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  2008
  A Study of Query by Semantic Example
N. Rasiwasia and N. Vasconcelos.
To appear, 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia,
Anchorage, June 2008.
©IEEE, [ps][pdf]
   
  Decision-theoretic saliency: computational principles, biological plausibility, and implications for neurophysiology and psychophysics
D. Gao and N. Vasconcelos.
To appear in Neural Computation, 2008.
   
  On the plausibility of the discriminant center-surround hypothesis for visual saliency
D. Gao, V. Mahadevan, and N. Vasconcelos.
To appear in Journal of Vision, 2008.
   
  Natural Image Statistics and Low-complexity Feature Selection
Vasconcelos M., Vasconcelos, N.
To appear in IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
2008.
© IEEE [ps][pdf]
   
  Modeling, clustering, and segmenting video with mixtures of dynamic textures
A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos.
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
Vol. 30(5), pp. 909-926, May 2008.
© IEEE [ps][pdf]
   
  Scene Classification with Low-dimensional Semantic Spacesand Weak Supervision
N. Rasiwasia and N. Vasconcelos.
To appear, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
Anchorage, June 2008.
©IEEE, [ps][pdf]
   
  Privacy Preserving Crowd Monitoring: Counting People without People Models or Tracking
A. B. Chan, Z. S. J. Liang, and N. Vasconcelos.
In, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
Anchorage, June 2008.
©IEEE, [ps][pdf]
   
  2007
  Bridging the Gap: Query by Semantic Example
Rasiwasia, N., Moreno, P. L., Vasconcelos, N.
Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on,
Vol. 9(5), pp. 923-938, Aug 2007.
© IEEE,[ps][pdf]
   
  From Pixels to Semantic Spaces: Advances in Content-Based Image Retrieval
N. Vasconcelos
IEEE Computer,
Vol. 40(7), pp. 20-26, July 2007.
© IEEE,[pdf]
   
  Supervised Learning of Semantic Classes for Image Annotation and Retrieval
G. Carneiro, A. B. Chan, P. J. Moreno, and N. Vasconcelos
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
Vol. 29(3), pp. 394-410, March 2007.
© IEEE,[pdf]
   
  The discriminant center-surround hypothesis for bottom-up saliency.
D. Gao, V. Mahadevan and N. Vasconcelos.
In Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS),
Vancouver, Canada, 2007.
[ps] [pdf]
   
  High Detection-rate Cascades for Real-Time Object Detection.
Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi and Nuno Vasconcelos.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) ,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007.
© IEEE, [ps] [pdf]
   
  Bottom-up saliency is a discriminant process
D. Gao and N. Vasconcelos.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) ,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007.
© IEEE, [ps] [pdf]
   
  Discriminant Interest Points are Stable
D. Gao and N. Vasconcelos.
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
Minneapolis, MN, 2007.
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]
   
  Classifying Video with Kernel Dynamic Textures
A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos.
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
Minneapolis, MN, 2007.
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]
   
  Asymmetric Boosting
Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi and Nuno Vasconcelos.
Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning,
Corvallis, OR, 2007.
[ps][pdf]
   
  Direct Convex Relaxations of Sparse SVM
A. B. Chan, N. Vasconcelos, and G. R. G. Lanckriet.
Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning,
Corvallis, OR, 2007.
[ps][pdf] (updated version)
(this old version accidently truncated the last dimension of the "wine" dataset [ps][pdf])
   
  Supplemental for "Classifying Video with Kernel Dynamic Textures"
A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos.
Technical Report SVCL-TR-2007-03, April, 2007.
[ps][pdf][zip w/ video]
   
  Duals of the QCQP and SDP Sparse SVM
A. B. Chan, N. Vasconcelos, and G. R. G. Lanckriet.
Technical Report SVCL-TR-2007-02, April 2007.
[ps][pdf]
   
  2006
  Using Statistics to Search and Annotate Pictures: an Evaluation of Semantic Image Annotation and Retrieval on Large Databases
A. B. Chan, P. J. Moreno, and N. Vasconcelos
Proceedings of Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM),
Seattle, 2006.
[ps][pdf]
   
  Weakly Supervised Top-Down Image Segmentation
M. Vasconcelos, G. Carneiro, and N. Vasconcelos
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
New York, 2006.
© IEEE,[ps][pdf]
   
  Query By Semantic Example
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Nuno Vasconcelos, Pedro J Moreno
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval LNCS 4071, pp. 51-60
Phoenix, Arizona, 2006.
[ps][pdf]
   
