Publications

Selected papers across all topics, or all papers, organized chronologically or by publication type, or focussed on specific topics: I am especially happy that many of these papers have undergraduate co-authors.
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2021
[53] DCAP: Deep Cross Attentional Product Network for User Response Prediction (Zekai Chen, Fangtian Zhong, Zhumin Chen, Xiao Zhang, Robert Pless, Xiuzhen Cheng), In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, 2021. [bib] [pdf]
2020
[52] Improved embeddings with easy positive triplet mining (Hong Xuan, Abby Stylianou, Robert Pless), In The IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2020. [bib]
[51] Hard negative examples are hard, but useful (Hong Xuan, Abby Stylianou, Xiaotong Liu, Robert Pless), In Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020. [bib] [pdf]
[50] 2-MAP: Aligned Visualizations for Comparison of High-Dimensional Point Sets (Xiaotong Liu, Zeyu Zhang, Hong Xuan, Roxana Leontie, Abby Stylianou, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2020. [bib] [pdf]
2019
[49] Visualizing Deep Similarity Networks (Richard Souvenir Abby Stylianou, Robert Pless), In IEEE Winter Conference on Computer Vision (WACV), 2019. [bib] [pdf]
[48] Hotels-50K: A Global Hotel Recognition Dataset (Abby Stylianou, Hong Xuan, Maya Shende, Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless), In AAAI, 2019. [bib] [pdf]
2018
[47] Anomaly Explanation Using Metadata (Di Qi, Joshua Arfin, Mengxue Zhang, Tushar Mathew, Brendan Juba, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2018. [bib]
[46] Deep Randomized Ensembles for Metric Learning (Hong Xuan, Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless), In Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018. [bib] [pdf]
2017
[45] TraffickCam: Crowdsourced and Computer Vision Based Approaches to Fighting Sex Trafficking (Abby Stylianou, Jessica Schreier, Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless), In 2017 IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2017. [bib]
[44] Deep Feature Interpolation for Image Content Changes (Paul Upchurch, Jacob Gardner, Geoff Pleiss, Robert Pless, Noah Snavely, Kavita Bala, Kilian Weinberger), In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017. [bib]
[43] Recognizing​ ​Images​ ​of​ ​Eating​ ​Disorders​ ​in​ ​Social​ ​Media​ ​(Abstract) (Robert Pless, Rebecca Begtrup, Lulwah Alkulaib, Samsara N. Counts, James Harnett, Justine-Louise Manning, Hong Xuan, David A. Broniatowski), In Proceedings of the 2nd Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task, 2017. [bib] [pdf]
2015
[42] Fasting protects mice from lethal DNA damage by promoting small intestinal epithelial stem cell survival (Kelsey L Tinkum, Kristina M Stemler, Lynn S White, Andrew J Loza, Sabrina Jeter-Jones, Basia M Michalski, Catherine Kuzmicki, Robert Pless, Thaddeus S Stappenbeck, David Piwnica-Worms, others), In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, National Acad Sciences, volume 112, 2015. [bib] [pdf]
[41] Building Dynamic Cloud Maps from the Ground Up (Calvin Murdock, Nathan Jacobs, Robert Pless), In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015. [bib] [pdf]
2014
[40] Learning from Outdoor Webcams: Surveillance of Physical Activity Across Environments (J. Aaron Hipp, Deepti Adlakha, Amy A. Eyler, Rebecca Gernes, Agata Kargol, Abigail H. Stylianou, Robert Pless), In NSF Workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics, 2014. [bib] [pdf]
[39] Democratizing the Visualization of 500 million webcam images (Joseph O'Sullivan, Abby Stylianou, Robert Pless), In Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2014. [bib] [pdf]
[38] Fast-scale network dynamics in human cortex have specific spectral covariance patterns (Zachary V Freudenburg, Charles M Gaona, Mohit Sharma, David T Bundy, Jonathan D Breshears, Robert B Pless, Eric C Leuthardt), In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, National Acad Sciences, volume 111, 2014. [bib] [pdf]
2013
[37] Capillary and arteriolar pericytes attract innate leukocytes exiting through venules and'instruct'them with pattern-recognition and motility programs (K. Stark, A. Eckart, S. Haidari, A. Tirniceriu, M. Lorenz, M.L. von Brühl, F. Gärtner, A.G. Khandoga, K.R. Legate, R. Pless, Ingrid Hepper, Kirsten Lauber, Barbara Walzog, Steffen Massberg), In Nature Immunology, Nature Publishing Group, volume 14, 2013. [bib] [pdf]
[36] Webcam2Satellite: Estimating Cloud Maps from Webcam Imagery (Calvin Murdock, Nathan Jacobs, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2013. [bib] [pdf]
[35] Emerging technologies: webcams and crowd-sourcing to identify active transportation (J Aaron Hipp, Deepti Adlakha, Amy A Eyler, Bill Chang, Robert Pless), In American Journal of Preventitive Medicine, volume 44, 2013. [bib] [pdf]
[34] Web-accessible geographic integration and calibration of webcams (Austin Abrams, Robert Pless), In ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl., ACM, volume 9, 2013. [bib] [pdf] [doi]
2012
[33] Tools for Richer Crowd Source Image Annotations (Joshua Little, Austin Abrams, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2012. ((oral presentation)) [bib] [pdf]
[32] Can publicly available webcameras and mechanical Turk be used to evaluate physical activity policy and built environment change? (J. Hipp, R. Pless, D. Adlakha, B. Chang, A. Eyler), In Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Elsevier, volume 15, 2012. [bib]
[31] LOST: Longterm Observation of Scenes (with Tracks) (Austin Abrams, Jim Tucek, Nathan Jacobs, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2012. ((oral presentation)) [bib] [pdf]
2011
[30] Webcam Geo-localization using Aggregate Light Levels (Nathan Jacobs, Kylia Miskell, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
[29] Propulsive Forces on the Flagellum during Locomotion of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (P.V. Bayly, B.L. Lewis, E.C. Ranz, R.J. Okamoto, R.B. Pless, S.K. Dutcher), In Biophysical Journal, volume 100, 2011. () [bib] [pdf] [doi]
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