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Papers on "Adaptive Meshes".
CVPR 91 paper on "Sampling and Reconstruction with Adaptive Meshes"
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CVPR 92 paper on "Adaptive Meshes and Shells"
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Award-winning, classic paper on "Snakes: Active Contour Models" in the first Marr Prize Special Issue of IJCV. One of the most highly cited papers in computer science; Google Scholar currently registers a total of approximately 4000 citations to its conference and journal versions.
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Award-winning AI Journal paper on recovering 3D shape and nonrigid motion using physics-based deformable models (deformable generalized cylinders). Both this and the above "snakes" paper also introduced to CV the notion of model-based tracking in video.
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3D Object Segmentation/Reconstruction Demo | 3D Nonrigid Segmentation/Reconstruction/Tracking Demo

IJCV paper on "Signal Matching Through Scale Space". A pioneering nonrigid image (signal) registration technique using scale-space continuation to solve the variational problem.
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CVIU special issue on Nonrigid Image Registration

T-PAMI paper on "The Computation of Visible Surface Representations". A comprehensive computational framework for Marr's 2.5-D sketch. If you are looking for a fast, piecewise continuous scattered data surface approximation method, this is still my favorite.
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T-PAMI paper on "Regularization of Visual Inverse Problems Involving Discontinuities". Controlled-continuity variational splines, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, nonlinear nonhomogeneous filtering, Bayesian estimation, scattered data approximation, etc., etc., etc.
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T-PAMI paper on "Image Analysis Using Multigrid Relaxation Methods". Introduced multigrid methods to computer vision.
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