Sven Dickinson -- Selected Publications

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2008

A Generalized Family of Fixed-Radius Distribution-Based Distance Measures for Content-Based fMRI Image Retrieval
J. Novatnack, N. Cornea, A. Shokoufandeh, D. Silver, S. Dickinson, P. Kantor, and B. Bai,
Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 29, 2008, pp 1726--1732.

Retrieving Articulated 3-D Models Using Medial Surfaces
K. Siddiqi, J. Zhang, D. Macrini, A. Shokoufandeh, S. Bioux, and S. Dickinson
Machine Vision and Applications (MVA), Vol. 19, No. 4, July, 2008, pp 261--275.

From Skeletons to Bone Graphs: Medial Abstraction for Object Recognition
D. Macrini, K. Siddiqi, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, AK, June 2008.

Learning the Abstract Motion Semantics of Verbs from Captioned Videos
S. Mathe, A. Fazly, S. Dickinson, and S. Stevenson,
Proceedings, 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia (SLAM), Anchorage, Alaska, June 27, 2008.

Model-Based Perceptual Grouping and Shape Abstraction
P. Sala and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV), Anchorage, Alaska, June 23, 2008.

Learning Visual Compound Models from Parallel Image-Text Datasets
J. Moringen, S. Wachsmuth, S. Dickinson, and S. Stevenson,
30th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), Munich, June 2008.

2007

Learning Structured Appearance Models from Captioned images of Cluttered Scenes
M. Jamieson, A. Fazly, S. Dickinson, S. Stevenson, and S. Wachsmuth
Proceedings, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro, October, 2007.

2006

Canonical Skeletons for Shape Matching
M. van Eede, D. Macrini, A. Telea, C. Sminchisescu, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, August, 2006.

The Representation and Matching of Categorical Shape
A. Shokoufandeh, L. Bretzner, D. Macrini, M.F. Demirci, C. Jonsson, and S. Dickinson,
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Volume 103, 2006, pp 139--154.

Using Language to Drive the Perceptual Grouping of Local Features
M. Jamieson, S. Dickinson, S. Stevenson, and S. Wachsmuth,
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York, NY, June 2006, pp 2102--2109.

Object Recognition as Many-to-Many Feature Matching
F. Demirci, A. Shokoufandeh, Y. Keselman, L. Bretzner, and S. Dickinson,
International Journal of Computer Vision, Volume 69, Number 2, August, 2006, pp 203--222.

Many-to-Many Feature Matching in Object Recognition
A. Shokoufandeh, Y. Keselman, F. Demirci, D. Macrini, and S. Dickinson,
in H. Christensen and H.-H. Nagel (eds.), Cognitive Vision Systems: Sampling the Spectrum of Approaches, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006, pp 107--125.

Integrating Region and Boundary Information for Spatially Coherent Object Tracking
J. Maclean, D. Chung, and S. Dickinson,
Image and Vision Computing, Volume 24, 2006, pp 680--692.

Landmark Selection for Vision-Based Navigation
P. Sala, R. Sim, A. Shokoufandeh, and S. Dickinson,
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 22, No. 2, April 2006, pp 334--349.

2005

Retrieving Articulated 3-D Models Using Medial Surfaces and their Graph Spectra
J. Zhang, K. Siddiqi, D. Macrini, A. Shokoufandeh, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), St. Augustine, FL, November, 2005, pp 285--300.

Learning Hierarchical Shape Models from Examples
A. Levinshtein, C. Sminchisescu, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), St. Augustine, FL, November, 2005, pp 251--267.

A Computer Vision System for Spaceborne Safety Monitoring
F. Qureshi, D. Macrini, D. Chung, J. Maclean, S. Dickinson, and P. Jasiobedzki,
Proceedings, 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS), Munich, September 2005, e-proceedings - no page numbers.

Object Categorization and the Need for Many-to-Many Matching
S. Dickinson, A. Shokoufandeh, Y. Keselman, F. Demirci, and D. Macrini,
Proceedings (invited paper), 27th DAGM - The Annual meeting of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, August, 2005, pp 501--510.

Generic Model Abstraction from Examples
Y. Keselman and S. Dickinson,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, special issue on Syntactic and Structural pattern Recognition, Volume 27, Number 7, July 2005, pp 1141--1156.

