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Papers here are listed in moderate CV style, ie journals, conferences, etc in inverse chronological order.  A complete PDF CV is available.  For papers by topic, go to the Research Page (which as of January '09 was offline to be updated ) .

This page was last updated on 01/26/2009.

Journal Papers

  1. R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Johnson, A. Bobick, I. Essa. C. Isbell. “A Novel Sequence Representation for Unsupervised Analysis of Human Activities”. Accepted for Artificial Intelligence Journal.

  2. Nain,D. S. Haker, A. Bobick, and A. Tannenbaum, “Multiscale 3-D Shape Representation and Segmentation Using Spherical Wavelets”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 26, 4, April 2007.

  3. V. Kwatra, I. Essa, A. Bobick, and N. Kwatra, “Texture Optimization for Example based Synthesis,” Proc. ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2005, 24(3):795-802,  August 20

  4. V. Kwatra, A. Sch¨odl, I. Essa, G. Turk, and A. Bobick, “Graphcut Textures: Image and Video Synthesis Using Graph Cuts,” Proc. ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2003, 24(3):277-286, July 2003.

  5. Pinhanez, C. and A. Bobick, “Interval Scripts: a Programming Paradigm for Interactive Environments and Agents” Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing  7(1), 2003, 1-21.

  6. Pinhanez, C. and A. Bobick, "It/I: A Theater Play Featuring an Autonomous Computer Character, “ Presence 11(5), 2002, 536-548.

  7. Wilson,A., and A.. Bobick, “Hidden Markov Models for Modeling and Recognizing Gesture Under Variation”, Int’l J. of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 15(1): 123-160 (2001)

  8. Bobick, A. and J. Davis, "The recognition of human movement using temporal templates," IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, 23(3), March 2001.

  9. Intille, S. and A.F. Bobick, “Recognizing planned, multi-person action”, Computer Vision and Image Understanding 81, 414–445 (2001)

  10. Pinhanez, C., J. Davis , S. Intille, M. Johnson, A. Wilson, A. Bobick, B. Blumberg, “Physically Interactive Story Environments, IBM Systems Journal, 39 (3&4): 438-455, 2000

  11. Bobick, A., S.Intille, J.Davis, F.Baird, C.Pinhanez, L.Campbell, Y.Ivanov, A.Schutte, and A.Wilson. The KidsRoom. Communications of the ACM, 43(3). 2000

  12. Ivanov, Y. and Aaron F. Bobick, “Recognition of Visual Activities and Interactions by Stochastic Parsing”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analisys & Machine Intelligence, 22(8), August, 2000.

  13. Ivanov, Y., A. Bobick, and J. Liu, "Fast lighting independent background subtraction," International Journal of Computer Vision, 37(2), June 2000, pp. 199-209.

  14. Wilson, A. and A. Bobick, "Parametric Hidden Markov Models for Gesture Recognition," IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, 21(9), September 1999, pp. 884-900.

  15. Bobick, A. and S. Intille, “Large Occlusion Stereo.” International Journal of Computer Vision, 33(3), September 1999. pp. 181-200.

  16. Bobick, A., S. Intille, J. Davis, F. Baird, C. Pinhanez, L. Campbell, Y. Ivanov, A. Schutte, A. Wilson,  “The KidsRoom: A Perceptually-based Interactive and Immersive Story Environment,” PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 8(4), August 1999. pp. 367-391.

  17. Mase, K., P. Pinhanez, and A. Bobick,, “Scripting Method Based on Temporal Intervals for Designing Interactive Systems”. Transaction of IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan), Vol. 39. No. 5, pp. 1403--1413, May 1998.

  18. Bobick, A. “Movement, Activity, and Action: The Role of Knowledge in the Perception of Motion.” Phil. Trans. Royal Society London B, 352, pp. 1257-1265, 1997.

  19. Bobick, A. and A. Wilson, “A State-based Approach to the Representation and Recognition of Gesture.” IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, Vol. 19, No. 12, December 1997.

