Selected list of publications

 

Selected refereed journal publications:

 

1.        “Perceptually optimized 3D transmission over wireless networks,” (I. Cheng and A. Basu), IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, 11 transactions pages, in press, 2006.

 

2.        “Event dynamics based temporal image registration,” (M. Singh, A. Basu and M.K. Mandal), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 30 ms pages, in press, 2006.

 

3.       “An improved fully parallel 3D thinning algorithm,” (T. Wang and A. Basu), Pattern Recognition Letters, 10 manuscript pages, in press, 2006.

 

4.        “Fractal-based edge extraction and its application to textured image retrieval,” (M Pi, CS Tong and A Basu),  Journal of Electronic Imaging, 013012-1 to 013012-9, Jan-Mar 2006.

 

5.        “Human activity recognition based on silhoutte directionality,” (M Singh, A Basu and MK Mandal), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 25 ms pages, in press, 2006.

 

6.        “Robust transmission of regions of interest in JPEG2000,” (V. Sanchez, MK Mandal and A. Basu), Journal of Electronic Imaging, 013008-1 to 013008-6, Jan-Mar 2006.

7.        “Quality metric for approximating subjective evaluation of 3D objects,” (Y. Pan, I. Cheng and A. Basu), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 269-279, April 2005.

 

8.      “Image retrieval based on histogram of fractal parameters,” (M. Pi, M. Mandal and A. Basu), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 597-605, Aug. 2005.

 

9.      “Gaussian and Laplacian of Gaussian weighting functions for robust feature based tracking,” (M. Singh, M.K. Mandal and A. Basu), Pattern Recognition Letters, 11 pages, 2005

 

10.  “Prioritized region of interest coding in JPEG2000,” (V. Sanchez, A. Basu and M. Mandal), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 1149-1155, Sep. 2004.

 

11.  “Scalable edge enhancement for digital x-ray images with automatic optimization,” (L. Yin, A. Basu and J.K. Chang), Pattern Recognition, 1407-1422, July 2004.

 

12.  “Robot navigation using panoramic imaging,” (M. Fiala and A. Basu), Pattern Recognition, 2195-2215, Nov. 2004.

 

13.  “Panoramic stereo imaging,” (M. Fiala and A. Basu), Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 363-397, Feb. 2005.

 

14.   “QoS based video delivery with foveation,” 18 manuscript pages, (I. Cheng and A. Basu), Pattern Recognition Letters, 2675-2686, vol. 24, 2003.

 

15.  “Optimal adaptive bandwidth monitoring for QoS based retrieval,” (Y. Yu, I. Cheng and A. Basu), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 466-472, September 2003.

 

16.  “Active tracking and cloning of facial expression,” (L.Yin, A. Basu and M.Yourst), Int. Journal of AI Tools, 279-295, vol. 12, #3, 2003.

 

17.   “Hough transform for feature detection in panoramic images,” (M. Fiala and A. Basu), 12 printed pages, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2002, in press.

 

18.  “Analysis of depth estimation error for cylindrical stereo imaging”, (A. Basu and H. Sahabi), Pattern Recognition, 2549-2558, Nov. 2002.

 

19.  “Generating realistic facial expressions with wrinkles for model based coding,” (L. Yin and A. Basu), Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol.  84, pages 201-240, 2001.

 

20.  “Line segment extraction in panoramic images,”  (M. Fiala and A. Basu ), Journal of WSCG, Vol. 10, Number 1, pages 179-186, 2002.

 

21.  “Improving image and video transmission quality over ATM with foveal prioritization and priority dithering”,  (K. Wiebe and A. Basu), Pattern Recognition Letters, 905-915, 2001.

 

22.  “Synthesizing realistic facial animations using energy minimization for model based coding”, (L. Yin, A. Basu, S. Bernoegger and A. Pinz), Pattern Recognition, 2000.

 

23.  “Active face tracking for model-based coding,” (L. Yin and A. Basu), Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 20, 1999, 651-657.

 

24.  “Videoconferencing using spatially varying sensing,” (A. Basu and K. Wiebe), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, March 1998, 137-148.

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25.  “Modeling ecologically specialized biological visual systems,” (K. Wiebe and A. Basu), Pattern Recognition, 30 ms. pages, 1998.

 

26.  “Active camera calibration using pan, tilt, and roll,” (A. Basu and K. Ravi), IEEE Transactions on SMC, 24 ms. pages, 1997.

 

27.  “Analysis of depth perception with vergence and spatially-varying sensing,” (H. Sahabi and A. Basu), Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, vol. 63, no. 3, May, pp. 447-461, 1996.

