Computational Vision at Yale

We present a brief introduction to the five articles that make up this special issue: Shock Graphs and Shape Matching, The Bas-Relief Ambiguity, Incremental Focus of Attention for Robust Vision Based Tracking, What Tasks can be Performed with an Uncalibrated Stereo Vision System, and Volumetric Deformation Analysis Using Mechanics-Based Data Fusion: Application in Cardiac Motion Recovery. Tjis introduction and accompanying articles provide a by no means exhaustive, but hopefully representative sampling of the computational vision at Yale University.

[1]  Steven W. Zucker,et al.  Computing with Self-Excitatory Cliques: A Model and an Application to Hyperacuity-Scale Computation in Visual Cortex , 1999, Neural Computation.

[2]  David J. Kriegman,et al.  What Shadows Reveal about Object Structure , 1998, ECCV.

[3]  David J. Kriegman,et al.  Eigenfaces vs. Fisherfaces: Recognition Using Class Specific Linear Projection , 1996, ECCV.

[4]  S. Zucker,et al.  Endstopped neurons in the visual cortex as a substrate for calculating curvature , 1987, Nature.

[5]  Lawrence H. Staib,et al.  Boundary finding with correspondence using statistical shape models , 1998, Proceedings. 1998 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Cat. No.98CB36231).

[6]  Steven W. Zucker,et al.  On the evolution of the skeleton , 1999, Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision.

[7]  Alex Pentland,et al.  View-based and modular eigenspaces for face recognition , 1994, 1994 Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

[8]  Hemant D. Tagare,et al.  Non-rigid Curve Correspondence for Estimating Heart Motion , 1997, IPMI.

[9]  Kaleem Siddiqi,et al.  Ligature Instabilities in the Perceptual Organization of Shape , 1999, Comput. Vis. Image Underst..

[10]  Gregory D. Hager,et al.  Robot Navigation Using Image Sequences , 1996, AAAI/IAAI, Vol. 2.

[11]  Ali Shokoufandeh,et al.  Shock Graphs and Shape Matching , 1998, International Journal of Computer Vision.

[12]  Steven W. Zucker,et al.  Logical/Linear Operators for Image Curves , 1995, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell..

[13]  Gregory D. Hager,et al.  A Hierarchical Vision Architecture for Robotic Manipulation Tasks , 1999, ICVS.

[14]  David J. Kriegman,et al.  What is the set of images of an object under all possible lighting conditions? , 1996, Proceedings CVPR IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

[15]  PoggioTomaso,et al.  Example-Based Learning for View-Based Human Face Detection , 1998 .

[16]  Steven W. Zucker,et al.  Efficient Simplex-Like Methods for Equilibria of Nonsymmetric Analog Networks , 1992, Neural Computation.

[17]  James S. Duncan,et al.  Deformable boundary finding in medical images by integrating gradient and region information , 1996, IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging.

[18]  Eric Mjolsness,et al.  A New Distance Measure for Non-rigid Image Matching , 1999, EMMCVPR.

[19]  Gregory D. Hager,et al.  Efficient Region Tracking With Parametric Models of Geometry and Illumination , 1998, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell..

[20]  Kaleem Siddiqi,et al.  The Hamilton-Jacobi skeleton , 1999, Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision.

[21]  David J. Kriegman,et al.  Illumination cones for recognition under variable lighting: faces , 1998, Proceedings. 1998 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Cat. No.98CB36231).

[22]  Ali Shokoufandeh,et al.  Indexing using a spectral encoding of topological structure , 1999, Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Cat. No PR00149).

[23]  Gregory D. Hager,et al.  Joint probabilistic techniques for tracking multi-part objects , 1998, Proceedings. 1998 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Cat. No.98CB36231).

[24]  David J. Kriegman,et al.  The Bas-Relief Ambiguity , 1997, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

[25]  Steven W. Zucker,et al.  Indexing visual representations through the complexity map , 1995, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision.

