Publications

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• Adrian Barbu, Vassilis Athitsos, Bogdan Georgescu, Stefan Boehm, Peter Durlak, and Dorin Comaniciu.
  Hierarchical Learning of Curves: Application to Guidewire Localization in Fluoroscopy.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2007.
  [Postscript 48MB] [PDF 8.7MB]
  

• Vassilis Athitsos, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios, and Stan Sclaroff.
  Query-Sensitive Embeddings.
  ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 32(2), June 2007.
  [Postscript 17MB] [PDF 550KB]

• Vassilis Athitsos, Jingbin Wang, Stan Sclaroff, and Margrit Betke.
  Detecting Instances of Shape Classes That Exhibit Variable Structure.
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pages 121-134, May 2006.
  [Postscript 9.4MB] [PDF 643KB]

• Vassilis Athitsos.
  Learning Embeddings for Indexing, Retrieval, and Classification, with Applications to Object and Shape Recognition in Image Databases.
  PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, Boston University, April 2006.
  [Postscript 22MB] [PDF 1.2MB]

• Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, and George Kollios.
  Learning Embeddings for Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Retrieval.
  Book chapter in Nearest-Neighbor Methods in Learning and Vision, Theory and Practice, pages 143-161.
  Gregory Shakhnarovich, Trevor Darrell, and Piotr Indyk (editors), MIT Press, March 2006.
  [Postscript 2.7MB] [PDF 274KB]

• Michail Vlachos, Zografoula Vagena, Philip S. Yu, and Vassilis Athitsos.
  Rotation Invariant Indexing of Shapes and Line Drawings.
  ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 131-138, November 2005.
  [Postscript 10.3MB] [PDF 460KB]

• Jonathan Alon, Vassilis Athitsos, and Stan Sclaroff.
  Accurate and Efficient Gesture Spotting via Pruning and Subgesture Reasoning.
  IEEE Workshop on Human Computer Interaction, pages 189-198, October 2005.
  [Postscript 3.7MB] [PDF 269KB]

• Jonathan Alon, Vassilis Athitsos, and Stan Sclaroff.
  Online and Offline Character Recognition Using Alignment to Prototypes.
  International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pages 839-843, August 2005.
  [Best paper award]
  [Postscript 2.7MB] [PDF 212KB]

• Stan Sclaroff, Margrit Betke, George Kollios, Jonathan Alon, Vassilis Athitsos, Rui Li, John Magee, and Tai-peng Tian.
  Tracking, Analysis, and Recognition of Human Gestures in Video.
  Invited submission to International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pages 806-810, August 2005.
  [Postscript 12.8MB] [PDF 334KB]

• Vassilis Athitsos, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios, and Stan Sclaroff.
  Query-Sensitive Embeddings.
  ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 706-717, June 2005.
  [Postscript 583KB] [PDF 257KB]

• Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, and Stan Sclaroff.
  Efficient Nearest Neighbor Classification Using a Cascade of Approximate Similarity Measures.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages 486-493, June 2005.
  [Postscript 302KB] [PDF 95KB]

• Vassilis Athitsos and Stan Sclaroff.
  Boosting Nearest Neighbor Classifiers for Multiclass Recognition.
  IEEE Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2005.
  [Postscript 177KB] [PDF 84KB]

• Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, and George Kollios.
  Filtering Methods for Similarity-Based Multimedia Retrieval.
  Seventh International Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS on Audio-Visual Content and Information Visualization in Digital Libraries (AVIVDiLib), 2005, May 2005.
  [Postscript 1.2MB] [PDF 243KB]

• Jonathan Alon, Vassilis Athitsos, Quan Yuan, and Stan Sclaroff.
  Simultaneous Localization and Recognition of Dynamic Hand Gestures.
  IEEE Motion Workshop, pages 254-260, January 2005.
  [Postscript 7.1MB] [PDF 173KB]

• Quan Yuan, Stan Sclaroff, and Vassilis Athitsos.
  Automatic 2D Hand Tracking in Video Sequences.
  IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, pages 250-256, January 2005.
  [Postscript 2.4MB] [PDF 677KB]

