Publications
Jim Davis

Publications

  • "Enhancing Self-Training Methods"
    A. Radhakrishnan, J. Davis, Z. Rabin, B. Lewis, M. Scherreik, and R. Ilin
    Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), January 2024.
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  • "Data-Free Knowledge Distillation Using Adversarially Perturbed OpenGL Shader Images"
    L. Frank and J. Davis
    arXiv:2310.13782 [cs.CV], October 2023. [under review]
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  • "Inducing Neural Collapse to a Fixed Hierarchy-Aware Frame for Reducing Mistake Severity"
    T. Liang and J. Davis
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2023.
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  • "Revisiting Batch Norm Initialization"
    J. Davis and L. Frank
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), October 2022.
    [PDF]

  • "Learning When to Say 'I Don't Know'"
    N. Kashani Motlagh, J. Davis, T. Anderson, and J. Gwinnup
    International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), October 2022.
    [PDF]
    [Best Paper Award]

  • "S-FINCH: An Optimized Streaming Adaptation to FINCH Clustering"
    J. Cunningham, J. Davis, K. Tarplee, and J. Vasquez
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), August 2022.
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  • "Confident AI"
    J. Davis
    arXiv:2202.05957 [cs.AI], February 2022.
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  • "A Framework for Semi-automatic Collection of Temporal Satellite Imagery for Analysis of Dynamic Regions"
    N. Kashani Motlagh, A. Radhakrishnan, J. Davis, and R. Ilin
    Learning to Understand Aerial Images (ICCV Workshop), October 2021.
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  • "Bottom-up Hierarchical Classification Using Confusion-based Logit Compression"
    T. Liang, J. Davis, and R. Ilin
    arXiv:2110.01756 [cs.LG], October 2021.
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  • "Hierarchical Classification with Confidence using Generalized Logits"
    J. Davis, T. Liang, J. Enouen, and R. Ilin
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, January 2021.
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  • "Confidence-Driven Hierarchical Classification of Cultivated Plant Stresses"
    L. Frank, C. Wiegman, J. Davis, and S. Shearer
    Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, January 2021.
    [PDF]

  • "Posterior Adaptation With New Priors"
    J. Davis
    arXiv:2007.01386 [cs.LG], July 2020.
    [PDF]

  • "A* Search: What’s in a Name?"
    J. Davis and J. Hachtel
    with P. Hart, N. Nilsson, and B. Raphael
    Communications of the ACM, January 2020, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 36-37.
    [PDF]

  • "Hierarchical Semantic Labeling With Adaptive Confidence"
    J. Davis, T. Liang, J. Enouen, and R. Ilin
    International Symposium on Visual Computing, October 2019.
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  • "A Framework for Collecting and Classifying Objects in Satellite Imagery"
    A. Radhakrishnan, J. Cunningham, J. Davis, and R. Ilin
    International Symposium on Visual Computing, October 2019.
    [PDF]

  • "Tracking with Context in Wide Area Motion Imagery"
    R. Ilin, J. Davis, S. Lerner, J. Cunningham, and A. Radhakrishnan
    MSS Passive Sensors Symposium, February 2019.

  • “Scene-Based Priors for Bayesian Semantic Image Segmentation”
    C. Menart, J. Davis, M. Akbar, and R. Ilin
    International Journal of Smart Security Technologies, 2019, Vol. 6, pp. 1-14.

  • "The AFRL-Ohio State WMT18 Multimodal System: Combining Visual with Traditional"
    J. Gwinnup, J. Sandvick, M. Hutt, G. Erdmann, J. Duselis, and J. Davis
    Conference on Machine Translation, October 2018.

  • "The AFRL-OSU WMT17 Multimodal Translation System: An Image Processing Approach"
    J. Duselis, M. Hutt, J. Gwinnup, J. Davis, and J. Sandvick
    Conference on Machine Translation, September 2017.

