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Publications (bib)

[1]
Michael Dixon, Nathan Jacobs, and Robert Pless. An efficient system for vehicle tracking in multi-camera networks. In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distrubted Smart Cameras (ICDSC), September 2009. (PDF)
[2]
Nathan Jacobs and Robert Pless. Calibrating and using the global network of outdoor webcams (Winner Phd Forum Prize). In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distrubted Smart Cameras (ICDSC), September 2009. (oral presentation).
[3]
Nathan Jacobs, Walker Burgin, Nick Fridrich, Austin Abrams, Kylia Miskell, Bobby H. Braswell, Andrew D. Richardson, and Robert Pless. The global network of outdoor webcams: Properties and applications. In ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL GIS), November 2009. (oral presentation). (PDF)
[4]
Nathan Jacobs, Walker Burgin, Richard Speyer, David Ross, and Robert Pless. Adventures in archiving and using three years of webcam images. In IEEE CVPR Workshop on Internet Vision, June 2009. (oral presentation). (PDF)
[5]
Nathan Jacobs, Michael Dixon, Scott Satkin, and Robert Pless. Efficient tracking of many objects in structured environments. In IEEE ICCV Workshop on Visual Surveillance, October 2009.
[6]
Nathan Jacobs, Stephen Schuh, and Robert Pless. On unusual pixel shapes and image motion. Technical Report WUCSE-2009-16, Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA, June 2009.
[7]
Nathan Jacobs, Richard Souvenir, and Robert Pless. The global webcam imaging network. In Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2009. (oral presentation).
[8]
Robert Pless, Nathan Jacobs, Michael Dixon, Ralph Hartley, Patrick Baker, Derek Brock, Nick Cassimatis, and Dennis Perzanowski. Persistence and tracking: Putting vehicles and trajectories in context. In Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2009. (oral presentation).
[9]
Nathan Jacobs and Robert Pless. Time scales in video surveillance. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 18(8):1106–1113, 2008.
[10]
Nathan Jacobs, Michael Dixon, and Robert Pless. Location-specific transition distributions for tracking. In IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC), January 2008. (oral presentation). (PDF)
[11]
Nathan Jacobs, Nathaniel Roman, and Robert Pless. Toward fully automatic geo-location and geo-orientation of static outdoor cameras. In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), January 2008. (oral presentation). (PDF)
[12]
Nathan Jacobs and Robert Pless. Shape background modeling : The shape of things that came. In IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC), February 2007. (oral presentation). (PDF)
[13]
Nathan Jacobs, Nathaniel Roman, and Robert Pless. Consistent temporal variations in many outdoor scenes. In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2007. (PDF)
[14]
Nathan Jacobs, Scott Satkin, Nathaniel Roman, Richard Speyer, and Robert Pless. Geolocating static cameras. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2007. (PDF)
[15]
Michael Dixon, Nathan Jacobs, and Robert Pless. Finding minimal parameterizations of cylindrical image manifolds. In IEEE CVPR Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV), June 2006. (PDF)
[16]
Nathan Jacobs and Robert Pless. Real-time constant memory visual summaries for surveillance. In ACM International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Sensory Networks (VSSN), October 2006. (PDF)
[17]
Terry Anderson, Ali Hussam, Bill Plummer, and Nathan Jacobs. Pie charts for visualizing query term frequency in search results. In International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), December 2002.
[18]
Ali Hussam, Terry Anderson, Nathan Jacobs, Damon Eckhoff, Ali Merayyan, and Yunhai Yang. Semantic highlighting: Enhancing search engine display and web document interactivity. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), September 1999.

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