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399 Automatic Transcription of Simple Polyphonic Music: Robust Front End Processing (1996)
Keith Martin
Appears in:Presented at the Third Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Societies of America and Japan, December 1996
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398 The KidsRoom: A Perceptually-Based Interactive and Immersive Story Environment (1996)
Aaron Bobick, Stephen Intille, Jim Davis, Freedom Baird, Claudio Pinhanez, Lee Campbell, Yuri Ivanov, Arjan Schutte, Andy Wilson
Appears in: Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 8(4), August 1999. pp. 367-391.
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397 Augmented Reality Through Wearable Computing (1996)
Thad Starner, Steve Mann, Bradley Rhodes, Jeffrey Levine, Jennifer Healey, Dana Kirsch, Rosalind W. Picard, and Alex Pentland
Appears in: 1997 Presence Special Issue on Augmented Reality
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396 LAFTER: A Real-time Lips and Face Tracker with Facial Expression Recognition (1997)
Nuria Oliver, Sandy Pentland and Francois Berard
Appears in: Proceedings of CVPR'97 (S.Juan, Puerto Rico, June 97)
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395 Speaker Identification Based Text to Audio Alignment for an Audio Retreival System (1996)
Deb Roy and Carl Malamud
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394 Computers Seeing Action (1996)
Aaron Bobick
Appears in: Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference, Edinburgh, 1996
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393 A Bayesian Similarity Measure for Direct Image Matching (1996)
Baback Moghaddam, Chahab Nastar and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings of ICPR'96, Vienna, Austria, 1996
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392 Unsupervised Cross-Modal Analysis of Professional Monologue Discourse (1996)
Michael A. Casey and Joshua S. Wachman
Appears in: Workshop on the Integration of Gesture in Language and Speech (WIGLS) 96
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391 Interval Scripts: a Design Paradigm for Story-Based Interactive Systems (1996)
Claudio S. Pinhanez, Kenji Mase, and Aaron F. Bobick
Appears in: CHI'97
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390 Using A Virtual Environment to Teach Cancer Patients T'ai Chi, Relaxation and Self-Imagery (1996)
David A. Becker and Alex Pentland
Submitted to: ACM Siggraph Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics; Obsolete by: 426
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389 PNF Calculus: A Representation and a Fast Algorithm for Recognition of Temporal Structure (1996)
Claudio S. Pinhanez and Aaron F. Bobick
Obsolete by: TR#456
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388 Recovering the Temporal Structure of Natural Gesture (1996)
Andrew Wilson, Aaron Bobick and Justine Cassell
Appears in: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 1996
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387 Appearance-Based Motion Recognition of Human Actions (1996)
Jim Davis
Appears in: M.S. Thesis, MIT, 1996
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386 Real-time Recognition of Activity Using Temporal Templates (1996)
Aaron Bobick and Jim Davis
Appears in: Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, December 1996 (WACV'96)
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385 A Blackboard System for Automatic Transcription of Simple Polyphonic Music (1996)
Keith Martin
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384 `PENCIGRAPHY' WITH AGC: JOINT PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN BOTH DOMAIN AND RANGE OF FUNCTIONS IN SAME ORBIT OF THE PROJECTIVE-WYCKOFF GROUP (1996)
Steve Mann
Appears in: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 96), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1996.
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383 A Video Browser That Learns by Example (1996)
Joshua S. Wachman
Appears in: Masters Thesis, MIT Media Lab
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382 Modeling user subjectivity in image libraries (1996)
Rosalind W. Picard, Thomas P. Minka, and Martin Szummer
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 96), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1996.
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381 Temporal Texture Modeling (1996)
Martin Szummer and Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 96), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1996.
