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CCNYM Publications

 

 2011

·         S. Chen and Y. Tian, “Evaluating Effectiveness of Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model for Scene Classification”, Wireless & Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), 2011.

·         F. Hasanuzzaman, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, “Robust and Effective Component-based Banknote Recognition by SURF Features”, Wireless & Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), 2011.

·         S. Chen, Y. Tian, Q. Liu, and D. Metaxas, “Segment and Recognize Expression Phase by Fusion of Motion Area and Neutral Divergence Features”, IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2011.  

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 2010

·         Y. Tian, R. Feris, H. Liu,  A. Hampapur, and M. Sun, “Robust Detection of Abandoned and Removed Objects in Complex Surveillance Videos”, Accepted as a regular paper, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews.

·         S. Chen, Y. Tian, Q. Liu, and D. Metaxas, “Segment and Recognize Expression Phase by Fusion of Motion Area and Neutral Divergence Features”, to appear in IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2011.

·         A. Senior, Y. Tian, and M. Lu, “Interactive Motion Analysis for Video Surveillance and Long Term Scene Monitoring”, the Tenth International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS), 2010.

·         X. Yang, Y. Tian, C. Yi, and A. Arditi, Context-based Indoor Object Detection as an Aid to Blind Persons Accessing Unfamiliar Environments, International Conference on ACM Multimedia, 2010.

·         S. Yuan and Y. Tian, Rotation and Illumination Invariant Texture Analysis: Matching Clothes with Complex Patterns for Blind People, The 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP), 2010.

·         Y. Tian, C. Yi, and A. Arditi, Improving Computer Vision-Based Indoor Wayfinding for Blind Persons with Context Information, 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2010.   

·         Y. Tian, X. Yang, and A. Arditi, Computer Vision-Based Door Detection for Accessibility of Unfamiliar Environments to Blind Persons, 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2010.

·         Y. Tian, and Y. Shuai, Clothes Matching for Blind and Color Blind People, 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2010.

·         L. Cao, Y. Tian, Z. Liu, B. Yao, Z. Zhang, and T. Huang, Action Detection using Multiple Spatial-Temporal Interest Point Features, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo(ICME), 2010.

·         C. Chen and Y. Tian, Door Detection via Signage Context-based Hierarchical Compositional Model, 2nd Workshop on Use of Context in Video Processing (UCVP), 2010.

·         X. Yang and Y. Tian, Robust Door Detection in Unfamiliar Environments by Combining Edge and Corner Features, 3rd Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired (CVAVI), 2010.

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 2009

·          R. Feris, A. Hampapur, Y. Zhai, R. Bobbitt, L. Brown, D. Vaquero, Y. Tian. H. Liu and M-T. Sun, "Case Study: IBM Smart Surveillance System", in book of Intelligent Video Surveillance: Systems and Technology, by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. 2009.

·         Y. Tian, R. Feris, L. Brown, D. Vaquero, Y. Zhai and A. Hampapur, "Multi-Scale Person Detection and Motion Analysis for Video Surveillance", in book of Machine Learning for Human Motion Analysis: Theory and Practice, by Idea Group Inc. 2009.

·         Y. Zhai, Y. Tian, R. Feris, L. Brown, R. Bobbitt, A. Hampapur, and S. Velipasalar, "Composite Event Detection in Multi-Camera and Multi-Sensor Surveillance Networks", in book of Multi-Camera Networks: Concepts and Applications, by Elsevier. 2009.  

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 2008

·          Y. Tian, A.W. Senior, A. Hampapur, L. Brown, C. Shu, and M. Lu, "IBM Smart Surveillance System (S3): Event Based Video Surveillance System with an Open and Extensible Framework", Machine Vision and Applications 19:315-327, 2008.

·         Y. Tian, A. Hampapur, L. Brown, R. Feris, M. Lu, A. Senior, C. Shu, and Y. Zhai, "Event detection, query, and retrieval for video surveillance", In book Artificial Intelligence for Miximizing Content Based Image Retrieval, Edited by Zongmin Ma, Published by Idea Group Inc., 2008.

·         R. Feris, Y. Tian, Y. Zhai, and A. Hampapur, "Facial Image Analysis Using Local Feature Adaptation Prior to Learning", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Amsterdam, 2008.

·         Y. Tian, R. Feris, and A. Hampapur, "Real-time Detection of Abandoned and Removed Objects in Complex Environments". The 8th Int'l Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS), 2008.

·         Y. Zhai, Y. Tian, and A. Hampapur, "Composite Spatio-Temporal Event Detection in Multi-Camera Surveillance Networks". Workshop on Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications (M2SFA2), 2008.