 

28.  “Improving boundary detection using variable resolution masks,” (A. Basu, M.K. Jain and X. Li), Pattern Recognition Letters, 1207-1211, December, 1995.

 

29.  “Motion detection using background constraints,” (A. Elnagar and A. Basu), Pattern Recognition, Vol. 28, No. 10, 1537-1554, 1995.

 

30.  “Alternative models for fish-eye lenses,” (A. Basu and S. Licardie), Pattern Recognition Letters, 433-441, April 1995.

 

31.  “Safety optimizing strategies for local path planning in dynamic environments,” (A. Basu and A. Elnagar), International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 10, No. 4, 130--142, 1995.

 

32.  “Active calibration: Theory and implementation,” (A. Basu), IEEE Transactions on SMC,

      256-265, February 1995. (Earlier version in IEEE CVPR proceedings, NY, June 1992.)

 

33.  “Motion tracking with an active camera,” (D. Murray and A. Basu), IEEE Transactions on PAMI, 449-459, May 1994.

 

34.  “Heuristics for local path planning,” (A. Elnagar and A. Basu), IEEE Transactions on SMC, 624-634, March/April 1993.

 

35.  “Optimal discretization for stereo reconstruction,” (A. Basu), Pattern Recognition Letters,

       813-820, Nov 1992.

 

36.  “Variable resolution character thinning,” (X. Li and A. Basu), Pattern Recognition Letters,

       241-248, April 1992.

 

37.  “A robust correspondenceless translation determining algorithm,” (A. Basu and J. Aloimonos), International Journal of Robotics Research, October 1990, 35--59.

 

38.  “Algorithms and  Hardware for Efficient Image Smoothing,”  (A. Basu and C. M. Brown), Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, vol. 40, 1987, 131-146.

 

Selected publications in conference proceedings and presentation abstracts:

 

  1.  “Shape Tracking and Registration for 4D Visualization of MRI and Structure,” (I. Cheng, S. Nilufar, A. Basu and R. Goebel), International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 2006, 10 LNCS pages.

 

  1. “Iterative Estimation of 3D Transformations for Object Alignment,” (T. Wang and A. Basu), International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 2006, 10 LNCS pages.

 

  1. “Temporal Alignment of Time Varying MRI Datasets for High Resolution Medical Visualization,” (M. Singh, A. Basu and M.K. Mandal), International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 2006, 10 LNCS pages.

 

  1. I Cheng, L Ying and A Basu, “Packet Loss Modeling for Perceptually Optimized 3D Transmission,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 4 pages, Toronto, July 2006.

 

  1. M Singh, R Thompson, A Basu, J Rieger and MK Mandal, “MRI video interpolation,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 4 pages, Atlanta, USA, October 2006.

 

  1.  “Automatic estimation of 3D transformations using skeletons for object alignment,” (T. Wang and A. Basu),  IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 4 pages, Hong Kong, August 2006.

 

  1.  “Application of the discrete Hodge Helmholtz decomposition to image and video processing,” (B Palit, A Basu and MK Mandal), PREMI, 6 pages, Calcutta, India, December 2005. In Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3776/2005, pages 497-502.

 

  1.  “pcVOD: Internet peer-to-peer video-on-demand with storage caching on peers,” (L. Ying and A. Basu), International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, 6 pages, Banff, September 2005.

 

  1. “Balanced incomplete designs for 3D perceptual quality estimation,” (A. Basu, I. Cheng and T. Wang), in Special session of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing organized by G. Cortelazzo, Italy, 2005, 4 proceedings pages.

 

  1.  “A perceptually driven model for transmission of arbitrary 3D models over unreliable networks,” (I. Cheng, L. Ying and A. Basu), IEEE Symposium of 3D Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 8 pages, Special Session Presentation, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, June 2006.

 

  1. “Perceptually optimized 3D transmission over wireless networks,” (I. Cheng and A. Basu), SIGGRAPH, Web Program, Technical Paper, 9 proceedings pages, Los Angeles, USA, August 2005.

 

  1. “Visual gesture recognition for ground air traffic control using the radon transform,” (M. Singh, M. Mandal and A. Basu), IEEE IROS Conference, 6 proceedings pages, Edmonton, Canada, 2005.

 

  1. “3D model adaptation using interactive feedback,” (Y. Liu, A. Basu and J.S. Kim), Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Calcutta, India, December 2004, 6 proceedings pages.

 

14.  “ Reliability and judging fatigue reduction in 3D perceptual quality estimation,” (I. Cheng and A. Basu), IEEE International Conference on 3D Processing, Visualization and Transmission, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2004, 8 proceedings pages.

