Publications

Peer Reviewed Conference and Workshop Articles

• Multichain models:
  1. Taycher, L., Fisher, J. W., and Darrell, T. ``Combining Object and Feature Dynamics in Probabilistic Tracking''. In Proc. CVPR 2005 (II) pp 106-113.
  2. Taycher, L., Fisher, J. W., and Darrell, T. ``Incorporating Object Tracking Feedback into Background Maintenance Framework Motion 2005. Sample result video is available.
  3. Taycher, L., Fisher, J. W., and Darrell, T. ``Combining Simple Models to Approximate Complex Dynamics''. SMVP 2004. Sample result video is available.
• Articulated Models
  1. Taycher, L., Shakhnarovich, G., Demirdjian, D., and Darrell, T. ``Conditional Random People: Tracking Humans with CRFs and Grid Filters''. CVPR 2006. Sample result video is available. An extended version is a CSAIL techreport.
  2. Demirdjian, D., Taycher, L., Shakhnarovich, G., Darrell, T., Grauman, K. ``Avoiding 'Streetlight Effect': Tracking by Exploring Likelihood Modes''. ICCV 2005.
  3. Taycher, L., and Darrell, T. ``Bayesian Articulated Tracking Using Single Frame Pose Sampling Constraints''. 3rd Int'l Workshop on Statistical and Computational Theories of Vision, 2003(SCTV 2003).
  4. Taycher, L., Fisher, J. W., and Darrell, T. ``Recovering Articulated Model Topology from Observed Rigid Motion''. NIPS 2002.
  5. Taycher, L., Fisher, J. W., and Darrell, T. ``Recovering Articulated Model Topology from Observed Motion''. Proc. IEEE Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing (SMVP 2002).
• Stereo Background Segmentation
  1. Taycher, L., and Darrell, T. ``Range Segmentation Using Visibility Constraints''. Proc. IEEE Workshop on Stereo and Multi-Baseline Vision (SMVB 2001).
     An extended version is in International Journal of Computer Vision. Sample result video is available.
• ImageRover -- CBIR
  1. Taycher, L., La Cascia, M., and Sclaroff, S., ``Image Digestion and Relevance Feedback in the ImageRover WWW Search Engine,'' Proc. International Conf. on Visual Information, pp. 85-92, Dec., 1997.
  2. Sclaroff, S., Taycher, L., and La Cascia M. ``ImageRover: A Content-Based Image Browser for the World Wide Web'' Proc. IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries, June 1997.

Journal Articles and Techreports

• Taycher, L., Shakhnarovich, G., Demirdjian, D., and Darrell, T. Conditional Random People: Tracking Humans with CRFs and Grid Filters. MIT-CSAIL-TR-2005-079. Sample result video is available.
• Taycher, L., Fisher, J. W., and Darrell, T. ``Combining Object and Feature Dynamics in Probabilistic Tracking''. Extended AI MEMO.
• Taycher, L., and Darrell, T. ``Range Segmentation Using Visibility Constraints''. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 47(1):89-98, April, 2002.
• Sclaroff, S., La Cascia, M., Taycher, L., and Sethi, S., ``Unifying Textual and Visual Cues for Content-Based Image Retrieval on the World Wide Web,'' Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 75(1):86-98, July, 1999.

Book Chapters

• Sclaroff, S., La Cascia, M., Sethi, S., and Taycher, L., ``The ImageRover System Architecture for Content-Based Retrieval of Images on the Internet,'' chapter in Trends in Multimedia Internet Information Retrieval, A. Chianese, Ed., Liguori Editori, Napoli, Italy, 2000.
• Sclaroff, S., La Cascia, M., Sethi, S., and Taycher, L., ``Mix and Match Features: Relevance Feedback and Combined Similarity Metrics,'' chapter in Multimedia Search: The State of the Art, M. Lew, Ed., Springer Verlag, Germany, 2000.

Patents