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versions are
included for journal articles and certain other publications.
REFEREED
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS
V. Ivanchenko, J. Coughlan, B. Gerrey and H. Shen. “Computer
Vision-Based Clear Path Guidance for Blind Wheelchair Users.” To
appear in 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2008). Halifax, Canada. Oct. 2008.
pdf
V. Ivanchenko, J. Coughlan and H. Shen. "Crosswatch: a Camera Phone
System for Orienting Visually Impaired Pedestrians at Traffic
Intersections." 11th International Conference on Computers
Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP '08). Linz, Austria. July 2008.
pdf
Powerpoint presentation: pdf
R. Manduchi, J. Coughlan and V. Ivanchenko. "Search Strategies of
Visually Impaired Persons using a Camera Phone Wayfinding
System." 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People
with Special Needs (ICCHP '08). Linz, Austria. July 2008.
pdf
R. Manduchi and J. Coughlan. “Portable and Mobile Systems in
Assistive Technology: Introduction to the Special Thematic
Session.” 11th International Conference on Computers
Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP '08). Linz, Austria. July
2008.
V. Ivanchenko, J. Coughlan and H. Shen. "Detecting and Locating
Crosswalks using a Camera Phone." Fourth IEEE
Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision, in conjunction with Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR ‘08). Anchorage, Alaska.
June 2008.
Received Best Paper Award in Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision. pdf
J. Coughlan and H. Shen. "Terrain Analysis for Blind Wheelchair
Users: Computer Vision Algorithms for Finding Curbs and Other Negative
Obstacles." Conference and Workshop on Assistive
Technology for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments (CVHI '07).
Granada, Spain. August 2007.
pdf
H. Shen and J. Coughlan. "Grouping Using Factor Graphs: an Approach for
Finding Text with a Camera Phone." Workshop on Graph-based
Representations in Pattern Recognition (GbR '07, in conjunction with The
International Association for Pattern Recognition). June 2007.
Alicante, Spain.
pdf
J. Coughlan and R. Manduchi. "Functional Assessment of a Camera
Phone-Based Wayfinding System Operated by Blind Users." IEEE-BAIS (IEEE Computer Society and the Biological and Artificial
Intelligence Society) RAT-07 (Research on Assistive Technologies)
Symposium. Dayton, Ohio. April 2007.
pdf
H. Shen and J. Coughlan. “Finding
Text in Natural Scenes by Figure-Ground Segmentation.” International
Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR ‘06).
Hong Kong.
August 2006.
pdf
Powerpoint presentation: pdf
J.
Coughlan, R. Manduchi and H.
Shen. "Computer Vision-Based Terrain Sensors for Blind Wheelchair
Users." 10th International Conference on Computers Helping
People with Special Needs (ICCHP ’06). Linz, Austria. July
2006.
pdf
Powerpoint presentation: pdf
H. Shen and J.
Coughlan. "Reading LCD/LED Displays with a Camera Cell Phone." 2nd IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision (ECVW
'06), in conjunction with CVPR 2006. New York. June 2006.
pdf
Powerpoint presentation: pdf
J.
Coughlan, R.
Manduchi and H. Shen. "Cell Phone-based Wayfinding for the Visually
Impaired." 1st International Workshop on Mobile Vision, in
conjunction with ECCV 2006. Graz, Austria. May 2006.
pdf
Powerpoint presentation: pdf
J.
Coughlan and H. Shen. “A Fast
Algorithm for Finding Crosswalks using Figure-Ground
Segmentation.” 2nd
Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, in conjunction with ECCV
2006.
Graz, Austria. May 2006.
pdf
Powerpoint presentation: pdf
J.
Coughlan, R. Manduchi, M.
Mutsuzaki and H. Shen. “Rapid and Robust Algorithms for
Detecting Colour
Targets.” 10th Congress of the International Colour
Association, AIC Colour ’05,
pp. 959 - 962.
Granada,
Spain.
May 2005.
pdf
L.
W.
Renninger, J.
Coughlan, P. Verghese and J.
Malik. “An Information Maximization Model of Eye
Movements.” Neural Information
Processing Systems (NIPS ‘04). Vancouver,
Canada.
December 2004.
pdf
J.
Coughlan and H. Shen. “Shape Matching with Belief
Propagation: Using Dynamic
Quantization to
Accommodate Occlusion and Clutter.” Generative-Model
Based Vision (GMBV 2004, in conjunction with CVPR 2004).
Washington,
DC. June 2004.
pdf
Powerpoint presentation: pdf
A.
Rangarajan, J. Coughlan and A. L. Yuille. “
A Bayesian Network Framework for Relational Shape
Matching.”
The Ninth
International Conference on Computer
Vision (ICCV ’03). pp. 671-678. Nice, France. October 2003. pdf
J.
Coughlan and S. Ferreira.
“Finding Deformable Shapes using Loopy Belief
Propagation.”