  Single Image Superresolution Based on Support Vector Regression
K. Ni, S. Kumar, N. Vasconcelos, and T.Q. Nguyen,
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 2, pp. 601-604
Toulouse, France, 2006.
© IEEE,[ps][pdf]
   
  Image Compression using Object-based Regions of Interest
Sunhyoung Han, Nuno Vasconcelos
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing pp. 3097-3100
Atlanta, Georgia, 2006.
[ps][pdf]
   
  2005
 

A Multiresolution Manifold Distance for Invariant Image Similarity
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman,
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 7, pp. 127-142,
2005.
© IEEE,[ps][pdf]

   
  Layered Dynamic Textures
A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos,
Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems 19,
Vancouver, 2005. [ps][pdf]
   
 

Mixtures of Dynamic Textures
A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos,
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision,
Beijing, China, 2005. © IEEE, [ps][pdf]

   
  A Database Centric View of Semantic Image Annotation and Retrieval
G. Carneiro and N. Vasconcelos,
Proceedings of ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR)
Salvador, Brazil. 2005. [ps][pdf]
   
 

Probabilistic Kernels for the Classification of Auto-Regressive Visual Processes
A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos,
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
San Diego, 2005. © IEEE, [ps][pdf] (A longer version is available [ps][pdf])

   
 

Integrated learning of saliency, complex features, and object detectors from cluttered scenes
D. Gao and N. Vasconcelos,
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
San Diego, 2005. © IEEE, [ps][pdf] (A longer version is available [ps][pdf])

   
  Formulating Semantic Image Annotation as a Supervised Learning Problem
G. Carneiro and N. Vasconcelos
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
San Diego, 2005.
© IEEE,[ps][pdf]
   
 

Minimum Bayes Error Features for Visual Recognition by Sequential Feature Selection and Extraction
G. Carneiro and N. Vasconcelos,
Proceedings of 2nd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision,
Victoria, 2005. © IEEE, [ps][pdf]

   
 

Classification and Retrieval of Traffic Video using Auto-Regressive Stochastic Processes
A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos,
Proceedings of 2005 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium,
Las Vegas, June 2005. © IEEE, [pdf]

   
 

The EM Algorithm for Layered Dynamic Textures
A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos
Technical Report SVCL-TR-2005-03
, 2005.
[ps][pdf]

   
 

The EM Algorithm for Mixtures of Dynamic Textures
A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos
Technical Report SVCL-TR-2005-02
, 2005.
[ps][pdf]

   
 

A Bayesian Architecture for Combining Saliency Detectors
D. Gao and N. Vasconcelos
Technical Report SVCL-TR-2005-01
, June 2005.
[ps][pdf]

   
  2004
 

Minimum Probability of Error Image Retrieval
N. Vasconcelos,
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

2004.
© IEEE,[ps][pdf]

   
  On the Efficient Evaluation of Probabilistic Similarity Functions for Image Retrieval
N. Vasconcelos, 
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
vol. 50, No.7, pp1482-1496, July 2004.
© IEEE,[ps][pdf]
   
 

Discriminant Saliency for Visual Recognition from Cluttered Scenes
D. Gao and N. Vasconcelos,
Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) ,
Vancouver, Canada, 2004. [ps][pdf]

   
  Scalable Discriminant Feature Selection for Image Retrieval and Recognition
N. Vasconcelos and M. Vasconcelos
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
2004.
© IEEE,[ps][pdf][slides]
   
  The Kullback-Leibler Kernel as a Framework for Discriminant and Localized Representations for Visual Recognition
N. Vasconcelos, P. Ho, and P. Moreno
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision,
Prague,  Czech, 2004.[ps][pdf][slides]
   
 

Formulating Semantic Image Annotation as a Supervised Learning Problem
G. Carneiro and N. Vasconcelos,
Technical Report SVCL-TR-2004-03
, December 2004.
[ps][pdf]

   
 

Efficient Computation of the KL Divergence between Dynamic Textures
A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos,
Technical Report SVCL-TR-2004-02
, November 2004.
[ps][pdf]

   
 

A Family of Probabilistic Kernels Based on Information Divergence
A. B. Chan, N. Vasconcelos, and P. J. Moreno,
Technical Report SVCL-TR-2004-01
, June 2004.
[ps][pdf]

   
  2003
  A Kullback-Leibler Divergence Based Kernel for SVM Classification in Multimedia Applications
P. J. Moreno, P. P. Ho, and N. Vasconcelos 
Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems, 
Vancouver, Canada, 2003. [ps][pdf]. 
   