  20. Pinhanez, C. and A. Bobick, “Intelligent Studios: Modeling Space and Action to Control TV Cameras.” Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 11(4), pp. 285-306, 1997.

  21. Bobick, A. and R. C. Bolles, “The Representation Space Paradigm of Concurrent Evolving Scene Descriptions.” IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 146-156, February 1992.

Conference Presentations

  1. R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Bobick, I. Essa. “Structure from Statistics: Unsupervised Analysis of Activities Using Suffix Trees”. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference of Computer Vision, 2007

  2. Yifan Shi, Aaron Bobick, Irfan Essa, "Learning Temporal Sequence Model from Partially Labeled Data", Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006), New York, June 2006.

  3. D. Nain, S. Haker, A. Bobick, and A.Tannenbaum, “Shape-Driven 3D Segmentation using using Spherical Wavelets” In Proceedings of MICCAI, Copenhagen, 2006. Note: Best Student Paper Award in the category Segmentation and Registration

  4. R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Bobick, I. Essa. “Unsupervised Analysis of Activity Sequences Using Event Motifs” Proceedings of 4th ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006).

  5. R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Johnson, A. Bobick, I. Essa, C. Isbell. “Discovery and Characterization of Activities from Event-Streams”, Proceedings of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2005) August 2005.

  6. Dongshin Kim, Jie Sun, Sangmin Oh, James Rehg, Aaron Bobick, “Traversability Classification Using Unsupervised On-Line Visual Learning for Outdoor Robot Navigation,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 06), Orlando, FL, May 2006.

  7. R. Hamid, A. Johnson, S. Batta, A. Bobick, C. Isbell, G. Coleman. “Detection and Explanation of Anomalous Activities: Representing Activities as Bags of Event n-Grams” Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2005) June 2005

  8. Delphine Nain, Steven Haker, Aaron Bobick, and Allen Tannenbaum. “Multiscale 3D Shape Analysis using Spherical Wavelets” Proceedings of MICCAI, Palm Springs, 2005

  9. Z. Yang and A. Bobick, Visual integration from multiple cameras, IEEE Workshop on applications for computer vision (WACV 2005), Denver, January 2005.

  10. Sun, J., J.M. Rehg,  and A.  Bobick, “Automatic Cascade Training with Perturbation Bias,”  Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004), Washington, DC, June, 2004

  11. Y. Shi, Y. Huang, D. Minnen, A. Bobick, and I. Essa, “Propagation Networks for recognition of partially ordered sequential action”, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004), Washington, DC, June, 2004

  12. R. Hamid, A. Bobick, A. Yezzi. Audio-Visual Flow – “A Variational Approach to Multi-Modal Flow Estimation,”12th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2004, Singapore.

  13. Johnson, A., J. Sun,  and A. Bobick, “Using Similarity Scores from a Small Gallery to Estimate Recognition Performance for Larger Galleries”, IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures, in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2003), Nice, France, October 2003

  14. Tanawongsuwan, R. and A.F. Bobick, “Performance Analysis of Time-Distance Gait Parameters under Different Speeds” Audio- And Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication  July 2003..

  15. Johnson, A., J. Sun, and A. Bobick, “Predicting Large Population Data Cumulative Match Characteristic Performance from Small Population Data,” 4th International Conference on Audio and Video Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2003), University of Surrey, Guildford, UK June 9-11, 2003

  16. Shi, Y. and A. Bobick, “The Representation and Recognition of Activity Using Propagation Nets”, Visual Interface 2003, Halifax, Canada

  17. Shi, Y. and A. Bobick, “P-Net: A Representation for Partially-Sequenced, Multi-stream Activity”,  Workshop on Event Mining in CVPR’2003, Madison, USA

  18. Johnson, A. and A.Bobick, “Relation between Expected Confusion and ROC curves,” Int’l Conference of Pattern Recognition, Quebec, Canada, August, 2002.

  19. Bobick, A.F., and A. Johnson "Gait recognition using static activity-specific parameters" ” Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Kauai, Hawaii, December 2001.

  20. Tanawongsuwan, R. and A.F. Bobick, "Gait recognition from time-normalized joint-angle trajectories in the walking plane" Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Kauai, Hawaii, December 2001.

