University of Ottawa, Canada's University Robert Laganière
List of Publications
  • Computer Vision
  • Image and Video Analysis
  • Visual Surveillance

2013
Farhadi-Niaki F., Arya A., Gerroir J., Etemad S.A., Laganière R., Payeur P., Biddle R., Usability Study of Static/Dynamic Gestures and Haptic Input as Interface to 3D Games , 6th Int. Conf. on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI), Nice, France, Feb. 2013.

2012
Elias R., Laganière R., JUDOCA: JUnction Detection Operator Based on Circumferential Anchors , IEEE trans. on Image Processing, vol. 21, no 4, pp. 2109-2118, April 2012.

Liu Z., Blasch E., Xue Z., Zhao J., Laganière R., Wu W., Objective Assessment of Multiresolution Fusion Algorithms for Context Enhancement in Night Vision: A Comparative Study, IEEE trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 34, no 1, pp. 94-109, 2012.

Lalonde J.R., Laganière R., Martel L., Single-view Obstacle Detection for Smart Back-up Camera Systems, CVPR Embedded Vision Workshop, Providence, RI, pp. 1-8, June 2012. Best Paper Award

Montero A.S., Sekkati H., Lang J., Laganière R., Framework for Natural Landmark-based Robot Localization, 9th Conference on Computer Robot Vision, Toronto, Canada, pp. 131-138, May 2012.

Sekkati H., Laganière R., Mitiche A., Youmaran R., Robust background subtraction using geodesic active contours in ICA subspace for video surveillance applications, 9th Conference on Computer Robot Vision, Toronto, Canada, pp. 190-197, May 2012.

2011
De Carufel J.-L., Laganière R., Matching cylindrical panorama sequences using planar reprojections, ICCV OMNIVIS Workshop, Spain, pp. 320-327, 2011.

Cretu A.M., Payeur P., Laganière R., Salient Features Based on Visual Attention for Multi-View Vehicle Classification, IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 64-69, Sept. 2011.

Chavez-Aragon A., Payeur P., Laganière R., Payeur P., Vision-Based Detection and Labelling of Multiple Vehicle Parts, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Washington, DC, pp. 1273-1278, Oct. 2011.

Saboune J., Arezoomand M, Martel L., Laganière R., A visual blindspot monitoring system for safe lane changes, 16th int. Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Italy, Sept. 2011.

2010
Whitehead A., Laganière R., Bose J., Formalization of the General Video Temporal Synchronization Problem, Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis, vol. 9, no 1, pp. 1-17, May 2010.

Yan M., Laganière R., Roth G., Estimation of Camera Positions over Long Image Sequences, ICGST Graphics, Vision and Image Processing, vol. 10, issue V, pp. 39-47, 2010.

Kangni F., Laganière R., Orientation and Pose estimation of Panoramic Imagery, Machine Graphics & Vision, vol. 19, no 3, pp. 339-363, 2010.

Liu Z., Forsyth D.S., Laganière R., Concealed Weapon Detection: A Data Fusion Perspective, Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, vol. 7, no 7, pp. 196-209, 2010

Kangni F., Laganière R., Projective rectification of image triplets, Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal, vol. 4, no 4, p. 389-397, 2010

. Wojtaszek D., Laganière R., Peikari H., Peikari M., Building Sparse 3D representations from a Set of Calibrated Panoramic Images, Symposium on Photogrammetry Computer Vision and Image Analysis, , vol. XXXVIII-3A, Paris, pp. 186-191, Sept. 2010.

Kolhatkar S., Laganière R., Interactive Scene Navigation Using the GPU, Computer graphics international, Singapore, June 2010.

Kolhatkar S., Laganière R., Real-time Virtual Viewpoint Generation on the GPU for Scene Navigation, Seventh Conference on Computer Robot Vision, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 55-62 May 2010.

Carmichael G., Laganière R., Bose P., Global Context Descriptors for SURF and MSER Feature Descriptors, Seventh Conference on Computer Robot Vision, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 309-319, May 2010.

