Publications:

Journals

John Wright, Allen Yang, Arvind Ganesh, Shankar Sastry, and Yi Ma. Robust face recognition via sparse representation. To appear in IEEE Transcations on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2008. [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] [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]


Conferences

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.



Patents

  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

Theses

  PhD Dissertation: Estimation of Subspace Arrangements: Its Algebra and Statistics. 2006. Advisor: Yi Ma & Robert Fossum. [PDF]

MS Thesis: Geometric Segmentation of Perspective Images based on Symmetry Groups. 2003. Advisor: Yi Ma. [PDF]

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