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.

2018
[34]	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]
2017
[33]	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]
[32]	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
[31]	Cameras and crowds in transportation tracking (J. Aaron Hipp, Alicia Manteiga, Amanda Burgess, Abby Stylianou, Robert Pless), In International Conference on Wireless, Connected and Mobile Health Research, 2015. [bib] [pdf] [doi]
[30]	Indexing Open Imagery to Create Tools to Fight Sex Trafficking (Abby Stylianou, Abigail Norling-Ruggles, Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless), In Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2015. [bib] [pdf]
[29]	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
[28]	Images Don't Forget: Online Photogrammetry to Find Lost Graves (Abby Stylianou, Joseph O'Sullivan, Robert Pless), In Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2014. [bib] [pdf]
[27]	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]
2013
[26]	Collaborative imaging of urban forest dynamics: augmenting re-photography to visualize changes over time (Ruth West, Abby Halley, Jarlath O Neil-Dunne, Daniel Gordon, Robert Pless), In IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2013. [bib] [pdf]
[25]	Collaborative rephotography (Ruth West, Abby Halley, Daniel Gordon, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Robert Pless), In ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Studio Talks, 2013. [bib]
[24]	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]
[23]	Shadow Estimation Method for" The Episolar Constraint: Monocular Shape from Shadow Correspondence" (Austin Abrams, Chris Hawley, Kylia Miskell, Adina Stoica, Nathan Jacobs, Robert Pless), In arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4112, 2013. [bib]
2012
[22]	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]
[21]	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]
[20]	Heliometric Stereo: Shape from Sun Position (Austin Abrams, Christopher Hawley, Robert Pless), In Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
2011
[19]	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]
[18]	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]
2010
[17]	Using Cloud Shadows to Infer Scene Structure and Camera Calibration (Nathan Jacobs, Brian Bies, Robert Pless), In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010. [bib] [pdf]
2009
[16]	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]
[15]	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]
[14]	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
[13]	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]
[12]	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]
2007
[11]	Geolocating Static Cameras (Nathan Jacobs, Scott Satkin, Nathaniel Roman, Richard Speyer, Robert Pless), In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007. [bib] [pdf]
[10]	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]