Artificial Perception Laboratory

2002

Interactive Visual Dialog
(Arbel and Ferrie)
Image and Vision Computing,
(To appear)

Integrated Range-Sensing, Segmentation and Registration Framework for the Characterization of
Intra-Surgical Brain Deformations in Image-Guided Surgery
(Audette, Siddiqi, Ferrie and Peters)
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Accepted Dec. 2002

2001

Entropy-based gaze planning
(Arbel and Ferrie)
Image and Vision Computing,
vol. 19, issue 11, Sept. 2001, pp. 779-786.

On the Sequential Accumulation of Evidence
(Arbel and Ferrie)
International Journal of Computer Vision,
Vol. 43, No. 3, July/August 2001, pp. 205-230.

Active Object Recognition: Looking for Differences
(Callari and Ferrie)
International Journal of Computer Vision,
Vol. 43, No. 3, July/August 2001, pp. 189-204.

2000

The On-Line Solution of the Hand-Eye Problem
(Angeles, Soucy and Ferrie)
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation,
Vol. 16, No. 5., Dec. 2000, pp. 720-731.

An Algorithmic Overview of Surface Registration Techniques for Medical Imaging
(Audette, Ferrie and Peters)
Medical Image Analysis,
Vol. 4, No. 3, Sept. 2000, pp. 201-217.

The Skeptical Explorer: A Multiple-Hypothesis Approach to Visual Modeling and Exploration
(Tremblay and Ferrie)
Autonomous Robots, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 191-199, April 2000.

1997

On the Sequential Determination of Model Misfit
(Whaite and Ferrie)
IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol. 19, No. 8, August 1997, pp. 899-905.

Autonomous Exploration: Driven by Uncertainty
(Whaite and Ferrie)
IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol. 19, No. 3, March 1997, pp. 193-205.

1996

Surface Recovery From Range Images Using Curvature and Motion Consistency
(Soucy and Ferrie)
Computer Vision and Image Understanding,
Vol. 64, No. 3, November 1996, pp. 1-18.

Partitioning Range Images Using Curvature and Scale
(Lejeune and Ferrie)
Computer Vision and Image Understanding,
Vol. 64, No. 2, September 1996, pp. 230-247

Parametric Shape Recognition Using a Probabilistic Inverse Theory
(Arbel, Whaite and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (401 KB)
Pattern Recognition Letters,
Vol. 17, No. 5, May 1996, pp. 491-501.

1993

Darboux Frames, Snakes, and Super-Quadrics: Geometry From the Bottom-Up
(Ferrie, Lagarde and Whaite)
IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol. 15, No. 8, August 1993, pp. 771-784.

Feature Extraction for 3-D Model Building and Object Recognition
(Ferrie, Mathur and Soucy)
Chapter in: 3D Object Recognition Systems, Jain, A., and Flynn, P., (eds.),
Elsevier, Amsterdam, March 1993.

1992

Computer Vision-Based Rock Modelling
(Cheung, Ferrie, Dimitrakopoulos and Carayanns)
Computer Systems in Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 5, 1992, pp. 601-608.

Curvature Consistency Improves Local Shading Analysis
(Ferrie and Lagarde)
Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing, Vol. 55, No. 1, Jan. 1992., pp. 95-105.

1991

From Uncertainty to Visual Exploration
(Whaite and Ferrie)
IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol. 13, No. 10, October 1991, pp. 1038-1050.

1989

Where and Why Local Shading Analysis Works
(Ferrie and Levine)
IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol. 11, No. 2, February 1989, pp. 198-205

2004

Blind Super-Resolution Using a Learning-Based Approach
(Bégin and Ferrie)
PROC. 17th Intl. Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cambridge, U.K.
Vol.2, pp. 85-59, 2004.

Steerable Kernels for Arbitrarily Sampled Spaces
(Benoit and Ferrie)
PROC. 17th Intl. Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cambridge, U.K.
Vol.3, pp. 578-581, 2004.

