Conference Publications

2024

Q. Cai, M. Li, D. Ren, J. Lyu, H. Zheng, J. Dong, and Y.H. Yang, "Spherical Pseudo-cylindrical Representation for Omnidirectional Image Super-Resolution," AAAI, Feb. 20-27, 2024, Vancouver, BC (accepted Dec. 9, 2023).

2023

R. Kushol, R. Frayne, S.J. Graham, A.H. Wilman, S. Kalra, and Y.H. Yang, "Domain adaptation of MRI scanners as an alternative to MRI harmonization," MICCAI Workshop on Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer, October, 2023, Vancouver, BC.

2022

D. Huo, A. Masoumzadeh, and Y.H. Yang, "Blind Non-Uniform Motion Deblurring using Atrous Spatial Pyramid Deformable Convolution and Deblurring-Reblurring Consistency," New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop and Challenges at CVPR, 2022, New Orlean, LA.

R. Kushol, A. Masoumzadeh, D. Huo, S. Kalra, and Y.H. Yang, "Addformer: Alzheimer's disease detection from structural MRI using fusion transform," International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Kolkata, India, March, 2022.

2020

B. Llanos and Y.H. Yang, "Simultaneous Demosaicing and Chromatic Aberration Correction through Spectral Reconstruction,'' Proc. Computer and Robot Vision, Ottawa, ON, May 13-15, 2020.

2018

Y. Qian, Y. Zheng, M. Gong, and Y.H. Yang, "Simultaneous 3D Reconstruction for Water Surface and Underwater Scene," ECCV, Sept. 8-14, 2018, Munich, Germany. supplemental

B. Llanos and Y.H. Yang, "Do-It-Yourself Single Camera 3D Pointer Input Device,'' Proc. Computer and Robot Vision,Toronto, ON, May 9-11, 2018 (poster presentation).

2017

J. Fan and Y.H. Yang, "Depth Estimation of Semi-submerged Objects using a Light Field Camera,'' Proc. Computer and Robot Vision, Edmonton, Alberta, May 16-19, 2017 (oral presentation).

Y. Qian, M. Gong, and Y.H. Yang, "Stereo-based 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Fluid Surfaces by Global Optimization,"Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, July 21-26, 2016, Hawaii (accepted). video 97MB

2016

Y. Gu and Y.H. Yang, "Physics Based Boiling Bubble Simulation," SIGGRAPH Asia, Macao, Dec. 5-8, 2016, Technical Briefs.

Y. Qian, M. Gong, and Y.H. Yang, "3D reconstruction of transparent objects with position-normal consistency,"Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 26-July 1, 2016, Las Vegas. Poster presentation

2015

Y. Qian, M. Gong, and Y.H. Yang, "Frequency-based environment matting by compressive sensing," International Conference on Computer Vision, Decenber 13-16, 2015, Santiago, Chile. Poster presentation. (supplemental materials - 65MB - more in here)

2014

R. Maani, S. Kalra, and Y.H. Yang, "Robust Edge Aware Descriptor with Application to Image Matching," ACCV, Singapore, 2014.

D. Ling, X. Chen, and Y.H. Yang, "3D Reconstruction of Transparent and Specular Objects, " Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 24-27, 2014, Columbus, Ohio. Poster presentation.

X. Chen and Y.H. Yang, "Two-view Camera Housing Parameters Calibration for Multi-Layer Flat Refractive Interface," Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 24-27, 2014, Columbus, Ohio. Poster presentation.

2013

T. Yau, M. Gong, and Y.H. Yang, "Underwater Camera Calibration using Wavelength Triangulation," Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 25-27, 2013, Portland, Oregon, oral presentation. code 72MB. If you use this code, you agree to cite this paper.

X. Chen and Y.H. Yang, "Quasi-Dense Correspondence in Stereo Images using Multiple Coupled Snakes,"Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, May 28-31, 2013, Regina, Saskatchewan, pp. 202-209.

X. Chen and Y.H. Yang, "Recovering Stereo Depth Maps using a Single Gaussian Blurred Structured Light Pattern,"Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, May 28-31, 2013, Regina, Saskatchewan, pp. 295-302.

