VLM Publications

• Jonathan Alon, Vassilis Athitsos, Quan Yuan, and Stan Sclaroff.
  A Unified Framework for Gesture Recognition and Spatiotemporal Gesture Segmentation.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 31(9), pages 1685-1699, September 2009.
  [Postscript 10.3MB] [PDF 405KB]

• Panagiotis Papapetrou, Vassilis Athitsos, George Kollios, and Dimitrios Gunopulos.
  Reference-Based Alignment in Large Sequence Databases.
  International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August 2009.
  Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2(1), pages 205-216.
  [Postscript 218KB] [PDF 402KB]

• Haijing Wang, Alexandra Stefan, and Vassilis Athitsos.
  A Similarity Measure for Vision-Based Sign Recognition.
  International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI), July 2009.
  [Postscript 6.6MB] [PDF 204KB]

• Alexandra Stefan, Vassilis Athitsos, Quan Yuan, and Stan Sclaroff.
  Reducing JointBoost-Based Multiclass Classification to Proximity Search.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2009.
  [Postscript 229KB] [PDF 114KB]

• Alexandra Stefan, Haijing Wang, and Vassilis Athitsos.
  Towards Automated Large Vocabulary Gesture Search.
  Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA), June 2009.
  [Postscript 23MB] [PDF 238KB]

• Panagiotis Papapetrou, Paul Doliotis, and Vassilis Athitsos.
  Towards Faster Activity Search Using Embedding-Based Subsequence Matching.
  Workshop on Multimedia Event Analysis for Assistive Environments, June 2009.
  [Postscript 931MB] [PDF 133KB]

• Paul Doliotis, George Tsekouras, Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, and Vassilis Athitsos.
  Intelligent Modification of Colors in Digitized Paintings for Enhancing the Visual Perception of Color-blind Viewers.
  IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI), April 2009.
  [Postscript 7.1MB] [PDF 245KB]

• Zheng Wu, Margrit Betke, Jingbin Wang, Vassilis Athitsos, and Stan Sclaroff.
  Tracking with Dynamic Hidden State Shape Models.
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pages 643-656, October 2008.
  [Postscript 18.2MB] [PDF 493KB]
  

• Michalis Potamias and Vassilis Athitsos.
  Nearest Neighbor Search Methods for Handshape Recognition.
  Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA), July 2008.
  [Postscript 10.4MB] [PDF 259KB]
  

• Alexandra Stefan, Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, and Stan Sclaroff.
  Translation and Scale-Invariant Gesture Recognition in Complex Scenes.
  Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA), July 2008.
  [Postscript 7.3MB] [PDF 253KB]
  

• Vassilis Athitsos, Carol Neidle, Stan Sclaroff, Joan Nash, Alexandra Stefan, Quan Yuan, and Ashwin Thangali.
  The American Sign Language Lexicon Video Dataset.
  IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis (CVPR4HB), June 2008.
  [Best paper award]
  [Postscript 30.8MB] [PDF 277KB]
  

• Vassilis Athitsos, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Michalis Potamias, George Kollios, and Dimitrios Gunopulos.
  Approximate Embedding-Based Subsequence Matching of Time Series.
  ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 365-378, June 2008.
  [Postscript 1.5MB] [PDF 238KB]
  

• Philippe Dreuw, Carol Neidle, Vassilis Athitsos, Stan Sclaroff, and Hermann Ney.
  Benchmark Databases for Video-Based Automatic Sign Language Recognition.
  International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 2008, to appear.
  [Postscript 4.0MB] [PDF 644KB]
  

• Vassilis Athitsos, Michalis Potamias, Panagiotis Papapetrou, and George Kollios.
  Nearest Neighbor Retrieval Using Distance-Based Hashing.
  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 327-336, April 2008.
  [Postscript 6.0MB] [PDF 217KB]
  

• Jingbin Wang, Vassilis Athitsos, Stan Sclaroff, and Margrit Betke.
  Detecting Objects of Variable Shape Structure With Hidden State Shape Models.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 30(3), pages 477-492, March 2008.
  [Postscript 34.6MB] [PDF 2.5MB]
  

• Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, and George Kollios.
  BoostMap: An Embedding Method for Efficient Nearest Neighbor Retrieval.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) , 30(1), pages 89-104, January 2008.
  [Postscript 51MB] [PDF 3.2MB] [Pre-print in PDF with color images 632KB]
  

• Vassilis Athitsos, Alexandra Stefan, Quan Yuan, and Stan Sclaroff.
  ClassMap: Efficient Multiclass Recognition via Embeddings.
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2007.
  [Postscript 23MB] [PDF 669KB]
  

Note: for publications of VLM members prior to the establishment of the VLM lab, please visit the home pages of our members.