[26]  David J. Kriegman,et al.  What Is the Set of Images of an Object Under All Possible Illumination Conditions? , 1998, International Journal of Computer Vision.

[27]  Paul Hudak,et al.  Prototyping real-time vision systems: an experiment in DSL design , 1999, Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Software Engineering (IEEE Cat. No.99CB37002).

[28]  M. Turk,et al.  Eigenfaces for Recognition , 1991, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

[29]  James S. Duncan,et al.  Recovery of Soft Tissue Object Deformation from 3D Image Sequences Using Biomechanical Models , 1999, IPMI.

[30]  Robert T. Schultz,et al.  Volumetric layer segmentation using coupled surfaces propagation , 1998, Proceedings. 1998 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Cat. No.98CB36231).

[31]  James S. Duncan,et al.  Game-Theoretic Integration for Image Segmentation , 1999, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell..

[32]  Gregory D. Hager,et al.  The confluence of vision and control, Block Island Workshop on Vision and Control, June 23-27, 1997, Block Island, Rhode Island, USA , 1998, Block Island Workshop on Vision and Control.

[33]  G.D. Hager,et al.  Toward domain-independent navigation: dynamic vision and control , 1998, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.98CH36171).

[34]  S. Zucker,et al.  Evidence for boundary-specific grouping , 1998, Vision Research.

[35]  Kaleem Siddiqi,et al.  Matching Hierarchical Structures Using Association Graphs , 1998, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell..

[36]  Gregory D. Hager,et al.  Task specification and monitoring for uncalibrated hand/eye coordination , 1999, Proceedings 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.99CH36288C).

[37]  Hemant D. Tagare,et al.  Shape-based nonrigid correspondence with application to heart motion analysis , 1999, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

[38]  Gregory D. Hager,et al.  Servomatic: a modular system for robust positioning using stereo visual servoing , 1996, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

[39]  David J. Kriegman,et al.  Illumination-based image synthesis: creating novel images of human faces under differing pose and lighting , 1999, Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Multi-View Modeling and Analysis of Visual Scenes (MVIEW'99).

[40]  Dennis Spencer,et al.  Brain Shift Modeling for Use in Neurosurgery , 1998, MICCAI.

[41]  Drew McDermott,et al.  Visual place recognition for autonomous robots , 1998, Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.98CH36146).

[42]  Anand Rangarajan,et al.  The Softassign Procrustes Matching Algorithm , 1997, IPMI.

[43]  Gregory D. Hager,et al.  X Vision: A Portable Substrate for Real-Time Vision Applications , 1998, Comput. Vis. Image Underst..

[44]  Hiroshi Murase,et al.  Visual learning and recognition of 3-d objects from appearance , 2005, International Journal of Computer Vision.

[45]  L Sirovich,et al.  Low-dimensional procedure for the characterization of human faces. , 1987, Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics and image science.

[46]  Robert T. Schultz,et al.  Registration of Cortical Anatomical Structures via Robust 3D Point Matching , 1999, IPMI.

[47]  Hemant D. Tagare.  Deformable 2-D template matching using orthogonal curves , 1997, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

[48]  Paul Hudak,et al.  A language for declarative robotic programming , 1999, Proceedings 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.99CH36288C).

[49]  Kaleem Siddiqi,et al.  Shapes, shocks and wiggles , 1999, Image Vis. Comput..

[50]  Gregory D. Hager,et al.  Robust Vision for Vision-Based Control of Motion , 1999 .

[51]  James S. Duncan,et al.  Boundary Finding with Parametrically Deformable Models , 1992, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell..

[52]  Benjamin B. Kimia,et al.  Shapes, shocks, and deformations I: The components of two-dimensional shape and the reaction-diffusion space , 1995, International Journal of Computer Vision.

[53]  J Duncan,et al.  Physical and geometrical modeling for image-based recovery of left ventricular deformation. , 1998, Progress in biophysics and molecular biology.

[54]  Steven W. Zucker,et al.  Two Stages of Curve Detection Suggest Two Styles of Visual Computation , 1989, Neural Computation.