R. Maani, S. Kalra, and Y.H. Yang, "Texture Analysis of the Brain in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis," 19th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2013.

2012

L. Kang, L. Wu, and Y.H. Yang, "Two-view Underwater Structure and Motion for Cameras under Flat Refractive Interfaces," European Conference on Computer Vision, Oct. 7-14, 2012, Florence, Italy.

2011

O. Rodriguez-Arenas, and Y.H. Yang, "Physically Based Baking Animations with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics," Graphics Interface 2011, May 25 -May 27, St. John's, Newfoundland.

J. Gedge, M. Gong, and Y.H. Yang, "Refractive Epipolar Geometry for Underwater Stereo Matching, " Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision 2011, May 25 -May 27, St. John's, Newfoundland.

2010

X. Chen, Y. Shen, and Y.H. Yang, "Background Estimation using Graph Cuts and Inpainting," Graphics Interface 2010, May 31 - June 2, Ottawa, Ontario.
(code - please cite this paper if you use the code in your research.)

M. Gong, L. Wang, R. Yang, and Y.H. Yang, "Realtime Video Matting using Multichannel Poisson Equations, Graphics Interface 2010, May 31 - June 2, Ottawa, Ontario.

 

2009

C. Lei, X. Chen, and Y.H. Yang, "A New Multiview Spacetime-Consistent Depth Recovery Framework for Free Viewpoint Video Rendering, International Conference on Computer Vision, Kyoto, Japan, September 27-October 2, 2009. (code - please cite this paper if you use the code in your research.)

C. Lei and Y.H. Yang, "Optical Flow Estimation on Coarse-to-Fine Region-Trees using Discrete Optimization," International Conference on Computer Vision, Kyoto, Japan, September 27-October 2, 2009.

M. Gong and Y.H. Yang, "Near-real-time image matting with known background," Sixth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Kelowna, BC, May 25-27, 2009.

C. Lei and Y.H. Yang, "Efficient geometric, photometric, and temporal calibration of an array of unsynchronized video cameras," Sixth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Kelowna, BC, May 25-27, 2009.

C. Lei and Y.H. Yang, " A Region Tree based Image Discrete Labeling Framework," (Invited paper), Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, 4th edition, Editor C.H. Chen, World Scientific Publishing, to appear in 2010.

G. Sankar, V. Zhao, Y.H. Yang, “Feature based classification of computer graphics and real images,” Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, April 19-24, 2009.

2008

C. Lei and Y.H. Yang, "Design and Implementation of a Cluster-based Smart Camera Array Application Framework," Int. Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, Stanford, CA, Sept. 7-11, 2008.

Y. Zhang, M. Gong and Y.H. Yang, “Real-time Multi-view Stereo Algorithm using Adaptive-weight Parzen Window and Local Winner-take-all Optimization,” Fifth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Windsor, ON, May 28-30, 2008. (Oral presentation. Accepted Feb. 29, 2008)

D. Neilson and Y.H. Yang, “Evaluation of Constructable Match Cost Measures for Stereo Correspondence Using Cluster Ranking", Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Anchorage, AK: June 24-26, 2008. (Poster Presentation. Accepted March 8, 2008.)

2007

M. Gong, J. Selzer, C. Lei, and Y.H. Yang "Real-time Backward Disparity-based Rendering for Dynamic Scenes using Programmable Graphics Hardware," Graphics Interface,  Montreal, 2007, pp. 241-248.

Funk, N. and Y.H. Yang, “Using a Raster Display for Photometric Stereo,” Canadian Conference on Computer and Robotic Vision, Montreal, 2007, pp. 201-207. Oral Presentation.

2006

H. Mao and Y. H. Yang, "Particle-based immiscible fluid-fluid collision," Graphics Interface, June 7-9, 2006, Quebec City, Quebec, pp. 49-55. (This paper won the Michael A.J. Sweeney Best Student Paper Award.)

C. Lei, J. Selzer, and Y.H. Yang, “Region-Tree based Stereo using Dynamic Programming Optimization, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York, NY: June 17-22, 2006, pp. 2378-2385. (Ranked 10 on the Middlebury Stereo Website.)

