Christian Vogler: Publications

Journals - Refereed Papers - Non-refereed Papers - Ph.D. Thesis - Magazines

Journals

Christian Vogler and Siome Goldenstein. Facial movement analysis in ASL. Springer Journal on Universal Access in the Information Society (to appear, 2007).
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Christian Vogler, Siome Goldenstein, Jorge Stolfi, Vladimir Pavlovic, and Dimitris Metaxas. Outlier Rejection in High-Dimensional Deformable Models. Image and Vision Computing (in press, 2006).
Abstract - PDF file (3.4 MB)
Rong Zhang, Christian Vogler, and Dimitris Metaxas. Human Gait Recognition in Sagittal Plane. Image and Vision Computing (in press, 2006).
Siome Goldenstein, Christian Vogler, and Luiz Velho. Adaptive Deformable Models for Graphics and Vision. Computer Graphics Forum, 24:4, pp. 729-741, April 2005.
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Dinges, D.F., Rider, R.L., Dorrian, J., McGlinchey, E.L., Rogers, N.L., Cizman, Z., Goldenstein, S.K., Vogler, C., Venkataraman, S., and Metaxas, D.N. Optical computer recognition of facial expressions associated with stress induced by performance demands. Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine 76(6 Suppl):B172-82, June 2005
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Siome Goldenstein, Christian Vogler, and Dimitris Metaxas. Statistical Cue Integration in DAG Deformable Models. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), pp. 801-813, July 2003.
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Christian Vogler and Dimitris Metaxas. A Framework for Recognizing the Simultaneous Aspects of American Sign Language. Computer Vision and Image Understanding 81, pp. 358-384, 2001.
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Refereed Papers

Christian Vogler, Zhiguo Li, Atul Kanaujia, Siome Goldenstein, and Dimitris Metaxas. The Best of Both Worlds: Combining 3D Deformable Models with Active Shape Models. To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE XXI International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
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Siome Goldenstein and Christian Vogler. When Occlusions are Outliers. Procedings of the Workshop on the 25 Years of RANSAC (in conjunction with CVPR), 2006.
Abstract - PDF file (5MB)
Christian Vogler and Siome Goldenstein. Analysis of Facial Expressions in American Sign Language. Proceedings of the 3rd Intl. Conf. on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI) 2005.
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Siome Goldenstein, Christian Vogler, and Luiz Velho. Adaptive Deformable Models. Proceedings of SIBGRAPI/SIACG 2004.
Abstract - PDF file (3.4 MB)
Siome Goldenstein, Christian Vogler, Jorge Stolfi, Vladimir Pavlovic, and Dimitris Metaxas. Outlier Rejection in Deformable Model Tracking. IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion (in conjunction with CVPR), 2004.
Abstract - PDF file (940 K)
Rong Zhang, Christian Vogler, and Dimitris Metaxas. Human Gait Recognition. IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion (in conjunction with CVPR), 2004.
Abstract - PDF file (460 K)
Siome Goldenstein, Christian Vogler, and Dimitris Metaxas. 3D Facial Tracking from Corrupted Movie Sequences. Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), vol. I, pp. 880-885, 2004.
Abstract - PDF file (3.6 MB)
Christian Vogler and Dimitris Metaxas. Handshapes and movements: Multiple-channel ASL recognition. Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2915, pp. 247-258, 2004. Proceedings of the Gesture Workshop'03, Genova, Italy.
Abstract - Unrevised PDF file (365K)
Siome Goldenstein, Christian Vogler, and Dimitris Metaxas. Directed Acyclic Graph Representation of Deformable Models. IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC 2002), 2002.
Abstract - PDF file (1.7 MB)
Siome Goldenstein, Christian Vogler, and Dimitris Metaxas. Affine arithmetic based estimation of cue distributions in deformable model tracking. Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Kauai, HI, December 11-13, 2001.
Abstract - PDF file (1.2 MB)
Christian Vogler, Harold Sun, and Dimitris Metaxas. A Framework for Motion Recognition with Applications to American Sign Language and Gait Recognition. Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Motion, Austin, TX, December 7-8, 2000.
Abstract - PDF file (220 K)
Liwei Zhao, Karin Kipper, William Schuler, Christian Vogler, Norm Badler, and Martha Palmer. A Machine Translation System from English to American Sign Language. Proceedings of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas 2000, Published in Lecture Notes in AI series of Springer-Verlag, pages 54-67.
Abstract - PDF file (1.5 MB)
Christian Vogler and Dimitris Metaxas. Parallel Hidden Markov Models for American Sign Language Recognition. International Conference on Computer Vision, Kerkyra, Greece, September 22-25, 1999.
Abstract - PDF file (400K)
Christian Vogler and Dimitris Metaxas. Toward scalability in ASL recognition: Breaking down signs into phonemes. Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1739, pp. 211-224, Proceedings of the Gesture Workshop'99, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, March 17-19, 1999.
Abstract - PDF file (370 K)
Christian Vogler and Dimitris Metaxas. ASL recognition based on a coupling between HMMs and 3D motion analysis. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 363-369, Mumbai, India, January 4-7, 1998.
Abstract - PDF file (400 K)

