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499 Probabilistic Object Recognition and Localization (March 1999)
Bernt Schiele and Alex Pentland
Appears in: ICCV'99
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498 Understanding Expressive Action (June 1999)
Christopher R. Wren
Appears in: E.E.C.S. Ph.D Thesis Proposal
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497 Affective Social Quest (ASQ): Teaching Emotion Recognition with Interactive Media & Wireless Expressive Toys (May 1999)
Kathi Blocher
Appears in: Master's Thesis, MIT, 1999
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496 The Affective Tigger: a study on the construction of an emotionally reactive toy (May 1999)
Dana Kirsch
Appears in: Master's Thesis, MIT, 1999
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495 The Sentic Mouse: Developing a tool for Measuring Emotional Valence (May 1997)
Dana Kirsch
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494 Large Occlusion Stereo (May 1999 (last revision))
Aaron F. Bobick and Stephen S. Intille
To appear in: Int'l Journal of Computer Vision
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493 Representation and Recognition of Action in Interactive Spaces (May 1999)
Claudio Pinhanez
Appears as Ph.D. Thesis, M.I.T., 1999.
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492 Towards Music Understanding without Separation: Segmenting Music with Correlogram Comodulation (April 1999)
Eric D. Scheirer
Submitted to: IEEE 1999 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, Mohonk, NY
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491 Sound Scene Segmentation by Dynamic Detection of Correlogram Comodulation (April 1999)
Eric D. Scheirer
To appear in: Proceedings of the 1999 IJCAI Workshop on Computational Auditory Scene Analysis, Stockholm, August 1999
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490 Affective Computing for HCI (August 1999)
Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: Proceedings of HCI'99, Munich, Germany, August 1999.
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489 A Framework for Recognizing Multi-Agent Action from Visual Evidence (April 1999)
Stephen S. Intille and Aaron F. Bobick
Appears in: (AAAI) '99
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488 Offline and Online Recognition of Emotion Expression from Physiological Data (March 1999)
Elias Vyzas and Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: Workshop on Emotion-Based Agent Architectures, Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1, 1999, Seattle, WA
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487 Recognizing Movement using Motion Histograms (March 1999)
James Davis
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486 A Consistent Method for Function Approximation in Mesh-based Applications (March 1999)
Sumit Basu, Kentaro Toyama, Alex P. Pentland
Submitted to: ICCV '99
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485 Understanding Purposeful Human Motion (March 1999)
Christopher R. Wren, Brian P. Clarkson, Alex P. Pentland
Appears in: IEEE Face and Gesture Recognition, Grenoble, France, March 26-30
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484 Expression Glasses: A Wearable Device for Facial Expression Recognition (February 1999)
Jocelyn Scheirer, Raul Fernandez, Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: Proceedings of CHI '99, Pittsburgh, PA
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483 Quantifying Driver Stress: Developing a System for Collecting and Processing Bio-Metric Signals in Natural Situations (February 1999)
Jennifer Healey, Justin Seger and Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: Proc of the Rocky-Mountian Bio-Engineering Symposium April 16-18
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482 A Spectral 2-D Wold Decomposition Algorithm for Homogeneous Random Fields (September 1998)
Fang Liu and Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: Proceedings of ICASSP'99, Pheonix, AZ
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481 Application of Stochastic Grammars to Understanding Action (February 1998)
Yuri A. Ivanov
Appears as S.M. Thesis, MIT, 1998
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480 Computer Response to User Frustration (January 1999)
Jonathan T. Klein
Appears as S.M. Thesis, MIT, 1999
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479 Parsing Multi-Agent Interactions (November 1998)
Yuri Ivanov and Aaron Bobick
Submitted to: CVPR 99
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478 A New Affect-Perceiving Interface and Its Application to Personalized Music Selection (November 1998)
Jennifer Healey, Rosalind Picard and Frank Dabek
Appears in: Proceedings of the 1998 Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, San Fransisco, CA, November 4-6, 1998
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477 Tools for Browsing a TV Situation Comedy Based on Content Specific Attributes (December 1998)
Joshua Wachman and Rosalind Picard
Appears in: Multimedia Tools and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001 - NOTE: DUE TO LICENSE AGREEMENT, THE ON-LINE VERSION OF THIS TR HAS IMAGES INTENTIONALLY DISTORTED---SEND EMAIL FOR FULL HARDCOPY