2003

Towards Direct Recovery of Shape and Motion Parameters from Image Sequences
(Benoit and Ferrie)
PROC. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Nice, France.
pp. 1395-1402, 2004.

Surface Recovery from 3D Point Data Using a Combined Parametric and Geometric Flow Approach
(Savadjiev, Ferrie and Siddiqi)
PROC. 4th Intl. Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods
in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR)
Lisbon, Portugal, 2003.
(To appear)

2002

Image-based Model Updating
(Simard and Ferrie) | Download (900 KB)
Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, Cardiff (England)
pp. 193-202, 2002.

Database Verification Using an Imaging Sensor
(Simard and Ferrie) | Download (1 MB)
PROC. SPIE Conference on Enhanced and Synthetic Vision
Vol. SPIE-4713, 2002.

Active Surface Reconstruction Using the Gradient Strategy
(Mitran and Ferrie) | Download (285 KB)
PROC. European Conference on Computer Vision
pp. 267-281, 2002.

2001

Motion Consistency for Image-Based Rendering
(Simard, Mitran and Ferrie) | Download (120 KB)
Proceedings of the International Workshop on
Vision, Modelling and Visualization, Stuttgart (Germany),
pp. 169-176, 2001.

Online Database Updating by Change Detection
(Simard and Ferrie) | Download (500 KB)
PROC. SPIE Conference on Enhanced and Synthetic Vision,
Vol. SPIE-4363, pp. 103-111, 2001.

2000

Interactive Visual Dialog
(Arbel and Ferrie)
PROC. Eleventh British Machine Vision Conference,
University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K., 11-14 September 2000,
pp. 755-764.

Recognizing Objects From Curvilinear Motion
(Arbel, Ferrie and Mitran)
PROC. Eleventh British Machine Vision Conference,
University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K., 11-14 September 2000,
765-774.

A probabilistic Framework for Automatic Terrestrial Feature Extraction from Remote-Sensed Imagery
(Simard, Bégin, Soucy and Ferrie)
Proceedings of the Second Geoide Annual Meeting, Calgary (Alberta), May 2000.

Evaluation of computation attention operators using human image recognition
(Dudek, Polifroni and Ferrie)
PROC. Annual Meeting, Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida April 30-May 5, 2000.

Evaluation of algorithms for fusing infrared and synthetic imagery
(Simard, Link and Kruk) | Download (344 KB)
Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Enhanced and Synthetic Vision,
vol. SPIE-4023, pp. 127-138, 2000.

Recognizing Objects by Accumulating Evidence over Time
(Arbel and Ferrie)
PROC. 4th Asian Conference on Computer Vision,
Taipei, Taiwan, January 8-11, 2000, pp. 437-442.

Bit Encoded Labelling and Quasi-Invariant Spatial Pattern Matching
(Bérubé-Lauzière, Gingras and Ferrie)
PROC. 4th Asian Conference on Computer Vision,
Taipei, Taiwan, January 8-11, 2000, pp. 759-764.

1999

The On-Line Solution of the Hand-Eye Problem
(Angeles, Soucy and Ferrie)
PROC. EUROCAST 99, 7th International Workshop on
Computer Aided Systems Theory and Technology,
Vienna, Austria, Sept. 29 - Oct. 2, 1999, pp. 205-208.

Estimating Pose Through Local Geometry
(Soucy, Callari and Ferrie)
PROC. 3DIM99 - Second International Conference on 3-D Imaging and Modeling,
Ottawa, Canada, October 4-8, 1999, pp. 220-229.

Viewpoint Selection by Navigation through Entropy Maps
(Arbel and Ferrie)
PROC. 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision,
Kerkyra, Greece, Sept. 20-29, 1999, pp. 248-254.

Bayesian Recognition - Accumulating Evidence Over Time
(Arbel and Ferrie)
PROC. Statistical Methods for Image Processing,
August 6-9, 1999, Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 22-25.