• Leonid Sigal, Stan Sclaroff, and Vassilis Athitsos.
  Skin Color-Based Video Segmentation under Time-Varying Illumination.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 26(7), pages 862-877, July 2004.
  [Postscript 65MB] [Compressed Postscript 19MB] [PDF 14.3MB]
  

• Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, and George Kollios.
  BoostMap: A Method for Efficient Approximate Similarity Rankings.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages 268-275, June 2004.
  [Postscript 2.6MB] [Compressed Postscript 588KB] [PDF 229KB]
  

• Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, and George Kollios.
  Learning Euclidean Embeddings for Indexing and Classification.
  Technical Report BUCS-2004-014, April 2004.
  [Postscript 2.0MB] [Compressed Postscript 397KB] [PDF 499KB]

• Vassilis Athitsos and Stan Sclaroff.
  Estimating 3D Hand Pose from a Cluttered Image.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages 432-439, June 2003.
  [Postscript 7.4MB] [Compressed Postscript 1.7MB] [PDF 594KB]
  

• Vassilis Athitsos and Stan Sclaroff.
  Database Indexing Methods for 3D Hand Pose Estimation.
  Gesture Workshop, pages 288-299, April 2003.
  [Postscript 3.7MB] [Compressed Postscript 587KB] [PDF 267KB]
  

• Vassilis Athitsos and Stan Sclaroff.
  An Appearance-Based Framework for 3D Hand Shape Classification and Camera Viewpoint Estimation.
  IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pages 45-52, May 2002.
  [Postscript 1.7MB] [Compressed Postscript 682KB] [PDF 549KB]
  

  Extended version (Technical Report BUCS-2001-022):
  [ Postscript 6.3MB] [ Compressed Postscript 1.3MB] [ PDF 716KB]
  

• Vassilis Athitsos and Stan Sclaroff.
  3D Hand Pose Estimation by Finding Appearance-Based Matches in a Large Database of Training Views.
  IEEE Workshop on Cues in Communication, December 2001.
  [Postscript 2.5MB] [Compressed Postscript 597KB] [ PDF 367KB]

  Extended version (Technical Report BUCS-2001-021):
  [ Postscript 4.0MB] [ Compressed Postscript 777KB] [ PDF 470KB]
  

• Romer Rosales, Vassilis Athitsos, Leonid Sigal, and Stan Sclaroff.
  3D Hand Pose Reconstruction Using Specialized Mappings.
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , pages 378-385, July 2001.

• Carol Neidle, Stan Sclaroff, and Vassilis Athitsos.
  SignStream: A Tool for Linguistic and Computer Vision Research on Visual-Gestural Language Data.
  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 33(3), pages 311-320, August 2001.

• Vassilis Athitsos, Charles Frankel, and Michael J. Swain.
  Integrating Analysis of Context and Image Content.
  Book chapter in Principles of Visual Information Retrieval , Michael S. Lew (editor), Springer-Verlag, 2001

• Leonid Sigal, Stan Sclaroff, and Vassilis Athitsos.
  Estimation and Prediction of Evolving Color Distributions for Skin Segmentation Under Varying Illumination.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages 2152-2159, June 2000.

• Marco LaCascia, Stan Sclaroff, and Vassilis Athitsos.
  Fast, Reliable Head Tracking under Varying Illumination: An Approach Based on Robust Registration of Texture-Mapped 3D Model.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 22(4), pages 322-336, April 2000.

• Vassilis Athitsos, Michael J. Swain, and Charles Frankel.
  Distinguishing Photographs and Graphics on the World Wide Web.
  IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries, June 1997.
  [Postscript 174KB] [Compressed Postscript 92KB] [PDF 119KB]

• Charles Frankel, Michael Swain, and Vassilis Athitsos.
  WebSeer: An Image Search Engine for the World Wide Web.
  University of Chicago Department of Computer Science Technical Report TR-96-14, August 1996.
  [ Postscript 4,408KB] [Compressed Postscript 848KB] [ PDF 521KB]