Publications

Selected papers across all topics, or all papers, organized chronologically or by publication type, or focussed on specific topics:

• Visual and geometric inference for robot perception, virtual reality and environmental measurement.
• Machine Learning and Big Data, algorithms and applications to large scale visual analytics.
• Social Computing from a visual perspective.

I am especially happy that many of these papers have undergraduate co-authors.

[75]	Two-photon microscopy and multidimensional analysis of cell dynamics (Bernd H Zinselmeyer, John Dempster, David L Wokosin, Jonathan Cannon, Robert Pless, Ian Parker, Mark J Miller), In Methods in Enzymology, volume 461, 2009. [bib] [pdf]
[74]	Persistence and Tracking: Putting Vehicles and Trajectories in Context (Robert Pless, Nathan Jacobs, Michael Dixon, Ralph Hartley, Patrick Baker, Derek Brock, Nick Cassimatis, Dennis Perzanowski), In Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2009. [bib]
[73]	Minimum description length and clustering with exemplars (Po-Hsiang Lai, Joseph A. O'Sullivan, Robert Pless), In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), IEEE Press, 2009. [bib] [pdf]
[72]	The Global Network of Outdoor Webcams: Properties and Applications (Nathan Jacobs, Walker Burgin, Nick Fridrich, Austin Abrams, Kylia Miskell, Bobby H. Braswell, Andrew D. Richardson, Robert Pless), In ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL GIS), 2009. [bib] [pdf]
[71]	Adventures in Archiving and Using Three Years of Webcam Images (Nathan Jacobs, Walker Burgin, Richard Speyer, David Ross, Robert Pless), In IEEE CVPR Workshop on Internet Vision, 2009. [bib] [pdf]
[70]	The Global Webcam Imaging Network (Nathan Jacobs, Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless), In Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2009. (Winner of the Best Student Paper award) [bib]
[69]	Efficient Tracking of Many Objects in Structured Environments (Nathan Jacobs, Michael Dixon, Scott Satkin, Robert Pless), In IEEE ICCV Workshop on Visual Surveillance, 2009. [bib] [pdf]
[68]	Calibrating and using the Global Network of Outdoor Webcams (Winner PhD Forum Prize) (Nathan Jacobs, Robert Pless), In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distrubted Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2009. [bib] [pdf]
[67]	An Efficient System for Vehicle Tracking in Multi-Camera Networks (Michael Dixon, Nathan Jacobs, Robert Pless), In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distrubted Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2009. [bib] [pdf]
2008
[66]	Time Scales in Video Surveillance (Nathan Jacobs, Robert Pless), In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, volume 18, 2008. [bib] [pdf]
[65]	A System for Rapid Interactive Training of Object Detectors (Nathaniel Roman, Robert Pless), In Proc. International Symposium on Visual Computing, volume 5359, 2008. [bib] [pdf]
[64]	Location-Specific Transition Distributions for Tracking (Nathan Jacobs, Michael Dixon, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2008. [bib] [pdf]
[63]	Toward Fully Automatic Geo-Location and Geo-Orientation of Static Outdoor Cameras (Nathan Jacobs, Nathaniel Roman, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Video/Image Sensor Networks, 2008. [bib] [pdf]
[62]	Manifold Learning for 4D CT Reconstruction of the Lung (Manfred Georg, Richard Souvenir, Andrew Hope, Robert Pless), In Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, 2008. [bib] [pdf]
[61]	Simultaneous Data Volume Reconstruction and Pose Estimation from Slice Samples (Manfred Georg, Richard Souvenir, Andrew Hope, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008. [bib] [pdf]
2007
[60]	Localized and Configurable Topology Control in Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks (Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, Robert Pless), In International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'07), 2007. [bib] [pdf]
[59]	Minimum Power Configuration for Wireless Communication in Sensor Networks (Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, Ying Zhang, Qingfeng Huang, Robert Pless), In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, volume 3, 2007. [bib] [pdf]
[58]	Image distance functions for manifold learning (Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless), In Image and Vision Computing, volume 25, 2007. [bib] [pdf]
[57]	Shape background modeling: The shape of things that came (Nathan Jacobs, Robert Pless), In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, 2007. [bib] [pdf]
[56]	Geolocating Static Cameras (Nathan Jacobs, Scott Satkin, Nathaniel Roman, Richard Speyer, Robert Pless), In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007. [bib] [pdf]
[55]	Consistent Temporal Variations in Many Outdoor Scenes (Nathan Jacobs, Nathaniel Roman, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007. [bib] [pdf]
[54]	Applications of Manifold Learning Techniques in 4D-CT Reconstruction (Andrew Hope, Manfred Georg, Jonathan Cannon, J Hubenschmidt, Wei Lu, Dan Low, Robert Pless), In International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (ICCR), 2007. (Winner of the Reviewer's Choice Award) [bib] [pdf]
[53]	Faster and More Accurate Face Detection on Mobile Robots Using Geometric Constraints (Michael Dixon, Frederick Heckel, Bill Smart, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2007. [bib] [pdf]
2006
[52]	Real-time constant memory visual summaries for surveillance (Nathan Jacobs, Robert Pless), In VSSN '06: Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Video surveillance and sensor networks, ACM Press, 2006. [bib] [pdf] [doi]
[51]	On Manifold Structure of Cardiac MRI Data: Application to Segmentation (Qilong Zhang, Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006. [bib]