Selected Publications
- The SmithVent Experience and a Framework for Collaborative Distributed Design and Fabrication. S. Howe, E. Ory, D. Carroll, S. Chu, K. Clarke, B. Dalton, C. Dudek, A. Horne, N. Howe, S. Kazi, A. Landeau, D. Lin, P. DeGroot, E. Dixon, F. Sabry, and A. Widstrand. International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 38 No.6 (2022): 1904-1922
- A New Tool for Computer Assisted Paleography: the Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting Project. M. Penn, V. Abraham, S. Bailey, P. Broadwell, J. Crouser, J. de la Rosa, N. Howe, and S. Wiles. Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, Vol. 24.1, 35-52, February 2021.
- Deformable Part Models for Automatically Georeferencing Historical Map Images. N. Howe, J. Weinman, J. Gouwar and A. Shamji. 2019 ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference, November 2019. [Paper Link] [Expanded PDF] [BibTeX][poster]. Best Poster Award
- Graph-based Offline Signature Verification. P. Maergner, N. Howe, K. Riesen, R. Ingold, A. Fischer (2019). arXiv:1906.10401. [BibTeX]
- Symmetric Inkball Alignment with Loopy Belief Propagation. N. Howe, Ji Won Chung. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, September 2019. Preprint: [PDF] [BibTeX].
- Offline Signature Verification via Structural Methods: Graph Edit Distance and Inkball Models. P. Maergner, N. Howe, K. Riesen, R. Ingold and A. Fischer. International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, August 2018. Preprint: [PDF] [BibTeX].
- Isolated Character Forms from Dated Syriac Manuscripts. N. Howe, M. Dai, and M. Penn. Workshop on Historical Image Processing, November 2017. Preprint: [PDF] [BibTeX].
- Chronological Profiling for Paleography. N. Howe and S. Xie. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, November 2017. Preprint: [PDF] [BibTeX] [poster].
- Automated Syriac Script Charts. M. Penn, N. Howe, and K. Crawford. Studia Patristica. Vol. XCII - Papers presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2015 Volume 18: Liturgica and Tractatus Symboli; Orientalia; Critica et Philologica; Historica. M. Vinzent, ed.
- Inkball Models as Features for Handwriting Recognition. N. Howe, A. Fischer, and B. Wicht. International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, October 2016. Preprint: [PDF] [BibTeX] [poster].
- Segmentation-Free Spotting of Cuneiform using Part-Structured Models. B. Bogacz, N. Howe and H. Mara. International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, October 2016. Preprint: [PDF] [BibTeX] [slides].
- Inkball Models for Character Localization and Out-of-Vocabulary Word Spotting. N. Howe. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, August 2015. Preprint: [PDF, copyright IEEE] [BibTeX] [talk].
- A Character Style Library for Syriac Manuscripts. N. Howe, A. Yang and M. Penn. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Historical Image Processing, August 2015. Preprint: [PDF, copyright ACM] [BibTeX] [talk].
- Part-Structured Inkball Models for One-Shot Handwritten Word Spotting. N. Howe. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, August 2013. Revised version 8/2015 for errors in MAP computation. Original preprint: [PDF, copyright IEEE] [BibTeX] [talk].
- Document Binarization with Automatic Parameter Tuning. N. Howe. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, September 2012. DOI: 10.1007/s10032-012-0192-x. Preprint: [PDF] [Code] [BibTeX]. The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
- A Laplacian Energy for Document Binarization. N. Howe. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2011. Preprint: [PDF] [Code] [BibTeX].
- Style-Based Retrieval for Ancient Syriac Manuscripts. E. Dalton and N. Howe. Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing. Preprint: [PDF] [BibTeX] [Talk].
- A recognition-based motion capture baseline on the HumanEva II test data. N. Howe. Machine Vision and Applications, May 2011, pp. 1--14. The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com. Preprint: [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] Supplemental Videos: [S1.C1], [S2.C1], [S2.C2], [S2.C3], [S2.C4], [S4.C1], [S4.C2], [S4.C3], [S4.C4]
- Finding Words in Alphabet Soup: Inference on Freeform Character Recognition for Historical Scripts. N. Howe, S. Feng, and R. Manmatha. Pattern Recognition, Volume 42, Number 12, December 2009, pp. 3338--3347. Preprint: [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX].
- Evaluating Recognition-Based Motion Capture on HumanEva II Test Data. N. Howe. Technical Report, May 2008. [PDF].
- A Hidden Markov Model for Alphabet-Soup Word Recognition. S. Feng, N. Howe, and R. Manmatha. International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2008. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Talk].
- Recognition-Based Motion Capture and the HumanEva II Test Data. N. Howe. Extended abstract for CVPR 2007 workshop on Evaluating Human Motion. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX].
- Evaluating Lookup-Based Monocular Human Pose Tracking on the HumanEva Test Data. N. Howe. Extended abstract for NIPS 2006 workshop on Evaluating Human Motion. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Talk].
- Silhouette Lookup for Monocular 3D Pose Tracking. N. Howe. Image and Vision Computing, Volume 25, Issue 3, March 2007, pp. 331-341. Preprint: [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX].
- Boundary Fragment Matching and Articulated Pose Under Occlusion. N. Howe. IV Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, July 2006. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Video clips] [Talk].
- Flow Lookup and Biological Motion Perception. N. Howe. International Conference on Image Processing, September 2005. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Video clips] [Poster].
- Boosted Decision Trees for Word Recognition in Handwritten Document Retrieval. N. Howe & T. Rath, & R. Manmatha. ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 2005.1 [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Slides].
- Improving the Boosted Correlogram. N. Howe & A. Ricketson. International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, September 2004. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Poster].
- Silhouette Lookup for Automatic Pose Tracking. N. Howe. IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, June 2004. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [Code] [BibTeX] [Slides].
- Better Foreground Segmentation Through Graph Cuts. N. Howe & A. Deschamps. Tech report, http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CV/0401017, 2004. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [Code] [BibTeX].
- A Closer Look at Boosted Image Retrieval. N. Howe. International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, July 2003. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Slides].
- Boosted Image Classification: An Empirical Study. N. Howe. Workshop on Machine Learning and Computer Vision, July 2002. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Slides].
- Analysis and Representations for Automatic Comparison, Classification, and Retrieval of Digital Images . N. Howe. Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, May 2001. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Slides] [Talk].
- Data as Ensembles of Records: Representation and Comparison. N. Howe. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning, 2000. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Slides].
- Integrating Color, Texture, and Geometry for Image Retrieval. N. Howe and D. Huttenlocher. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2000.2 [PDF] [PS.GZ] [Poster] [BibTeX].
- Using Artificial Queries to Evaluate Image Retrieval. N. Howe. IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Databases, 2000.3 [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Slides].
- Bayesian Reconstruction of 3D Human Motion from Single-Camera Video. N. Howe, M. Leventon and W. Freeman. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 12, 2000. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Slides].
- Percentile Blobs for Image Similarity. N. Howe. IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Databases, 1998.4 [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX] [Slides].
- Weighting Unusual Feature Types. N. Howe and C. Cardie. Tech Report TR99-1735. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX].
- Examining Locally Varying Weights for Nearest Neighbor Algorithms. N. Howe and C. Cardie. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, 1997. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX].
- Improving Minority Class Prediction Using Case-Specific Feature Weights. C. Cardie and N. Howe. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, 1997. [PDF] [PS.GZ] [BibTeX].
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