Entropy-based Gaze Planning
(Arbel and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (815 KB)
PROC. Second IEEE Workshop on Perception for Mobile Agents,
Fort Collins, Colorado, June 26, 1999, pp. 87-94.

Autonomous Physics-Based Colour Learning under Daylight
(Bérubé-Lauzière, Gingras and Ferrie)
PROC. EOS/SPIE Conference on Polarization and Color Techniques in Industrial Inspection,
Munich, Germany, June 14-18, 1999.

Color Camera Characterization with an Application to Detection under Daylight
(Bérubé-Lauzière, Gingras and Ferrie)
Proc. Vision Interface 99, Trois-Rivières, Québec, May 18-21, 1999, pp. 280-287.

Feature detection performance with fused synthetic and sensor images
(Simard, Link and Kruk) | Download (91KB)
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society,
43rd Annual Meeting, pp. 1108-1112, 1999.

1998

Sampling the Unknown: A Technique for Uniform and Complete Surface Coverage
(Soucy, Callari and Ferrie)
PROC. 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,
Victoria, B.C., Canada, October 13-17, 1998, pp. 782-788.

Bayesian MAP Pose and Point Estimation by Model-Based Part Recognition
(Callari, Soucy and Ferrie)
PROC. 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition,
Brisbane, Australia, August 16-20, 1998, pp. 972-976.

From Parametric Warping to the Cooperation of Local Features and Global Models
(Jelonek and Ferrie)
PROC. CVPR-98, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
Santa Barbara, CA, June 23-25, 1998, pp. 448-454.

The Skeptical Explorer: A Multiple-Hypothesis Approach to Visual Modeling and Exploration
(Tremblay and Ferrie)
PROC. IEEE Workshop on Perception for Mobile Agents,
Santa Barbara, CA, June 26, 1998, pp. 79-85.

1997

Edge Localization in Surface Reconstruction Using Optimal Estimation Theory
(Mathur and Ferrie)
PROC. CVPR-97, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 17-19, 1997, pp. 833-838.

1996

Active Recognition: Using Uncertainty to Reduce Ambiguity
(Callari and Ferrie)| Abstract | Download (399 KB)
PROC. 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition,
Technical University of Vienna, Austria, August 25-30, 1996,
Vol. 1, Track A, Computer Vision, pp. 925-929.

Enhanced 3-D Representation Using Multiple Models
(Ayoung-Chee, Dudek and Ferrie)
PROC. 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition,
Technical University of Vienna, Austria, August 25-30, 1996, pp. 701-707.

Monocular Optical Flow for Real-Time Vision Systems
(Benoit and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (596 KB)
PROC. 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition,
Technical University of Vienna, Austria, August 25-30, 1996, pp. 864-868.

Autonomous Recognition: Driven by Ambiguity
(Callari and Ferrie)
PROC. CVPR-96, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, CA, June 16-20, 1996, pp. 701-707.

Enhanced 3-D Representation Using Multiple Models
(Ayoung-Chee, Dudek and Ferrie)
PROC. VI '96 Canadian Vision Interface Conference,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 21-24, 1996.

Informative Views and Sequential Recognition
(Arbel and Ferrie)
PROC. Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision,
Cambridge University, April 14-18, 1996, Cambridge U.K., pp. 469-481.

1994

Recognizing volumetric objects in the presence of uncertainty
(Arbel, Ferrie and Whaite) | Abstract | Download (381 KB)
PROC 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition,
Jerusalem, Israel, Oct 9-13, 1994, Vol. 1, pp. 470-476.

Autonomous Exploration: Driven by Uncertainty
(Whaite and Ferrie)
PROC. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition 1994, Seattle, Washington, June 19-23, 1994, pp. 339-346.