Scaiano M., Inkpen D., Laganière R., Reinhartz A., Automatic Text Segmentation for Movie Subtitles, Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6085, pp. 295-298, 2010.

Roth G., Laganière R., Janati T., Lakhmiri I., Lambert P., A Simple but Effective Approach to Video Copy Detection, 7th Conference on Computer Robot Vision, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 63-70, May 2010.

2009
Roth G., Laganière R., Bouchard M., Lakhmiri I., Janati T., Content-based Copy Detection, NIST TRECVID Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2009.

Saboune J., Laganière R., People detection and tracking using the Explorative Particle Filtering, ICCV Workshop on Visual Surveillance, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 1298-1305, Sept. 2009.

Wojtaszek D., Laganière R., Compressing Surveillance Video using Motion Segmentation, Int. Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 164-168, July 2009.

Shi F., Laganière R., Dubois E, Labrosse F., On the Use of Ray-tracing for Viewpoint Interpolation in Panoramic Imagery, Sixth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Kelowna, Canada, pp. 200-207, May 2009.

2008
Liu Z., Forsyth D.S., Laganière R., A Feature-based Metric for the Quantative Evaluation of Pixel-level Image Fusion, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 109, no 1, pp. 56-68, Jan. 2008.

Laganière R., Bacco R., Hocevar A., Lambert P., Pais G., Ionescu B.E., Video Summarization from Spatio-Temporal Features, Multimedia 2008: TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop, Vancouver, BC, pp. 144-148, Oct. 2008.

Yan M., Laganière R., Roth G., Iterative Computation of Camera Paths, IEEE Int. Instrumentation and Measurement technology Conf., Victoria, Canada, pp. 107-112, May 2008.

Speranza F., Bhatia A., Laganiè re R., Image Quality in Image-Based Representations of Real-World Environments: Perceived Smoothness of Viewpoint Transitions, Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Madeira, Portugal, pp. 439-442, Jan. 2008

2007
Zhao J.Y., Laganière R., Liu Z., Performance Assessment of Combinative Pixel-level Image Fusion based on an Absolute feature measurement, Int. Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, vol.3, no 6, pp. 1433-1447, Dec. 2007.

Liu Z., Laganière R., Context Enhancement through Infrared Vision, Signal Image and Video Processing, vol. 1, no 4, pp. 293-301, Oct. 2007.

Vincent E., Laganière R., Models from Image Triplets using Epipolar Gradient Features, Image and Vision Computing, vol. 25, no 11, pp. 1699-1708, 2007.

Liu Z., Laganière R., Phase Congruence Measurement for Image Similarity Assessment, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 28, no 1, pp. 166-172, Jan. 2007.

Kangni F., Laganière R., Orientation and Pose recovery from Spherical Panoramas, OmniVis07, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp.1-8, Oct. 2007.

Bhatia A., Laganière R., Roth G., Performance Evaluation of Scale-interpolated Hessian-Lapace Detector and Haar Descriptor for Feature Matching, Int. Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, pp. 61-66, Sept. 2007.

Liu Z., Laganière R., Registration of IR and EO Video Sequence based on Frame Difference, Int. Workshop on Video Processing and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, pp. 459-464, May 2007.

Fourney A., Laganière R., Constructing Face Image Logs that are Both Complete and Concise, Int. Workshop on Video Processing and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, pp. 488-494, May 2007.

2006
Laganière R., Gilbert S., Roth G., Robust Object pose Estimation from feature-based Stereo, IEEE trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement,, vol. 55, no 4, pp. 1270-1280, Aug. 2006.

Liu Z., Xue Z., Blum R.S., Laganière R., Concealed Weapon Detection and Visualization in a Synthesized Image, Pattern Analysis and Applications, vol. 8, no 4, pp. 375-389, Feb. 2006.

Laganière R., Mitiche A., Hajjdiab H., Visual Reconstruction of Ground Plane Obstacles in a Sparse View Robot Environment, Graphical Models, vol. 68, no 2, pp. 282-293, May 2006.

