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Welcome
to the Computer Vision Research Laboratory at UCSB. The name is there for historical
reasons; however, our research agenda and project scope have broadened to
include a diverse set of interesting and challenging topics. Today, students,
visitors, and faculty are engaged in advanced research related to computer
vision, medical image analysis, computer graphics, and bioinformatics. This
page is constantly under construction and contains descriptions of some sample
projects in the Computer Vision Laboratory. If you desire further information,
please contact Professor Yuan-Fang Wang directly.
If you are interested in
publications before 2000 or newer publications that are not included here,
please contact Professor Yuan-Fang Wang directly.
1.
Y.
F. Wang and Jih-Fang Wang, ``On 3D Model
Construction by Fusing Heterogeneous Sensor Data,'' CVGIP: Image Understanding,
Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 210-229, 1994.
2.
Zaiming Yang and Y. F.
Wang, ``Error Analysis
of 3D Shape Construction From Structured Lighting,''
Pattern Recognition,
Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 189-206, 1996.
3.
Darrin
R. Uecker, Cheolwhan Lee,
Y. F. Wang, Yulun Wang, ``Automated Instrument
Tracking in Robotically-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery,'' Journal of Image Guided Surgery,
Vol. 1, No. 6, 1996.
4.
5.
C.
H. Lee, Y. F. Wang, and Tao Yang, ``Global Optimization
for Mapping Parallel Image Processing Tasks on Distributed Memory Machines,''
Journal of Parallel and
Distributed Processing. Vol. 45, pp. 29-45, 1997.
6.
Y.
F. Wang, D. R. Uecker, and Y. Wang, `` ``A New Framework for
Vision-Enabled and Robotically-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery,'' Computerized Medical Imaging and
Graphics, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 429-437, 1998.
7.
Ronald
Alferez and Y. F. Wang, `` Geometric and
Illumination Invariants for Object Recognition,'' IEEE Transactions on PAMI,
vol. 21, pp. 505-536, 1999.
8.
Y.
Chen, A. Saran, T. Smith, and Y. F. Wang, ``VCME: A Visual
Interactive Environment for Computational Modeling Systems,'' Encyclopeida of Microcomputers,
vol. 24, pp. 333-372, 2000.
9.
C.
H. Lee, Y. F. Wang, and Tao Yang, ``Partitioning and Scheduling for Parallel
Image Processing Operations,'' Proceedings
of the Seventh IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing,
San Antonio, pp. 86-90, TX, Oct. 25-28, 1995.
10.
B.
S. Manjunath, S. Chandrasekaran, and Y. F. Wang, ``An Eigenspace Update Algorithm for Image Analysis,'' Proceedings of International
Symposium on Computer vision, Miami, FL, pp. 551-556, Nov. 21-23,
1995.
11.
Y.
F. Wang, D. Uecker, and Y. Wang, ``Choreographed Scope
Maneuvering in Robotically-Assisted Laparoscopy with Active Vision Guidance,''
IEEE Workshop on
Applications of Computer Vision, Saratoga, FL, pp. 187-192, Dec,
8-10, 1996.
12.
Y.
F. Wang and P. Liang, ``3D Shape and Motion
Analysis from Image Blur and Smear: A Unified Approach,'' International Conference on
Computer Vision,
13.
P.
Liang and Y. F. Wang, ``Local Scale
Controlled Anisotropic Diffusion with Local Noise Estimate for Image Smoothing
and Edge Detection,'' International
Conference on Computer Vision,
14.
Y.
F. Wang and Ronald-Bryan O. Alferez, ``A Unified
Framework for Image-Derived Invariants,'' the 3rd Asian Conference on Computer Vision,
15.
Ronald
Alferez and Y. F. Wang, ``Image Indexing and
Retrieval Using Image-Derived, Geometrically and Illumination Invariant
Features,'' Proceedings
of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems,
pp. 177-182,
16.
Ronald
Alferez and Y. F. Wang, ``Highly
Discriminative Invariant Features for Image Matching,'' Proceedings of the third
International Conference On Visual Information Systems, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, pp. 435-442, June, 1999.