Indexing Hierarchical Structures using Graph Spectra
A. Shokoufandeh, D. Macrini, S. Dickinson, K. Siddiqi, and S. Zucker,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, special issue on Syntactic and Structural pattern Recognition, Volume 27, Number 7, July 2005, pp 1125--1140.

3D Object Retrieval using Many-to-many Matching of Curve Skeletons
N. Cornea, M. F. Demirci, D. Silver, A. Shokoufandeh, S. Dickinson, and P. Kantor,
Proceedings, The International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI), MIT, June 2005, pp 368--373.

Coarse-to-Fine Object Recognition using Shock Graphs
A. Bataille and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, 5th IAPR-TC15 Workshop on Graph-Based Representations for Pattern Recognition, Poitiers, France, April 2005, pp 203--212.

Discrete Representation of Top Points via Scale-Space Tessellation
B. Platel , M. F. Demirci, A. Shokoufandeh, L.M.J. Florack, F.M.W. Kanters, and S.J. Dickinson,
Proceedings, 5th International Conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Hofgeismar, Germany, April 2005, pp 73--84.

Incremental Model-Based Estimation using Geometric Constraints
C. Sminchisescu, D. Metaxas, and S. Dickinson,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 27, Number 5, May 2005, pp 727--738.

2004

Landmark Selection for Vision-Based Navigation
P. Sala, R. Sim, A. Shokoufandeh, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Sendai, Japan, September/October, 2004, pp 3131--3138.

Optimal Inference for Hierarchical Skeleton Abstraction
A. Telea, C. Sminchisescu, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cambridge, U.K., August 2004, pp 19--22.

Selecting Canonical Views for View-Based 3-D Object Recognition
T. Denton, M. Demirci, J. Abrahamson, A. Shokoufandeh, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cambridge, U.K., August 2004, pp 273--276.

Integrating Region and Boundary Information for Improved Spatial Coherence in Object Tracking
D. Chung, W. Maclean, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington, D.C., June 27, 2004, e-proceedings - no page numbers.

Many-to-Many Feature Matching Using Spherical Coding of Directed Graphs
M. Demirci, A. Shokoufandeh, S. Dickinson, Y. Keselman, and L. Bretzner,
Proceedings, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Prague, May, 2004, pp 322--335.

Workshop on Generic Object Recognition and Categorization
S. Dickinson, A. Leonardis, and B. Schiele,
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop,
Washington, D.C., June, 2004.

2003

Many-to-Many Graph Matching via Metric Embedding
Y. Keselman, A. Shokoufandeh, M. Demirci, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Madison, WI, June 2003, pp 850--857.

Many-to-Many Matching of Scale-Space Hierarchies using Metric Embedding
M. Demirci, A. Shokoufandeh, Y. Keselman, S. Dickinson, and L. Bretzner,
Proceedings, Scale-Space '03, Skye, UK, June 10-12, 2003, pp 17--32.

Towards a Framework for Learning Structured Shape Models from Text-Annotated Images
S. Wachsmuth, S. Stevenson, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, HLT-NAACL03 Workshop on Learning Word Meaning from Non-Linguistic Data, Edmonton, June 2003, pp 22--29.

Skeleton Based Shape Matching and Retrieval
H. Sundar, D. Silver, N. Gagvani, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, Shape Modelling and Applications Conference, SMI 2003, Seoul, Korea, May 2003, pp 130--142.

2002

Graph-Theoretical Methods in Computer Vision
A. Shokoufandeh and S. Dickinson,
Springer-Verlag Heidelberg Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2292, 2002, pp 148--174.

View-Based 3-D Object Recognition using Shock Graphs
D. Macrini, A. Shokoufandeh, S. Dickinson, K. Siddiqi, and S. Zucker,
Proceedings, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Quebec, August, 2002, pp 24--28.

Spectral Methods for View-Based 3-D Object Recognition using Silhouettes
D. Macrini, A. Shokoufandeh, S. Dickinson, K. Siddiqi, and S. Zucker,
Proceedings, Joint IAPR International Workshop on Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition, Windsor, ON, August, 2002, pp 1--14.

On the Representation and Matching of Qualitative Shape at Multiple Scales
A. Shokoufandeh, S. Dickinson, C. Jonsson, L. Bretzner, and T. Lindeberg,
Proceedings, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Copenhagen, May, 2002, pp 759--775.