Vazquez C., Mitiche A., Laganière R., Joint Multiregion Segmentation and Parametric Estimation of Image Motion by Basis Function Representation and Level Set Evolution, IEEE trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 28, no 5, pp. 782-793, May 2006.

Gottin J., Laganière R., Real-time Label Insertion in Live Video Through on-line Trifocal Tensor Estimation, Int. Conf. Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Portugal, pp. 435-441, March 2006.

Zhao J.Y, Laganière R., Liu Z., Image Fusion Algorithm Assessment based on feature Measurement, Int. Conf. on Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Beijing, China, pp. 701-704, Aug. 2006.

Kangni F., Laganière R., Epipolar Geometry for the Rectification of Cubic Panoramas, Canadian Conf. on Computer and Robot Vision, Quebec, pp. 70-77, June 2006.

Liu Z., Laganière R., On the Use of Phase Congruency to Evaluate Image Similarity, IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, pp. 937-940, May 2006.

Kangni F., Laganière R., Projective Rectification of Image Triplets from the Fundemental Matrix, IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, vol. 2, pp. 505-508, May 2006.

2005
Vincent E., Laganière R., Detecting and Matching Interest Points, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 16, pp. 38-54, Feb. 2005.

Kamkar-Parsi H., Laganière R., Bouchard M., A Multi-Criteria Model for Robust Foreground Extraction, ACM Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks, Singapore, Nov. 2005.

Gilbert S., Laganière R., Roth G., Stereo Motion from Feature Matching and Tracking, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Tech. Conf., Ottawa, Canada, pp. 1246-1250, May 2005.

Whitehead A., Laganière R., P. Bose, Temporal Synchronization of Video Sequences in Theory and in Practice, IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, Breckenridge, CO, pp. 132-139, January 2005.

2004
Li J., Laganière R., Roth G., Online Estimation of Trifocal Tensors for Augmenting Live Video, IEEE/ACM Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Arlington, VA, pp. 182-190, Nov. 2004.

Gilbert S., Laganière R., Registration of a Moving Rigid Object Using a Stereoscopic Vision Setup, IEEE Int. Workshop on Haptic Audio Virtual Environments and their Applications, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 171-175, Oct. 2004.

Vincent E., Laganière R., Junction Matching and Fundamental Matrix Recovery in Widely Separated Views, British machine Vision Conference, London, UK, pp. 77-86, Sept. 2004.

Whitehead A., Bose J., Laganière R., Feature based cut detection with automatic threshold selection, Int. Conf. on Image and Video Retrieval, Dublin, Ireland, pp.410-418, July 2004.

Elias R., Laganière R., The detection of junctions in images, IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, Montreal, Canada, vol. 3, pp. 17-21, May 2004.

Hajjdiab H., Laganière R., Vision-based multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping, Conf. on Computer and Robot Vision, London, Canada, pp.155-162, May 2004.

Zhao J., Liu Z., Laganière R., Digital Watermarking by Using A Feature-based Multiwavelet Fusion Approach, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Niagara Falls, Canada, pp. 563-566, May 2004.

Elias R., Laganière R., Volumetric representation of obstacles through wide baseline set of images, International Symposium on Robotics, Paris, France, March 2004.

2003
H. Hajjdiab, R. Elias, and R. Laganière. Wide Baseline Obstacle Detection and Localization. In IEEE 7th Int. Symp. Signal Processing and Applications., Paris, France, pages 21--24, July 2003.

H. Hajjdiab and R. Laganière. Vision-based Robot Localization. In Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Haptic Virtual Environment and their Applications., Ottawa, ON, pages 19--24, September 2003.

E. Vincent and R. Laganière. Matching with Epipolar Gradient Features and Edge Transfer. In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing., Barcelona, Spain, pages 277--280, September 2003.

E. Vincent and R. Laganière. Models from Image Triplets using Epipolar Gradient Features. In Vision, Video and Graphics conf., Bath, UK, pages 143--150, July 2003.