  21. Kwatra, V., A.F. Bobick, and A. Johnson, " Temporal Integration of Multiple Silhouette-based Body-part Hypotheses” Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Kauai, Hawaii, December 2001.

  22. Johnson, A. and A.F. Bobick, "A Multi-view Method for Gait Recognition Using Static Body Parameters" 3rd International Conference on Audio- and Video Based Biometric Person Authentication, 301-311, Halmstad, Sweden, June 2001.

  23. C. Pinhanez and A. Bobick. Scripting Interactive Environments with Interval Scripts. Proc. of VI Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems. Natal, Brazil. June 2000

  24. Wilson, A. and A. Bobick, “Realtime Online Adaptive Gesture Recognition,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, Spain, September 2000

  25. Davis, J., A. Bobick, and W. Richards, “Categorical Representation and Recognition of Oscillatory Motion Patterns, Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Hilton Head, NC, June 2000.

  26. Wilson, A. and A. F. Bobick, “Real-time online adaptive gesture recognition,” International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems, Corfu, Greece, September 1999.

  27. Ivanov, Y. and A. F. Bobick, “Recognition of Multi-agent Interaction in Video Surveillance”, Proc. of Intl Conference on Computer Vision, Corfu, Greece, pg. 169-176, September 1999.

  28. Ivanov, Y., C. Stauffer, A.F. Bobick and W.E.L Grimson, “Video Surveillance of Interactions”, Workshop on Video Surveillance, June 1999, Ft. Collins, CO

  29. Intille, S. and A.. Bobick,. “A framework for recognizing multi-agent action from visual evidence”. Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 518-525, Orlando, Florida, July 1999.

  30. Pinhanez, C. and A. F. Bobick. "'It/I': A Theater Play Featuring an Autonomous Computer Graphics Character", Proc. of the ACM Multimedia'98 Workshop on Technologies for Interactive Movies, Bristol, England, pp. 22-29. September. 1999.

  31. Intille, S. and A.F. Bobick. “Visual recognition of multi-agent action using binary temporal relations”. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 56-62, Fort Collins, Colorado, June 1999.

  32. Johnson, M.P., A. Wilson, B. Blumberg, C. Kline, and A. Bobick, “Sympathetic interfaces: using a plush toy to direct synthetic classes”, Proceedings of Computer Human Interface, Pittsburgh, pp. 152 – 158, May 1999

  33. Pinhanez, C. and A. Bobick, “ Using Computer Vision to Control a Reactive Computer Graphics Character in a Theater Play”, Proceedings of International Conference on Vision Systems  (ICVS’99), Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, January 1999.

  34. Davis, J. and A. Bobick, “Virtual PAT:  A Virtual Personal Aerobics Trainer”, Proceedings of  Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI98), November 1998.

  35. Davis, J. and A. Bobick, “A Robust Human-Silhouette Extraction Technique for Interactive Virtual Environments”, IFIP Workshop on Modeling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments (CAPTECH98), November 1998.

  36. Pinhanez, C. and A. Bobick, “It/I: Theater with an Automatic and Reactive Computer Graphics”, SIGGRAPH'98 Conference Abstracts and Applications, p. 302, Orlando, Florida, July 1998.

  37. Bobick, A. and Y. Ivanov, “ Action Recognition Using Probabilistic Parsing”, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, , Santa Barbara, CA, pp. 196-202, June 1998.

  38. Pinhanez, C. and A. Bobick, "Human Action Detection Using PNF Propagation of Temporal Constraints", Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Santa Barbara, CA, pp. 898-904, June 1998.

  39. Wilson, D. and A. Bobick, “Nonlinear PHMMs for the Interpretation of Parameterized Gesture”, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Santa Barbara, CA, pp. 879-884, June 1998.

  40. Pinhanez, C. and A. Bobick, " It/I: An Experiment Towards Interactive Theatrical Performances", Proceedings of Computer Human Interface, Los Angeles, CA, pp. 333-334, April 1998.