1993

Model Building and Autonomous Exploration
(Whaite and Ferrie)
SPIE - Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XII: Active Vision and 3D Methods,
Boston, Massachusetts, September 8-9, 1993, pp. 73-85.
(Invited paper)

Partitioning Range Images Using Curvature and Scale
(Lejeune and Ferrie)
PROC. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition 1993, New York City, New York, June 15-17, 1993, pp. 800-801.

Active Exploration: Knowing when we're wrong
(Whaite and Ferrie)
PROC. Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision,
Berlin, Germany, May 11-14, 1993, pp. 42-48.

1992

Artificial Perception: Building Models of the Environment
(Ferrie)
Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Toronto, Ontario, September 1992
(Invited paper)

Rockpile Surface Decomposition: Machine Vision in Mining
(Cheung, Ferrie, Carayannis and Edwards)
PROC. Canadian Conference on Industrial Automation,
Montréal, Québec, June 1-3, 1992.

Uncertain Views
(Whaite and Ferrie)
PROC. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition 1992, Champaign, Illinous, June 15-18, 1992, pp. 3-9.

Motion and Surface Recovery Using Curvature and Motion Consistency
(Soucy and Ferrie)
Second European Conference on Computer Vision,
Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, May 18-23, 1992, pp. 222-226.

Curvature, Scale, and Segmentation
(Ferrie, Lejeune and Baird)
SPIE Applications of Artificial Intelligence X,
Orlando, Florida, April 20-24, 1992, pp. 240-250.

1991

Multi-View Surface Reconstruction Using Curvature and Motion Consistency
(Soucy and Ferrie)
The Second International Workshop on Sensor Fusion and
Environmental Modelling, Oxford, U.K., September 2-6, 1991,

Towards Computer Vision Driven Rock Modelling
(Cheung, Ferrie, Dimitrakopoulos, and Carayannis)
2nd Canadian Conference on Computer Applications in the Mineral Industry,
Sept. 15-18, 1991, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

1990

From Uncertainty to Visual Exploration
(Whaite and Ferrie)
Third International Conference on Computer Vision,
Osaka, Japan, December 4-7, 1990, pp. 690-697

Pilot Studies on Computer Vision Techniques for an Automated Mine Environment
(Cheung, Lin, Ferrie, Carayannis and Edwards)
Australian Robot Association: The Third National Conference on Robotics,
Melbourne, Australia, June 3-6, 1990, pp. 142-153.

Curvature Consistency Improves Local Shading Analysis
(Ferrie and Lagarde)
10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition,
Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 17-21, 1990, pp. 70-76.

Recovery of Volumetric Object Descriptions From Laser Rangefinder Images
(Ferrie, Lagarde and Whaite)
First European Conference on Computer Vision,
Antibes, France, April 1990, O. Faugeras (ed.),
Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1990, pp. 387-396.

On Computing Stable Surface Descriptions From Range Images
(Ferrie and Lagarde)
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing,
Positano, Italy, September 20-22, 1989, Cantoni et al. (eds.),
World Scientific, London 1990, pp. 451-458.

1989

Darboux Frames, Snakes, and Super-Quadrics: Geometry From the Bottom-Up
(Ferrie, Lagarde and Whaite)
IEEE Workshop on Interpretation of 3D Scenes,
Austin, Texas, November 27-29, 1989, pp. 170-176.

Towards Sensor-Derived Models of Objects
(Ferrie, Lagarde and Whaite)
PROC. Vision Interface '89, London, Ontario, June 19-23, 1989.

Robust Estimation of Shape from Shading
(Ferrie and Lagarde)
PROC. 1989 Topical Meeting on Image Und. and Machine Vision,
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, June 12-14, 1989, pp. 24-27.

