Publications

Books

Media Computing: Computational Media Aesthetics, Chitra Dorai and Svetha Venkatesh, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, June 2002.

Articles

Journals

bullet "Finding the Beat: An Analysis of the Rhythmic Elements of Motion Pictures," Brett Adams, Chitra Dorai, and Svetha Venkatesh, To Appear in the Special Issue of International Journal of Image and Graphics, 2002 as one of the top-ranked ACCV 2002 papers.

bullet "Towards Automatic Extraction of Expressive Elements from Motion Pictures: Tempo," Brett Adams, Chitra Dorai and Svetha Venkatesh, To Appear in the Special Issue on Multimedia Database, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2002.

bullet "Computational Media Aesthetics: Finding Meaning Beautiful!," Chitra Dorai and Svetha Venkatesh, IEEE Multimedia, The Media Impact Column, vol. 8, no. 4, pp 10-12, October-December 2001.

bullet "Perceived Visual Motion Descriptors from MPEG-2 Compressed Video for HDTV Content Management Applications," Chitra Dorai and Vikrant Kobla, Under Review, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, July 2000.

bullet "MPEG-7 Videotext Descriptor for Superimposed Text in Images and Video," Nevenka Dimitrova, Lalitha Agnihotri, Chitra Dorai, and Ruud Bolle, Signal Processing: Image Communication, 16 (2000), pp. 137-155, October 2000.

bullet "3D Object Recognition: Representation and Matching," Anil K. Jain and Chitra Dorai, in Special issue on Image analysis, Statistics & Computing Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 167-182, April 2000.

bullet "Registration and Integration of Multiple Object Views for 3D Model Construction," Chitra Dorai, Gang Wang, Anil K. Jain and Carolyn Mercer, in IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 83-89, January 1998.

bullet ``COSMOS --- A Representation Scheme for 3D Free-Form Objects," Chitra Dorai and Anil K. Jain, in IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 1115-1130, October 1997.

bullet "Optimal Registration of Object Views Using Range Data," Chitra Dorai, John Weng and Anil K. Jain, in IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 1131-1138, October 1997.

bullet "Shape Spectrum Based View Grouping and Matching of 3D Free-Form Objects," Chitra Dorai and Anil K. Jain, in IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 1139-1146, October 1997.

bullet "Practicing Vision: Integration, Evaluation and Applications," Anil K. Jain and Chitra Dorai, in Pattern Recognition, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 183-196, February 1997. This paper received honorable mention in the Best Paper Award Contest of the Pattern Recognition Society, 1997.

bullet "Shared Memory Access --- Boon for Graphics," Chitra Dorai and V. N. Shukla, IETE Technical Review, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 455-458, November 1988.

Conferences

Selected Publications in 2001

bullet "E-Learning Media Navigator," Chitra Dorai, Parviz Kermani, and Avare Stewart, in Proc. of the 9th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp 634-635, Ottawa, Canada, October 2001.

bullet "Affect Computing in Films through Sound Energy Dynamics," Simon Moncrieff, Chitra Dorai, and Svetha Venkatesh, in Proc. of the 9th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp 525-527, Ottawa, Canada, October 2001.

bullet "Augmented Edit Distance Based Temporal Contiguity Analysis for Improved Videotext Recognition," Hrishikesh Aradhye and Chitra Dorai, in Proc.\ 2001 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Cannes, France, October 2001.

bullet "Bridging the Semantic Gap in Content Management Systems: Computational Media Aesthetics," Chitra Dorai and Svetha Venkatesh, in Proc. 2001 International Conference on Computational Semiotics in Games and New Media, pp~94-99, Amsterdam, September 2001.

bullet "Detecting Indexical Signs in Film Audio for Scene Interpretation," Simon Moncrieff, Chitra Dorai, and Svetha Venkatesh, in Proc. 2001 International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition, Tokyo, Japan, August 2001.

bullet "Automated Film Rhythm Extraction for Scene Analysis," Brett Adams, Chitra Dorai, and Svetha Venkatesh, in Proc. 2001 International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition, Tokyo, Japan, August 2001.

bullet "End-to-End Videotext Recognition for Multimedia Content Analysis," Chitra Dorai, Hrishikesh Aradhye, and Jae-Chang Shim, in Proc. 2001 International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition, Tokyo, Japan, August 2001.

Selected Publications in 2000

bullet "On the Evolution of VideoText Description Scheme and Its Validation Experiments for MPEG-7," Chitra Dorai, Ruud Bolle, Nevenka Dimitrova, Lalitha Agnihotri, and Gang Wei, in Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2000 Workshop on Standards, Interoperability and Practice, pp. 67-70, Los Angeles, California, November 4, 2000.

bullet "New Enhancements to Cut, Fade, and Dissolve Detection Processes in Video Segmentation," Ba Tu Truong, Chitra Dorai, and Svetha Venkatesh, in Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 219-227, Los Angeles, California, November 2000.

bullet "Automatic Genre Identification for Content-Based Video Categorization," Ba Tu Truong, Chitra Dorai, and Svetha Venkatesh, in Proc. 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, volume IV, pp. 230-233, Barcelona, Spain, September 2000.

bullet "Incorporating Domain Knowledge with Video and Voice Data Analysis in News Broadcasts," Kim Shearer, Chitra Dorai, and Svetha Venkatesh, in Proc. First International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining MDM/KDD2000, pp. 46-53, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2000.

bullet "Detecting Dynamic Behavior in Compressed Fingerprint Videos: Distortion," Chitra Dorai, Nalini Ratha, and Ruud Bolle, in Proc. 2000 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 320-326, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 2000.

bullet "Mapping the Semantic Layers of Motion in Video for Annotation, Synthesis, and Search," Chitra Dorai, Invited paper, Special session on Content-based Image/Video Retrieval, in Proc. Fourth Asian Conference on Computer Vision, volume 1, pp. 382-387, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2000.