  41. Wilson, D. and A. Bobick,  “Recognition and interpretation of parametric gesture", Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision, Bombay, India, pp. 329-336, 1998.

  42. Bobick, A. and C. Pinhanez, “Controlling View-Based Algorithms Using Approximate World Models and Action Information.”  Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Puerto Rico, pp. 955-961, June 1997.

  43. Davis, J. and A. Bobick,  “The Representation and Recognition of Action Using Temporal Templates.”  Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Puerto Rico, pp. 928-934, June 1997.

  44. Wilson, D.,  A. Bobick and J. Cassell,  "Temporal classification of natural gesture and application to video coding", Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Puerto Rico, pp. 948-954,  June 1997.

  45. Intille, S.,  J. Davis and A. Bobick, “Real-Time Closed-World Tracking.” Proceedings of  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 697-703, Puerto Rico, June 1997.

  46. Pinhanez, C.,  K. Mase and A. Bobick, “Interval Scripts: A Design Paradigm for Story-Based Interactive Systems.” Proceedings of CHI ‘97, Atlanta, GA, pp. 287-294, March 1997.

  47. Pinhanez, C.,  K. Mase and A. Bobick, “Designing Story-Based Interfaces by Interval Scripts.” Proceedings of Interaction ‘97, Tokyo, Japan, 8 pages, February 1997.

  48. Bobick, A. and J., “Real-time Recognition of Activity Using Temporal Templates.” IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Sarasota, FL, 4 pages, December 1996.

  49. Campbell, L.,  D. Becker, A. Azarbayejani,  A. Bobick and A. Pentland, “Invariant Features for 3-D Gesture Recognition.” Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Killington, VT, pp. 157-162, October 1996.

  50. Wilson, A., A. Bobick and J. Cassell, “Recovering the Temporal Structure of Natural Gesture.”  Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Killington, VT, pp. 66-71, October 1996.

  51. Bobick, A. “Computers Seeing Action.” British Machine Vision Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. 13-22, September 1996.

  52. Bobick A. and J. Davis, “An Appearance-based Representation of Action.” Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, Track A, pp. 307-312, August 1996.

  53. Pinhanez, C. and A. Bobick, “Computer Theater: Stage for Action Understanding.” Proceedings of the AAAI ‘96 Workshop on AI/A-Life Entertainment, AAAI Press Technical Report WS-96-03, Portland, OR, pp. 28-33, August 1996.

  54. Pinhanez, C. and A. Bobick, “Approximate World Models: Incorporating Qualitative and Linguistic Information into Vision Systems.” Proceedings of the AAAI ‘96, Portland, OR, pp. 1116-1123, August 1996.

  55. Bobick, A., “Video Annotation: Computers watching video.” Second Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Vol. I, Singapore, pp. 19-23, December 1995.

  56. Pinhanez, C. and A. Bobick, “Scripts in Machine Understanding of Image Sequences.” Proceedings of the 1995 AAAI Fall Symposium on Computational Models for Integrating Language and Vision, Cambridge, MA, pp. 96-101, November 1995.

  57. Wilson, A. and A. Bobick, “Learning Visual Behavior for Gesture Analysis.” Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computer Vision, Coral Gables, FL, pp. 229-234, November 1995.

  58. Pinhanez, C. and A. Bobick, “Intelligent Studios: Using Computer Vision to Control TV Cameras.” Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Entertainment and AI/Alife, Montreal, Canada, pp. 69-76, August 1995.

  59. Bobick, A. and S. Intille, “Exploiting Contextual Information for Tracking by Using Closed-Worlds.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Context-Based Vision, Cambridge, MA, pp. 87-98, June 1995.

  60. Bobick, A. and C. Pinhanez, “Using Approximate Models as Source of Contextual Information for Vision Processing.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Context-Based Vision,  Cambridge, MA, pp. 13-21, June 1995.

  61. Bobick, A. and A. Wilson, “A State-Based Technique for the Summarization and Recognition of Gesture.” Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision, Cambridge, MA, pp. 382-388, June 1995.