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380 Staying Alive: A Virtual Reality Visualization Tool for Cancer Patients (1996)
David A. Becker and Alex Pentland
Appears in: AAAI'96 Workshop on Entertainment and Alife/AI, Portland, Oregon, August 1996;Obsolete by: TR#426
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379 Invariant features for 3-D gesture recognition (1996)
Lee W. Campbell, David A. Becker, Ali Azarbayejani, Aaron Bobick, Alex Pentland
Appears in: 2nd International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition, Killington VT
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378 Computer Theater (May 1996)
Claudio S. Pinhanez
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377 DirectIVE: Choreographing Media Creatures for Interactive Virtual Environments (1996)
Flavia Sparacino
Appears in: Master Thesis, MIT Media Lab
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376 Approximate World Models: Incorporating Qualitative and Linguistic Information into Vision Systems (1996)
Claudio S. Pinhanez and Aaron F. Bobick
Appears in: AAAI'96, Portland, Oregon, August 1996
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375 Real-Time American Sign Language Recognition from Video Using Hidden Markov Models (1996)
Thad Starner and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Earlier version in ISCV 95
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374 Real-time 3-D tracking of the human body (1996)
Ali Azarbayejani, Christopher Wren, Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings of IMAGE'COM 96, Bordeaux, France, May 1996
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373 Vision-Steered Audio for Interactive Environments (1996)
Sumit Basu, Michael Casey, William Gardner, Ali Azarbayejani, Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings of IMAGE'COM 96, Bordeaux, France, May 1996
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372 Perceptive Spaces for Performance and Entertainment: Untethered Interaction using Computer Vision and Audition (1996)
Christopher R. Wren, Flavia Sparacino, Ali J. Azarbayejani, Trevor J. Darrell, Thad E. Starner, Akira Kotani, Chloe M. Chao, Michal Hlavac, Kenneth B. Russell, Alex P. Pentland
Appears In: Applied Artificial Intelligence, June 1997, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 267-284.
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371 Bayesian Face Recognition using Deformable Intensity Surfaces (1996)
Baback Moghaddam, Chahab Nastar and Alex Pentland
Appears in: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR'96), San Francisco, June 1996.
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370 Modeling, Tracking and Interactive Animation of Faces and Heads using Input from Video (1996)
Irfan Essa, Sumit Basu, Trevor Darrell, Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings of Computer Animation '96 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, June 1996. IEEE Computer Society Press
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369 An Appearance-based Representation of Action. (1996)
Aaron F. Bobick and James W. Davis
Appears in: International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1996
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368 Generalized Image Matching: Statistical Learning of Physically-Based Deformations (1996)
Chahab Nastar, Baback Moghaddam and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Fourth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'96), Cambridge, UK, June 1996
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367 Multiple-model Q-learning for Active Recognition Tasks. (1996)
Trevor Darrell
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366 `Smart Clothing' (Feb. 2, 1996)
Steve Mann, N1NLF
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365 An Image Database Browser that Learns from User Interaction (1996)
Thomas Minka
MEng Thesis, MIT, 1996
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364 Task-specific Gesture Analysis in Real-Time using Interpolated Views
Trevor Darrell, Irfan Essa, and Alex Pentland
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363 Real-time self-calibrating stereo person tracking using 3-D shape estimation from blob features (January 1996)
Ali Azarbayejani and Alex Pentland
Appears in: ICPR'96
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362 Motion Regularization for Model-based Head Tracking
Sumit Basu, Irfan Essa, and Alex Pentland
To appear in ICPR'96
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361 Wearable, tetherless computer-mediated reality: WearCam as a wearable face-recognizer, and other applications for the disabled (Feb. 2, 1996)
Steve Mann, N1NLF
Appears in: AAAI Fall Symposium on Developing Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities
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360 A Society of Models for Video and Image Libraries (1996)
Rosalind W. Picard
IBM Systems Journal, Vol 35, Nos 3&4, 1996, pp. 292-312
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359 Computer Learning of Subjectivity (1996)
Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 621-623, Dec. 1995
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358 Toward a Visual Thesaurus (Sept. 1995)
Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: Springer-Verlag Workshops in Computing MIRO '95, Glasgow, Scotland, Invited Paper.
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357 Divide and Conquer: Using Approximate World Models to Control View-Based Algorithms (1995)
Aaron F. Bobick and Claudio S. Pinhanez
To appear in: CVPR'97
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356 Active Face Tracking and Pose Estimation in an Interactive Room
T. Darrell, B. Moghaddam, and A. Pentland
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355 Wearable Computing and Augmented Reality (Nov. 95)
Thad Starner, Steve Mann, Bradley Rhodes, Jennifer Healey, Kenneth B. Russell, Jeffrey Levine, and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Submission draft to Presence; Obsolete by:397
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354 Digital Libraries: Meeting Place for High-Level and Low-Level Vision (Dec. 1995)
Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: Proc. Asian Conf. on Comp. Vision, Singapore, vol. I, pp. 1-5.
