Publications

• PIMs and Maximal Invariant Patches. Z. Lei, T. Tasdizen and D.B. Cooper, Proceedings, International Conference on Computer Vision, Bomby, India, January 1998.
  
  
• Curvelet Feature Extraction and Matching for CBIR. Z. Lei, Y. Chan and D. Lopresti, 1997 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Santa Barbara, CA, October 1997.
  
  
• Interactive Shape Modeling. Z. Lei and D.B. Cooper, To appear, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, 1997 Special Issue on Multimedia Signal Processing.
  
  
• Linear Programming Fitting of Implicit Polynomials. Z. Lei and D.B. Cooper, To appear, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, May 1997.
  
  
• Mutual Geometry via Mutual Invariants. Z. Lei, D. Keren and D.B. Cooper, Under review, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, May 1997.
  
  
• Object Signature Curve and Invariant Shape Patches for Geometric Indexing into Pictorial Databases. Z. Lei, T. Tasdizen and D.B. Cooper, Proceedings, Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems II, SPIE's International Symposium and Education Program on Voice, Video, and Data Communications, Dallas, TX, November 1997.
  
  
• A Feature-based Approach for Image Retrieval by Sketch. Y. Chan, Z. Lei, D. Lopresti and S.Y. Kung, Proceedings, Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems II, SPIE's International Symposium and Education Program on Voice, Video, and Data Communications, Dallas, TX, November 1997.
  
  
• Interactive Contour Modeling Applied to Image Querying. Z. Lei and D. B. Cooper, Visual Proceedings, The Art and Interdisciplinary Program of SIGGRAPH 1997, Los Angeles, CA, August 1997.
  
  
• Curvelet Feature Extraction and Matching for Image Retrieval. Z. Lei and Y. Chan, Visual Proceedings, The Art and Interdisciplinary Program of SIGGRAPH 1997, Los Angeles, CA, August 1997.
  
  
• Interactive Shape Modeling. Z. Lei and D.B. Cooper, IEEE Signal Processing Society Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Pricenton, NJ, June 1997.
  
  
• On Representation and Invariant Recognition of Complex Objects Based on Patches and Parts. D.B. Cooper and Z. Lei, in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, M. Hebert, J. Ponce, T. Boult, A. Gross, editors, pp 139-153, 1995.
  
  
• Closed-form Algebraic Solutions for Coordinate System Transformations. Z. Lei and H. Civi, Under review IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
  
  
• Invariant Signature Curves for Object Recognition and Indexing of Pictorial Databases. Z. Lei and D.B. Cooper, In preparation for submission to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
  
  
• 3D Shape Inferencing and Modeling for Semantic Video Retrieval. Z. Lei and Y.T. Lin, Proceedings of Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems, SPIE's Photonics East '96 Symposium, Boston, MA, November 1996.
  
  
• OCR on Web Images. J. Zhou, D. Lopresti, and Z. Lei, IS&T/SPIE's Electronic Imaging '97, Document Recognition IV, San Jose, CA, February 1997.
  
  
• Computationally Fast Bayesian Recognition of Complex Objects Based on Mutual Algebraic Invariants. Z. Lei, D. Keren and D.B. Cooper, Proceedings, 1995 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Washington, D.C., pp 635-638, October 1995.
  
  
• 3L Fitting of Higher Degree Implicit Polynomials. Z. Lei, M.M. Blane, and D.B. Cooper, Proceedings of Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision , Sarasota, FL, December 1996.
  
  
• The 3L Algorithm for Fitting Implicit Polynomial Curves and Surfaces to Data. M.M. Blane, Z. Lei and D.B. Cooper, Under review IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, June 1996.
  
  
• Implicit Polynomial Based Geometric Shape Modeling and Recognition. Z. Lei and D.B. Cooper, Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, May 1997.
  
  
• Geometric Indexing of Large Pictorial Databases. Z. Lei, D.B. Cooper, H. Civi, and M.M. Blane, Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems, SPIE's Photonics East '96 Symposium, Boston, MA, November 1996.
  
  
• Free-form Object Modeling and Inspection. Z. Lei, H. Civi, and D.B. Cooper, Automated Optical Inspection for Industry, Vol. 2899, Proceedings of SPIE Int. Symposium on Lasers, Optoelectronics, and Microphotonics, Beijing, China, November 1996.
  
  
• New, Faster, More Controlled Fitting of Implicit Polynomial 2D Curves and 3D Surfaces to Data. Z. Lei and D.B. Cooper, Proceedings of 1996 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, San Francisco, CA, pp 514-519, June 1996.
  
  
• Recognition of Complex Free-Form Objects Based on Mutual Algebraic Invariants for Pairs of Patches of Data. Lems report 140, Z. Lei, D. Keren and D.B. Cooper, Brown University, January 1995.
  
  
• Linear Programming Fitting of Implicit Polynomials with Applications in Object Recognition and Interactive Computer Graphics. Lems report 146, Z. Lei and D.B. Cooper, Brown University, October 1995.
  
  
• Medical system survey , Z. Lei, May 1994.