 

  1.  “Robust KLT tracking with Gaussian and Laplacian of Gaussian weighting functions,” (M. Singh, M. Mandal and A. Basu), IEEE/IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK, August 2004, 4 proceedings pages.

 

16.  I. Cheng and A. Basu, “3D Online retrieval based on perceptual quality,” SIGGRAPH Web Graphics Presentation, Los Angeles, USA, July, 2004.

 

  1.  “Multi-server Optimal Bandwidth Monitoring for Collaborative Distributed Retrieval”, L. Ying, A. Basu and S. Tripathi, IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2004, 4 pages.

 

  1. I. Cheng, A. Basu and Y. Pan, “Parametric foveation for progressive texture and model transmission,” Eurographics, Granada, Spain, September 2003, 4 proceedings pages.

 

19.  “Perceptual Quality Metric for Qualitative 3D Scene Evaluation,” (Y. Pan, I. Cheng and A. Basu), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Barcelona, 2003, (4 proceedings pages).

 

20.  “A new decoding algorithm based on range block mean and contrast scaling,” (M. Pi, A. Basu and M. Mandal), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Barcelona, 2003, (4 proceedings pages).

 

21.  I. Cheng, M. Bates and A. Basu, “Collaborative Online 3D Editing,” SIGGRAPH Web Graphics Presentation, San Diego, USA, July, 2003.

 

22.  “Image retrieval based on 2-D histogram of fractal parameters,” (M. Pi, M. Mandal and A. Basu), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia, Baltimore, USA, July, 2003, (4 proceedings pages).

23.  “Recognizing facial expressions using active textures with wrinkles,” (L.Yin and A. Basu), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia, Baltimore, USA, July, 2003, (4 proceedings pages).

 

24.  “Multi-server optimal bandwidth monitoring for QoS based retrieval,” A. Basu, I. Cheng and Y.Yu, IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, Bangkok, May, 2003, 4 pages.

 

25.  “Distributed retrieval of wavelet images using bandwidth monitoring,” (A. Basu, M. Pi, I. Cheng and M. Bates), IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 2002, Quebec City, (4 conference pages).

 

26.  “Foveated online 3D visualization,” (A. Basu, I. Cheng and Y. Pan), IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 2002, Quebec City, (4 conference pages).

 

27.  “Panoramic stereo reconstruction for non-SVP optics,” (M. Fiala and A. Basu), Proceedings IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 2002, Quebec City, (4 conference pages).

 

28.  “Optimal adaptive bandwidth monitoring for QoS based retrieval,” Y. Yu, A. Basu and I. Cheng, IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, Scottsdale, USA, May, 2002, 4 pages.

 

29.  A. Basu, I. Cheng, A. Mistri and D. Wolford, “Scalable Visualization of Super High Resolution 3D Images for Museum Archiving,” SIGGRAPH Web Graphics Presentation, San Antonio, USA, July 2002.

 

30.  I. Cheng and A. Basu, “Super High Resolution 3D Imaging and Efficient Visualization,” IEEE 3Dpvt Conference, Padova, Italy, 2002, 5 conference pages.

 

31.  “Synthesis-based scalable image enhancement for digital radiography,” (L. Yin, J. Chang and A. Basu), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2002, Rochester, NY, USA, (4 conference pages).

 

32.  “Color-based mouth shape tracking for synthesizing realistic facial expressions,” (L. Yin and A. Basu), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2002, Rochester, NY, USA, (4 conference pages).

 

33.  “Robot navigation using panoramic landmark tracking,” (M. Fiala and A. Basu), Proceedings Vision Interface, May 2002, Banff, (8 conference pages).

 

34.  A. Basu and I. Cheng, “QoS based video delivery with foveation,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Greece, October, 2001, (4 conference pages).

 

35.  I. Cheng, A. Basu, Y. Zhang and S. Tripathi, “QoS  Specification and Adaptive Bandwidth Monitoring for Multimedia delivery,” IEEE EUROCON, Slovakia, June, 2001, 4 conference pages.

 

36.   I. Cheng, A. Basu and A. Mistri, “Zoomage: Super High Resolution Imaging & Visualization Tools,” Int. Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting, Milan, Italy, 2001, 5 conference pages.

 

37.  “Texture decomposition and correlation thresholding for realistic low-bitrate model-based coding”, (L. Yin and A. Basu), IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, June 2000, Turkey, (4 conference pages).

 

38.  “Analysis of cylindrical stereo imaging”, (A. Basu and H. Sahabi), IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 2000, Spain, (4 pages).

 

39.  “Partial update of active textures for efficient expression synthesis in  model-based coding”,

        (L. Yin and A. Basu), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia,  July 2000, NY,

        USA, (4 conference pages).