Non-refereed Publications

Christian Vogler and Dimitris Metaxas. American Sign Language recognition: The modeling challenge. Paper presented at Gesture: The Living Medium, Austin, TX, June 5-8, 2002.
Liwei Zhao, Monica Costa, Christian Vogler, William Schuler, and Norm Badler. Modifying Movement Manner Using Adverbs. Fourth International Workshop on Autonomous Agents: Communicative Agents in Intelligent Virtual Environments. Barcelona, Spain, June 3-7, 2000.
Christian Vogler and Dimitris Metaxas. A Linguistics-Based Approach to American Sign Language Recognition. Paper presented at Gestures: Meaning and Use, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Oporto, Portugal, April 1 to 5, 2000.
Christian Vogler and Dimitris Metaxas. On managing complexity in sign language recognition. Paper presented at the 2nd High Desert Linguistic Society Conference, Albuqerque, NM, March 26th - March 28th, 1999.
Christian Vogler and Dimitris Metaxas. ASL recognition based on a coupling between HMMs and 3D motion analysis. Technical report MS-CIS-98-21, 1998
Abstract - PDF file (720 K)
Christian Vogler and Dimitris Metaxas. Adapting Hidden Markov Models for ASL recognition by using three-dimensional computer vision methods. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 156-161. Orlando, FL, October 12-15, 1997.
Abstract - PDF file (200 K)

Ph.D. thesis

Christian Vogler. American Sign Language Recognition: Reducing the Complexity of the Task with Phoneme-Based Modeling and Parallel Hidden Markov Models. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, December 2002.
Abstract - PDF file (8.7 MB)

Magazines/Other

Christian Vogler. Beverly Biderman: Wired for Sound - A Journey into Hearing (Review). Das Zeichen 13: 47 (1999) - pp. 162-164. Available online.
Christian Vogler. Mark Drolsbaugh: Deaf again (Review). Das Zeichen 11: 42 (1997) - pp. 615-617. Available online.
Christian Vogler. News from Philadelphia. Hörgeschädigte Kinder 33: 2 (1996) - pp. 65-66.
Christian Vogler. Bonnie Poitras Tucker: The feel of silence (Review). Das Zeichen 10: 37 (1996) - pp. 413-416.
Christian Vogler. Eindrücke aus einem Studienjahr an der Universität of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. Das Zeichen 10: 35 (1996) - pp. 12-17.
Christian Vogler. Mainstreaming - der bessere Weg? Hörgeschädigte Kinder 32: 2 (1995) - pp. 89-94. Available online.
Christian Vogler. Kommentar zu dem Artikel "Schlecht gedolmetscht, falsch gedeutscht?!" von Gaby Rausch. Das Zeichen 7: 25 (1993) - pp. 375-376.
Christian Vogler. Gehörlose im Nahen Osten - ein Reisebericht aus Jordanien. Das Zeichen 7: 23 (1993) - pp. 33-37.