The Seventh
European Conference on Computer
Vision (ECCV ’02). pp. 453-468. Copenhagen, Denmark. May 2002.
pdf
Powerpoint presentation: pdf
J.
Coughlan and A.L. Yuille.
“Algorithms from Statistical Physics for Generative Models of
Images.” First
International Workshop on Generative-Model-Based Vision
(in conjunction with ECCV ’02). Copenhagen, Denmark. May 2002.
pdf
S.
Konishi, A.L. Yuille and J.
Coughlan. “A
Statistical
Approach to
Multi-Scale Edge Detection.” First
International Workshop on
Generative-Model-Based Vision
(in
conjunction with ECCV ’02). Copenhagen, Denmark. May 2002.
pdf
J.
Coughlan and A.L. Yuille. “The g
Factor: Relating Distributions on Features to Distributions on
Images.” Neural
Information Processing Systems (NIPS ‘01).
Vancouver,
Canada.
December 2001.
pdf
A.L.
Yuille, J. Coughlan and S.
Konishi. “The KGBR Viewpoint-Lighting Ambiguity and its
Resolution by Generic
Constraint.” International Conference on Computer Vision
(ICCV ’01).
Vancouver,
Canada.
July 2001.
pdf
J.
Coughlan and A.L. Yuille. “The
Manhattan
World Assumption: Regularities in Scene Statistics which Enable
Bayesian
Inference.” Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS
‘00).
Denver,
CO. December 2000.
pdf
A.L.
Yuille,
J.
Coughlan, S. C. Zhu and Y. Wu. “Order
Parameters for Minimax Entropy Distributions: When does High-Level
Knowledge
Help?” Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR
‘00). Hilton Head, SC.
June 2000.
pdf
A.L.
Yuille, J. Coughlan and S. M.
Konishi. “The Generic Viewpoint Constraint Resolves the
Generalized Bas Relief
Ambiguity.” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems
(CISS ’00).
Princeton,
NJ. March 2000.
J.
Coughlan and A.L. Yuille. “
Manhattan
World: Compass Direction from a Single Image by Bayesian
Inference.”
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV ‘99).
Corfu,
Greece.
September 1999.
pdf
J.
Coughlan and A.L. Yuille.
“Bayesian A* Tree Search with Expected O(N) Convergence Rates
for Road
Tracking.” Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and
Pattern
Recognition (EMMCVPR ‘99).
York,
England.
July 1999.
A.L.
Yuille and J. Coughlan.
“High-Level and Generic Priors for Visual Search: When Does
High-Level
Knowledge Help?” Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
(CVPR ‘99). Fort
Collins, CO. June 1999.
pdf
S.
M. Konishi, A.L. Yuille, J.
Coughlan and S.C. Zhu. “Fundamental Bounds on Edge Detection:
An Information
Theoretic Evaluation of Different Edge Cues.”
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR
‘99). Fort Collins, CO.
June 1999.
pdf
A.L.
Yuille and J. Coughlan.
“Order
Parameters and Fundamental Bounds for
Visual Search.” Conference on Information Sciences and
Systems (CISS ’99).
Baltimore,
MD. March 1999.
J.
Coughlan and A.L. Yuille. “A
Phase Space Approach to Minimax Entropy Learning and the Minutemax
Approximation.” Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS
‘98). Denver, CO.
December 1998.
A.L.
Yuille and J. Coughlan.
“Convergence
Rates of Algorithms for Visual
Search: Detecting Visual Contours.” Neural Information
Processing Systems (NIPS
‘98). Denver, CO. December 1998.
J.
Coughlan, A.L. Yuille, C.
English, D. Snow.
“Efficient
Optimization of a Deformable Template using Dynamic
Programming.” Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR ‘98).
Santa
Barbara,
CA. June 1998.
A.L.
Yuille and J. Coughlan.
“Twenty Questions, Focus of Attention, and A*: a Theoretical
Comparison of
Optimization Strategies.”
Energy
Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
(EMMCVPR ‘97).
Venice,
Italy.
May 1997.
R.
Szeliski and J. Coughlan.
“Hierarchical Spline-Based Image Registration.”
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR
‘94).
Seattle,
WA. June 1994.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
H. Shen, K.Y. Chan, J. Coughlan and J. Brabyn. “A Mobile Phone
System to Find Crosswalks for Visually Impaired Pedestrians.”
Technology and Disability, Vol. 20, Number 3, pp. 217-224. 2008.
pdf
J. Coughlan and R. Manduchi. "Color Targets: Fiducials to Help
Visually Impaired People Find Their Way by Camera Phone." EURASIP
Journal on Image and Video Processing, special issue on Image and Video
Processing for Disability. Vol. 2007, Article ID 96357, 13 pages, 2007.
doi:10.1155/2007/96357.
pdf
J. Coughlan and H. Shen. "Dynamic Quantization for Belief Propagation
in Sparse Spaces." Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
Special issue on Generative-Model Based Vision. Volume 106, Issue 1,
pp. 47-58. April 2007
. pdf
Powerpoint presentation: pdf
L. Renninger, P. Verghese and J. Coughlan. "Where to look next? Eye
movements reduce local uncertainty." Journal of Vision. Volume 7,
Number 3, Article 6, pp. 1-17. 2007.
pdf
A.L.