2005

M. Gong and Y.-H. Yang, “Near Real-Time Reliable Stereo Matching Using Programmable Graphics Hardware,” Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Diego, CA, June 20-25, 2005, pp. 924-931.

X Qin and Y.H. Yang,  “Basic gray level aura matrices: theory and its application to texture synthesis,” Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision,  Beijing, China, Oct. 15-21, 2005, pp. 128-135.

2004

M. Gong and Y.H. Yang, “Estimate Large Motions using Reliability-based Dynamic Programming," IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing , Singapore, October 24-27, 2004, pp. 2559-2562.

J. Zhu and Y.H. Yang, "Frequency-based environment matting," Pacific Graphics, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 6-8, 2004, pp. 402-409.

M. Gong and Y.H. Yang, "Uniform Sampling for Image-based Rendering Shiny Objects," Eurographics, Grenoble, France, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 2004, short presentation, pp. 73-76.

X. Qin and Y.H. Yang, "Similarity measure and learning with gray level Aura matrices (GLAM) for texture image retrieval," Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington, DC, June 27-July 2, 2004, pp. 326-333.

Y. Xu and Y.H. Yang, “Object Representation using 1D displacement mapping,” Graphics Interface, London, Ontario, May 17-19, 2004., pp. 33-40.

2003

M. Gong and Y.H. Yang, “Fast stereo matching using reliability-based dynamic programming and consistency constraints,” Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision, Nice, France, October 13-16, 2003, pp. 610-617.

D. Neilson and Y.H. Yang, “Variance invariant adaptive temporal supersampling for motion blurring,” Pacific Graphics, Canmore, AB, Oct. 8-13, 2003, pp. 67-72.

2002

M. Gong and Y.H. Yang. "Multi-resolution genetic algorithm and its application in motion estimation," Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Quebec, August 11-15, 2002, pp. 644-647.

2001

M. Gong and Y.H. Yang.  "Multi-baseline stereo matching using genetic algorithm."  In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Stereo and Multi-baseline Stereo, 21-29.   Kauai , Hawaii .  2001.

M. Gong and Y.H. Yang, "Rayset and its applications," Graphics Interface 2001, Ottawa, Ontario.

M. Gong and Y.H. Yang, "Genetic-Based Multiresolution Color Image Segmentation," Vision Interface 2001, Ottawa, Ontario.

2000

Y. Zhang and Y.H. Yang, "Illuminant direction determination for multiple light sources," Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 13-15, 2000, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, pp. 269-276.

1998

B.M.A. Genswein and Y.H. Yang, "A Fast Rule-Based Parameter Free Digital Hough Transform," Vision Interface'98, Vancouver, B.C., pp. 157-164.

Y.H. Yang, "An Experimental Study of Light Source Determination for Computer Graphics," Vision Interface'98, Vancouver, B.C., pp. 271-278.

T. Grigorishin and Y.H. Yang, "Image Segmentation: An Electrostatic Field Based Approach," Vision Interface'98, Vancouver, B.C., pp. 279-286.

1996

Weng, N., Y.H. Yang, and R. Pierson, "3D surface reconstruction using optical flow for medical imaging,'' Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Anaheim, CA, Nov. 3-9, 1996.

Liang, K.H., T. Tjahjadi, and Y.H. Yang, "Multiscale texture segmentation based on image spectrum,'' Proc.1996 IEEE NORDIC Signal Processing Symposium, Espoo, Finland, Sept. 24-27, 1996, pp. 239-242.

1995

Tjahjadi, T., D. Litwin, and Y.H. Yang, "A modified dichromatic reflection model for an analysis of interreflection,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Washington, DC, Oct. 22-25, 1995.

Liang, K.H., T. Tjahjadi, and Y.H. Yang, "A regularized multiscale edge detection scheme using cubic B-spline,'' Proc. U.K. Symposium of Applications of Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Methods,'' University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K., Aug. 30-31, 1995, pp. 58-65.

1994

Leung, M.K. and Y.H. Yang, "A model based approach to labeling human body outlines,'' IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Motion of Non-Rigid and Articulated Objects, Nov. 11-12, 1994, Austin, Texas, pp. 57-62.