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353 Pfinder: Real-Time Tracking of the Human Body (1995)
Christopher R. Wren, Ali Azarbayejani, Trevor Darrell, Alex Pentland
Appears in: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, July 1997, vol 19, no 7, pp. 780-785
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352 Vision Steered Beam-forming and Transaural Rendering for the Artificial Life Interactive Video Environment (ALIVE) (1995)
Michael A. Casey, William G. Gardner, and Sumit Basu
Appears in: Proceedings of the 99th Convention of the Aud. Eng. Soc. (AES)
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351 Cluster-based probability model and its application to image and texture processing (1995)
K. Popat and R. W. Picard
Appears in: IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 268-284
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350 Machine Understanding of Human Action (1995)
A. Pentland
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349 Interactive learning using a "society of models" (1995)
T. P. Minka and R. W. Picard
Appears in: Pattern Recognition 30(4), 1997, pp. 565-581; winnner of 1991 Pattern Recoginition Society Award
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348 Recording `lightspace' so shadows and highlights vary with varying viewing illumination. (1994)
Steve Mann
Appears in: MAS854 course project Dec.1994; also appears: OPTICS LETTERS; Vol.20, No. 24; December 15, 1995
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347 Feature-Locked Loop and its Application to Image Database (Aug. 1995)
A. Sherstinsky and R. W. Picard
Appears in: 1995 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, Cambrdige, MA
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346 Temporal Texture Modeling (1995)
M. Szummer
Appears in: M. Eng. Thesis, MIT Dept. of Elec. Eng. and Comp. Sci.
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344 Motion Estimation and Segmentation Using a Recurrent Mixture of Experts Architecture (1995)
Yair Weiss and Edward. H. Adelson
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341 Camera self-calibration from one point correspondence (1995)
A. Azarbayejani and A. Pentland
Obsolete by: TR#363
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339 Light-years from Lena: Video and Image Libraries of the Future (Oct. 1995)
R. W. Picard
Appears in: Int. Conf. on Image Proc., Washington, DC, Vol. I, pp. 310-313
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338 Video orbits of the projective group; A new perspective on image mosaicing (1995)
Steve Mann and Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: IEEE Trans. Image Proc., Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 268-284
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337 Learning Visual Behavior for Gesture Analysis (1995)
A. Wilson and A. Bobick
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336 Color Halftoning with M-Lattice ((1995))
A. Sherstinksky and R. W. Picard
Appears in: IEEE Second Int. Conf. on Image Proc.,Washington, DC, Vol. II, pp. 335-337
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335 A Subspace Method for Maximum Likelihood Target Detection (1995)
B. Moghaddam and A. Pentland
Appears in: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'95), Washington DC, October 1995
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334 Matching and Recognition Using Deformable Intensity Surfaces (1995)
Chahab Nastar and Alex Pentland
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332 Detecting Kinetic Occlusion (1995)
S. Niyogi
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330 Mid-level representations for Computational Auditory Scene Analysis (1995)
D. P. W. Ellis and D. F. Rosenthal
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329 Using Approximate Models as Source of Contextual Information for Vision Processing (1995)
A. Bobick and C. Pinhanez
Appears in: Proc. of ICCV'95 Workshop on Context-Based Vision. Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp. 13-21. June 1995.
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328 Human Powered Wearable Computing (1995)
T. Starner
Appears in: To appear IBM Systems Journal.
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327 Causal Analysis for Visual Gesture Understanding (1995)
Matthew Brand and Irfan Essa
Appears in: Proc. AAAI Fall Symposium on Computational Models for Integrating Language and Vision 1995, Cambridge, MA., November 1995.
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326 Probabilistic Visual Learning for Object Detection (1995)
Baback Moghaddam and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'96), Cambridge, MA, June 1995.
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325 Coding, Analysis, Interpretation, and Recognition of Facial Expressions (1995)
Irfan Essa and Sandy Pentland
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324 Intelligent Studios: Using Computer Vision to Control TV Cameras (1995)
C. Pinhanez and A. Bobick
Appears in: Proc. of IJCAI'95 Workshop on Entertainment and AI/Alife. Montreal, Quebec. pp. 69-76. August 1995.