  • "Audiomere: Polarity Maximizer" [2015-2017]
    Commericialization of audio algorithm and software for multi-channel audio polarity optimization, 2015.
    www.Audiomere.com
  • "A Multi-Transformational Model for Background Subtraction with Moving Cameras"
    D. Zamalieva, A. Yilmaz, and J. Davis
    European Conference on Computer Vision, September 2014.
  • "Exploiting Temporal Geometry for Moving Camera"
    D. Zamalieva, A. Yilmaz, and J. Davis
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 2014.
  • "Temporally-Dependent Dirichlet Process Mixtures for Egocentric Video Segmentation"
    J. Barker and J. Davis
    IEEE Workshop on Egocentric Vision, June 2014.
  • "Summarizing High-Level Scene Behavior"
    K. Streib and J. Davis
    Machine Vision and Applications Journal, 2013.
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  • "One-Class Multiple Instance Learning and Applications to Target Tracking"
    K. Sankaranarayanan and J. Davis
    Asian Conference on Computer Vision, November 2012.
    [PDF]
  • "Segmentation and Scene Modeling for MIL-based Target Localization"
    K. Sankaranarayanan and J. Davis
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, November 2012.
    [PDF]
  • "Detecting Behavioral Zones in Local and Global Camera Views"
    M. Nedrich and J. Davis
    Machine Vision and Applications, Vol. 23, 2012, pp. 1-27.
    [PDF]
  • "Recovery and Reasoning about Occlusions in 3D using Few Cameras with Applications to 3D Tracking"
    M. Keck and J. Davis
    International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 95, Issue 3, 2011, pp. 240-264.
    [PDF]
  • "Activity Analysis in Wide-Area Surveillance Video"
    R. Feather and J. Davis
    OSU Dept. Computer Science and Engineering Technical Report OSU-CISRC-11/11-TR34, 2011.
    [PDF]
  • "Object Association Across PTZ Cameras using Logistic MIL"
    K. Sankaranarayanan and J. Davis
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2011.
    [PDF]
  • "Using Ripley's K-function to Improve Graph-Based Clustering Techniques"
    K. Streib and J. Davis
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2011.
    [PDF]
  • "Camera Control and Geo-Registration for Video Sensor Networks"
    J. Davis
    Distributed Video Sensor Networks, B. Bhanu (ed.), Springer, January 2011.
  • "Attention-based Target Localization using Multiple Instance Learning"
    K. Sankaranarayanan and J. Davis
    International Symposium on Visual Computing, November 2010.
    [PDF]
    [Best Paper Award]
  • "Learning Scene Entries and Exits using Coherent Motion Regions"
    M. Nedrich and J. Davis
    International Symposium on Visual Computing, November 2010.
    [PDF]
  • "Exploiting Multiple Cameras for Environmental Pathlets"
    K. Streib and J. Davis
    International Symposium on Visual Computing, November 2010.
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  • "PTZ Camera Modeling and Panoramic View Generation via Focal Plane Mapping"
    K. Sankaranarayanan and J. Davis
    Asian Conference on Computer Vision, November 2010.
    [PDF]
  • "Learning Directed Intention-driven Activities using Co-Clustering"
    K. Sankaranarayanan and J. Davis
    IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, August 2010.
    [PDF]
  • "Extracting Pathlets From Weak Tracking Data"
    K. Streib and J. Davis
    IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, August 2010.
    [PDF]
  • "Geo-registration and Interactive Control for Distributed Camera Networks"
    M. Nedrich, K. Sankaranarayanan, and J. Davis
    OSU Dept. Computer Science and Engineering Technical Report OSU-CISRC-6/10-TR13, 2010.
    [PDF]
  • "How Panoramic Visualization can Support Human Supervision of Intelligent Surveillance"
    A. Morison, D. Woods, and J. Davis
    Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, October 2009.
    [PDF]
  • "Human Detection and Tracking"
    J. Davis, V. Sharma, A. Tyagi, and M. Keck
    Encyclopedia of Biometrics, S. Li (ed.), Springer, July 2009.

