Publications

Visual Tracking

Academic Journals

  1. J. Yang, P.A. Vela, J. Teizer, Z. Shi. Vision-Based Tower Crane Tracking for Understanding Construction Activity. ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 28(1):103-112, 2013. (more) doi pdf
  2. J. Yang, T. Cheng, P.A. Vela, J. Teizer, Z. Shi. A Performance Evaluation of Vision and Radio Frequency Tracking Methods for Interacting Workforce. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 25(4):736-747, 2011. (more) doi pdf
  3. I.J. Ndiour, J. and Teizer, P.A. Vela. A Probabilistic Observer for Visual Tracking. SIAM Journal of Imaging Science, 3(4):835-855, 2010. (more) doi pdf
  4. J. Teizer, P.A. Vela, I. Ndiour. Personnel Tracking on Construction Sites Using Video Cameras. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 23(4):452-462, 2009. (more) doi pdf
  5. P.A. Vela, A. Betser, J. Malcolm, A. Tannenbaum. Vision-Based Range Regulation of a Leader-Follower Formation. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 17(2):442-448, 2009. (more) pdf
  6. M. Niethammer, P.A. Vela, A. Tannenbaum. Geometric Observers for Dynamically Evolving Curves. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 30(6):1093-1108, 2008. (more) pdf
  7. P.A. Vela, M. Niethammer, G.D. Pryor, A.R. Tannenbaum, R. Butts, D. Washburn. Knowledge-Based Segmentation for Tracking Through Deep Turbulence. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 16(3):469-474, 2008. (more) pdf

International Conferences

  1. M. Bügler, G. Ogunmakin, J. Teizer, P. A. Vela, A. Borrmann. A Comprehensive Methodology for Vision-Based Progress and Activity Estimation of Excavation Processes for Productivity Assessment. In EG-ICE Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Cardiff, Wales, 2014. (more)
  2. P.A. Karasev, M.M. Serrano, P.A. Vela, A. Tannenbaum. Depth invariant visual servoing. In IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Pages 4992-4998, 2011. (more) pdf
  3. Kang Xue, Gbolabo Ogunmakin, Yue Liu, Patricio A Vela, Yongtian Wang. PTZ camera-based adaptive panoramic and multi-layered background model. In International Conference on Image Processing, Pages 2949-2952, 2011. (more)
  4. J. Yang, P.A. Vela, J. Teizer, Z. Shi. Vision-Based Crane Tracking for Understanding Construction Activity. In ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, Pages 258-265, 2011. (more) doi pdf
  5. I.J. Ndiour, O. Arif, J. Teizer, P.A. Vela. A Probabilistic Observer for Visual Tracking. In American Control Conference, Pages 4558-4563, 2010. (more) pdf
  6. I.J. Ndiour, P.A. Vela. Optimal Estimation Applied to Visual Contour Tracking. In American Control Conference, Pages 4564-4569, 2010. (more) pdf
  7. O. Arif, J. Yang, J. Teizer, P.A. Vela. Visual Monitoring of Airport Ground Operations. In Proceedings of the Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Orlando, FL, 2009. (more)
  8. O. Arif, P.A. Vela. Robust Density Comparison for Visual Tracking. In British Machine Vision Conference, Pages 1-6, London, UK, 2009. (more) pdf
  9. O. Arif, P.A. Vela. Kernel Covariance Image Region Description for Object Tracking. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, 2009. (more)
  10. O. Arif, P.A. Vela. Non-Rigid Object Localization and Segmentation Using Eigenspace Representation. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009. (more) pdf
  11. I.J. Ndiour, P.A. Vela. Towards a Local Kalman Filter for Visual Tracking. In IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009. (more) pdf
  12. J. Teizer, P. Vela. Workforce Tracking on Construction Sites Using Video Cameras. In Workshop of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering, 2008. (more)
  13. G. Pryor, T. ur-Rehman, S. Lankton, P.A. Vela, A. Tannenbaum. Fast Optimal Mass Transport for Dynamic Active Contour Tracking on the GPU. In IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Pages 2681-2688, 2007. (more)
  14. G. Pryor, P.A. Vela, J. Rehg, A. Tannenbam. Layered Active Contours for Tracking. In British Machine Vision Conference, Warwick, UK, 2007. (more)
  15. P.A. Vela. Knowledge-Based Segmentation Using Dynamic Models. In IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007. (more)
  16. M. Niethammer, P.A. Vela, A. Tannenbaum. Geometric Observers for Dynamically Evolving Curves. In IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Pages 6071-6077, 2005. (more)

Thesis

  1. O. Arif. Robust Target Localization and Segmentation Using Statistical Methods. PhD Thesis Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. (more) pdf

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