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323 BEING UNDIGITAL: Extending dynamic range by combining differently exposed pictures (May 1995)
S. Mann and R. W. Picard
Appears in: IS & T's 48th Annual Conf., Washington, DC, pp. 422-428
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322 HyperPlex: a World of 3D Interactive Digital Movies (1995)
Flavia Sparacino, Christopher Wren, Alex Pentland, Glorianna Davenport
Appears in: Proc. of IJCAI'95 Workshop on Entertainment and AI/Alife. Montreal, Quebec. pp. 77-81. August 1995.
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321 Affective Computing (Nov. 1995)
R. W. Picard
This TR was the thought-paper that presented my initial thinking on Affective Computing
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320 Periodicity, directionality, and randomness: Wold features for image modeling and retrieval (1995)
F. Liu and R. W. Picard
Appears in: IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol. 18, No. 7, pp. 722-733, July 1996.
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319 Kinetic Occlusion (1995)
S. A. Niyogi
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318 The Cyborgs are Coming, or, the Real Personal Computers (Feb. 1994; original text Nov. 1993; postscript version with images June 1995)
Thad Starner
Appears in: Written for Wired (unpublished). Full text in the abstract.; Obsolete by: TR355
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317 An Automatic System for Model-Based Coding of Faces (1995) (1995)
Baback Moghaddam and Alex Pentland
Appears in: IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC'95), Snowbird, UT, March 1995
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316 Visual Recognition of American Sign Language Using Hidden Markov Models (S.M. Thesis) (Feb. 1995)
Thad Starner
Obsolete by: TR375
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315 Perceptually organized EM: A framework for motion segmentation that combines information about form and motion (1995)
Y. Weiss and E.H. Adelson
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314 Second-order Method for Occlusion Relationships in Motion Layers (1995)
T. Darrell and D. Fleet
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313 Using Approximate Models as Source of Contextual Information for Vision Processing (1995)
A. Bobick and C. Pinhanez
Obsolete by: TR329
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312 Attention-driven Expression and Gesture Analysis in an Interactive Environment (1995)
Trevor Darrell and Alex. P. Pentland
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311 Modal Matching: A Method for Describing, Comparing, and Manipulating Digital Signals [PhD Thesis] (1995)
Stan Sclaroff
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310 Recovery of Relative Affine Structure Using the Motion Flow Field of a Rigid Planar Patch (1994)
Nassir Navab and Steve Mann
Appears in: Proceedings of Mustererkennung 1994, 16 Symposium der DAGM, Vienna, Austria. Tagungsband. Informatik Xpress 5, pages 186-196
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309 Recognition of Human Body Motion Using Phase Space Constraints (1995)
L. W. Campbell and A. Bobick
Appears in: Proc. of ICCV 95, Pp. 624-30.
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308 Using Configuration States for the Representation and Recognition of Gesture
A. Wilson and A. Bobick
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307 Facial Expression Recognition using a Dynamic Model and Motion Energy (1995)
I. Essa and A. Pentland
Appears in: Proc. of the International Conference on Computer Vision 1995, Cambridge, MA., May 1995.
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306 Visual Recognition of American Sign Language Using Hidden Markov Models (1995)
T. Starner and A. Pentland
Appears in: IWAFGR '95; Obsolete by: TR375
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305 Unencumbered Virtual Environments (1995)
K. Russell, T. Starner, and A. Pentland
Appears in: Proc. of IJCAI'95 Workshop on Entertainment and AI/Alife. Montreal, Quebec. pp. 58-62. August 1995.
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304 Modal Matching for Correspondence and Recognition
S. Sclaroff and A. P. Pentland
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303 Analysis, Interpretation and Synthesis of Facial Expressions [9385 kBytes] (1994)
Irfan A. Essa
Appears in: Ph. D. Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Media Laboratory)
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302 Vision Texture for Annotation (1994)
R. W. Picard and T. P. Minka
ACM/Springer-Verlag Journal of Multimedia Systems, 1995, Vol. 3, pp. 3--14.
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301 Face recognition using view-based and modular eigenspaces (1994)
Baback Moghaddam and Alex Pentland
Appears in: SPIE Automatic Systems for Identification & Inspection of Humans
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300 M-Lattice: A System For Signal Synthesis And Processing Based On Reaction-Diffusion (1994)
A. S. Sherstinsky
Appears in: Sc.D. Thesis, MIT Dept. of Elec. Eng. and Comp. Sci.
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