Selected Publications in 1999

bullet "Automatic Isolation of Speech in News Footage for Audio Event Recognition," Kim Shearer, Svetha Venkatesh, and Chitra Dorai, in Proc. Fifth International/National Biennial Conference on Digital Image Computing, Techniques, and Applications, pp. 78-83, Perth, Australia, December 1999.

bullet "A Generalized Region Labeling Algorithm for Image Coding, Restoration, and Segmentation," Jae-Chang Shim and Chitra Dorai, in Proc. 1999 International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 46-50, Kobe, Japan, October 1999.

bullet "Perceived Visual Motion Descriptors from MPEG-2 for Content-Based HDTV Annotation and Retrieval," Chitra Dorai and Vikrant Kobla, in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 147-152, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 1999.

bullet "Extracting Motion Annotations from MPEG-2 Compressed Video for HDTV Content Management Applications," Chitra Dorai and Vikrant Kobla, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, volume 1, pp. 673-678, Florence, Italy, June 1999.

Selected Publications in 1998

bullet "Automatic Text Extraction from Video for Content-Based Annotation and Retrieval," Jae-Chang Shim, Chitra Dorai and Ruud Bolle, in Proc. 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, volume 1, pp. 618-620, Brisbane, Australia, August 1998. This paper received the 1998 Best Industrial-Related Paper Award from the International Association of Pattern Recognition.

Selected Publications in 1997

bullet "COSMOS: A Framework for Representation and Recognition of 3D Free-Form Objects," Chitra Dorai, in Proc. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, pp. 7-11, San Jose, CA, September 1997.

Selected Publications in 1996

bullet Chitra Dorai, Ph.D. Thesis, "COSMOS: A Framework for Representation and Recognition of 3D Free-Form Objects," August 1996.

bullet Chitra Dorai and A. K. Jain, "A Framework for Recognition of 3D Free-Form Objects," available as an unpublished report, December 1996.

bullet A. K. Jain and Chitra Dorai, "Progress in Computer Vision," Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy, World Scientific Publishing Co., Erice, Italy, pp. 325-336, October 1996.

bullet Chitra Dorai and A. K. Jain, "Recognition of Free-Form Objects," Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, vol. I, pp. 697-701, August 1996.

bullet Chitra Dorai, G. Wang, A. K. Jain and C. Mercer,"From Images to Models: Automatic 3D Object Model Construction from Multiple Views," Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, vol. I, pp. 770-774, August 1996.

bullet Chitra Dorai, Y. Li, A. K. Jain and H. Keshavan,"Interference Detection in Virtual Environments," Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University, January 1996.

Selected Publications in 1995

bullet A. K. Jain and Chitra Dorai, "Practicing Vision: Integration, Evaluation and Applications," keynote address at the Second Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Singapore, December 1995. Appears in the Souvenir Magazine, pp. 15-23, ACCV '95.

bullet Chitra Dorai and A. K. Jain, "View Organization and Matching of Free-Form Objects," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Computer Vision, Coral Gables, Florida, pp. 25-30, November 1995.

bullet Chitra Dorai and A. K. Jain, "Shape Spectra Based View Grouping for Free-Form Objects," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Washington, D.C., vol. III, pp. 340-343, October 1995.

bullet Chitra Dorai and A. K. Jain, "COSMOS---A Representation Scheme for 3D Free-Form Objects," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 1024-1029, June 1995.

Selected Publications in 1994

bullet Chitra Dorai, J. Weng and A. K. Jain, "Optimal Registration of Multiple Range Views," Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Jerusalem, Israel, vol. I, pp. 569-571, October 1994.

Selected Publications in 1988-1990

bullet Chitra Dorai, M.S. Thesis, "Neural Networks for Invariant Recognition of 2-D Objects," 1990.

bullet M. Raghavan and Chitra Dorai, "A Self-Organizing Neural Network for Locus-Addressable Associative Memory," Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Diego, USA, vol. I, pp. 899-904, June 1990.

bullet Chitra Dorai and P. S. Sastry, "A Parallel Distributed Processing Model for Shape Recognition," Proceedings of the National Conference on Electronic Circuits and System, Roorkee, India, pp. 452-456, November 1989.

bullet Chitra Dorai and V. N. Shukla, "Shared Memory Access --- Boon for Graphics," IETE Technical Review, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 455-458, November 1988.

Misc

bullet Chitra Dorai and Jayashree Subrahmonia, "Birds of a Feather Session for Young Professionals: Getting Started and Getting Ahead," Proceedings of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, San Jose, CA, pp. 123-127, September 1997.

bullet Chitra Dorai, "Generic Object Recognition: A Lack of Precision," Available on the Web, IEEE Workshop on Generic Object Recognition, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 1997.


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