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.

[28]	Exploratory Analysis of Time-Lapse Imagery with Fast Subset PCA (Austin Abrams, Emily Feder, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
[27]	Principal Component Analysis of Dynamic Relative Displacement Fields Estimated from MR Images (Teresa M. Abney, Yuan Feng, Robert Pless, Ruth J. Okamoto, Guy M. Genin, Philip V. Bayly), In PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, volume 6, 2011. [bib] [doi]
2010
[26]	In vivo two-photon imaging reveals monocyte-dependent neutrophil extravasation during pulmonary inflammation (Daniel Kreisel, Ruben G. Nava, Wenjun Li, Bernd H. Zinselmeyer, Baomei Wang, Jiaming Lai, Robert Pless, Andrew E. Gelman, Alexander S. Krupnick, Mark J. Miller), In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 107, 2010. [bib] [pdf] [doi]
[25]	Relative brain displacement and deformation during constrained mild frontal head impact (Y. Feng, T. M. Abney, R. J. Okamoto, R. B. Pless, G. M. Genin, P. V. Bayly), In Journal of The Royal Society Interface, volume 7, 2010. [bib] [pdf] [doi]
2009
[24]	A Survey of Manifold Learning for Images (Robert Pless, Richard Souvenir), In IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications, volume 1, 2009. [bib] [pdf]
[23]	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]
[22]	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]
[21]	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]
2008
[20]	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]
[19]	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]
2007
[18]	Image distance functions for manifold learning (Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless), In Image and Vision Computing, volume 25, 2007. [bib] [pdf]
[17]	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]
[16]	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
[15]	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]
[14]	Finding Minimal Parameterizations of Cylindrical Image Manifolds (Michael Dixon, Nathan Jacobs, Robert Pless), In CVPRW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV), IEEE Computer Society, 2006. [bib] [pdf] [doi]
[13]	Segmenting Multiple Familiar Objects under Mutual Occlusion (Qilong Zhang, Robert Pless), In Proc. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2006. [bib] [pdf]
[12]	Image Manifold Interpolation Using Free-Form Deformations (Richard Souvenir, Qilong Zhang, Robert Pless), In Proc. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2006. [bib]
2005
[11]	Manifold Clustering (Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless), In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2005. [bib] [pdf]
[10]	Segmentation informed by manifold learning (Qilong Zhang, Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless), In International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition EMMCVPR (LNCS 3757), 2005. [bib] [pdf]
[9]	Segmenting Cardiopulmonary Images using Manifold Learning with Level Sets (Qilong Zhang, Robert Pless), In IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications (LNCS 3765), 2005. [bib]
[8]	Isomap and non-parametric models of image deformation (Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless), In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, 2005. [bib] [pdf]
2004
[7]	Differential Structure in non-linear Image Embedding Functions (Robert Pless), In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Articulated and non-rigid Motion, 2004. [bib] [pdf]
[6]	Bayesian stereo: 3D vision designed for sensor fusion (John Larson, Robert Pless), In SPIE: Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, volume 5608, 2004. [bib] [pdf]
2003
[5]	Using Isomap to Explore Video Sequences (Robert Pless), In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2003. [bib] [pdf]
[4]	Proc. IEEE Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision and Camera Networks, (Robert Pless, Jose Santos-Victor, Yasushi Yagi, eds.), 2003. [bib] [pdf]