Publications

1

G. Agam, D. Grossman, and O. Frieder, ``Security informatics in complex documents,'' in NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Security Informatics and Terrorism-Patrolling the Web, 2008.
To appear.

2

G. Bal, G. Agam, O. Frieder, and G. Frieder, ``Interactive degraded document enhancement and ground truth generation,'' in Document Recognition and Retrieval XV, B. A. Yanikoglu and K. Berkner, eds., Proc. SPIE 6815, 2008.

3

T. Obafemi-Ajayi, G. Agam, and O. Frieder, ``Ensemble LUT classification for degraded document enhancement,'' in Document Recognition and Retrieval XV, B. A. Yanikoglu and K. Berkner, eds., Proc. SPIE 6815, 2008.

4

B. Dolega, G. Agam, and S. Argamon, ``Stroke frequency descriptors for handwriting-based writer identification,'' in Document Recognition and Retrieval XV, B. A. Yanikoglu and K. Berkner, eds., Proc. SPIE 6815, 2008.

5

G. Agam, S. Argamon, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and D. Lewis, ``Content-based document image retrieval in complex document collections,'' in Document Recognition and Retrieval XIV, X. Lin and B. A. Yanikoglu, eds., Proc. SPIE 6500, pp. 65000S-1 - 65000S-12, 2007.

6

G. Agam, G. Bal, G. Frieder, and O. Frieder, ``Degraded document image enhancement,'' in Document Recognition and Retrieval XIV, X. Lin and B. A. Yanikoglu, eds., Proc. SPIE 6500, pp. 65000C-1 - 65000C-11, 2007.

7

S. Suresh and G. Agam, ``Incremental adaptive subdivision of mesh surfaces,'' in Vision Geometry XV, L. J. Latecki, D. M. Mount, and A. Y. Wu, eds., 6499, pp. 649907-1 - 649907-8, 2007.

8

C. Wu and G. Agam, ``Probabilistic retinal vessel segmentation,'' in Medical Imaging, J. P. Pluim and J. M. Reinhardt, eds., Proc. SPIE 6512, pp. 651213-1 - 651213-8, 2007.

9

C. Wu, G. Agam, and P. Stanchev, ``A hybrid filtering approach to retinal vessel segmentation,'' in IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 604-607, 2007.

10

G. Agam and S. Suresh, ``Warping-based offline signature recognition,'' IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security 2(3), pp. 430-437, 2007.

11

C. Wu, G. Agam, and P. Stanchev, ``A general framework for vessel segmentation in retinal images,'' in IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), pp. 37-42, 2007.

12

G. Agam and S. Suresh, ``Shape matching through particle dynamics warping,'' in CVPR Workshop on Image Registration and Fusion, pp. 1-7, 2007.

13

H. Peng, G. Agam, S. L. Small, and K. Arfanakis, ``Probabilistic segmentation of chronic stroke lesions in diffusion tensor imaging,'' in 13th Annual Organization of Human Brain Mapping Meeting (OHBM), June 2007.

14

G. Agam, G. Frieder, and O. Frieder, ``Degraded document image enhancement,'' SPIE Newsroom 10.1117(2.1200704.0681), 2007.

15

C. Wu and G. Agam, ``Probabilistic nodule filtering in thoracic CT scans,'' in Medical Imaging, J. M. Reinhardt and J. P. W. Pluim, eds., Proc. SPIE 6144, pp. 61441T-1 - 61441T-9, 2006.

16

C. Wu and G. Agam, ``Vessel-based registration with application to nodule detection in thoracic CT scans,'' in Medical Imaging, J. M. Reinhardt and J. P. W. Pluim, eds., Proc. SPIE 6144, pp. 614432-1 - 614432-10, 2006.

17

G. Agam, S. Argamon, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and D. Lewis, ``Complex document information processing: system, test collection, and evaluation,'' in Document Recognition and Retrieval XIII, K. Taghva and X. Lin, eds., Proc. SPIE 6067, pp. 60670N-1 - 60670N-11, 2006.
Invited paper.

18

S. N. Srihari, S. Shetty, S. Chen, H. Srinivasan, C. Huang, G. Agam, and O. Frieder, ``Document image retrieval using signatures as queries,'' in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL), pp. 198-203, 2006.

19

D. Lewis, G. Agam, S. Argamon, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and J. Heard, ``Building a test collection for complex document information processing,'' in SIGIR '06: Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 665-666, (Seattle, WA), 2006.

20

S. Argamon, G. Agam, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, D. D. Lewis, G. Sohn, and K. Voorhees, ``A complex document information processing prototype,'' in SIGIR '06: Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 599-600, (Seattle, WA), 2006.

21

G. Agam, D. Weiss, M. Soman, and K. Arfanakis, ``Probabilistic brain lesion segmentation in DT-MRI,'' in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 89-92, (Atlanta, GA), 2006.

22

G. Agam and S. Suresh, ``Particle dynamics warping approach for offline signature recognition,'' in IEEE Workshop on Biometrics (part of CVPR), pp. 38-44, (New York, NY), 2006.

23

G. Agam and C. Wu, ``A method for enhancing diagnostic images using vessel reconstruction.'' US patent application number 11/334792.
Filed 1/2006.

