Publications
2007. Syntactic sentence compression in the biomedical domain: facilitating access to related articles. Information Retrieval. 10(4):393-414.
2009. Multiple instance Feature for robust part-based object detection. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009. IEEE Conference on. :405-412.
2005. Evaluation of resources for question answering evaluation. Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :392-399.
2010. Shape analysis and its applications in image understanding. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. 32(4):604-618.
2004. Fine-grained lexical semantic representations and compositionally-derived events in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics. :100-107.
2003. Question answering techniques for the World Wide Web. Tutorial presentation at The 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL-2003).
2007. User simulations for evaluating answers to question series. Information Processing & Management. 43(3):717-729.
2008. Learning pairwise dissimilarity profiles for appearance recognition in visual surveillance. Advances in Visual Computing. :23-34.
2007. Deconstructing nuggets: the stability and reliability of complex question answering evaluation. Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :327-334.
2005. Fast illumination-invariant background subtraction using two views: error analysis, sensor placement and applications. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2005. CVPR 2005. IEEE Computer Society Conference on. 1:1071-1078vol.1-1071-1078vol.1.
2006. Constructing task visibility intervals for video surveillance. Multimedia systems. 12(3):211-226.
2006. A One-Threshold Algorithm for Detecting Abandoned Packages Under Severe Occlusions Using a Single Camera. Technical Reports from UMIACS.
2004. Uncalibrated stereo rectification for automatic 3D surveillance. Image Processing, 2004. ICIP '04. 2004 International Conference on. 2:1357-1360Vol.2-1357-1360Vol.2.
2005. Constructing task visibility intervals for a surveillance system. Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Video surveillance & sensor networks. :141-148.
2009. System and method for fast illumination-invariant background subtraction .... 11/282,513(7512250)
2003. Scalable image-based multi-camera visual surveillance system. Proceedings. IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2003.. :205-212.
2007. An ease-of-use stereo-based particle filter for tracking under occlusion. Human Motion–Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation. :225-239.
2003. Image-based pan-tilt camera control in a multi-camera surveillance environment. Multimedia and Expo, 2003. ICME '03. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on. 1:I-645-8vol.1-I-645-8vol.1.
2004. Visibility Planning: Predicting Continuous Period of Unobstructed Views. Technical Reports from UMIACS.
1999. Statecharts via process algebra. CONCUR'99: concurrency theory: 10th International Conference, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, August 24-27, 1999: proceedings. :399-399.
1987. Window control strategies for on-line text traversal. Department of Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (correspondence with B. Schneiderman).
1991. Window control strategies for hypertext traversal: An empirical study. Proc. 29th Annual ACM DC Technical Symposium.