  • "A Feature-Selection Approach to Fusing Electro-Optical and IR Imagery"
    V. Sharma and J. Davis
    SPIE Newsroom: Electronic Imaging & Signal Processing, February 2009.
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  • "Feature-Level Fusion for Object Segmentation Using Mutual Information"
    V. Sharma and J. Davis
    Book chapter in Augmented Vision Perception in Infrared, Springer, December 2008, pp. 295-319.
    [PDF]
  • "A Fast Linear Registration Framework for Multi-Camera GIS Coordination"
    K. Sankaranarayanan and J. Davis
    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, September 2008.
    [PDF]
  • "3D Occlusion Recovery using Few Cameras"
    M. Keck and J. Davis
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2008.
    [PDF]
  • "A Recursive Filter For Linear Systems on Riemannian Manifolds"
    A. Tyagi and J. Davis
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2008.
    [PDF]
  • "An Efficient Active Camera Model for Video Surveillance"
    K. Sankaranarayanan and J. Davis
    IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, January 2008.
    [PDF]
  • "A Context-Based Tracker Switching Framework"
    A. Tyagi and J. Davis
    IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, January 2008.
    [PDF]
  • "Steepest Descent For Efficient Covariance Tracking"
    A. Tyagi, J. Davis, and G. Potamianos
    IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, January 2008.
    [PDF]
  • "Integrating Appearance and Motion Cues for Simultaneous Detection and Segmentation of Pedestrians"
    V. Sharma and J. Davis
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, October 2007.
    [PDF]
  • "Kernel-Based 3D Tracking"
    A. Tyagi, M. Keck, J. Davis, and G. Potamianos
    IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, June 2007.
    [PDF]
  • "Simultaneous Detection and Segmentation of Pedestrians using Top-down and Bottom-up Processing"
    V. Sharma and J. Davis
    IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, June 2007.
    [PDF]
  • "Background-Subtraction using Contour-based Fusion of Thermal and Visible Imagery"
    J. Davis and V. Sharma
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 106, No. 2-3, 2007, pp. 162-182.
    [PDF]
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  • "An Adaptive Focus-of-Attention Model for Video Surveillance and Monitoring"
    J. Davis, A. Morison, and D. Woods
    Machine Vision and Applications, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2007, pp. 41-64.
    [PDF]
  • "Building Adaptive Camera Models for Video Surveillance"
    J. Davis, A. Morison, and D. Woods
    IEEE Workshop on Application of Computer Vision, February 2007.
    [PDF]
  • "Extraction of Person Silhouettes from Surveillance Imagery using MRFs"
    V. Sharma, J. Davis, and A. Tyagi
    IEEE Workshop on Application of Computer Vision, February 2007.
    [PDF]
  • "Fusion of Multiple Camera Views for Kernel-Based 3D Tracking"
    A. Tyagi, G. Potamianos, J. Davis, and S. Chu
    IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, February 2007.
    [PDF]
  • "Coverage Optimization to Support Security Monitoring"
    A. Murray, K. Kim, J. Davis, R. Machiraju, R. Parent
    Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Vol. 31, 2007, pp. 133-147.
    [PDF]
  • "Background-Subtraction in Thermal Imagery Using Contour Saliency"
    J. Davis and V. Sharma
    International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 71, No. 2, 2007, pp. 161-181. (online version June 2006)
    [PDF]
  • "Tracking Mean Shift Clustered Point Clouds for 3D Surveillance"
    M. Keck, J. Davis, and A. Tyagi
    ACM Multimedia Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks, October 2006, pp. 187-194.
    [PDF]
  • "Multiview Fusion for Canonical View Generation based on Homography Constraints"
    A. Tyagi, J. Davis, and M. Keck
    ACM Mulimedia Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks, October 2006, pp. 61-69.
    [PDF]
  • "Minimal-Latency Human Action Recognition using Reliable-Inference"
    J. Davis and A. Tyagi
    Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 24, 2006, pp. 455-472.
    [PDF]
  • "Human Activity Recognition for Synthesis"
    Y. Chen, R. Parent, R. Machiraju, and J. Davis
    IEEE Workshop on Learning, Representation, and Context for Human Sensing in Video, New York, NY, June 22, 2006.
    [PDF]
  • "Feature-level Fusion for Object Segmentation using Mutual Information"
    V. Sharma and J. Davis
    IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum, New York, NY, June 22, 2006.
    [PDF]
  • "Sampling Representative Examples for Dimensionality Reduction and Recognition - Bootstrap Bumping LDA"
    H. Gao and J. Davis
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Graz, Austria, May 7-13, 2006, Part III, LNCS 3953, pp. 275-287.
    [PDF]
  • "Why Direct LDA Is Not Equivalent to LDA"
    H. Gao and J. Davis
