Cornelia Fermüller

Research Scientist

4216 Iribe Center

(301) 405-1768

(301) 314 9115

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Research Group(s):

Center for Automation Research

Education:

Ph.D., Technical University of Vienna, Austria (Applied Mathematics)

Biography:

Cornelia Fermüller is a research scientist in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

Her research focuses on computer vision, robotics and human vision, emphasizing biologically-inspired solutions for active vision systems. Fermüller models perception problems using geometry, statistics and signal processing, while developing software for multiple view geometry, motion, navigation and action recognition.

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Publications

1999

Fermüller C, Brodsky T, Aloimonos Y. 1999. Motion Segmentation: A Synergistic Approach. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE Computer Society Conference on. 2:2226-2226.

1998

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1998. Ambiguity in Structure from Motion: Sphere versus Plane. International Journal of Computer Vision. 28(2):137-154.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1998. Which shape from motion? Sixth International Conference on Computer Vision, 1998. :689-695.

Fermüller C, Cheong LF, Aloimonos Y. 1998. 3D motion and shape representations in visual servo control. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 17(1):4-4.

Brodsky T, Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1998. Directions of Motion Fields are Hardly Ever Ambiguous. International Journal of Computer Vision. 26(1):5-24.

Brodský T, Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1998. The Video Yardstick. Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual EnvironmentsModelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments. 1537:144-158.

Cheong LF, Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1998. Effects of Errors in the Viewing Geometry on Shape Estimation* 1,* 2. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 71(3):356-372.

Cheong LF, Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1998. Effects of Errors in the Viewing Geometry on Shape Estimation. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 71(3):356-372.

Brodský T, Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1998. Beyond the Epipolar Constraint: Integrating 3D Motion and Structure Estimation. 3D Structure from Multiple Images of Large-Scale Environments3D Structure from Multiple Images of Large-Scale Environments. 1506:109-123.

Brodsky T, Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1998. Self-calibration from image derivatives. Sixth International Conference on Computer Vision, 1998. :83-89.

Brodsky T, Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1998. Shape from video: Beyond the epipolar constraint. Proceedings of the DARPA Image Understanding Workshop.

Brodský T, Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1998. Simultaneous estimation of viewing geometry and structure. Computer Vision — ECCV'98Computer Vision — ECCV'98. 1406:342-358.

1997

Fermüller C, Cheong LF, Aloimonos Y. 1997. The geometry of visual space distortion. Algebraic Frames for the Perception-Action CycleAlgebraic Frames for the Perception-Action Cycle. 1315:249-277.

Bolle R, Aloimonos Y, Fermüller C. 1997. Toward motion picture grammars. Computer Vision — ACCV'98Computer Vision — ACCV'98. 1352:283-290.

Fermüller C, Pless R, Aloimonos Y. 1997. Families of Stationary Patterns Producing Illusory Movement: Insights into the Visual System. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological SciencesProc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 264(1383):795-806.

Fermüller C, Cheong LF, Aloimonos Y. 1997. Visual space distortion. Biological Cybernetics. 77(5):323-337.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1997. DIRECT MOTION PERCEPTION. Visual navigation: from biological systems to unmanned ground vehicles. :135-135.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1997. On the Geometry of Visual Correspondence. International Journal of Computer Vision. 21(3):223-247.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1997. The confounding of translation and rotation in reconstruction from multiple views. , 1997 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1997. Proceedings. :250-256.

1996

Brodsky T, Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1996. Directions of motion fields are hardly ever ambiguous. Computer Vision — ECCV '96Computer Vision — ECCV '96. 1065:119-128.

Shulman D, Fermüller C. 1996. Qualitative depth and FOE information via smoothed flow. Proceedings of the 20th workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (OAGM/AAPR) on Pattern recognition 1996. :207-213.

Fermüller C. 1996. Explaining Human Visual Space Distortion..

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1996. The synthesis of vision and action. Exploratory vision: the active eye. :205-205.

Cheong LF, Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1996. Spatiotemporal representations for visual navigation. Computer Vision — ECCV '96Computer Vision — ECCV '96. 1064:671-684.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y, Cheong L. 1996. Interaction between 3D Shape and Motion: Theory and Applications.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1996. Ordinal representations of visual space. Proc. Image Understanding Workshop. :897-904.

Fermüller C. 1996. Algorithm-Independent Stability Analysis of Structure from Motion..

1995

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1995. Vision and action. Image and Vision Computing. 13(10):725-744.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1995. Direct Perception of Three-Dimensional Motion from Patterns of Visual Motion. ScienceScience. 270(5244):1973-1976.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1995. Representations for active vision. Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1. :20-26.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1995. Qualitative egomotion. International Journal of Computer Vision. 15(1):7-29.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1995. Global rigidity constraints in image displacement fields. Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision, 1995. :245-250.

Aloimonos Y, Fermüller C, Rosenfeld A. 1995. Seeing and understanding: representing the visual world. ACM Comput. Surv.. 27(3):307-309.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1995. Global rigidity constraints in image displacement fields. , Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision, 1995. Proceedings. :245-250.

Brodsky T, Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1995. The information in the direction of image flow. , International Symposium on Computer Vision, 1995. Proceedings. :461-466.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1995. Vision and action* 1. Image and vision computing. 13(10):725-744.

Fermüller C, Cheong LF, Aloimonos Y. 1995. 3D motion representations in visual servo control. Proceedings of International Symposium on Computer Vision, 1995. :61-66.

Fermüller C. 1995. Passive navigation as a pattern recognition problem. International Journal of Computer Vision. 14(2):147-158.

Fermüller C. 1995. Perception of 3D Motion through Patterns of Visual Motion..

1994

Fermüller C, Kropatsch W. 1994. A syntactic approach to scale-space-based corner description. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 16(7):748-751.

1993

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1993. The role of fixation in visual motion analysis. International Journal of Computer Vision. 11(2):165-186.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1993. Recognizing 3-D Motion. INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL IN℡LIGENCE. 13:1624-1624.

Fermüller C. 1993. Global 3D motion estimation. , 1993 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1993. Proceedings CVPR '93. :415-421.

Fermüller C. 1993. Motion constraint patterns. , Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Qualitative Vision, 1993. :128-139.

1992

Fermüller C, Kropatsch W. 1992. Multi-resolution shape description by corners. , 1992 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1992. Proceedings CVPR '92. :271-276.

Aloimonos Y, Duriç Z, Fermüller C, Huang L, Rivlin E, Sharma R. 1992. Behavioral Visual Motion Analysis,". Proceedings, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop. :521-541.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1992. Tracking facilitates 3-D motion estimation. Biological Cybernetics. 67(3):259-268.

Fermüller C, Kropatsch W. 1992. Hierarchical curve representation. , 11th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1992. Vol.III. Conference C: Image, Speech and Signal Analysis, Proceedings. :143-146.

Fermüller C, Aloimonos Y. 1992. Perceptual computational advantages of tracking. , 11th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1992. Vol.I. Conference A: Computer Vision and Applications, Proceedings. :599-602.