17.
Ronald
Alferez and Y. F. Wang, ``Image Database
Indexing using a Combination of Invariant Shape and Color Descriptions,'' Proceedings of the Second
International Conference On Information Fusion, Sunnyvale, CA, pp.
688-695, July, 1999.
18.
Ronald
Alferez and Y. F. Wang, ``Invariant,
Intra-Class Retrieval in Homogeneous Databases,'' Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE
Multimedia Conference, pp. 177-182,
19.
D.
Koppel, Y. F. Wang, and Hua Lee, ''Automated Image
Rectification in Video-Endoscopy,'' Proceedings
of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and
Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI),
20.
C.
M. Tan, Y. F. Wang, and C. D. Lee, ''The Use of BiGrams to Enhance Text Categorization,'' Journal Information Processing
and Management, vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 529-546, 2002.
21.
T.
Can, Y. J. Wang, Y. F. Wang, and J. Su, ''A
Distributed Protein Visualization Application,'' Proceedings of the third
International Conference on Bioinfomatics,
(presentation
slides) Atlanta, GA, Nov., 2001.
22.
D.
Koppel, Yuan-Fang Wang, and Hua Lee, "Viewing
Enhancement in Video-Endoscopy," Proceedings
of the Workshop on Applications Computer Vision, pp. 304-307,
23.
Tolga
Can and Yujun Wang and Yuan-Fang Wang and Jianwen Su,
"FPV: Fast
Protein Visualization Using Java 3D," Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual ACM Symposium
on Applied Computing, pp. 88-95, Melbourne, FL, 2003.
24.
Tolga
Can and Yujun Wang and Yuan-Fang Wang and Jianwen Su,
"FPV: Fast
Protein Visualization Using Java 3D," Bioinformatics, vol. 19, June, 2003, pp.
0-10.
25.
Tolga
Can and Yuan-Fang Wang, "CTSS: A Robust and
Efficient Method for Protein Structure Alignment Based on Local Geometrical and
Biological Features," Proceedings
of the IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference, pp.
169-179, Palo Alto, CA, Aug, 2003.
26.
Yi
Wu, Long Jiao, Gang Wu, Edward Chang, and Yuan-Fang Wang, "Invariant Feature
Extraction and Biased Statistical Inference for Video Surveillance," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop
on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, pp. 528-538,
Miami, FL, Jul., 2003.
27.
Gang
Wu, Yi Wu, Long Jiao, Yuan-Fang Wang, and Edward Chang, "Multi-camera Spatio-temporal Fusion and Biased Sequence-data Learning
for Security Surveillance," Proceedings
of the ACM Multimedia Conference, pp. 528-538, Berkeley, CA, 2003.
28.
Wei
Niu, Long Jiao, Dan Han, and Yuan-Fang Wang "Real-Time
Multi-Person Tracking in Video Surveillance," Proceedings of the Pacific Rim
Multimedia Conference, pp. 2C1 1-5,
29.
D.
Koppel, Y. F. Wang, and Hua Lee, ''Image-Based
Rendering and Modeling in Video-Endoscopy,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on
Biomedical Imaging, pp. 272-279, Arlington, VA, April, 2004.
30.
D.
Koppel, Y. F. Wang, and Shivkumar Chandrasekaran,
''Toward
Real-Time, Physically-Correct Soft Tissue Behavior Simulation,'' Proceedings of the IEEE
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, pp. 185-188,
Arlington, VA, April, 2004.
31.
A.
Bhattacharya, Tolga Can T. Kahveci, A. Singh, and
Yuan-Fang Wang, "ProGreSS: Simultaneous Searching of Protein Databases by
Sequence and Structure," Proceedings
of the IEEE Computer Society Pacific Rim Bioinformatics Conference
32.
Ankur
Jain, Edward Chang, and Yuan-Fang Wang "Adaptive Stream Resource
Management Using Kalman Filter," Proceedings of the ACM Sigmod Conference, pp. 11-22,
33.