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 2007

·          G. Pingali, Y. Tian, S. Ebadollahi, J. Pelecanos, M. Podlaseck, and H. Stavropoulos, "An End-to-end eChronicling System for Mobile Human Surveillance", In book Multimodal Surveillance: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems, Edited by Z. Zhu and T. Huang, Artech House Publishers, 2007.

·         A. Hampapur, L. Brown, R. Feris, A. Senior, C. Shu, Y. Tian, Y. Zhai, and M. Lu, "Searching Surveillance Video," IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, Sept. 2007.

·         A. Hampapur, S. Borger, L. Brown, C. Carlson, J. Connell, M. Lu, A. Senior, V. Reddy, C. Shu, and Y. Tian, "S3: THE IBM SMART SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM: FROM TRANSACTIONAL SYSTEMS TO OBSERVATIONAL SYSTEMS," ICASSP 2007.

·         R.  Feris, Y. Tian and A. Hampapur. "Capturing People in Surveillance Video," IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, 2007.

·         A. Senior, L. Brown, A. Hampapur, C. Shu, Y. Zhai, R. S. Feris, Y. Tian, S. Borger and C. Carlson, "Video Analytics for Retail: the IBM Smart Surveillance Retail Solution". IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, London , UK , September 2007.

·         A. Senior, L. Brown, C. Shu, Y. Tian, M. Lu, Y. Zhai, and A. Hampapur, "Visual Person Searches for Retail Loss Detection: Application and Evaluation," In International Conference on Vision Systems, 2007.

·         G. Pingali, Y. Tian, S. Ebadollahi, J. Pelecanos, M. Podlaseck, and H. Stavropoulos, "An End-to-end eChronicling System for Mobile Human Surveillance (Best System Paper)", IEEE Workshop on Multimodal Sentient Computing: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems, June 2007.

·         G. Luo, C. Tang and Y. Tian, "Answering Relationship Queries on the Web", In Proceedings of 2007 Int. World Wide Web Conf. (WWW'07), Banff, Canada, May 2007.  

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 2006

·          A. Senior, A. Hampapur, Y.-L. Tian, L. Brown, S. Pankanti, and R. Bolle, "Appearance Models for Occlusion Handling", Journal of Image and Vision Computing Volume 24 Issue 11, pp 1233-1243, November 2006.

·         G. Pingali, H. Stavropoulos, D. Minnen, S. Ebadollahi, Y. Tian, J. Pelecanos, T. Bridgman, M. Podlaseck, "A System for Pervasive Multi-sensory Information Capture, Assimilation, and Retrieval," IEEE Workshop on Electronic Chronicles (ECHRONICLE), 2006.

·         S. Velipasalar, Y. Tian, and A. Hampapur, "Automatic Counting of Interacing People by Using a Single Uncalibrated Camera", IEEE ICME'06.

·         L. Brown, S. Velipasalar, A. Senior, S. Pankanti, A. Hampapur, C. Shu, and Y. Tian, "Video Privacy in the Era of Automated Surveillance", In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Privacy Research in Vision 2006.  

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 2005

·          A. Senior, S. Pankanti, A. Hampapur, L. Brown, Y. Tian, A. Ekin, J. Connell, C. Shu, and M. Lu, "Enabling Video Privacy through Computer Vision", IEEE Security & Privacy - Infrastructure Security, vol. 3, No. 3, May/June 2005.

·         A. Hampapur, L. Brown, J. Connell, M. Lu, H. Merkl, S. Pankanti, A. Senior, C. Shu, and Y. Tian, "Multi-scale Tracking for Smart Video Surveillance", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 22, No. 2, March 2005.

·         K. Schmidt, J. F. Cohn and Y. Tian, "Signal characteristics of spontaneous facial expressions: Automatic movement in solitary and social smiles," In book What the Face Reveals: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using The Facial Action Coding Systems (FACS), Second Edition, Edited by Paul Ekman and Erika L. Rosenberg, Elsevier Science Publishers, Oxford University Press,  2005.

·         L. Brown, M. Lu, C. Shu, Y. Tian, A. Hampapur, "Improving Performance via Post Track Analysis", Workshop of VS-PETS, 2005.

·         Y. Tian, M. Lu, and A. Hampapur, "Robust and Efficient Foreground Analysis for Real-time Video Surveillance," IEEE CVPR, San Diego. June, 2005.

·         L. Brown, A. Senior, Y. Tian, J. Connell, A. Hampapur, C. Shu, H. Merkl, and M. Lu, "Performance Evaluation of Surveillance Systems Under Varying Conditions," IEEE Int'l Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, Colorado, Jan., 2005.

·         Y. Tian and A. Hampapur, "Robust Salient Motion Detection with Complex Background for Real-time Video Surveillance," IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, Jan, 2005.  

