Conference and Journal Papers

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Efficient high-dynamic-range depth map processing with reduced precision neural net accelerator, P. van Beek, C.-T. Wu, and A. Kalderon; Proc. IS&T Int. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Autonomous Vehicles and Machines, 2022, pp. 126-1 - 126-5, January 2022.

Boosting computer vision performance by enhancing camera ISP, P. van Beek, C.-T. Wu, B. Chaudhury and T.R. Gardos;  Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Autonomous Vehicles and Machines, 2021, pp. 174-1 - 174-8, January 2021. 

Evaluation of semi-frozen semi-fixed neural network for efficient computer vision inference, C.-T. Wu, P. van Beek, P. Schmidt, J. P. Moreira and T.R. Gardos;  Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Autonomous Vehicles and Machines, 2021, pp. 213-1 - 213-7 , January 2021. 

Towards standardization of AV safety: C++ library for Responsibility Sensitive Safety (RSS), B. Gassmann et al.;  IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2019), Paris, France, June 2019  

Image-based lidar data compression,  P. van Beek;  Electronic Imaging 2019 – Autonomous Vehicles and Machines, Burlingame, CA, January 2019  

Real-time mobile robot navigation based on stereo vision and low-cost GPS,  S. Hong, M. Li, M. Liao and P. van Beek;  Electronic Imaging 2017 – Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Applications using Computer Vision, Burlingame, CA, January 2017 

Boosting Performance and Speed of Single-Image Super-Resolution Based on Partitioned Linear Regression,  A. Choudhury and P. van Beek;  IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2016), Phoenix, AZ, September 2016

Facial video super resolution using semantic exemplar components,  Xu Chen, A. Choudhury, P. van Beek and A. Segall;  IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2015), Quebec-City, Canada, September 2015

Direct Matrix Factorization and Alignment Refinement: Application to Defect Detection,  Z. Qin, P. van Beek and X. Chen;  Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2014), Montreal, Canada, May 2014

High-speed object matching and localization using gradient orientation features,  X. Xu, P. van Beek and X. Feng;  Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXXI: Algorithms and Techniques, Proc. SPIE vol. 9025, eds. J. Röning and D. Casasent, San Francisco, CA, February 2014

Efficient defect detection with sign information of Walsh Hadamard Transform,  Q. Zhang, P. van Beek, C. Yuan, X. Xu, H.-J. Seo and B. Li;  Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications VI, Proc. SPIE vol. 8661, eds. P. Bingham and E. Lam, Burlingame, CA, February 2013

Image detail enhancement using a dictionary technique,  A. Choudhury, P. van Beek and A. Segall;  IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2012), Orlando, FL, USA, October 2012

Supervised and Semi-Supervised Online Boosting Tree for Industrial Machine Vision Application,  F. Wang, X. Xu, C. Yuan and P. van Beek;  5th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (SensorKDD-2011), San Diego, CA, August 2011.

Deblurring and denoising with non-local regularization,  P. van Beek, J. Yang, S. Yamamoto and Y. Ueda;  Visual Information Processing and Communication 2010, Proc. SPIE vol. 7543, eds. A. Said and O. G. Guleryuz, San Jose, CA, January 2010

Spatio-temporal video interpolation and denoising using motion-assisted steering kernel (MASK) regression,  H. Takeda, P. van Beek and P. Milanfar;  IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2008), San Diego, CA, USA, October 2008

Multidimensional Kernel Regression for Video Processing and Reconstruction,  H. Takeda, P. Milanfar, M. Protter, M. Elad and P. van Beek;  2008 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science - Mini-Symposium on Locally Adaptive Patch-based Image and Video Restoration, San Diego, CA, USA, July 7-9, 2008

Delay-Constrained and R-D Optimized Transrating for High-Definition Video Streaming over WLANs,  M. U. Demircin, P. van Beek and Y. Altunbasak;  IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 1155-1168, October 2008