2002
R. Elias and R. Laganière. Cones: A New Approach Towards Corner Detection. In Canadian Conf. Electrical and Computer Engineering., Winnipeg, Canada, pages 912--916, 2002.

R. Laganière and E. Vincent. Wedge-based Corner Model for Widely Separated Views Matching. In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition., volume 2, Quebec City, Canada, pages 856--860, 2002.

E. Vincent and R. Laganière. An Empirical Study of Some Feature Matching Strategies. In Proc. Conf. Vision Interface., Calgary, Canada, pages 139--145, 2002.

E. Vincent and R. Laganière. Matching Feature Points for telerobotics. In Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Haptic Virtual Environment and their Applications., Ottawa, Canada, pages 13--18, November 2002.

D. Wojtaszek and R. Laganière. Tracking and Recognizing People in Colors using the Earth Mover's Distance. In Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Haptic Virtual Environment and their Applications., Ottawa, Canada, pages 91--96, November 2002.

D. Wojtaszek and R. Laganière. Using Color Histograms to Recognize People in Real Time Visual Surveillance. In Int. Conf. Multimedia, Internet and Video technologies., volume 3, Greece, pages 261--264, September 2002.

2001
E. Vincent, Laganière R., Matching Feature Points in stereo pairs , Int. Jounal of Machine Graphics and Vision, vol. 10, no 3, pp. 237-259, 2001.

R. Laganière. Internet-based Exploration of Remote Site. In Int. Conf. Augmented, Virtual Environments and 3D., volume 31, pages 1643--1652, 2001.

E. Vincent and R. Laganière. Detecting Planar Homographies in an Image Pair. In IEEE Symp. Image and Signal Processing and Analysis., Croatia, pages 182--187, 2001.

2000
R. Laganière. Compositing a bird's eye view mosaic. In Proc. Conf. Vision Interface., Montreal, Canada, pages 382--387, 2000.

1999
R. Elias and R. Laganière. The disparity pyramid : An irregular approach for stereoscopic image analysis. In Proc. Conf. Vision Interface., pages 352--359, 1999.

1998
Laganière R., Morphological Operator for Corner Detection, Pattern Recognition. , vol. 31, no 11, pp.1643-1652, 1998.

Laganière R., Morphological Corner Detection, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, Bombay, India, pp. 280-285, Jan 1998.

1996
R. Laganière and A. Mitiche. Tabu Search for disparity estimation. In Proc. Conf. Vision Interface., Toronto, Canada, pages 152--158, 1996.

R. Laganière and A. Mitiche. Parallel Tabu Search for Robust Image Filtering. In Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, Greece, pages 603--605, 1995.

1995
R. Laganière and A. Mitiche. Direct Bayesian Interpretation of Visual Motion. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 14, no 4, pp. 247-254, June 1995

1992
R. Laganière, F. Labrosse, and P. Cohen. A Parallel Network for the Computation of Structure from Long-Range Motion. In IJCNN, Baltimore, MA, pages 278--285, 1992.

R. Laganière, H.H. Nguyen, and P. Cohen. Neural Computation of Structure from Two Views. In Conf. on Control and Robotics., Vancouver, Canada, pages 194--197, 1992.

1990
R. Laganière and A. Mitiche. A 3D Interpretation System based on Consistent Labeling of a Set of Propositions. Application to the Interpretation of Straight Lines Correspondences. European Conference on Computer Vision, Antibes, France, vol. 1, pages 521-525, 1990.

R. Laganière and A. Mitiche. Interpreting 3D Lines. Traditional and Non-traditional Robotics Sensors, Springer Verlag, 1990.

1989
R. Laganière and A. Mitiche. A Knowledge-based Intelligent System for Real World Interpretation. In Proc. of Intelligent Autonomous Systems Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pages 772-782, 1989.

R. Laganière and A. Mitiche. On Combining Points and Lines in an Image Sequence. In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Visual Motion., pages 221--228, 1989.