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476 Sympathetic Interfaces: Using a Plush Toy to Direct Synthetic Characters (November 1998)
Michael Patrick Johnson, Andrew Wilson, Christopher Kline, Bruce Blumberg and Aaron Bobick
To appear in Proc. CHI '99 - Pittsburgh, May 1999
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475 Analysis of Affective Musical Expression with the Conductor's Jacket (September 1998)
Teresa Marrin and Rosalind Picard
Appears in: Proc of the XII Colloq on Musical Informatics, Gorizia, Italy, 1998
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474 Using Computer Vision to Control a Reactive Computer Graphics Character in a Theater Play (October 1998)
Claudio Pinhanez and Aaron Bobick
Appeared in: the Proc. of ICVS'99 - Las Canarias, Spain, January 1999
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473 Affective Pattern Classification (September 1998)
Elias Vyzas and Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Emotional and Intelligent
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472 Multimodal Person Recognition using Unconstrained Audio and Video (August 1998)
Tanzeem Choudhury, Brian Clarkson, Tony Jebara and Alex Pentland
Appeared in: AVBPA'99
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471 Unsupervised Clustering of Ambulatory Audio and Video (September 1998)
Brian Clarkson and Alex Pentland
Appeared in: ICASSP'99; Submitted 9/14/98
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470 The "Conductor's Jacket": a Device for Recording Expressive Musical Gestures" (October 1998)
Teresa Marrin and Rosalind Picard
Appears in: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, 1998.
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469 Human-Computer Coupling (August 1998)
R. W. Picard
Appears in: Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol.86, No.8
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468 StartleCam: A Cybernetic Wearable Camera (October 1998)
J. Healey and R. W. Picard
Appears in: Proc. ISWC, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998
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467 Affective Wearables (December 1997)
R. W. Picard and J. Healey
Appears in: Personal Technologies Vol 1, No. 4, 1997, pp. 231-240
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466 Real-time American Sign Language Recognition Using Desktop and Wearable Computer Based Video (July 1998)
Thad Starner, Joshua Weaver, and Alex Pentland
Appeared: PAMI
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465 Visual Context Awareness in Wearable Computing (June 1998)
Thad Starner, Bernt Schiele and Alex Pentland
Appeared: IEEE ISWC'98
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464 A Wearable Haptic Navigation Guidance System (June 1998)
Sevgi Ertan, Clare Lee, Abigail Willets, Hong Tan and Alex Pentland
Appeared in: Proc. of the Intl. Symposium on Wearable Computers, 1998
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463 DyPERS: Dynamic Personal Enhanced Reality System (May 1998)
Tony Jebara, Bernt Schiele, Nuria Oliver and Alex Pentland
Appeared in: ISWC 98
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462 Modeling Spatial and Temporal Textures (September 1997)
Fang Liu
Appears in: Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, 1997
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461 Conjoint Probabilistic Subband Modeling (September 1997)
Kris Popat
Appears in: Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, 1997
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460 Heat Dissipation in Wearable Computers Aided by Thermal Coupling with the User (November 1997)
Thad Starner and Yael Maguire
To appear ACM MONET journal
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459 A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interactions (March 1998)
Nuria Oliver, Barbara Rosario, Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings of ICVS99 (Gran Canaria, Spain, January 99)
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458 Frustrating the User on Purpose: Using Biosignals in a Pilot Study to Detect the User's Emotional State (March 1998)
J. Riseberg, J. Klein, R. Fernandez, R. W. Picard
Appears in CHI 98 Late-breaking
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457 SIDEshow: A Silhouette-based Interactive Dual-screen Environment (March 1998)
Jim Davis and Aaron Bobick
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456 Fast Constraint Propagation on Specialized Allen Networks and its Application to Action Recognition and Control (January 1998)
Claudio S. Pinhanez and Aaron F. Bobick
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455 "It/I": A Theater Play Featuring an Autonomous Computer Graphics Character (January 1998)
Claudio S. Pinhanez and Aaron F. Bobick
Submitted to: SIGGRAPH 98
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454 Representation and Visual Recognition of Complex, Multi-agent Actions using Belief Networks (January 1998)
Stephen S. Intille and Aaron F. Bobick