  62. Campbell, L. and A. Bobick, “Recognition of Human Body Motion Using Phase Space Constraints.” Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision, Cambridge, MA, 624-630, June 1995.

  63. Campbell, L. and A. Bobick, “Using Phase Space Constraints to Represent Human Body Motion.” International Workshop on Automatic-Face and Gesture-Recognition, Zurich, Switzerland,  pp. 338-343, June 1995.

  64. Intille, S. and A. Bobick, “Closed-World Tracking.” Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision, Cambridge, MA, pp. 672-678, June 1995.

  65. Wilson, A. and A. Bobick, “Configuration States for the Representation and Recognition of Gesture.” International Workshop on Automatic-Face and Gesture-Recognition,  Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 129-134, June 1995.

  66. Intille, S. and A. Bobick, “Incorporating Intensity Edges in the Recovery of Occlusion Regions.” International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Jerusalem, Israel, Vol. I, pp. 674-677, October 1994.

  67. Bobick, A, “Representational Frames in Dynamic Scene Annotation.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Visual Behaviors, Seattle, WA, pp. 54-59, June 1994.

  68. Intille, S. and A. Bobick, “Disparity-Space Images and Large Occlusion Stereo.” European Conference on Computer Vision, J-O. Eklundh (ed.), Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. 801, pp. 179-186, May 1994.

  69. Bobick, A, “Representational Frames in Video Annotation.” The Twenty-Seventh Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems, Pacific Grove, CA, Vol. 1, pp. 111-115, November 1993.

  70. Bobick, A, “Using Stability of Interpretation as Verification for Low Level Processing: An example from ego motion and optic flow.” IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York, NY, pp. 718-719, June 1993.

  71. Bobick, A. and R. Bolles, “Multiple Concurrent Object Descriptions in Support of Autonomous Navigation.” P. S. Schenker (ed.), Proceedings SPIE Sensor Fusion, Vol. 1828, No. 5, Boston, MA, pp. 383-392, November 1992.

  72. Leclerc, Y. and A. Bobick, “The Direct Computation of Height from Shading.” IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Lahaina, Maui, HI, pp. 552-558, June 1991.

  73. Bobick, A. and R. Bolles, “An Evolutionary Approach to Constructing Object Descriptions.” H. Miura and S. Arimoto (ed.), Fifth International Symposium on Robotics Research, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 107-115, August 1989.

  74. Bobick, A. and R. Bolles, “Representation Space: An Approach to the Integration of Visual Information.” IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Diego, CA, pp. 492-499, June 1989.

  75. Bolles, R. and A. Bobick, “Exploiting Temporal Coherence in Scene Analysis for Autonomous Navigation.” Robotics and Automation, Scottsdale, AR, Vol. 2, pp. 990-996, May 1989.

  76. Bobick, A., “Using Mirror Reflections to Recover Shape.” Technical Program, Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Abstract, October 1984.

  77. Bobick, A., “A Hybrid Approach to Structure-From-Motion.”  N. Badler and J. Tsotsos (ed.), Motion:  Representation and Perception, Proceedings of Association of Computing Machinery Siggraph Workshop on Motion, Toronto, Canada, pp. 91-109, April 1983

  78.  Books and Parts of Books

  79. Bobick, A. and A. Wilson, “State-based recognition of Gesture.” in M. Shah and R. Jain (eds.), Motion-Based Recognition,  pp. 201-226, 1997.

  80. Bobick, A. and J. Davis, “Action Recognition Using Temporal Templates.” in M. Shah and R. Jain (eds.), Motion-Based Recognition,  pp. 125-146, 1997.

  81. Bobick, A., “Video Annotation: Computers Watching Video.” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Recent Developments in Computer Vision, Vol. 1035, S. Z. Li, D. P. Mital, E. K. Teoh and H. Wang (eds.), Springer, pp. 23-31, 1995.

  82. Richards, W. and A. Bobick, “Playing Twenty Questions with Nature.” Chapter 1, in Z. Pylyshyn (eds.), Computational Processes in Human Vision:  An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Ablex, Norwood, NJ, pp. 3-26, 1988

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