Distributed channel time allocation and rate adaptation for multi-user video streaming over wireless home networks,  X. Zhu, P. van Beek and B. Girod;  IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2007), San Antonio, TX, USA, September 2007

Server-side playout delay management for video streaming,  P. van Beek and L. K. Kerofsky;  IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2006), Atlanta, GA, USA, October 2006

High definition video transmission over WLANs with time-scale and R-D optimized rate adaptation,  M. U. Demircin and P. van Beek;  IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2006), Atlanta, GA, USA, October 2006

Delay-constrained rate adaptation for robust video transmission over home networks,  P. van Beek and M. U. Demircin;  IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2005), Genova, Italy, September 2005

Optimized transcoding rate selection and packet scheduling for transmitting multiple video streams over a shared channel,  M. Kalman, P. van Beek and B. Girod;  IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2005), Genova, Italy, September 2005

Bandwidth estimation and robust video streaming over 802.11e wireless LANs,  M. U. Demircin and P. van Beek;  IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 2005

Rate control for video transmission over wireless LANs,  P. van Beek;  IEEE Int. Conf. on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2005), Las Vegas, NV, January 2005

Adaptive streaming of high-quality video over wireless LANs,  P. van Beek, S. Desphande, H. Pan and I. Sezan;  Visual Communications and Image Processing 2004, Proc. SPIE vol. 5308, eds. S. Panchanathan and B. Vasudev, pp. 647-660, San Jose, CA, January 2004

Multimedia content recommendation engine with automatic inference of user preferences,  A. M. Ferman, J. H. Errico, P. van Beek and M. I. Sezan;  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2003), Barcelona, Spain, September 2003

Metadata-driven multimedia access,  P. van Beek, J. R. Smith, T. Ebrahimi, T. Suzuki and J. Askelof;  Invited paper, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 40-52, March 2003

Content-based filtering and personalization using structured metadata,  A. M. Ferman, J. H. Errico, P. van Beek and M. I. Sezan;  Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002), Portland, Oregon, July 2002

Sports program summarization,  B. Li, J. Errico, M. Ferman, H. Pan, P. van Beek and I. Sezan;  IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2001), Maui, Hawaii, December 2001

The MPEG-7 Colour Structure Descriptor: Image description using colour and local spatial information,  D. Messing, P. van Beek, J.H. Errico;  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2001), Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2001

Detection of slow-motion replay segments in sports video for highlights generation,  H. Pan, P. van Beek and M.I. Sezan;  Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2001), Salt Lake City, UT, May 2001

Description schemes for video programs, users and devices,  P. Salembier, R. Qian, N. O’Connor, P. Correia, I. Sezan and P. van Beek;  Invited paper, Image Communication Journal, Special Issue on MPEG-7, vol. 16, no. 1-2, pp. 211-234, September 2000

Image retrieval using blob histograms,  R. J. Qian, P. J. L. van Beek and M. I. Sezan;  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York, N.Y., August 2000

Content description for efficient video navigation, browsing and personalization,  P. van Beek, I. Sezan, D. Ponceleon and A. Amir;  IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL-2000), Hilton Head, SC, June 2000

MPEG-7 standard and its expected role in development of new information appliances,  I. Sezan and P. van Beek;  IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics 2000, Los Angeles, CA, June 2000

Hierarchical 2D mesh representation, tracking and compression for object-based video,  P. van Beek, A. M. Tekalp, N. Zhuang, I. Celasun and M. Xia;  IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 9, no. 2, Special Issue on Synthetic/Natural Hybrid Video Coding, pp. 353-369, March 1999

Hierarchical 2D content-based mesh tracking,  N. Zhuang, P. J. L. van Beek, I. Celasun and A. M. Tekalp;  Visual Communications and Image Processing '99, Proc. SPIE vol. 3653, pp. 1168-1177, San Jose, CA, January 1999

Content-based access to video objects: Temporal segmentation, visual summarization, and feature extraction,  B. Günsel, A. M. Tekalp, P. J. L. van Beek;  Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 261-280, Special Issue on Video sequence segmentation for content-based processing and manipulation, 1998