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 2004

·          A. Senior, A. Hampapur, L. Brown, Y. Tian, C. Shu and S. Pankanti, "Distributed Active Multi-camera Networks", Ambient Intelligence ed. P.Remagnino. G.L. Foresti and T.Ellis. Kluwer Publishing 2004.

·         Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. F. Cohn, "Facial Expression Analysis" In book Handbook of Face Recognition, Edited by Stan Li and A.K. Jain, Springer-Verlag January, 2004.

·         Y. Tian, "Automatic Facial Expression Analysis", Robotics and Machine Perception, SPIE International Technical Group Newsletter, 2004.

·         A. Hampapur, L. Brown, J. Connell, M. Lu, Hans Merkl, S. Pankanti, A.W. Senior, C. Shu, and Y.-L. Tian, "The IBM Smart Surveillance System," IEEE CVPR, Washington D.C. June, 2004.

·         Y. Tian, "Evaluation of Face Resolution for Expression Analysis," IEEE FPIV'04, Washington D.C. June, 2004.

·         J. Connell, A.W. Senior, A. Hampapur, Y.-L. Tian, L. Brown, S. Pankanti, "Detection and Tracking in the IBM PeopleVision System," IEEE ICME Taiwan June, 2004  

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 2003

·         K. Schmidt, J. F. Cohn and Y. Tian, "Signal characteristics of spontaneous facial expressions: Automatic movement in solitary and social smiles", Biological Psychology, 65, 49-66, 2003.

·         S. Pankanti, A. Senior, L. Brown, A. Hampapur, Y. Tian, and R. Bolle, "Security, Privacy, and Health", IEEE Pervasive Computing Work in Progress, Volume 2 No. 1, January-March 2003. p. 96

·         A. Senior, S. Pankanti, A. Hampapur, L. Brown, Y. Tian, and A. Ekin, "Blinkering Surveillance: Enabling Video Privacy through Computer Vision,

" IBM Technical Report RC22886, 2003

·         A. Hampapur, L. Brown, J. Connell, S. Pankanti, A.W. Senior, and Y.-L. Tian, "Smart Surveillance: Applications, Technologies and Implications," IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference On Multimedia, Singapore, Dec. 2003.

·         Y. Tian and L. Brown , "Absolute Head Pose Estimation from Overhead Wide-Angle Cameras," In Proceedings of IEEE international workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Face and Gestures, Nice, France, Oct 17, 2003.

·         Y. Tian, L. Brown, A. Hampapur, S. Pankanti, A. Senior, and R. Bolle, "Real World Real-time Automatic Recognition of Facial Expressions", In Proceedings of IEEE workshop on performance evaluation of tracking and surveillance, Graz, Austria, March 31, 2003.

·         A. Hampapur, S. Pankanti, A. Senior, Y. Tian, L. Brown, and R. Bolle, "Face Cataloger: Multi-Scale Imaging for Relating Identity to Location", In Proceedings of IEEE conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, Miami, FL, July 21-22, 2003.

·         Y. Tian and R. Bolle, "Automatic Detecting Neutral Face for face Authentication", In Proceedings of AAAI-03 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia Knowledge Management, California, March 24-26, 2003  

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 2002

·          Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. F. Cohn, " Recognizing Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis ", In book Multi-modal interface for human machine communication, Machine perception and artificial intelligence series. 2002

·         L. Brown and Y. Tian, "Comparative Study of Coarse Head Pose Estimation," In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, Orlando FL, Dec. 5-6, 2002.

·         Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. F. Cohn, " Evaluation of Gabor-Wavelet-Based Facial Action Unit Recognition in Image Sequences of Increasing Complexity." In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'02), DC, May 20-21, 2002.

·         A. Hampapur, A. Senior, S. Pankanti, Y. Tian, G. Pingali, and R. Bolle, "Autonomic User Interfaces", IBM Technical Report RC22542, August, 2002.  

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 2001

·         Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. F. Cohn, " Recognizing Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis ", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 23, No. 2, February, 2001

·         Y. Tian and R. Bolle, "Automatic Neutral Face Detection Using Location and Shape Features", IBM Technical Report RC22259, Nov. 2001.

·         A. Senior, A.Hampapur, Y. Tian, L. Brown, S. Pankanti, and R. Bolle, "Appearance Models for Occlusion Handing," In Proceedings of Second International workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance systems in conjunction with CVPR'01 December 2001.

·         Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn, (January, 2001) Recognizing Facial Actions by Combining Geometric Features and Regional Appearance Patterns, Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-01-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.  