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453 Recognition without Correspondence using Multimensional Receptive Field Histograms (July 1999 (last revision))
Bernt Schiele and James L. Crowley
Appears in: International Journal of Computer Vision
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452 Action-Reaction Learning: Analysis and Synthesis of Human Behaviour (December 1997)
Tony Jebara and Alex Pentland
Appears in Workshop on the Interpretation of Visual Motion, at CVPR 1998
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451 Dynaman: Recursive Modeling of Human Motion (November 1997)
Christopher R. Wren, Alex P. Pentland
To appear in: Image and Vision Computing
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450 Probabilistic Parsing in Action Recognition (November 1997)
Y.A. Ivanov and A.F. Bobick
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449 Action Recognition using Probabilistic Parsing (October 1997)
A.F. Bobick and Y.A. Ivanov
Appears in: CVPR98
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448 Affective Intelligence - The Missing Link (October 1997)
R.W. Picard and G. Cosier
Appears in: BT Technology J. Vol 14 No 4
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447 Signal Processing for Recognition of Human Frustration (1997)
Raul Fernandez and Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: Proceedings of ICASSP98
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446 Stochastic Modeling of Physiological Signals with Hidden Markov Models: A Step Toward Frustration Detection in Human-Computer Interfaces (1997)
Raul Fernandez
Also appears as MIT Thesis for the degree of M.S. in EECS
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445 Indoor-Outdoor Image Classification (1997)
Martin Szummer and Rosalind Picard
Appears in: Proceeding of Intl. Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Databases, Bombay India, January 3, 1998
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444 Digital Processing of Affective Signals (1997)
Jennifer Healey and Rosalind Picard
Appears in: Proceedings of ICASSP, Seattle, Washington, May 12-15, 1998
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443 Beyond Eigenfaces: Probabilistic Matching for Face Recognition (1998)
Baback Moghaddam, Wasiuddin Wahid and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Nara, Japan, April 14-16, 1998
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442 3D Modeling and Tracking of Human Lip Motions (1997)
Sumit Basu, Nuria Oliver, and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings of ICCV'98, Bombay, India, January 4-7, 1998
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441 A Three-Dimensional Model of Human Lip Motions Trained from Video (1997)
Sumit Basu and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings of the IEEE Non-Rigid and Articulated Motion Workshop at CVPR'97, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 16, 1997
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440 Mixtures of Eigenfeatures for Real-Time Structure from Texture (1997)
Tony Jebara, Kenneth Russell and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings of ICCV'98, Bombay, India, January 4-7, 1998
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439 Stochasticks: Augmenting the Billiards Experience with Probabilistic Vision and Wearable Computers (1997)
Tony Jebara, Cyrus Eyster, Josh Weaver, Thad Starner and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proc. of the Intl. Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge MA, Oct. 1997
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438 Multimodal Adaptive Interfaces (1997)
Deb Roy and Alex Pentland
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437 Fast Lighting Independent Background Subtraction (1997)
Yuri A. Ivanov, Aaron F. Bobick and John Liu
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436 Virtual PAT: A Virtual Personal Aerobics Trainer (1997)
James W. Davis
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435 Finding Periodicity in Space and Time (1997)
Fang Liu and Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: Proceedings of ICCV'98, Bombay, India, January 4-7, 1998
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434 Wearable Audio Computing: A Survey of Interaction Techniques (1997)
D. Roy, N. Sawhney, C. Schmandt, and A. Pentland
Submitted to: Intl Symp. on Wearable Computers
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433 Modeling and Prediction of Human Behavior (1997)
A. Pentland and A. Liu
Appears in: IEEE Intelligent Vehicles 95, Detroit, MI, Sept 25-26, 1995
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432 Affective Wearables (1997)
R. W. Picard and J. Healey
Appears in: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 1997; Obsolete by:TR 467
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431 Tactual displays for wearable computing (1997)
Hong Z. Tan and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 1997
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430 The Locust Swarm: An Environmentally-powered, Networkless Location and Messaging System. (1997)
Thad Starner, Dana Kirsh, Solomon Assefa
Appears in: International Symposium on Wearable Computing 1997.