2001

Introduction to the Special Section on Graph Algorithms in Computer Vision
S. Dickinson, M. Pelillo, and R. Zabih,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 23, Number 10, October 2001, pp 1049--1052.

Bridging the Representation Gap Between Models and Exemplars
Y. Keselman and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Models versus Exemplars in Computer Vision, Kauai, Hawaii, December, 2001, e-proceedings - no page numbers.

Generic Model Abstraction from Examples
Y. Keselman and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Kauai, Hawaii, December, 2001, pp 856--863.

Improving the Scope of Deformable Model Shape and Motion Estimation
C. Sminchisescu, D. Metaxas and S. Dickinson,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Kauai, Hawaii, December, 2001.

A Unified Framework for Indexing and Matching Hierarchical Shape Structures
A. Shokoufandeh and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, 4th International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, May 28--30, 2001, pp 485--492.

1999

Object Representation and Recognition
S. Dickinson,
in: E. Lepore and Z. Pylyshyn (eds.), What is Cognitive Science?, Basil Blackwell publishers, 1999, pp 172--207.

Indexing using a Spectral Encoding of Topological Structure
A. Shokoufandeh, S. Dickinson, K. Siddiqi, and S. Zucker,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Fort Collins, CO, June 1999, pp 491--497.

A Computational Model of View Degeneracy
S. Dickinson, D. Wilkes, and J. Tsotsos,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 21, Number 8, 1999, pp 673--689.

Shock Graphs and Shape Matching
K. Siddiqi, A. Shokoufandeh, S. Dickinson, and S. Zucker,
International Journal of Computer Vision, Volume 30, 1999, pp 1--24.

View-Based Object Recognition Using Saliency Maps
A. Shokoufandeh, I. Marsic, and S. Dickinson,
Image and Vision Computing, Volume 17, 1999, pp 445--460.

Applications of Bipartite Matching to Problems in Object Recognition
A. Shokoufandeh and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, ICCV Workshop on Graph Algorithms and Computer Vision, September 21, 1999, e-proceedings - no page numbers.

1998

PLAYBOT: A Visually-Guided Robot to Assist Physically Disabled Children in Play''
J. Tsotsos, G. Verghese, S. Dickinson, M. Jenkin, A. Jepson, E. Milios, F. Nuflo,
S. Stevenson, M. Black, D. Metaxas, S. Culhane, Y. Ye, and R. Mann,
Image and Vision Computing, special issue on Vision for the Disabled, Vol. 16, 1998, pp 275--292.

View-Based Object Matching
A. Shokoufandeh, I. Marsic, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Bombay, January 4--7, 1998, pp 588--595.

Shock Graphs and Shape Matching
K. Siddiqi, A. Shokoufandeh, S. Dickinson, and S. Zucker,
Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Bombay, January 4--7, 1998, pp 222--229.

Viewpoint-Invariant Indexing for Content-Based Image Retrieval
S. Dickinson, A. Pentland, and S. Stevenson,
Proceedings, IEEE International Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Databases, Bombay, January 3, 1998, pp 20--30.

Shape-Based Indexing in a Medical Image Database
W. Zhang, S. Dickinson, S. Sclaroff, J. Feldman, and S. Dunn,
Proceedings, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, Santa Barbara, CA, June 26--27, 1998, pp 221--230.

1997

Active Object Recognition Integrating Attention and Viewpoint Control
S. Dickinson, H. Christensen, J. Tsotsos, and G. Olofsson,
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 67, No. 3, September 1997, pp 239--260.

Panel Report: The Potential of Geons for Generic 3-D Object Recognition
S. Dickinson, R. Bergevin, I. Biederman, J.-O. Eklundh, A. Jain, R. Munck-Fairwod, and A. Pentland,
Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 15, No. 4, April 1997, pp 277--292.

The Role of Model-Based Segmentation in the Recovery of Volumetric Parts from Range Data
S. Dickinson, D. Metaxas, and A. Pentland,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 19, No. 3, March 1997, pp 259--267.

Using Aspect Graphs to Control the Recovery and Tracking of Deformable Models
S. Dickinson and D. Metaxas,
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 11, No. 1, February, 1997, pp 115--142.

Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Object Representations in the Recovery and Tracking of 3-D Shape
S. Dickinson and D. Metaxas,
in: L. Harris and M. Jenkin (eds.), Computational and Psychophysical Mechanisms of Visual Coding, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1997, pp 221--248.

1995

Recognition by Functional Parts
E. Rivlin, S. Dickinson, and A. Rosenfeld,
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, special issue on Function-based Object Recognition, Vol. 62, No. 2, September, 1995, pp 164--176.

A Quantitative Model of View Degeneracy and its Application to Active Focal Length Control
D. Wilkes, S. Dickinson and J. Tsotsos,
Proceedings, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Cambridge, MA, June 20--23, 1995, pp 938--944.

1994

Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Shape Recovery
S. Dickinson and D. Metaxas,
International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1994, pp 1--20.

Qualitative Tracking of 3-D Objects Using Active Contour Networks
S. Dickinson, P. Jasiobedzki, G. Olofsson, and H. Christensen,
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, June 1994, pp 812--817.

Recognition by Functional Parts
E. Rivlin, S. Dickinson, and A. Rosenfeld,
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, June 1994, pp 267--274.

Physics-Based Tracking of 3-D Objects in 2-D Image Sequences
M. Chan, D. Metaxas, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Jerusalem, Israel, October, 1994, pp 432--436.

Navigation Based on a Network of 2-D Images
D. Wilkes, S. Dickinson, E. Rivlin, and R. Basri,
Proceedings, 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Jerusalem, Israel, October, 1994, pp 373--378.

A new Approach to Tracking 3-D Objects in 2-D Image Sequences
M. Chan, D. Metaxas, and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Seattle, August, 1994, pp 960--965.

Active Object Recognition Integrating Attention and Viewpoint Control
S. Dickinson, H. Christensen, J. Tsotsos, and G. Olofsson,
Proceedings, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 1994, pp B:3--14.

Decoupling Recognition and Localization in CAD-Based Vision
S. Dickinson and D. Metaxas,
Proceedings, 2nd IEEE CAD-Based Vision Workshop, Champion, PA, February 1994, pp 246--257.

1993

Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Techniques for Deformable Model Fitting from Orthographic, Perspective, and Stereo Projections
D. Metaxas and S. Dickinson,
Proceedings, Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Berlin, May, 1993, pp 641--649.

Part-Based Modeling and Qualitative Recognition
S. Dickinson,
in: A. Jain and P. Flynn (eds.), Three-Dimensional Object Recognition Systems, Advances in Image Communication and Machine Vision Series, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1993, pp 201--228.

1992

From Volumes to Views: An Approach to 3-D Object Recognition
S. Dickinson, A. Pentland, and A. Rosenfeld,
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, special issue on CAD-based vision, Vol. 55, No. 2, March 1992, pp 130--154.

3-D Shape Recovery using Distributed Aspect Matching
S. Dickinson, A. Pentland, and A. Rosenfeld,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, special issue on Interpretation of 3-D Scenes, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1992, pp 174--198.

Algorithms for Road Navigation
L. Davis, D. DeMenthon, S. Dickinson, and P. Veatch,
in: I. Masaki (ed.), Vision-Based Navigation, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992, pp 83--110.

1991

From Volumes to Views: An Approach to 3-D Object Recognition
S. Dickinson, A. Pentland, and A. Rosenfeld,
Proceedings, IEEE Workshop on Directions in Automated ``CAD-Based'' Vision, Maui, HI, June, 1991, pp 85--96.

1990

A Flexible Tool for Prototyping ALV Road Following Algorithms
S. Dickinson and L. Davis,
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1990, pp 232--242.

A Representation for Qualitative 3-D Object Recognition Integrating Object-Centered and Viewer-Centered Models
S. Dickinson, A. Pentland, and A. Rosenfeld,
in: K. Leibovic (ed.), Vision: A Convergence of Disciplines, Springer Verlag, NY, 1990, pp 398--421.

Qualitative 3-D Shape Reconstruction Using Distributed Aspect Matching
S. Dickinson, A. Pentland, and A. Rosenfeld,
Proceedings, Third IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Osaka, Japan, December, 1990, pp 257--262.

1988

An Expert Vision System for Autonomous Land Vehicle Road Following
S. Dickinson and L. Davis,
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Ann Arbor, MI, June, 1988, pp 826--831.



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