Yuille, J. Coughlan and S.
Konishi. “The Generic Viewpoint Assumption and Planar Bias
.” IEEE Transactions on
Pattern Analysis
and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 775-778. June 2003.
J.
Coughlan and A.L. Yuille. “
Manhattan
World: Orientation and Outlier Detection by Bayesian
Inference.”
Neural Computation.
Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 1063-88. May 2003.
pdf
Powerpoint presentation: pdf
A.L.
Yuille, J. Coughlan and S.
Konishi. “The KGBR Viewpoint-Lighting Ambiguity.”
Journal of the Optical
Society of
America
A.
Vol. 20, Issue
1, pp. 24-31. January
2003.
pdf
J.
Coughlan and A.L. Yuille.
“Algorithms from Statistical Physics for Generative Models of
Images
.” Image and
Vision Computing (IVC)
Special issue on Generative-Model Based Vision.
Vol.
21/1, pp.29 - 36. 2003. pdf
S.
Konishi, A.L. Yuille and J.
Coughlan. “A Statistical Approach to Multi-Scale Edge
Detection
.” Image
and Vision Computing (IVC)
Special issue on Generative-Model Based Vision.
Vol.
21/1, pp.37 - 48. 2003.
S.
Konishi, A.L. Yuille, J.
Coughlan and S.C. Zhu. “
Statistical
Edge
Detection: Learning and Evaluating Edge Cues.”
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence
(PAMI), Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 57-74. January 2003.
pdf
J.
Coughlan and A.L. Yuille.
“Bayesian
A* Tree Search with Expected O(N) Node
Expansions for Road Tracking.”
Neural
Computation. Vol. 14, No. 8, pp. 1929-58. August 2002. pdf
A.L.
Yuille, J.
Coughlan, Y. Wu and S.C. Zhu. “Order Parameters for
Detecting Target Curves in Images: When does High-Level Knowledge
Help?” International Journal of Computer Vision,
41(1/2):9-33. 2001. pdf
J.
Coughlan, A.L. Yuille, C.
English, D. Snow.
“Efficient
Deformable
Template Detection and Localization without User
Initialization.” Computer
Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 303-319. June
2000.
pdf
A.L.
Yuille and J. Coughlan. “An A*
Perspective on Deterministic Optimization for Deformable
Templates.” Pattern
Recognition: Special Edition on Optimization.
M. Pelillo and E.R. Hancock, editors. Volume 33, Issue 4,
pp. 603-616.
April 2000
. Honorable Mention Winner of
the 27th Annual Pattern Recognition
Society
Award, 2001. pdf
A.L. Yuille and J. Coughlan. "Fundamental Limits of Bayesian Inference:
Order Parameters and Phase Transitions for Road Tracking." IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol.
22, No. 2, pp. 160-173. February 2000.
pdf
R.
Szeliski and J. Coughlan.
“Hierarchical Spline-Based Image Registration.”
International Journal of
Computer Vision, 22(3):199-218. March/April 1997.
ABSTRACTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
K.-Y. Chan, R. Manduchi and J. Coughlan. "Accessible Spaces: Navigating
through a Marked Environment with a Camera Phone." Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and
Accessibility (ASSETS 2007). Tempe, AZ. Oct. 2007.
J. Coughlan. "Using a Camera Phone to Find and Read Signs for the
Visually Impaired." Biomedical Engineering Society Annual
Fall Meeting, BMES 2007. Los Angeles, CA. Sept. 2007.
P. Verghese and J. Coughlan. "Evolution of a motion trajectory over time." Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Florida. May 2007.
L.
W.
Renninger, P.
Verghese and J. Coughlan. “Eye
movements can be understood within an information theoretic
framework.” Cosyne
2005.
Salt Lake City,
Utah.
March 2005.
L. W. Renninger,
P. Verghese and J. Coughlan. “Modeling eye movements in a shape
discrimination task.” Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Florida.
May 2005.
BOOK CHAPTERS
J. Coughlan and A.L. Yuille. "A Large Deviation Theory Analysis of
Bayesian Tree Search." In Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision. Eds.
P. Olver and A. Tannenbaum. IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its
Applications, Volume 133, pp. 1-17. Springer-Verlag New York Inc.,
2003.
pdf
A.L. Yuille and J. Coughlan. "From Generic to Specific: An Information
Theoretic Perspective on the Value of High-Level Information." In
Probabilistic Models of the Brain: Perception and Neural Function. Eds.
R. P. N. Rao, B. A. Olshausen, and M. S. Lewicki. pp. 135-154. MIT
Press, 2002.
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