显著性轮廓提取、轮廓编组综述要看的内容（四）Probabilistic学派
Probabilistic学派(主要是York 大学)
Steve W. Zucker
Yale大牛。在CMU读的书，Maryland做的博士后。96年前是McGrill大学的Professor，研究AI和Robotics，96年到耶鲁大学任教授，是大卫&露西帕卡德基金名誉教授。
研 究范畴很广，包括Edge，Curve，Stereo，Texture，Color，Shape，Surface，Shading and lighting，计算神经学，视觉心理学，知觉组织，Relaxation labeling，Geometric Harmonics等。
Perceptual Organization
- Dubuc, B., and Zucker, S.W., Complexity, Confusion, and Perceptual Grouping. Part I: the curve like representation , Int. J. of Computer Vision , 42 (1/2): 55-82, 2001; reprinted in J. Math. Imaging and Vision , 15 (1/2): 55-82, 2001.
- Dubuc, B., and Zucker, S.W., Complexity, Confusion, and Perceptual Grouping. Part II: mapping complexity , Int. J. of Computer Vision , 42 (1/2): 83-115, 2001; reprinted in J. Math. Imaging and Vision , 15 (1/2): 83-115, 2001.
- Elder, J., and Zucker, S.W., Computing Contour Closure , in B. Buxton and R. Cipolla (eds), ECCV'96 (Proc. Fourth European Conf. on Computer Vision , Cambridge, U.K., April 1996), Vol. 1: 399-412, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1064, 1996.
- August, J., Siddiqi, K., and Zucker, S.W., Ligature Instabilities in the Perceptual Organization of Shape , Computer Vision and Image Understanding , 76 (3): 231-243.
- August, J., Siddiqi, K., and Zucker, S.W., Contour Fragment Grouping and Shared, Simple Occluders , Computer Vision and Image Understanding , 76 (2): 146-162, 1999.
- Elder, J., and Zucker, S.W., The Effect of Contour Closure on the Rapid Discrimination of Two-Dimensional Shapes , Vision Research , 33 (7): 981-991, 1993.
§ David, C., and Zucker, S.W., Potentials, Valleys, and Dynamic Global Coverings , International Journal of Computer Vision , 5 (3): 219-238, 1990.
James H. Elder
在 McGill大学电子工程学院读的硕士和博士，硕士题目是Contour closure and the perception of shape。博士师从大牛Steven W. Zucker。95年毕业，题目是The visual computation of bounding contours。毕业后在NEC研究中心干过，现在是York大学的A.P.。
从他硕士和博士的论文题目看，他在获取图像闭合轮廓方面做了很长时间的研究，要看的Elder的论文也比较多。
Journal Articles (Refereed)
Elder, J.H., Prince, S.J.D., Hou, Y., Sizintsev, M. & Olevskiy, E. (2007) Pre-attentive and attentive detection of humans in wide-field scenes, International Journal of Computer Vision , vol. 72, no. 1, 47-66.
Reprint (pdf)
Elder, J.H. & Sachs, A.J. (2004) Psychophysical receptive fields of edge detection mechanisms, Vision Research , vol. 44, no. 8, 795-813.
Reprint (pdf)
Elder, J.H., Krupnik, A. & Johnston, L.A. (2003) Contour grouping with prior models, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol. 25, no. 25, 661-674.
Reprint (pdf)
Elder, J.H., & Goldberg, R. M. (2002). Ecological statistics of Gestalt laws for the perceptual organization of contours. Journal of Vision , 2(4), 324-353, http://journalofvision.org/2/4/5/, DOI 10.1167/2.4.5.
Reprint (pdf)
Elder, J.H. & Goldberg, R.M. (2001). Image editing in the contour domain. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol. 23, no. 3, 291-296.
Reprint (pdf)
Elder, J.H. (1999) Are edges incomplete? International Journal of Computer Vision , vol. 34, no. 2/3, 97-122.
Reprint (pdf)
Elder, J.H. & Zucker, S.W. (1998). Local scale control for edge detection and blur estimation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol. 20, no. 7, 699-716.
Reprint (pdf)
Elder, J.H. & Zucker, S.W. (1998). Evidence for boundary-specific grouping in human vision. Vision Research , vol. 38, no. 1, 143-152.
Reprint (pdf)
Elder, J.H. & Zucker, S.W. (1994). A measure of closure. Vision Research, vol. 34, no. 24, 3361-3370
Reprint (pdf)
Elder, J.H. & Zucker, S.W. (1993). The effect of contour closure on the rapid discrimination of two-dimensional shapes. Vision Research , vol. 33, no. 7, 981-991.
Reprint (pdf)
Francisco J. Estrada
在 新闻聚合公司Thoora，瑞士洛桑理工大学的视觉小组，York大学视觉研究中心的ElderLab干过，期间跟James Elder一起做过Multi-scale的Contour Extraction。现在是加拿大多伦多大学的Computational Vision Group。
Ÿ Adaptive methods for boundary detection
http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~strider/publications/POCV_adaptive.pdf
Ÿ Probabilistic inference, algorithms based on natural scene statistics
http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~strider/publications/POCV_multiscale.pdf
http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~strider/MultiScaleGroup.mpg
Ÿ Feature-point and patch-based clustering by appearance
http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~strider/publications/CVPR09_ABKC.pdf
http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~strider/KeypointClusters.mov
Vida Movahedi
Jmaes H. Elder的学生，09年博士毕业（Quality Examination），题目是Contour Grouping。没有什么算法上的贡献，只是给Contour Grouping提出了一种评估方法，可供Survey的评估这部分参考。
Michael Lindenbaum
以色列理工大学，研究兴趣集中在分析和预测视觉处理方法的性能，跟通常实验性的方法不同，Michael倾向于建立统计学模型来分析。
A. Amir and M. Lindenbaum, Quantitative Analysis of Grouping Processes . IEEE Trans. on PAMI-20, No. 2, pp. 168-185, 1998. (A shorter version appeared in ECCV, pp. 371-384, 1996.)
A. Berengolts and M. Lindenbaum, On the Performance of Connected Components Grouping . IJCV 41(3), pp. 195-216, 2001.
M. Lindenbaum and A. Berengolts, A Probabilistic Interpretation of the Saliency Network . ECCV, vol. II, pp. 257-272, 2000.
A. Berengolts and M. Lindenbaum, On the Distribution of Saliency . CVPR (2), pp. 543-549, 2004.
E.A. Engbers, M. Lindenbaum and A.W.M. Smeulders, An Information-Based Measure for Grouping Quality. ECCV (3), pp. 392-404, 2004