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Thesis

·         Ara V Nefian ,"A hidden Markov model based approach for face detection and recognition", 

            PhD Thesis, 1999. [pdf]

·         Ara V Nefian, "Statistical approaches to face recognition", Thesis Proposal 1996. [pdf]

Journal papers

·         S .Thrun, M. Montemerlo, H. Dahlkamp, D. Stavens, A. Aron, J. Diebel, P. Fong, J. Gale, M. Halpenny, 

           G. Hoffmann, K. Lau, C. Oakley, M. Palatucci, V. Pratt, P. Stang, S. Strohband, C. Dupont, L.-E. Jendrossek, 

           C. Koelen, C. Markey, C. Rummel, J. van Niekerk, E. Jensen, P. Alessandrini, G. Bradski, B. Davies, 

           S. Ettinger, A. Kaehler, A. Nefian, and P. Mahoney.  “Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge.” in Journal of 

           Field Robotics, 2006. [ps.gz]

·         Ling Chen, Hong Man and Ara V. Nefian, “Face recognition based multi-class mapping of Fisher scores”, 

           Pattern Recognition, Special issue on Image Understanding for Digital Photographs, March 2005.[pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian, Luhong Liang, Xiaoxing Liu, Xiaobo Pi and Kevin Murphy, “Dynamic Bayesian networks 

           for audio-visual speech recognition”, EURASIP, Journal of Applied Signal Processing, 2002.[pdf]

·         Silviu Ciochina and Ara V. Nefian, “ Fast algorithms for the discrete Hartley transform, part II”, 

           Telecommunication Journal, 1996

·         Silviu Ciochina, Ara V. Nefian, “Fast algorithms for the discrete Hartley transform, part I: radix two 

           algorithms”, Telecommunication Journal, 1995.

Conference papers        

·         Ara V. Nefian, Maha El Choubassi, Jean-Yves Bouguet, Igor Kozintsev and Yi Wu, “Web image clustering”, 

           IEEE International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing 2007.[pdf]

·         Haoran Yi, Igor Kozintsev, Marzia Polito, Yi Wu , Jean-Yves Bouguet, Ara V. Nefian and Carole Dulong 

          “A spatiotemporal decomposition strategy for personal home video management”, SPIE Electronic Imaging 2007.[pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian, Gary Bradski, “Detection of drivable corridors for off road autonomous navigation”, 

           IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2006.[pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian, “Learning SNP using embedded Bayesian networks”, IEEE Computational Systems 

           Bioinformatics Conference 2006.[pdf]

·         Navin Goel, George Bebis and Ara V. Nefian, “Face recognition experiments with random projections”, 

           SPIE Conference on Biometric Technology for Human Identification 2005.[pdf]

·         Luhong Liang, Yu Luo, Feiyue Huang and Ara V. Nefian,” A multi-stream audio-video large vocabulary 

           Mandarin Chinese speech database’, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, June 2004.[doc]

·         Shyamsundar Rajaram, Ara V. Nefian and Thomas Huang, “Bayesian separation of audio-visual speech 

           sources”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing 2004.[pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian and Luhong Liang, “Bayesian networks in multimodal speech recognition and speaker 

           identification”, ASILOMAR, November 2003. [pdf]

·         Tieyan Fu, Xiaoxing Liu, Luhong Liang, Xiaobo Pi and Ara V Nefian, “Audio-visual speaker identification 

           using coupled hidden Markov models”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2003.[pdf]

·         Robert D. Cavin, Navin Goel and Ara V. Nefian, “A Bayesian formulation for 3D articulated upper body 

           segmentation and tracking from dense disparity maps”, IEEE International Conference on Image 

           Processing 2003. [pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian, Luhong Liang, Tyean Fu and Xiaoxing Liu, “A Bayesian approach to audio visual 

           speaker identification”, IEEE International Conference on Audio-and Video- based Biometric  

           Person Authentication,   June 2003.[pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian “Embedded Bayesian networks for face recognition”, IEEE International Conference on 

           Multimedia and Expo, August 2002. [pdf]

·         Xiaoxing Liu, Yibao Zhao, Xiaobo Pi, Luhong Liang and Ara V. Nefian, “Audio-visual continuous speech 

           recognition using a coupled hidden Markov model”, IEEE International Conference on Spoken 

           Language   Processing, September 2002.[pdf]

·         Luhong Liang, Xiaoxing Liu, Yibao Zhao, Xiabo Pi and Ara V. Nefian, “Speaker independent audio-visual 

           continuous speech recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, August 2002. [pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian, Luhong Liang, Xiaobo Pi, Xiaoxing Liu, Crusoe Mao Kevin Murphy ,“A coupled HMM 

           for audio-visual speech recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal 

           Processing 2002. [pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian, Radek Grezsczuk and Victor Eruhimov ,“A statistical upper body model for 3D static and 

          dynamic gesture recognition from stereo sequences”, IEEE International Conference on Image 

          Processing 2001.[pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian and Monson H. Hayes, “Maximum likelihood training of the embedded HMM for face 

           detection and recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2000. [pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian and Monson H. Hayes III, “An embedded HMM based approach for face detection and 

           recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing 1999. [pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian and Monson H. Hayes III, “Face recognition using an embedded HMM”, IEEE Conference 

           on Audio and Visual-based Person Authentication 1999. [pdf]

·         Ara. V. Nefian and Monson H. Hayes III, “Face detection and recognition using Hidden Markov Models”, 

           IEEE International Conference on Image Processing1998. [pdf]

·         Ara. V. Nefian and Monson H. Hayes III, “Hidden Markov Models for face recognition”, IEEE 

           International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing 1998. [pdf]

·         Ara V. Nefian, Mehdi Khosravi and Monson H. Hayes III, “Real-time human face detection from 

           uncontrolled environments”, SPIE Visual Communications on Image Processing 1997. [pdf]