Muzzolini, R., Y.H. Yang, and R. Pierson, "Three-dimensional segmentation of volume data,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Nov. 13-16, 1994, Austin, Texas, Vol. III, pp. 488-492.

Bakshi, S. and Y.H. Yang, "Shape from shading for non-Lambertian surfaces,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Nov. 13-16, 1994, Austin, Texas, Vol. II, pp. 130-134.

Abdel-Hamid, G. and Y.H. Yang, "Multiscale skeletonization: An electrostatic field-based approach,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Nov. 13-16, 1994, Austin, Texas, Vol. I, pp. 949-953.

1993

G.H. Abdel-Hamid and Y.H. Yang, “Electrostatic Field-Based Detection of Corners of  Planar Curves,” 1993 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, September 14-17, 1993, pp. 767-770.

1991 

R. Muzzolini, Y.H. Yang and R. Pierson, “A Framework for the Evaluation of Feature Detectors with Applications to Diagnostic Ultrasound Images,” Conference Record of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Sante Fe, New  Mexico, November 2-9, 1991, pp. 2201-2204. 

R. Muzzilini, Y.H. Yang and R. Pierson, “Multiresolution Texture Segmentation with Application to Diagnostic Ultrasound Images,” Conference Record of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 2-9, 1991, pp. 2205-2209.

1987 

J. Streiker and Y.H. Yang, “Revisiting Conditional Sum Adders,” IEEE Proc. 6th International Phoenix Conference on Computer and Communications, Scottsdale, Arizona, February, 1987, pp. 42-47.

1986

R. Koenderink and Y.H. Yang, “PDS - A Protocol Design System,” Proc. IEEE 5th International Phoenix Conference on Computer and Communications, Scottsdale, Arizona, March, 1986, pp. 257-262. 

D. Callele and Y.H. Yang, “Image Tracking - A Survey,” Fourth Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems and Machines, Rochester, Michigan, April, 1986, pp. 59-65.

Y.H. Yang, “A Model for Determining the Direction of Motion Without Using  Correspondence,” Fourth Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems and Machines, Rochester, Michigan, April, 1986, pp. 77-82.

1985 

R. Koenderink and Y.H. Yang, “An Extension of the Rule-based Approach to Protocol Synthesis,” MICONEX, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May, 1985. 

Y.H. Yang and J.M. Fichter, “Image Sequence Segmentation In Time,” IEEE & OSA Topical Meeting on Machine Vision, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, March, 1985, pp. FA3-1.

1983

Y.H. Yang and T.W. Sze, “VLSI Computer Architecture for Scene Matching,” Proc. 1983 International Conference on Computer Design, Port Chester, New York, October/ November, 1983, pp. 753-756.

Y.H. Yang and T.W. Sze, “An Evaluation Study of Six Topologies of Computer Architectures for Scene Matching,” Proc. 1983 International Conference on Parallel Processing, Bellaire, Michigan, 1983, pp. 258-260.

Y.H. Yang and T.W. Sze, “Parallel Computer Architectures for Scene Matching,” Proc. 1983 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Arlington, Virginia, June, 1983, pp. 482-487.

1982                       

L.L. Cheng, M.L. Soffa and Y.H. Yang, “Simulation of an I/O Driven Requirements Language,” Proc. COMPSAC, Chicago, November, 1982, pp. 433-441. 

T.W. Sze and Y.H. Yang, “Goal-Directed Segmentation,” 1982 Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Las Vegas, Nevada, June, 1982, pp. 504-511.

1981 

Y.H. Yang and T.W. Sze, “A Simple Shape Matching Algorithm,” Proc. 1981 Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Dallas, Texas, August, 1981, pp. 562-564.

 1980

A.E. Curzon and Y.H. Yang, “A Theory of the Average Transmission Image Contrast of Spherical Particles on a Thin Carbon Substrate,” Proc. 1980 Conference on the Microscopic Society of Canada, St. John, Newfoundland, 1980.

1978 

A.E. Curzon and Y.H. Yang, “Changes in Electron Image Contrast Associated with the Melting of Particles of Lead,” Proc. 9th International Conference on Electron Microscopy, Toronto, 1978.