    Pattern Recognition, Vol. 39, 2006, pp. 1002-1006.
    [PDF]
  • "Event Template Hierarchies as Means for Human-Automation Collaboration in Security Surveillance"
    D. Woods, S. McNee, J. Davis, A. Morison, P. Maughan, and K. Christoffersen
    Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, September 26-28, 2005.
    [PDF]
  • "Modeling Behavior Trends and Detecting Abnormal Events using Seasonal Kalman Filters"
    J. Davis and M. Keck
    Workshop on Human Activity Recognition and Modeling, Oxford, UK, September 9, 2005.
    [PDF]
  • "Fusion-based Background-Subtraction using Contour Saliency"
    J. Davis and V. Sharma
    IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum, San Diego, CA, June 20, 2005.
    [PDF]
  • "A Two-Stage Template Approach to Person Detection in Thermal Imagery"
    J. Davis and M. Keck
    Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Breckenridge, Colorado, January 5-7, 2005.
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  • "Differential Video Coding of Face and Gesture Events in Presentation Videos"
    R. Tan and J. Davis
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 96, No. 2, 2004, pp. 200-215.
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  • "Robust Detection of People in Thermal Imagery"
    J. Davis and V. Sharma
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 23-26, 2004, pp. 713-716.
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  • "Sequential Reliable-Inference for Rapid Detection of Human Actions"
    J. Davis
    IEEE Workshop on Detection and Recognition of Events in Video, Washington DC, July 2, 2004.
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  • "Robust Background-Subtraction for Person Detection in Thermal Imagery"
    J. Davis and V. Sharma
    IEEE International Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond the Visible Spectrum, Washington DC, July 2, 2004.
    [PDF]
  • "Gender Recognition from Walking Movements using Adaptive Three-Mode PCA"
    J. Davis and H. Gao
    IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, Washington DC, June 27, 2004.
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  • "An Expressive Three-Mode Principal Components Model for Gender Recognition"
    J. Davis and H. Gao
    Journal of Vision, Vol. 4, No. 5, 2004, pp. 362-377.
    [PDF, HTML]
  • "An Expressive Three-Mode Principal Components Model of Human Action Style"
    J. Davis and H. Gao
    Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 21, No. 11, 2003, pp. 1001-1016.
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  • "Recognizing Human Action Efforts: An Adaptive Three-Mode PCA Framework"
    J. Davis and H. Gao
    International Conference on Computer Vision, Nice, France, October 13-16, 2003, pp. 1463-1469.
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  • "A Reliable-Inference Framework for Recognition of Human Actions"
    J. Davis and A. Tyagi
    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, Miami, Florida, July 21-22, 2003, pp. 169-176.
    [PDF]
  • "A Three-Mode Expressive Feature Model of Action Effort"
    J. Davis, H. Gao, and V. Kannappan
    IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, Orlando, Florida, December 5-6, 2002, pp. 139-144.
    [Best Paper Award]
    [PDF]
  • "Motion Segmentation and Pose Recognition with Motion History Gradients"
    G. Bradski and J. Davis
    International Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002, pp. 174-184.
    [PDF]
  • "Analysis and Recognition of Walking Movements"
    J. Davis and S. Taylor
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Canada, August 11-15, 2002, pp. 315-318.
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  • "Expressive Features for Movement Exaggeration"
    J. Davis and V. Kannappan
    SIGGRAPH Conference Abstracts and Applications (Technical Sketches), San Antonio, Texas, July 24, 2002, pp. 182.
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  • "The Representation and Recognition of Action Using Temporal Templates"
    A. Bobick and J. Davis
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2001, pp. 257-267.
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  • "A Perceptual User Interface for Recognizing Head Gesture Acknowledgements"
    J. Davis and S. Vaks
    ACM Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, Orlando, Florida, November 15-16, 2001.
    [PDF]
  • "Representing and Recognizing Human Motion: From Motion Templates to Movement Categories"
    J. Davis
    Digital Human Modeling Workshop, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Maui, Hawaii, October 29, 2001.
    [PDF]
  • "Hierarchical Motion History Images for Recognizing Human Motion"
    J. Davis
    IEEE Workshop on Detection and Recognition of Events in Video, Vancouver, Canada, July 8, 2001, pp. 39-46.
    [PDF]
  • "Visual Categorization of Children and Adult Walking Styles"