 

40.  “3D estimation using panoramic stereo”, (J. Baldwin and A. Basu),  IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 2000, Spain, (4 conference pages).

 

41.  “Realistic animation using extended adaptive mesh for model based coding”, (L. Yin and A. Basu), Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, July 1999, UK, 269-284.

 

42.  “Improving perceptual quality and network performance for transmission of H.263 video over ATM,” (R. Shaffer, A. Basu and J. Harms), IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Greece, September 1999, (6 conference pages).

 

43.  “Panoramic video with predictive displays for telepresence,” (J. Baldwin, A. Basu and H. Zhang), Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, USA, May 1999, (6 conference pages).

 

44.  “Analysis and synthesis of facial expressions for MPEG-4 system,” (L. Yin and A. Basu),

       Proc. IEEE International Conference on SMC, USA, 1998, pages 4608--4613.

 

45. “Eye Tracking and Animation for MPEG4 coding,” (S. Bernoegger, L. Yin,  A. Basu and

       A.  Pinz),  Proc. IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Brisbane,

       Australia, August, 1998, 4 proceedings pages.

 

46.  “MPEG4 face modeling using fiducial points,” (L. Yin and A. Basu),  Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Santa Barbara, USA, October, 1997, 4 proceedings pages.

 

47.  “Optimal non-uniform discretization for stereo reconstruction,”  (A. Basu and H. Sahabi),

      Proc. IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, August   

      1996, (5 conference pages).

 

48.  “Improving Image and Video transmission over ATM,”  (K. Wiebe and A. Basu), Proc. IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, August 1996, (5 conference pages).

 

49.  “Panoramic Stereo,” (D. Southwell, A. Basu, M. Fiala and J. Reyda), Proc. IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, August 1996, (5 conference pages).

 

50.  “A conical mirror pipeline inspection system,”  (D. Southwell, B. Vandergriend and A. Basu), Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Minneapolis, USA, April 1996, (6 conference pages).

 

51.  “An active technique for piecewise calibration of robot manipulators,” (K. Ravi and A. Basu), Proc. IEEE IROS Conference, Pittsburg, USA, August, 1995, (6 conference pages).

 

52.  “Robust detection of moving objects by a moving observer on planar surfaces,” (A. Elnagar and A. Basu), Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Nagoya, JAPAN, May 1995, (6 conference pages).

 

53.  “VLSI design for variable-resolution teleconferencing,” (H. Sahabi and A. Basu), IEEE Proceedings of VLSI Design '95 Conference (in cooperation with ACM/IEEE), New Delhi, India, January 1995, (6 conference pages).

 

54.  “Videoconferencing using spatially varying sensing with multiple and moving foveas,” (A. Basu and K. Wiebe), Proc. IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Jerusalem, Israel, October 1994, (5 conference pages).

 

55.  “Path planning in dynamic environments using local information,” (A. Elnagar and A. Basu), Proc. IEEE Multisensor Fusion Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 1994, (6 conference pages).

 

56.  “Variable-resolution teleconferencing,” (A. Basu, A. Sullivan and K. Wiebe), Proc. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,  Le Touquet, France, October 1993, (6 conference pages).

 

57.  “A robust algorithm for determining the translation of a rigidly moving surface, without correspondence for robotics  application,” (A. Basu and J. Aloimonos), Proc. IJCAI, 815-818, Milan, Italy, 1987.

 

58.  “Shape and Motion from Contour, without point to point correspondence: General principles,” (J. Aloimonos and A. Basu), Proc. IEEE CVPR, 1986.

 

59.  “Animate: An Interactive Color Graphics System for 3-D Displays,” (A. Basu et al.), International Graphics Conference, Anaheim, California, 1986.

 

Books:

1.      "3D Online Multimedia: Processing, Visualization and Transmission" (I. Cheng, G. Cortelazzo, A. Basu and S.K. Tripathi), World Scientific Press, December 2006.

 

2.      "Computer Vision: Systems, Theory, and Applications" (Edited by A. Basu and X. Li), World Scientific Press, April 1993.

 

Book Chapter:

 

“A real-time stereo panoramic imaging system”, (A. Basu and J. Baldwin), Edited by R. Bensoman (Paris) and S.B. Kang (Microsoft), Springer Verlag, 2001.

 

Patents:

1. "Method and apparatus for super high resolution stereo imaging," (A. Basu ), Canadian Patent   

     #2,120,240, 2002.

 

2. "Method and apparatus for 3D scanning of objects with voids," (A. Basu), Canadian Patent

     #2,369,710, approved Sept. 2006.