PUBLICATIONS


Book chapter

  • Gerard Medioni, Philippos Mordohai, Mircea Nicolescu, "The Tensor Voting Framework", Handbook of Geometric Computing: Applications in Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Neural Computing, and Robotics, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano (editor), Springer-Verlag, August 2005.

Journal articles

  • Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, Monica Nicolescu, "Non-Parametric Statistical Background Modeling for Efficient Foreground Region Detection", to appear in Machine Vision and Applications, 2008.

  • Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, Monica Nicolescu, "A Support Vector Data Description Approach for Background Modeling in Videos with Quasi-Stationary Backgrounds", to appear in International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 2008.

  • Junxian Wang, George Bebis, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, Ronald Miller, "Improving Target Detection by Coupling It with Tracking", Machine Vision and Applications, February 2008.

  • Jorge Usabiaga, George Bebis, Ali Erol, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, "Recognizing Simple Human Actions Using 3D Head Movement", Computational Intelligence - Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Methods for Ambient Intelligence, vol. 23, no. 4, pages 484-496, November 2007.

  • Ali Erol, George Bebis, Mircea Nicolescu, Richard Boyle, Xander Twombly, "Vision-Based Hand Pose Estimation: A Review", Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Special Issue on Vision for Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 108, no. 1-2, pages 52-73, October/November 2007.

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, "A Voting-Based Computational Framework for Visual Motion Analysis and Interpretation", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, no. 5, pages 739-752, May 2005.

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, "Layered 4D Representation and Voting for Grouping from Motion", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Special Issue on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, vol. 25, no. 4, pages 492-501, April 2003. [PDF]

Conference articles

  • Richard Kelley, Alireza Tavakkoli, Christopher King, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, "Understanding Human Intentions via Hidden Markov Models in Autonomous Mobile Robots", to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 2008.

  • Alireza Tavakkoli, Richard Kelley, Christopher King, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, George Bebis, "A Vision-Based Architecture for Intent Recognition", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing, pages 173-182, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, November 2007.

  • Christopher King, Xavier Palathingal, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, "A Control Architecture for Long-Term Autonomy of Robotic Assistants", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing, pages 375-384, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, November 2007.

  • Alireza Tavakkoli, Amol Ambardekar, Mircea Nicolescu, Sushil Louis, "A Genetic Approach to Training Support Vector Data Descriptors for Background Modeling in Video Data", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing, pages 318-327, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, November 2007.

  • Leandro Loss, George Bebis, Mircea Nicolescu, Alexei Skurikhin, "An Automatic Framework for Figure-Ground Segmentation in Cluttered Backgrounds", Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, University of Warwick, UK, September 2007.

  • Gholamreza Amayeh, George Bebis, Ali Erol, Mircea Nicolescu, "A Component-Based Approach to Hand Verification", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Biometrics (in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2007.

  • Christopher King, Xavier Palathingal, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, "A Vision-Based Architecture for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction", Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Chamonix, France, March 2007.

  • Gholamreza Amayeh, George Bebis, Ali Erol, Mircea Nicolescu, "A New Approach to Hand-Based Authentication System", Proceedings of the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, Florida, April 2007.

  • Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, "A Novelty Detection Approach for Foreground Region Detection in Videos with Quasi-stationary Backgrounds", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing, pages 40-49, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, November 2006.

  • Leandro Loss, George Bebis, Mircea Nicolescu, Alexei Skourikhine, "Perceptual Grouping Based on Iterative Multi-scale Tensor Voting", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing, pages 870-881, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, November 2006.

  • Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, "Robust Recursive Learning for Foreground Region Detection in Videos with Quasi-Stationary Backgrounds", Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pages 315-318, Hong Kong, August 2006.

  • Gholamreza Amayeh, George Bebis, Ali Erol, Mircea Nicolescu, "Peg-Free Hand Shape Verification Using High Order Zernike Moments", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Biometrics (in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition), pages 40-47, New York, New York, June 2006.

  • Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, "An Adaptive, Recursive Learning Technique for Robust Foreground Object Detection", Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Methods in Multi-Image and Video Processing (in conjunction with the European Conference on Computer Vision), Graz, Austria, May 2006.

  • Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, "Automatic Statistical Object Detection for Visual Surveillance", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, pages 144-148, Denver, Colorado, March 2006.

  • Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, "Automatic Robust Background Modeling Using Multivariate Non-Parametric Kernel Density Estimation for Visual Surveillance", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing, pages 363-370, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, December 2005.

  • Gholamreza Amayeh, Ali Erol, George Bebis, Mircea Nicolescu, "Accurate and Efficient Computation of High Order Zernike Moments", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing, pages 462-469, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, December 2005.

  • Ali Erol, George Bebis, Mircea Nicolescu, Richard Boyle, Xander Twombly, "A Review on Vision-Based Full DOF Hand Motion Estimation", Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (V4HCI), (in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition), pages 75-82, San Diego, California, June 2005.

  • Ali Erol, George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Mircea Nicolescu, "Visual Hull Construction Using Adaptive Sampling", Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, pages 234-241, Breckenridge, Colorado, January 2005.

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, "Robust 3-D Interpretation from Two Frames with Multiple Motions", Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, pages 272-278, Kauai, Hawaii, August 2004. [PDF]

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Changki Min, Gerard Medioni, "Analysis and Interpretation of Multiple Motions through Surface Saliency", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spatial Coherence for Visual Motion Analysis (in conjunction with the European Conference on Computer Vision), pages 115 - 126, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2004. [PDF]

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, "Voting-Based Grouping and Interpretation of Visual Motion", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, pages 211-215, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, March 2004. [PDF]

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, "Motion Segmentation with Accurate Boundaries - A Tensor Voting Approach", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol. I, pages 382-389, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2003. [PDF]

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, "4-D Voting for Matching, Densification and Segmentation into Motion Layers", Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. III, pages 303-308, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002. (Best Student Paper Award) [PDF]

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, "Perceptual Grouping from Motion Cues Using Tensor Voting in 4-D", Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, vol. III, pages 423-437, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2002. [PDF]

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, "GlobeAll: Panoramic Video for an Intelligent Room", Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. I, pages 823-826, Barcelona, Spain, September 2000. [PDF]

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, "Electronic Pan-Tilt-Zoom: A Solution for Intelligent Room Systems", Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pages 1581-1584, New York, New York, July 2000. [PDF]

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, Mi-Suen Lee, "Segmentation, Tracking and Interpretation Using Panoramic Video", Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, (in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition), pages 169-174, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 2000. [PDF]

Technical reports

Inventions and patents

  • Mi-Suen Lee, Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, "Fast Digital Pan Tilt Zoom Video", U.S. Patent no. 6778207, awarded August 2004.

  • Mircea Nicolescu, Gerard Medioni, "Globe-All: An Electronic Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Array", Invention Disclosure, USC Office of Technology Licensing, file no. 2955.

Created by: Mircea NICOLESCU (e-mail: mircea@cs.unr.edu)