Publications

Ivanchenko, V., Coughlan, J., & Shen, H.. (2010). Real-time walk light detection with a mobile phone. In Computers Helping People with Special Needs (pp. 229–234). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Fusco, G., Shen, H., & Coughlan, J.. (2014). Self-Localization at Street Intersections. In Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2014 Canadian Conference on (pp. 40–47). IEEE.

Coughlan, J., & Shen, H.. (2004). Shape matching with belief propagation: Using dynamic quantization to accomodate occlusion and clutter. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop, 2004. CVPRW'04. Generative Model-Based Vision. (pp. 180–180). IEEE.

Murali, V. N., & Coughlan, J.. (2013). Smartphone-based crosswalk detection and localization for visually impaired pedestrians. In Multimedia and Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2013 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 1–7). IEEE.

Coughlan, J., & Shen, H.. (2007). Terrain Analysis for Blind Wheelchair Users: Computer Vision Algorithms for Finding Curbs and other Negative Obstacles. In CVHI.

Rituerto, A., Fusco, G., & Coughlan, J.. (2016). Towards a Sign-Based Indoor Navigation System for People with Visual Impairments. In 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ACM: Reno, NV.

Yuille, A. L., Coughlan, J., & Zhu, S. Chun. (2000). Unified framework for performance analysis of Bayesian inference. In AeroSense 2000 (pp. 333–346). International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Fusco, G., Tekin, E., Ladner, R. E., & Coughlan, J.. (2014). Using Computer Vision to Access Appliance Displays. In ASSETS.

Ahmetovic, D., Manduchi, R., Coughlan, J., & Mascetti, S.. (2015). Zebra Crossing Spotter: Automatic Population of Spatial Databases for Increased Safety of Blind Travelers. In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2015). http://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2700648.2811392

Ivanchenko, V., Coughlan, J., & Shen, H.. (2008). Crosswatch: a camera phone system for orienting visually impaired pedestrians at traffic intersections. Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Tekin, E., & Coughlan, J.. (2010). A mobile phone application enabling visually impaired users to find and read product barcodes. Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Coughlan, J., & Yuille, A. L.. (2003). Algorithms from statistical physics for generative models of images. Image And Vision Computing, 21, 29–36.

Yuille, A. L., & Coughlan, J.. (2000). An A∗ perspective on deterministic optimization for deformable templates. Pattern Recognition, 33, 603–616.

Coughlan, J., & Yuille, A. L.. (2002). Bayesian A* tree search with expected O (N) node expansions: applications to road tracking. Neural Computation, 14, 1929–1958.

Coughlan, J., & Manduchi, R.. (2007). Color targets: Fiducials to help visually impaired people find their way by camera phone. Eurasip Journal On Image And Video Processing, 2007.

Manduchi, R., & Coughlan, J.. (2012). (Computer) vision without sight. Communications Of The Acm, 55, 96–104.

Coughlan, J., & Shen, H.. (2013). Crosswatch: a system for providing guidance to visually impaired travelers at traffic intersections. Journal Of Assistive Technologies, 7.

Coughlan, J., & Shen, H.. (2007). Dynamic quantization for belief propagation in sparse spaces. Computer Vision And Image Understanding, 106, 47–58.

Coughlan, J., Yuille, A. L., English, C., & Snow, D.. (2000). Efficient deformable template detection and localization without user initialization. Computer Vision And Image Understanding, 78, 303–319.

Coughlan, J., & Shen, H.. (2010). An Embarrassingly Simple Speed-Up of Belief Propagation with Robust Potentials. Arxiv Preprint Arxiv:1010.0012.

Verghese, P., & Coughlan, J.. (2007). Evolution of a motion trajectory over time. Journal Of Vision, 7, 1013–1013.

Walker, L., Verghese, P., & Coughlan, J.. (2006). Eye movements incorporate knowledge of part structure. Journal Of Vision, 6, 482–482.

Coughlan, J., & Shen, H.. (2006). A fast algorithm for finding crosswalks using figure-ground segmentation. 2Nd Workshop On Applications Of Computer Vision, In Conjunction With Eccv, 5.

Shen, H., Coughlan, J., & Ivanchenko, V.. (2009). Figure-ground segmentation using factor graphs. Image And Vision Computing, 27, 854–863.

Yuille, A. L., & Coughlan, J.. (1999). From Generic to Specific: An Information Theoretic Perspective on the Value of High-Level Information. Probabilistic Models Of The Brain, 135.