@conference {13563,
	title = {Handwriting matching and its application to handwriting synthesis},
	booktitle = {Document Analysis and Recognition, 2005. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on},
	year = {2005},
	month = {2005/09/01/aug},
	pages = {861 - 865 Vol. 2 - 861 - 865 Vol. 2},
	abstract = {Since it is extremely expensive to collect a large volume of handwriting samples, synthesized data are often used to enlarge the training set. We argue that, in order to generate good handwriting samples, a synthesis algorithm should learn the shape deformation characteristics of handwriting from real samples. In this paper, we present a point matching algorithm to learn the deformation, and apply it to handwriting synthesis. Preliminary experiments show the advantages of our approach.},
	keywords = {(artificial, deformation, deformation;, handwriting, image, intelligence);, learning, learning;, matching;, point, recognition;, sampling;, SHAPE, synthesis;},
	doi = {10.1109/ICDAR.2005.122},
	author = {Yefeng Zheng and David Doermann}
}
@conference {13209,
	title = {Multi-level fast multipole method for thin plate spline evaluation},
	booktitle = {Image Processing, 2004. ICIP {\textquoteright}04. 2004 International Conference on},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2004},
	month = {2004/10//},
	pages = {1683 - 1686 Vol. 3 - 1683 - 1686 Vol. 3},
	abstract = {Image registration is an important problem in image processing and computer vision. Much recent work in image registration is on matching non-rigid deformations. Thin plate splines are an effective image registration method when the deformation between two images can be modeled as the bending of a thin metal plate on point constraints such that the topology is preserved (non-rigid deformation). However, because evaluating the computed TPS model at all the image pixels is computationally expensive, we need to speed it up. We introduce the use of multi-level fast muitipole method (MLFMM) for this purpose. Our contribution lies in the presentation of a clear and concise MLFMM framework for TPS, which will be useful for future application developments. The achieved speedup using MLFMM is an improvement from O(N<sup>2</sup>) to O(N log N). We show that the fast evaluation outperforms the brute force method while maintaining acceptable error bound.},
	keywords = {(mathematics);, Computer, deformation;, evaluation;, fast, image, MATCHING, matching;, metal, method;, multilevel, multipole, nonrigid, pixel;, plate, plate;, processing;, registration;, resolution;, spline, splines, thin, vision;},
	doi = {10.1109/ICIP.2004.1421395},
	author = {Zandifar,A. and Lim,S. and Duraiswami, Ramani and Gumerov, Nail A. and Davis, Larry S.}
}
@conference {13248,
	title = {Probabilistic tracking in joint feature-spatial spaces},
	booktitle = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Computer Society Conference on},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2003},
	month = {2003/06//},
	pages = {I-781 - I-788 vol.1 - I-781 - I-788 vol.1},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present a probabilistic framework for tracking regions based on their appearance. We exploit the feature-spatial distribution of a region representing an object as a probabilistic constraint to track that region over time. The tracking is achieved by maximizing a similarity-based objective function over transformation space given a nonparametric representation of the joint feature-spatial distribution. Such a representation imposes a probabilistic constraint on the region feature distribution coupled with the region structure, which yields an appearance tracker that is robust to small local deformations and partial occlusion. We present the approach for the general form of joint feature-spatial distributions and apply it to tracking with different types of image features including row intensity, color and image gradient.},
	keywords = {analysis;, appearance, appearance;, color;, colour, Computer, constraint;, deformation;, detection;, distribution;, edge, estimation;, extraction;, feature, feature-spatial, feature;, function, gradient;, image, intensity;, joint, likelihood, local, maximization;, maximum, nonparametric, object, objective, occlusion;, optical, partial, probabilistic, probability;, region, representation;, row, similarity-based, small, space;, structure;, target, tracker;, tracking;, transformation, vision;},
	doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2003.1211432},
	author = {Elgammal,A. and Duraiswami, Ramani and Davis, Larry S.}
}