  Feature Selection by Maximum Marginal Diversity: optimality and implications for visual recognition
N. Vasconcelos 
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
Madison, Wisconsin, 2003,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]
   
  The design of end-to-end optimal image retrieval systems
N. Vasconcelos 
Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks,
Istanbul, Turkey, 2003. [ps][pdf]
   
  2002
  Feature Selection by Maximum Marginal Diversity
N. Vasconcelos 
Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems
Vancouver, Canada, 2002. [ps][pdf]. 
   
  What is the Role of Independence for Visual Recognition?
N. Vasconcelos and G. Carneiro
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision,
Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002.[ps][pdf]
   
  Exploiting Group Structure To Improve Retrieval Accuracy and Speed in Image Databases
N. Vasconcelos,
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing,
Rochester, New York, 2002,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf].
   
  2001
  Empirical Bayesian Motion Segmentation
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Inteligence,

vol.23, n.2; February 2001,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf].
   
  Image Indexing with Mixture Hierarchies
N. Vasconcelos 
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
Kauai, Hawai, 2001,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]
   
  On the Complexity of Probabilistic Image Retrieval
N. Vasconcelos,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision,
Vancouver, Canada, 2001,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]
   
  Content-based Retrieval from Image Databases: Current Solutions and Future Directions
N. Vasconcelos and M. Kunt,
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing,
Thessaloniki, Greece, 2001,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf].
   
  2000
  Statistical Models of Video Structure for Content Analysis and Characterization
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,

vol. 9, n. 1; January 2000,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf].
   
  Bayesian Video Shot Segmentation
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems 13
Denver, Colorado, 2000, [ps][pdf]. 
   
  A Unifying View of Image Similarity
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition,
Barcelona, Spain, 2000,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]. 
   
  Feature Representations for Image Retrieval: Beyond the Color Histogram
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo,
New York, 2000,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf].
   
  Learning Over Multiple Temporal Scales in Image Databases
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision,
Dublin, Ireland, 2000, © Springer, [ps][pdf].
   
  A Probabilistic Architecture for Content-based Image Retrieval
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
South Carolina, 2000,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf].
   
  Bayesian Representations and Learning Mechanisms for Content Based Image Retrieval
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases,
San Jose, California, 2000. 
   
  1999
  Learning from User Feedback in Image Retrieval Systems
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems 12
Denver, Colorado, 1999, [ps][pdf]. 
   
  1998
  Learning Mixture Hierarchies
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems 11,
Denver, Colorado, 1998, [ps][pdf]. 
   
  Bayesian Modeling of Video Editing and Structure: Semantic Features for Video Summarization and Browsing
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman,
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing
Chicago, 1998,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]. 
   
  A Spatiotemporal Motion Model for Video Summarization
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
Santa Barbara, 1998,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf
   
  A Bayesian Framework for Semantic Content Characterization
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
Santa Barbara, 1998,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]
   
  A Bayesian Framework for Content-based Indexing and Retrieval
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of  IEEE Data Compression Conference
Snowbird, Utah, 1998,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]
   
  Humane Interfaces to Video
A. Lippman, N. Vasconcelos, and G. Iyengar, 
Proceedings of 32nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
Asilomar, California, 1998.
   
 

Embedded Mixture Modeling for Efficient Probabilistic Content-Based Indexing and Retrieval
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman,
Proceedings of  SPIE Conference on Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III, Boston, 1998. 

   
  1997
  Multiresolution Tangent Distance for Affine Invariant Classification
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems 10,
Denver, Colorado, 1997, [ps][pdf]. 
   
  Content-based Pre-indexed Video
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing,
Santa Barbara, California, 1997,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]. 
   
  Pre and Post-Filtering for Low Bit-rate Video Coding
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing,
Santa Barbara, California, 1997.
   
  Towards Semantically Meaningful Feature Spaces for the Characterization of Video Content
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman,
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing,
Santa Barbara, California, 1997,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf].
   
  Empirical Bayesian EM-based Motion Segmentation
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1997,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]. 
   
  Library-based Coding: a Representation for Efficient Video Compression and Retrieval
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of  IEEE Data Compression Conference,
Snowbird, Utah, 1997,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]. 
   
  1996
  Frame-free Video
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman, 
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing,
Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]. 
   
  1995
  Spatiotemporal Model-Based Optic Flow Estimation
N. Vasconcelos and A. Lippman,
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing,
Washington DC, 1995,
© IEEE, [ps][pdf]. 

 



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