24

G. Agam and O. Frieder, ``Image-based indexing and classification in image databases.'' US patent application number 11/371527.
Filed 3/2006.

25

G. Agam, S. G. Armato III, and C. Wu, ``Vessel tree reconstruction in thoracic CT scans with application to nodule detection,'' IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 24(4), pp. 486-499, 2005.
Special issue on vascular imaging.

26

G. Agam and X. Tang, ``A sampling framework for accurate curvature estimation in discrete surfaces,'' IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics 11(5), pp. 573-583, 2005.

27

G. Agam and C. Wu, ``Expectation maximization approach to vessel enhancement in thoracic CT scans,'' in Medical Imaging, J. M. Fitzpatrick and J. M. Reinhardt, eds., Proc. SPIE 5747, pp. 1703-1712, 2005.

28

G. Agam and C. Wu, ``Probabilistic modeling based vessel enhancement in thoracic CT scans,'' in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2, pp. 684-689, (San Diego, CA), June 2005.

29

G. Agam and X. Tang, ``Accurate principal directions estimation in discrete surfaces,'' in Intl. Conf. on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM), pp. 293-300, (Ottawa, Canada), June 2005.

30

G. Agam, S. Argamon, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and D. Lewis, ``Issues in complex document information processing,'' in Intl. conf. on intelligence analysis, (McLean, VA), May 2005.

31

G. Agam, S. Argamon, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and D. Lewis, ``Document information processing: towards software and test collections,'' in Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, pp. 23-30, (College Park, MD), November 2005.

32

J. S. Perrier, G. Agam, and P. Cohen, ``Texture-based physically correct triangulation of sparsely-matched points with application to view-synthesis,'' Journal of Electronic Imaging 13(4), pp. 766-779, 2004.

33

G. Agam and P. Gauthier, ``Efficient morphological processing of 3D data based on directional interval coding,'' in Vision Geometry XII, L. J. Latecki, D. M. Mount, and A. Y. Wu, eds., Proc. SPIE 5300, pp. 86-97, 2004.

34

X. Tang and G. Agam, ``Curve-based local surface geometry estimation in polyhedral surfaces,'' in Vision Geometry XII, L. J. Latecki, D. M. Mount, and A. Y. Wu, eds., Proc. SPIE 5300, pp. 53-61, 2004.

35

C. Wu, G. Agam, A. S. Roy, and S. G. Armato III, ``Regulated morphology approach to fuzzy shape analysis with application to blood vessel extraction in thoracic CT scans,'' in Medical Imaging, J. M. Fitzpatrick and M. Sonka, eds., Proc. SPIE 5370, pp. 1262-1270, 2004.

36

H. N. Jang and G. Agam, ``A signal processing approach to feature edge extraction in mesh surfaces,'' in Vision Geometry XI, L. J. Latecki, D. M. Mount, and A. Y. Wu, eds., Proc. SPIE 4794, pp. 110-118, 2002.

37

G. Agam and C. Wu, ``Structural rectification of non-planar document images: application to graphics recognition,'' in Graphics Recognition: Algorithms and Applications, D. Blostein and Y.-B. Kwon, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2390, pp. 289-298, 2002.

38

C. Wu and G. Agam, ``Document image de-warping for text/graphics recognition,'' in Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, T. Caelli, A. Amin, R. P. W. Duin, M. Kamel, and D. de Ridder, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2396, pp. 348-357, 2002.

39

G. Agam, ``Correlation-constrained approach to partial image-based modeling,'' in Vision Geometry X, L. J. Latecki, D. M. Mount, A. Y. Wu, and R. A. Melter, eds., Proc. SPIE 4476, pp. 48-58, 2001.

40

G. Agam, ``Perspective and geometric correction for graphics recognition,'' in IAPR Intl. Workshop on Graphics Recognition, pp. 395-407, (Kingston, Canada), 2001.

41

Y. Fablet, G. Agam, and P. Cohen, ``Radar and photometric sensor fusion for 3D reconstruction,'' in Proc. European Geophysical Society XXVI, (Nice, France), 2001.

42

Y. Fablet, G. Agam, and P. Cohen, ``Radar and photometric sensor fusion for 3D sensing in harsh environments,'' in Proc. CIM Minespace, (Quebec City, Canada), 2001.

43

J. S. Perrier, G. Agam, and P. Cohen, ``Physically valid triangulation of sparsely-matched images using texture information: application to view-synthesis,'' in Vision Interface, pp. 233-240, (Montreal, Canada), 2000.

44

Y. Fablet, G. Agam, and P. Cohen, ``Integrated radar-photometry sensor based on constrained optical flow,'' in Enhanced and Synthetic Vision, J. G. Verly, ed., Proc. SPIE 4023, pp. 248-259, 2000.

45

P. Cohen, J. Y. Herve, G. Agam, and M. Ahmadi, ``Tele-operated control of an underground drill through augmented reality,'' in Advances in Robotics for Mining and Underground Applications, (Brisbane, Australia), 2000.

