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N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, Y. Medynskiy, and I. Essa. The evolution of authorship in a remix society. In In Proceedings of Eighteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, page To Appear, Manchester, UK, September 2007. ACM Press.
      BibTeX, Topic: Computational Authoring

N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, Y. Medynskiy, and I. Essa. Remixing authorship: Reconfiguring the author in online video remix culture. Technical Report GIT-IC-07-05, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Interactive Computing, 2007.
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R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Bobick, and I. Essa. Structure from statistics - unsupervised activity analysis using suffix trees. In International Conference on Computer Vision, 2007. To Appear.
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D. Minnen, C. Isbell, I. Essa, and T. Starner. Discovering multivariate motifs using subsequence density,estimation. In AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, July 2007.
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D. Minnen, T. Starner, I. Essa, and C. Isbell. Improving activity disocvery with automatic neighborhood estimation. In International Joint Conferemce on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI, January 2007.
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D. Minnen, T. Starner, I. Essa, and C. Isbell. Discovering variable-length motifs in multivariate data streams using bayesian surprise. In Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 2007.
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N. Padoy, T. Blum, I. Essa, H. Feussner, M. O. Berger, and N. Navab. A boosted segmentation method for surgical workflow analysis. In Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Medical Imaging Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, (MICCAI 2007), page To Appear, Brisbae, Australia, 2007. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
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R. M. Parry and I. Essa. Incorporating phase information for source separation via spectrogram factorization. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007.
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R. M. Parry and I. Essa. Phase-aware non-negative spectrogram factorization. In Procedings of International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation, London, September 2007. Under review.
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W. Rogers, I. Essa, and A. Fisk. Designing a technology coach. Ergonomics in Design, Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, page Accepted for Publication, 2007.
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P. Yin, A. Criminisi, J. Winn, and I. Essa. Tree-based classifiers for bilayer video segmentation. In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages pp 1-8, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 2007. IEEE Computer Society.
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J. Choi, A. Szymczak, G. Turk, and I. Essa. Element-free elastic models for volume fitting and capture. In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), volume 2, pages 2245-2252, 2006.
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N. Diakopoulos and I. Essa. Videotater: An approach for pen-based digital video segmentation and tagging. In ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), October 2006.
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R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Bobick, and I. Essa. Unsupervised analysis of activity sequences using event motifs. In ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks, page To Appear. ACM, 2006. (in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006).
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K. Kim, I. Essa, and G. Abowd. Interactive mosaic generation for video navigation. In ACM International Conference on Multimedia, page To Appear, Santa Barbara,CA,USA, October 2006.
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D. Minnen, T. Starner, I. Essa, and C. Isbell. Discovering characteristic actions from on-body sensor data. In International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), page To Appear, October 2006.
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D. Minnen, T. Starner, I. Essa, and C. Isbell. Activity discovery: Sparse motifs from multivariate time series. In Snowbird Learning Workshop, April 2006.
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R. M. Parry and I. Essa. Source detection using repetitive structure. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, volume 4, pages 1093-1096, Toulouse, France, May 2006.
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R. M. Parry and I. Essa. Estimating the spatial position of spectral components in audio. In Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 666-673, Charleston, SC, March 2006. Springer.
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R. M. Parry and I. Essa. Spectrogram factorization using phase information. In Neural Information Processing Systems: Workshop on Advances in Models for Acoustic Processing, Whistler, Canada, December 2006.
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Y. Shi, A. Bobick, and I. Essa. Learning temporal sequence model from partially labeled data. In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages 1631 - 1638. IEEE Computer Society, June 2006.
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Y. Angelov, U. Ramachandran, K. Mackenzie, J. M. Rehg, and I. Essa. Experiences with optimizing two stream-based applications for cluster execution. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 65(6):678-691, 2005.
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N. Diakopoulos and I. Essa. Mediating photo collage authoring. In ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), pages 183 - 186, Seattle, October 2005.
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N. Diakopoulos and I. Essa. Supporting personal media authoring. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimedia for Human Communication (MHC) at ACM Multimedia, pages 21 - 23, Singapore, November 2005.
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R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Johnson, A. Bobick, I. Essa, and C. Isbell. Discovery and characterization of activities from event-streams. In Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), pages 251-258, Edinburgh, July 2005.
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R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Johnson, A. Bobick, I. Essa, and C. Isbell. Unsupervised activity discovery and characterization from event-streams. In The Learning Workshop at Snowbird, Snowbird, Utah, 2005.
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Y. Huang and I. Essa. Tracking multiple objects through occlusions. In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages 1051-1058, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2005. IEEE Computer Society.
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B. Kim and I. Essa. Video-based nonphotorealistic and expressive illustration of motion. In Computer Graphics International, pages 32 - 35. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005.
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V. Kwatra, I. Essa, A. Bobick, and N. Kwatra. Texture optimization for example-based synthesis. ACM SIGGRAPH, 24(3):795-802, August 2005. Appears in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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R. M. Parry and I. Essa. Blind source separation using repetitive structure. In International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, pages 143-148, Madrid, September 2005.
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G. J. Brostow, I. Essa, D. Steedly, and V. Kwatra. Novel skeletal representation for articulated creatures. In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision, pages Vol III: 66-78, 2004.
      Abstract, HTML, PDF, BibTeX, Topics: CV: Reconstruction; CV: Articulated Motion; CG: Motion Capture

M. J. Covington, M. Ahamad, I. Essa, and H. Venkateswaran. Parameterized authentication. In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), pages 276-292, 2004. (9th Annual Meeting, Sophia Antipolis, France).
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N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa, and R. Jain. Content based image synthesis. In Conference on Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), pages 299-307, 2004.
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J. Hays and I. Essa. Image and video based painterly animation. In Conference on Non-photorealistic animation and rendering (NPAR), pages 113-120, New York, NY, USA, 2004. ACM Press.
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R. M. Parry and I. Essa. Feature weighting for segmentation. In International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, pages 116-119, Barcelona, October 2004.
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Y. Shi, Y. Huang, D. Minnen, A. Bobick, and I. Essa. Propagation networks for recognition of partially ordered sequential action. In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages 862-869, Washington, DC, 2004. IEEE Computer Society.
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P. Yin, I. Essa, and J. M. Rehg. Asymmetrically boosted hmm for speech reading. In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages pp II755-761, Washington DC, USA, June 2004. IEEE Computer Society.
      Abstract, HTML, PDF, BibTeX, Topics: CV: lip reading; CV: face and gesture; ML: multiclass boosting; ML: feature selection

R. Hamid, Y. Huang, and I. Essa. Argmode - activity recognition using graphical models. In IEEE Workshop on Event Mining, Event Detection, and Recognition in Video, volume 4, pages 38-44, Madison, WI, 2003. IEEE Computer Society. In Conjunction with CVPR 2003.
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