2D Mesh-based visual object representation for interactive synthetic/natural digital video, A. M. Tekalp, P. van Beek, C. Toklu, B. Günsel; Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 86, no. 6, pp. 1029-1051, Special Issue on Multimedia signal processing, June 1998

Optimal hierarchical design of 2D dynamic meshes for video, I. Celasun, E. Ilgaz, A. M. Tekalp and P. J. L. van Beek; International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) '98, Chicago, Illinois, 4-7 October 1998

Hierarchical shape representation of 2D meshes for video,  I. Celasun, P. J. L. van Beek and A. M. Tekalp;  International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT) '98, Chalkidiki, Greece, 22-25 June 1998

Hierarchical coding of 2D mesh geometry and motion,  P. J. L. van Beek, I. Celasun and A. M. Tekalp;  Visual Communications and Image Processing '98, Proc. SPIE vol. 3309, San Jose, California, USA, 24-30 January 1998

2-D Mesh geometry and motion compression for efficient object-based video representation,  P. J. L. van Beek, A. M. Tekalp and A. P. Puri;  International Conference on Image Processing '97, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 26-29 October 1997

Moving visual representations of video objects for content-based search and browsing,  B. Günsel, A. M. Tekalp, P. J. L. van Beek;  International Conference on Image Processing '97, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 26-29 October 1997

2-D Triangular mesh geometry and motion compression,  P. J. L. van Beek, A. M. Tekalp;  1997 Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, New York, USA, 19 September 1997

Hierarchical 2-D mesh design and compression for video,  I. Celasun, M. Xia, P. J. L. van Beek and A. M. Tekalp;  Picture Coding Symposium '97, Berlin, Germany, 10-12 September 1997

Object-based video indexing for virtual studio productions,  B. Günsel, A. M. Tekalp and P. J. L. van Beek;  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition '97, pp. 769-774, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 17-19 June 1997

Object-based video coding using forward tracking 2-D mesh layers,  P. J. L. van Beek and A. M. Tekalp;  Visual Communications and Image Processing '97, Proc. SPIE vol. 3024, pp. 699-710, San Jose, California, USA, 12-14 February 1997

Lossy contour coding using B-splines,  C. P. Quist, A. de Boer, R. L. Lagendijk, and P. J. L. van Beek;  Proc. of the 9th Workshop on Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing, pp. 52-53, Belize City, Belize, 1996

Facial feature localization and adaptation of a generic face model for model-based coding, M. J. T. Reinders, P. J. L. van Beek, B. Sankur and J. C. A. van der Lubbe; Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 57-74, March 1995

Coding of arbitrarily shaped image segments,  E. Jensen, K. J. Rijkse, I. Lagendijk and P. van Beek;  Workshop on Image Analysis and Synthesis in Image Coding, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, Berlin, Germany, October 18-19, 1994

Edge-based multi-scale image representation,  P. J. L. van Beek, J. J. Gerbrands, J. C. A. van der Lubbe, and B. Sankur;  Proc. of the 8th workshop on Image and Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing, pp. 152-153, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Cannes, France, September 8-10, 1993

Semantic segmentation of videophone image sequences,  P. J. L. van Beek, M. J. T. Reinders, B. Sankur, and J. C. A. van der Lubbe;  Visual Communications and Image Processing '92, Proc. SPIE vol. 1818, pp. 1182-1193, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 15-20 November 1992

Contour extraction and matching for image sequence coding,  P. J. L. van Beek, B. Sankur, and J. C. A. van der Lubbe;  4th International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications, pp. 109-114, Institute of Electrical Engineers, Maastricht, the Netherlands, 7-9 April 1992

Segmentation of videophone images for knowledge-based coding,  P. J. L. van Beek, J. C. A. van der Lubbe, and B. Sankur;  Proc. of the 1991 International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, vol. 1, pp. 1019-1028, Elsevier, Antalya, Turkey, 30 Oct. - 2 Nov. 1991