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 2000

·          K. Schmidt, V. Monaco, B. Peters, J. VanSwearingen, Y. Tian, and J. F. Cohn, "Relation between automatic tracking of lip-corner motion and facial surface EMG of the zygomaticus major muscle during spontaneous smiles," Society for Psychophysiological Research, San Diego, October, 2000.

·         Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn, " Eye-State Action Unit Detection by Gabor Wavelets", In Proceedings of the third International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, p143-150, Beijing, October, 2000.

·         J. Cohn, Y. Tian, and E. Forbes, "Detection, tracking, and classification of facial action units in infant and caregiver facial expression," International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England, July, 2000.

·         Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, " Recognizing Upper Face Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis ", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'00), Hilton Head Island, pI294-301, June, 2000.

·         Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, " Dual-state Parametric Eye Tracking ", In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), France, March 2000.

·         Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, " Recognizing Lower Face Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis ", In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), France, March 2000.

·         T. Kanade, J. Cohn, and Y. Tian, " Comprehensive Database for Facial Expression Analysis ", In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), France, March 2000.

·         Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, " Robust Lip Tracking by Combining Shape, Color and Motion", In Proceedings of the 4th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'00), pp1040-1045, Taiwan, Jan. 2000.  

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 1999 and before

·         Y. Tian, H. Tsui, S. Yeung and S. Ma, ``Shape from Shading for Multiple Light Sources'', Journal of Optical Society of America A, pp36-52, Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan. 1999.

·         Y. Tian and S. Ma "Shape Recovery by Neural Network in Unknown Light Environment", ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA, Vol. 25, No. 2, March, 1999.

·          Y. Tian and S. Ma "3D Shape Recovery by Genetic Algorithm", Journal of Image and Graphics (in Chinese), Vol. 4(A), 1999.

·         Y. Tian and S. Ma "Extended Spherical light based Shape from Shading", ACTA OPTICAL SINICA, Vol. 18, No. 10, Oct., 1998.

·         Y. Xu, C. Xu, Y. Tian and S. Ma,''3D Face Image Acquisition and Reconstruction System'', Journal of Image and Graphics (in Chinese), Vol.3, No.2, 1998.

·         Y. Tian and H. Tsui, "Shape Recovery from a Color Image for Non-Lambertian Surface", Journal of Optical Society of America A, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp397--404, Feb. 1997.

·         Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, " Recognizing Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis ", Technical report CMU-RI-TR-99-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1999.

·         Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, "Multi-State Based Facial Feature Tracking and Detection", Technical report CMU-RI-TR-99-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1999.

·         J. Cohn, Y. Tian, and T. Kanade, "Computer perception of expressive changes in the face", 8th European Conference on Facial Expression, Measurement, and Meaning, Saarbruecken, Germany, September 1999.

·         Y. Tian, H. Tsui and S. Yeung, `"Spherical and Cylindrical Light Source Models for Shape Recovery'', Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1351, ``ComputerVision (ACCV'98)'', pp216-223, Jan. 1998.

·         Y. Tian, H. Tsui and S. Yeung, ``Shape Recovery from One Image Under Multiple Light Sources'', Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1351, ``Computer Vision(ACCV'98)'', pp224-231, Jan. 1998.

·         Y. Tian, Bao-fu Duan, Songde Ma and Man-li Luo, "3D Hand Features Identity Verification System", Workshop on 3D Computer Vision'97, Hong Kong, May 1997.

·         Y. Tian and H. Tsui, "Shape from Shading for Non-Lambertian Surfaces from One Color Image", Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR), pp258--262, 1996.

·         Y. Tian and H. Tsui, "3D Shape Recovery from Two Color Image Sequences Using a Genetic Algorithm", Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR), pp 674--678, 1996.

·         Y. Tian and H. Tsui, "Shape from Shading using Neural Networks''(invited paper), International Symposium on Multi-Technology Information Processing, Taiwan, Dec. 1996.

·         Y. Tian and H. Tsui, "A Method of Shape and Reflectance Recovery from Color Image Sequence", Proceedings of the Second Asian Conference on Computer Vision(ACCV'95), pp.II638--642, 1995.

·         Y. Tian and H. Tsui, "Estimating Shape and Reflectance of Surfaces by Color Image analysis", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1024,``Image Analysis Applications and Computer graphics'', pp266-273, 1995.

·         Y. Tian and H. Tsui, "Recovering Depth and shape of Surface Under Specular Reflection from Image Sequence", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision(ICARCV'94), pp.1995-1999, 1994.

·         Y. Tian and H. Tsui, "Shape from Specular Reflection Using Image Sequence", Proceedings of the first Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'93), pp.97-100, 1993.

·         Y. Tian and S. Ma, "The Laser Active Triangular Range Finding System Based on the Object Rotation", Proceedings of the Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence, China, 1992.  

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