    J. Davis
    International Conference on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, Halmstad, Sweden, June 6-8, 2001, pp. 295-300.
    [PDF]
  • "Physically Interactive Story Environments"
    C. Pinhanez, J. Davis, S. Intille, M. Johnson, A. Wilson, A. Bobick, and B. Blumberg
    IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3/4, 2000, pp. 438-455.
    [PDF]
  • "Motion Segmentation and Pose Recognition with Motion History Gradients"
    G. Bradski and J. Davis
    IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, December 2000, pp. 174-184.
    [PDF]
  • "Categorical Representation and Recognition of Oscillatory Motion Patterns"
    J. Davis, A. Bobick, W. Richards
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2000, pp. 628-635.
    [PDF]
  • "Relating Categories of Intentional Animal Motions"
    J. Davis and W. Richards
    OSU Dept. Computer and Information Science Technical Report OSU-CISRC-11/00-TR25, November 2000.
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  • "The Kidsroom: A Perceptually-Based Interactive and Immersive Story Environment"
    A. Bobick, S. Intille, J. Davis, F. Baird, C. Pinhanez, L. Campbell, Y. Ivanov, A. Schutte, and A. Wilson
    Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1999, pp. 367-391.
    [PDF]
  • "Toward 3-D Gesture Recognition"
    J. Davis and M. Shah
    International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 13 Number 3, May 1999, pp. 381-393.
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  • "Real-time Motion Template Gradients using Intel CVLib"
    J. Davis and G. Bradski
    IEEE ICCV Workshop on Frame-rate Vision, September 1999.
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  • "Recognizing Movement using Motion Histograms"
    J. Davis
    MIT Technical Report #487, March 1999.
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  • "A Robust Human-Silhouette Extraction Technique for Interactive Virtual Environments"
    J. Davis and A. Bobick
    In Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Ed. by N. Magnenat-Thalmann & D. Thalmann), 1537, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1998, pp. 12-25.
    (IFIP Workshop on Modeling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments, 1998.)
    [PDF]
  • "Virtual PAT: A Virtual Personal Aerobics Trainer"
    J. Davis and A. Bobick
    Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, November 1998, pp. 13-18.
    [PDF]
  • "Perceptive Spaces for Performance and Entertainment"
    C. Wren, F. Sparacino, A. Azarbayejani, T. Darrell, J. Davis, T. Starner, A. Kotani, C. Chao, M. Hlavac, K. Russell, A. Bobick, and A. Pentland
    ATR Workshop on Virtual Communication Environments, April 1998.
    [PDF]
  • "Design Decisions for Interactive Environments: Evaluating the KidsRoom Application Using a Deep Perceptual Interface"
    A. Bobick, S. Intille, J. Davis, F. Baird, C. Pinhanez, L. Campbell, Y. Ivanov, A. Schutte, and A. Wilson
    AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Environments, March 1998, pp. 7-16.
    [PDF]
  • "The KidsRoom: An Example Application Using a Deep Perceptual Interface"
    A. Bobick, J. Davis, S. Intille
    Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, October 1997, pp. 1-4.
    [PDF]
  • "The Representation and Recognition of Action Using Temporal Templates"
    J. Davis and A. Bobick
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 1997, pp. 928-934.
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  • "Real-Time Closed-World Tracking"
    S. Intille, J. Davis, and A. Bobick
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 1997, pp. 697-703.
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  • "Action Recognition Using Temporal Templates"
    A. Bobick and J. Davis
    In M. Shah and R. Jain (eds.) Motion-Based Recognition, 1997, pp. 125-146.
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  • "Real-time Recognition of Activity Using Temporal Templates"
    A. Bobick and J. Davis
    IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, December 1996, pp. 39-42.
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  • "An Appearance-based Representation of Action"
    A. Bobick and J. Davis
    IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 1996, pp. 307-312.
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  • "Visual Gesture Recognition"
    J. Davis and M. Shah
    Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 141, No. 2, 1994, pp. 101-106.
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  • "Recognizing Hand Gestures"
    J. Davis and M. Shah
    European Conference on Computer Vision, 1994, pp. 331-340.
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  • "Determining 3-D Hand Motion"
    J. Davis and M. Shah
    IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, October 1994, pp. 1262-1266.
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