2003

Online Updating of Synthetic Vision System Databases
(P. Simard)
PhD Thesis

Towards Direct Recovery of Shape and Motion Parameters from Image Sequences
(Benoit)
PhD Thesis

Surface Recovery from 3D Point Data Using a Combined Parametric and Geometric Flow Approach
(Savadjiev)
Master's Thesis

2002

Hierarchical Pose Estimation from Range Data for Space Applications
(L. Simard) | Download (780 KB)
Master's Thesis

2001

Active Surface Reconstruction from Optical Flow
(Mitran) | Download (1000 KB)
Master's Thesis

3D Tracking of Non-Rigid Articulated Objects
(Djambazian) | Download (1500 KB)
Master's Thesis

2000

Active Object Recognition Conditioned by Probabilistic Evidence and Entropy Maps
(Arbel) | Abstract | Download (8318 KB)
PhD Thesis

Monocular Camera Calibration Assessment for Mid-Range Photogrammetry
(Valois) | Download (6873 KB)
Master's Thesis

1999

Fusion of synthetic and infrared imagery
(Simard) | Download (2430 KB)
Master's Thesis

1996

Monocular Optical Flow for Real-Time Vision Systems
(Benoit and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (765 KB)

Landmark Identification and Pose Determination in Unstructured Environments
(Callari, Soucy and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (1416 KB)

Incremental Recovery of Volumetric Models
(Roymulik) | Abstract | Download (596 KB)
Master's Thesis

1995

Recognizing Volumetric Objects in the Presence of Uncertainty
(Arbel) | Abstract | Download (1348 KB)
Master's Thesis

Informative Views and Sequential Recognition
(Arbel and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (1076 KB)

Active Recognition: Using Uncertainty to Reduce Ambiguity
(Callari and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (399 KB)

Motion and Surface Recovery using Curvature and Motion Consistency
(Soucy and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (984 KB)

On the Sequential Determination of Model Misfit
(Whaite and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (970 KB)

1994

Recognizing Volumetric Objects in the Presence of Uncertainty
(Arbel, Whaite and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (381 KB)

Informative Views and Active Recognition
(Arbel and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (721 KB)

Dynamically Estimating Pose from Invariant Feature Measurements
(Baird) | Abstract | Download (617KB)
Master's Thesis

1993

Autonomous Exploration: Driven by Uncertainty
(Whaite and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (2067 KB)

Partitioning Range Images Using Curvature and Scale
(Lejeune and Ferrie) | Abstract | Download (98KB)

1989

Constraints ans their satisfaction in the recovery of local surface structure
(Lagarde) | Abstract | Download (1174KB)
Master's Thesis

2002

Super-Resolution of Remotely-Sensed Images using a Learning-Based Approach
(Bégin and Ferrie) | (Poster Presentation)
Fourth Geoide Annual Meeting, Toronto (Ontario), May 2002.

A Differential Approach for Model Verification and Updating
(Simard and Ferrie) | Poster Presentation (pdf)
Fourth Geoide Annual Meeting, Toronto (Ontario), 2002.

Active Surface Reconstruction Using the Gradient Strategy
(Mitran and Ferrie)|Poster Presentdation (pdf)
European Conference on Computer Vision, 2002.

2001

Bayesian Tissue Classification
(Francis and Arbel) | Presentation

Online Database Validation
(Simard and Ferrie) | Poster Presentation (pdf)
Third Geoide Annual Meeting, Fredericton (New Brunswick), 2001.

2000

Interactive Visual Dialog
(Arbel and Ferrie) | Presentation
Eleventh British Machine Vision Conference,
Bristol, UK, 11-14 September 2000.

Recognizing Objects From Curvilinear Motion
(Arbel, Ferrie and Mitran) | Presentation
Eleventh British Machine Vision Conference,
Bristol, UK, 11-14 September 2000.

A Probabilistic Framework for Automatic Terrestrial Feature Extraction from Remote-Sensed Imagery
(Simard, Bégin, Soucy and Ferrie) | Poster Presentation (pdf)
Second Geoide Annual Meeting, Calgary (Alberta), May 2000.

1999

Entropy-based Gaze Planning
(Arbel and Ferrie) | Presentation
1999 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition, Fort Collins, Colorado, June 1999.

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