Edward
Chang and Yuan-Fang Wang, "Toward
Building a Robust and Intelligent video Surveillance System: A Case
Study," (invited paper) Proceedings
of the IEEE Multimedia and Expo Conference, pp. 1391-1394,
34.
W
Niu, J. Long, D. Han, and Yuan-Fang Wang, "Human Activity
Detection and Recognition for Video Surveillance," Proceedings of the IEEE
Multimedia and Expo Conference, pp. 719-722,
35.
R.
Rangaswami, Z. Dimitrijevic,
K. Kakligian, Edward Chang, and Yuan-Fang Wang, "The SfinX Video Surveillance System," Proceedings of the IEEE
Multimedia and Expo Conference, pp. 151-160, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004.
36.
E.
Chang, Yuan-Fang Wang, and V. Rodoplu, “Distributed Video Data Fusion and Mining,” Proceedings of the SPIE Defense and Security
Symposium, pp. 222-233,
37.
Long
Jiao, Gang Wu, Yi Wu, Edward Chang, and Yuan-Fang Wang, "The
Anatomy of a Multi-Camera video Surveillance System," the ACM Multimedia System Journal
, vol. 10, pp. 144-163, 2005.
38.
Dan
Koppel, Yuan-Fang Wang and Hua Lee, "Robust and Real-time
Image Stabilization," Proceedings
of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, pp. 350-355,
Colorado, 2005.
39.
Dianna
Han, Doug Kuschner, and Yuan-fang Wang, "Upper Limb
Position Sensing: A Machine Vision Approach," Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE EMBS
Conference on Neural Engineering, Arlington, VA, pp. 490-493, 2005.
40.
Dianna
Han, Doug Kuschner, and Yuan-fang Wang, "A System for Limb Modeling,
Position Sensing and Stimulation Control," 10th Anniversary IFESS Conference,
Montreal, Canada, pp. 537-544, 2005
41. Yuan-Fang Wang,
E. Chang, and Ken Cheng, "A Video Analysis
Framework for Soft Biometry Security Surveillance," Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Video
Surveillance and Sensor Networks, pp. 71-78,
42.
A.
Jain, D. Koppel, K. Kaligian, and Yuan-Fang Wang,
"Using Stationary-Dynamic Camera Assemblies
for Wide-area Video Surveillance and Selective Attention," Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 537-544,
2006.
43.
G.
Wu, A. Rahimi, King-Shy Goh, T. Tsai, A. Jain, and Yuan-Fang Wang, "Identify Color in Motion in Video Sensor",
Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 561-569,
2006.
44.
T. Can, Chao-I Chen, and Yuan-Fang Wang,
"Efficient Molecular Surface Generation Using Level-Set
Methods, "Journal of Molecular
Graphics and Modeling, vol. 25, pp. 442-454, 2006.
44.
A. Jain E. Chang, and Yuan-Fang Wang,
"Bayesian Reasoning for Sensor Group-Queries and Diagnosis,
"Proceedings of Database Systems for Advanced Applications
, pp. 522-538, 2007.
45.
D.
Koppel, C.-I. Chen, Yuan-Fang Wang, Hua Lee, Jia Gu, A. Poirson, and R.
Wolters, “Toward Automated Model Building from
Video in Computer Assisted Diagnoses in Colonoscopy,” Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA,
Feb. 2007.
46.
D.
Koppel, Chang-Ming Tsai, and Yuan-Fang Wang, “Regularizing
Optical-Flow Computation using Tensor Theory and Complex Analysis,” to
appear in CVPR Workshop on Tensors in
Image Processing and Computer Vision, Anchorage, AL, Jun. 2008.
47.
D.
Koppel, Shiv Chandrasekaran,
and Yuan-Fang Wang, “A New Framework for Behavior
Modeling of Organs and Soft Tissue using the Boundary-Element Methods,” to
appear in CVPR Workshop on Workshop on Nonrigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment, Anchorage,
AL, Jun. 2008.