46

J. S. Perrier, G. Agam, and P. Cohen, ``Image-based view synthesis for enhanced perception in teleoperation,'' in Enhanced and Synthetic Vision, J. G. Verly, ed., Proc. SPIE 4023, pp. 213-224, 2000.

47

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Compound regulated morphological operations and their application to the analysis of line-drawings,'' in Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances, A. K. Chhabra and D. Dori, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1941, pp. 58-68, 2000.

48

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Regulated morphological operations,'' Pattern Recognition 32(6), pp. 947-971, 1999.

49

G. Agam, G. Michaud, J. S. Perrier, J. L. Houle, , and P. Cohen, ``A survey of image based view synthesis approaches for interactive 3D sensing,'' Tech. Rep. GRPR-RT-9901, Perception and Robotics Lab, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada, April 1999.

50

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Compound regulated morphological operations applied to map analysis,'' in IAPR Intl. Workshop on Graphics Recognition, pp. 97-105, (Jaipur, India), 1999.

51

G. Michaud, G. Agam, J. L. Houle, and P. Cohen, ``Wavelet-based feature detection for unconstrained image matching,'' in Proc. IRIS-PRECARN Annual Conf., (Toronto, Canada), June 1999.

52

J. S. Perrier, G. Agam, and P. Cohen, ``Image-based view-synthesis from sparse uncalibrated views,'' in Proc. IRIS-PRECARN Annual Conf., (Toronto, Canada), June 1999.

53

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Directional decomposition of line-drawing images based on regulated morphological operations,'' in Graphics Recognition: Algorithms and Systems, K. Tombre and A. K. Chhabra, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1389, pp. 21-34, 1998.

54

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Directional decomposition of line-drawing images based on self-dilated line kernels,'' in Vision Geometry VII, R. A. Melter, A. Y. Wu, and L. J. Latecki, eds., Proc. SPIE 3454, pp. 305-316, 1998.

55

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Efficient implementation of regulated morphological operations based on directional interval coding,'' in Advances in Pattern Recognition, A. Amin, D. Dori, P. Pudil, and H. Freeman, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1451, pp. 397 - 404, 1998.

56

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Directional decomposition of line-drawing images based on regulated morphological operations,'' in IAPR Intl. Workshop on Graphics Recognition, pp. 46-53, (Nancy, France), 1997.

57

G. Agam, J. Frydman, O. Amiram, and I. Dinstein, ``Efficient morphological processing of maps and line-drawings based on directional interval coding,'' in Vision Geometry VI, R. A. Melter, A. Y. Wu, and L. J. Latecki, eds., Proc. SPIE 3168, pp. 41-51, 1997.

58

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Analysis of maps and line-drawings based on directional morphological operations,'' in Israeli Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Neural Networks, (Tel-Aviv, Israel), 1997.

59

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Geometric separation of partially overlapping non-rigid objects applied to automatic chromosome classification,'' IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 19(11), pp. 1212-1222, 1997.

60

G. Agam, H. Luo, and I. Dinstein, ``Morphological approach for dashed lines detection,'' in Graphics Recognition: Methods and Applications, R. Kasturi and K. Tombre, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1072, pp. 92-105, 1996.

61

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Adaptive directional morphology with application to document analysis,'' in Mathematical Morphology and its Applications to Image and Signal Processing, P. Maragos, R. W. Schafer, and M. A. Butt, eds., pp. 401-408, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.

62

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Directional processing of line-drawing images based on adaptive morphological operations,'' in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2186-2189, (Atlanta, Georgia), 1996.

63

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Generalized morphological operators applied to map-analysis,'' in Advances in Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition, P. Perner, P. Wang, and A. Rosenfeld, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1121, pp. 60-69, 1996.

64

H. Luo, G. Agam, and I. Dinstein, ``Directional mathematical morphology approach for line thinning and extraction of character strings from maps and line drawings,'' in Israeli Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Neural Networks, (Tel-Aviv, Israel), 1996.

65

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Morphological approach for directional processing of maps and line-drawings,'' in The nineteenth convention of IEEE in Israel, pp. 220-223, (Jerusalem, Israel), 1996.

66

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``2-D shape decomposition based on structures in a fuzzy relation matrix,'' in Vision Geometry III, R. A. Melter and A. Y. Wu, eds., Proc. SPIE 2356, pp. 186-197, 1995.

67

H. Luo, G. Agam, and I. Dinstein, ``Directional mathematical morphology approach for line thinning and extraction of character strings from maps and line drawings,'' in Intl. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pp. 257-260, (Montreal, Canada), 1995.

68

G. Agam, H. Luo, and I. Dinstein, ``Morphological approach for dashed lines detection,'' in IAPR Intl. Workshop on Graphics Recognition, pp. 23-32, (State College, Pennsylvania), 1995.

69

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Geometric separation of touching objects applied to automatic chromosome classification,'' in Vision Geometry II, R. A. Melter and A. Y. Wu, eds., Proc. SPIE 2060, pp. 277-288, 1993.

70

G. Agam and I. Dinstein, ``Pre-processing of metaphase images for automatic chromosome classification,'' in Israeli Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Neural Networks, pp. 379-388, (Ramat-Gan, Israel), 1993.