Department of Computer and Information Sciences

Center for Information Science and Technology

Dr. Longin Jan Latecki, Associate Professor

 

OFFICE : Room 306 Wachman Hall EMAIL: latecki 'at' temple.edu
ADDRESS: CIS Dept., Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
PHONE : (215) 204-5781
FAX : (215) 204-5082

Research

My research goal is development of intelligent systems
with the main focus on geometric processing of spatial information
obtained from visual input (cameras and laser range finders).

 

Selected Recent Publications

o Best Ever Retrieval Rate of 91% on MPEG-7! 
X. Yang, X. Bai, L. J. Latecki, Z. Tu. Improving Shape Retrieval by Learning Graph Transduction. European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), Marseille, France, October 2008. pdf

o H.-R. Liu, L. J. Latecki, and W.-Y. Liu. A Unified Curvature Definition for Regular, Polygonal, and Digital Planar Curves. Int. J. of Computer Vision (IJCV), to appear. pdf

o X. Bai and L. J. Latecki: Path Similarity Skeleton Graph Matching. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 30(7),  2008. pdf

o X. Bai, X. Yang, and L. J. Latecki. Detection and Recognition of Contour Parts Based on Shape Similarity. Pattern Recognition (PR), 41(7), pp. 2189-2199, 2008. pdf

o M. Siqueira, L. J. Latecki, N. Tustison, J. Gallier, and J. Gee. Topological Repairing of 3D Digital Images. J. of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV), 30(3), pp. 249-274, 2008. pdf

o N. Adluru, L. J. Latecki, R. Lakaemper, T. Young, X. Bai, and A. Gross. Contour Grouping Based on Local Symmetry. 11th IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro, 2007. pdf

o L. J. Latecki, Q. Wang, S. Koknar-Tezel, and V. Megalooikonomou. Optimal Subsequence Bijection. IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM), Omaha, USA, 2007. pdf

o H. Liu, L. J. Latecki, W. Liu, X. Bai. Visual Curvature. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007. pdf

o R. Lakaemper, N. Adluru, L. J. Latecki, and R. Madhavan. Multi Robot Mapping using Force Field Simulation. J. of Field Robotics (JFR), 24 (8-9), 2007. pdf

o X. Bai, L. J. Latecki, and W.-Y. Liu: Skeleton Pruning by Contour Partitioning with Discrete Curve Evolution. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 29(3), pp. 449-462, 2007. pdf

o P. Stelldinger, L. J. Latecki, and M. Siqueira: 3D Object Digitization: Topological Equivalence between a 3D Object and the Reconstruction of its Digital Image. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 29(1), pp. 126-140, 2007. pdf

Complete List of Publications


 

Research Grants

o NSF INT-0331786, Robot Localization and Robot Mapping Based on Shape Matching

o NIST 70NANB5H11119, Geometric Robot Mapping

o NSF IIS-0534929, From Edge Pixels to Recognition of Parts of Object Contours

o DE-FG52-27508, Image Recognition and Classification Based on Object Parts

 

Main research topics include:

Demos and Software:

o Shape Based Object Recognition

o Skeleton Pruning and Shape Based Image Search Engine

o Geometric Robot Mapping

o Demo Videos on Robot Mapping

o Video Mining

o Video and Vision (ViVi) Lab, Video Summarization

o Data Mining

o Software for Image Retrieval

o Discrete Geometry and Digital Topology  

o Well-Composed 3D Images

I used to work on:

o Multimedia Transmission over IP

o Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

o Natural Language Semantics


Awards and Recent Official Functions


Ph. D. Students


Teaching


Last updated on April 25, 2008

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