Publications:

Books

  Allen Yang. Estimation of Subspace Arrangements: Its Algebra and Statistics. VDM Verlag, Germany, 2009. 



Refereed Journals

Eric Guenterberg, Allen Yang, Roozbeh Jafari, Ruzena Bajcsy, and Shankar Sasatry. A Method for Extracting Temporal Parameters Based on Hidden Markov Models in Body Sensor Networks With Inertial Sensors. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, 2009. [PDF]
Allen Yang, Roozbeh Jafari, Shankar Sastry, and Ruzena Bajcsy. Distributed Recognition of Human Actions Using Wearable Motion Sensor Networks. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Sensor Environments (JAISE), 2009. [PDF]
John Wright, Allen Yang, Arvind Ganesh, Shankar Sastry, and Yi Ma. Robust face recognition via sparse representation.  IEEE Transcations on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Feb, 2009. [PDF] [Website]
Allen Yang, John Wright,  Yi Ma, and Shankar Sastry. Unsupervised Segmentation of Natural Images via Lossy Data Compression. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2008. [PDF] [Website]
Yi Ma, Allen Yang, Harm Derksen, and Robert Fossum. Estimation of subspace arrangements with applications in modeling and segmenting mixed data. SIAM Review, 2008. [PDF] [Editorial][Website]
Allen Yang, Shankar Rao, Kun Huang, Wei Hong and Yi Ma, Symmetry-based 3-D reconstruction from perspective images. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2005. [PDF]
  Wei Hong, Allen Yang and Yi Ma, On symmetry and Multiple View Geometry: Structure, Pose and Calibration from a Single Image, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2004. [PDF]


Refereed Conferences

Shankar Rao, Hossein Mobahi, Allen Yang, Shankar Sastry, and Yi Ma. Natural Image Segmentation with Adaptive Texture and Boundary Encoding. Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2009. [PDF]
Allen Yang, Subhransu Maji, Mario Christoudas, Trevor Darrell, Jitendra Malik, and Shankar Sastry. Multiple-view object recognition in band-limited distributed camera networks. International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2009. [PDF]
Allen Yang, Subhransu Maji, Kirak Hong, Posu Yan, and Shankar Sastry. Distributed compression and fusion of nonnegative sparse signals for multiple-view object recognition. International Conference on Information Fusion, 2009. [PDF]
Philip Kuryloski, Annarita Giani, Roberta Giannantonio, Katherine Gilani, Ville-Pekka Seppa, Edmund Seto, Raffaele Gravina, Victor Shia, Curtis Wang, Posu Yan, Allen Yang, Jari Hyttinen, Shankar Sastry, Stephen Wicker, and Ruzena Bajcsy. DexterNet: An open platform for heterogeneous body sensor networks and its applications. Body Sensor Networks (BSN) Workshop, 2009. [PDF]
Phoebus Chen, Parvez Ahammad, Colby Boyer, Shih-I Huang, Leon Lin, Edgar Lobaton, Marci Meingast, Songhwai Oh, Simon Wang, Posu Yan, Allen Yang, Chuohao Yeo, Lung-Chung Chang, Doug Tygar, and Shankar Sastry. CITRIC: A Low-Bandwidth Wireless Camera Network Platform, International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2008. [PDF]
Allen Yang, Roozbeh Jafari, Philip Kuryloski, Sameer Iyengar, Shankar Sastry, and Ruzena Bajcsy. Distributed Segmentation and Classification of Human Actions Using a Wearable Sensor Network. CVPR Workshop on Human Communicative Behavior Analysis, 2008. [PDF] [Website]
Shankar Rao, Harm Derksen, Robert Fossum, Yi Ma, Andrew Wagner, and Allen Yang. The algebra and statistics of Generalized Principal Component Analysis. SPIE conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), 2007.
Allen Yang, Shankar Rao, and Yi Ma. Robust statistical estimation and segmentation of multiple subspaces. CVPR Workshop on 25 years of RANSAC, 2006. [PDF]
Shankar Rao, Andrew Wagner, Allen Yang, and Yi Ma, Segmentation of Hybrid Motions via Generalized Principal Surface Analysis, ICCV 2005.[PDF]

Allen Yang, Shankar Rao, Andrew Wagner and Yi Ma, Segmentation of a piece-wise planar scene from perspective images. CVPR 2005. [PDF]
  Allen Yang, H. Gonzalez-Banos, V. Ng-Thow-Hing, and J. Davis, RoboTalk: controlling arms, bases and androids through a single motion interface. ICAR 2005. [PDF] [demo website]
  Allen Yang, Shankar Rao, Andrew Wagner, Robert Fossum, and Yi Ma, Hilbert functions and applications to the estimation of subspace arrangements. ICCV 2005.  [PDF]

Kun Huang, Allen Yang and Yi Ma, Representation of Images with Hybrid Linear Models, Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP) 2004. [PDF]
  Kun Huang,  Allen Yang, Wei Hong and Yi Ma, Large-Baseline Matching and Reconstruction from Symmetry Cells, Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2004. [PDF]
  Allen Yang, Shankar Rao, Kun Huang, Wei Hong and Yi Ma, Geometric Segmentation of Perspective Images Based on Symmetry Groups, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2003. [PDF]
  Allen Yang, Wei Hong and Yi Ma, Structure and Pose from Single Images of Symmetric Objects with applications to Robot Navigation, IEEE Int. Conf. On Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2003. [PDF]

Yi Ma, Kun Huang and Allen Yang,Classification of Rank conditions for Multiple Views of Dynamic Scenes, ECCV Workshop on Dynamic Scenes, 2002.



Invited Abstracts

Allen Yang, Philip Kuryloski, and Ruzena Bajcsy. WARD: A Wearable Action Recognition Database. CHI Workshop on Developing Shared Home Behavior Datasets, 2009. [PDF]
Edmund Seto, Annarita Giani, Victor Shia, Curtis Wang, Posu Yan,  Allen Yang, Michael Jerrett, and Ruzena Bajcsy. A wireless body sensor network for the prevention and management of asthma. IEEE Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems, 2009. [PDF]


Patents

System for Detection of Body Motion. US patent application No. 61/119,861.
  Interface for Robot Motion Control. US patent application No. 11/296,174

Recognition via High-Dimensional Data Classification. US patent application No. 61/025,039

Under Review:

  Shankar Rao, Allen Yang, Shankar Sastry, and Yi Ma, Robust Algebraic Segmentation of Mixed Rigid-Body and Planar Motions. Submitted to IJCV, 2008. [PDF]
Allen Yang, Michael Gastpar, Ruzena Bajcsy, and Shankar Sastry. Distributed Sensor Perception via Sparse Representation. Submitted to the Proceedings of the IEEE, 2009. [PDF]