Cornelia Fermüller

Research Scientist

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(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, Aloimonos Y. 1999. Active Perception. Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics EngineeringWiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

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, 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.

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.

1996

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

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.

1995

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

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.

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

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.

1992

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.

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.