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429 Identification of sphere size using the PHANToM(tm): Towards a set of building blocks for rendering haptic environment (1997)
Hong Z. Tan
Appears in: Proceedings of the Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 1997
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428 Source separation with coupled hidden Markov models (1997)
Matthew Brand
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427 Coupled hidden Markov models at multiple time scales (1997)
Matthew Brand
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426 Sensei: A Real-time Recognition, Feedback, and Training System for T'ai Chi Gestures (1997)
David A. Becker
Appears in: M.S. Thesis, MIT, 1997
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425 A Wearable Computing Based American Sign Language Recognizer (1997)
Thad Starner, Joshua Weaver, and Alex Pentland
Appears in: International Symposium on Wearable Computers 1997
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424 Nonlinear Parametric Hidden Markov Models (1997)
Andrew Wilson and Aaron Bobick
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423 Human Action Detection using PNF Propagation of Temporal Constraints (1997)
Claudio Pinhanez and Aaron Bobick
Submitted to: ICCV'98
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422 Eigenheads for Reconstruction (1997)
Kenneth B. Russell
Appears in: SB Thesis, MIT, 1997
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421 Recognition and Interpretation of Parametric Gesture (1997)
Andrew Wilson and Aaron Bobick
Accepted to ICCV98
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417 A Three-Dimensional Model of Human Lip Motion (1997)
Sumit Basu
Appears in: Master's Thesis, EECS (condensed version submitted to IEEE NRAMW'97)
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416 Perceptually-Driven Avatars and Interfaces: Active Methods for Direct Control (1997)
Trevor Darrell, Sumit Basu, Christopher Wren, and Alex Pentland
Submitted to: SIGGRAPH'97
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415 Dynamic Models of Human Motion (1997)
Christopher R. Wren and Alex Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Nara, Japan, April 14-16, 1998
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414 PNF Calculus and the Detection of Actions Described by Temporal Intervals (1997)
Claudio Pinhanez and Aaron Bobick
Obsolete by: TR#456
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413 Movement, Activity, and Action: The Role of Knowledge in the Perception of Motion (1997)
Aaron Bobick
To appear in: Proceedings of Royal Society: Special Issue on Knowledge-based Vision in Man and Machine
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412 An Artificial Artist (1996)
Matthew Brand
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411 Discovering and visualizing narrative themes (1997)
Matthew Brand
To appear in: Proceedings, Visualization '97
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410 The ``Inverse Hollywood Problem'': From video to scripts and storyboards via causal analysis (1997)
Matthew Brand
Appears in: Proceedings, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI97)
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409 Computer vision for a robot sculptor (1996)
Matthew Brand
Appears in: SPIE Proceedings 3016 (SPIE Photonics West 1997)
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408 Convergence properties of generalized Fibonacci sequences (1996)
Matthew Brand
Submitted to: The Fibonacci Quarterly
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407 Coupled hidden Markov models for complex action recognition (1996)
Matthew Brand, Nuria Oliver, and Sandy Pentland
Appears in: Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR97)
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406 A fast greedy pairwise clustering algorithm and its use in finding thematic structure in large datasets (1996)
Matthew Brand
Submitted to: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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405 Coupled hidden Markov models for modeling interacting processes (1996)
Matthew Brand
Submitted to: Neural Computation
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404 Understanding Manipulation in Video (1996)
Matthew Brand
Appears in: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 1996
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403 Real-Time Closed-World Tracking (1996)
Stephen S. Intille, James W. Davis and Aaron F. Bobick
Appears in: (shorter version) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'97)
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402 The Representation and Recognition of Action Using Temporal Templates (1996)
James W. Davis and Aaron F. Bobick
Appears in: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'97)
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401 Parametrized Structure from Motion for 3D Adaptive Feedback Tracking of Faces (1996)
Tony S. Jebara and Alex Pentland
Appears in: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'97)
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400 Detecting and Segmenting Periodic Motion (1996)
Fang Liu and Rosalind W. Picard
Obsolete by: TR435
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