Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2. C. M. Taskiran, Z. Pizlo, A. Amir, D. Ponceleon, and e. J. Delp, “Automated Video Program Summarization Using Speech Transcripts”, Accepted to IEEE T-MM, to appear.
3. A. Amir, L. Zimet, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, and S. Kao “An Embedded System for an Eye Detection Sensor”, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, CVIU Special Issue on Eye Detection and Tracking, Vol.98(1) , April 2005, Pages 104-123
4. A. Amir, G. Ashour, and S. Srinivasan, "Automatic Generation of Conf. Video Proceedings", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, JVCI Special Issue on Multimedia Databases, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2004, Pages 467-488 (An invited paper)
5. A. Amir, S. Srinivasan and D. Ponceleon, “Efficient Video Browsing Using Multiple Synchronized Views, in Azriel Rosenfeld, David Doermann, and Daniel DeMenthon (editors), Video Mining, Kluwer Academic Publishers, August 2003, Boston. ISBN 1-4020-7549-9.
6. A. Amir, S. Basu , G. Iyengar,C-Y. Lin, M. Naphade, J. R. Smith, S. Srinivasan, and B. Tseng, “A Multi-Modal System for the Retrieval of Semantic Video Events”, CVIU Special Issue on Event Mining: The Detection and Recognition if Events in Video, October 2004
7. A. Amir, S. Srinivasan and A. Efrat, “Search The Speech, Browse The Video – A Generic Paradigm for Video Collections”, in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, JASP Special Issue on Unstructured Information Management from Multimedia Data Sources, EURASIP JASP 2003:2 (2003) pp. 209-222.
8. E. Brown, S. Srinivasan, A. Coden, D. Ponceleon, J. Cooper, A. Amir, J. Pieper, “Towards Speech as a Knowledge Resource,” IBM Systems Journal, Volume 40, Number 4, 2001.
9. S. Srinivasan, D. Ponceleon, A. Amir, B. Blanchard, D. Petkovic, “Engineering the Web for Multimedia”, in San Murugesan and Yogesh Deshpande (editors), Web Engineering: Managing Diversity and Complexity in Web Application Development, LNCS Vol. 2016, Springer-Verlag, April 2001, ISBN 3-540-42130-0.
10. A. Amir, A. Efrat, P. Indyk and H. Samet, “Efficient Spatial Data Structures for Dilation, Location and Proximity Problems", Algorithmica, special issue on Algorithms for Geographical Information, Volume 30 Number 2, 2001, pp. 164-187.
11. C. Morimoto, D. Koons, A. Amir and M. Flickner, “Pupil Detection and Tracking Using Multiple Light Sources", Image and Vision Computing, IVC special issue on Advances in Facial Image Analysis and Recognition Technology, IVC(18), No. 4, March 2000, pp. 331-335.
12. A. Amir and M. Lindenbaum, “Ground From Figure Discrimination", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, CVIU special issue on Perceptual Organization, CVIU(76), No. 1, October 1999, pp. 7-18.
13. A. Amir and M. Lindenbaum, “A Generic Grouping Algorithm and its Quantitative Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, T-PAMI Vol. 20(2), pp. 168-185, Feb. 1998.
14. A. Amir and M. Lindenbaum, “Grouping-based Non Additive Verification", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 20(2), pp.186-192, Feb. 1998.
15. A. Amir and M. Lindenbaum, “Grouping-based Non Additive Verification in Computer Vision", in C. Arcelli, L. P. Cordella and G. Sanniti di Baja (Editors), Advances in Visual Form Analysis, World Scientific Publishing, pp. 1-10, 1997
16. R. Kimmel, A. Amir and A.M. Bruckstein, “Finding Shortest Paths on Graph Surfaces", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, T-PAMI 17(6), pp. 635-640, Jun. 1995.
17. R. Kimmel, A. Amir and A.M. Bruckstein, “Finding Shortest Paths on Surfaces”, in Curves and Surfaces in Geometric Design, pp. 259-268. Presented in Chamonix, 1993. Also TR, CIS-9301, Technion IIT, Jan. 1993.
Conference Papers and Other Refereed Publications
1. A. Amir, “Detecting Video Shot Boundaries using an Adaptive Finite State Machine,” to be submitted.
2. A. Amir, Marco Berg and Haim Permuter, “Mutual Relevance Feedback for Multimodal Query Formulation in Video Retrieval,” accepted to 5th IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR 2005, (w/ACM-MM 2005).
3. S. Srinivasan, A. Amir, P. Deshpande, V. Zbarsky, “On Business Activity Modeling using Grammars”, Fourteenth Int. World Wide Web Conf., WWW 2005 May 10-14, 2005, in Chiba, Japan.
4. A. Amir, J. Argillander, M. Berg, S-F. Chang, M. Franz, W. Hsu, G. Iyengar, J. R Kender, L. Kennedy, C-Y. Lin, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, J. R. Smith, J. Tesic, G. Wu, R. Yan, D. Zhang, “IBM Research TRECVID-2004 Video Retrieval System”, Proc. of NIST TRECVID 2004, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2004.
5. Savitha Srinivasan, A. Amir, Prasad Deshpande, and Vladimir Zbarsky, "Grammar-Based Task Analysis of Web Logs", CIKM 2004, Nov. 8-13, 2004, Washington D.C.
6. A. Amir, G. Iyengar, C-Y. Lin, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, C. Neti, H. Nock, J. R. Smith, J. Tseng, “Multimodal Video Search Techniques: Late Fusion of Speech Based Retrieval and Visual Content-Based Retrieval”, ICASSP 2004.
7. A. Amir, Marco Berg, Giri Iyengar, Ching-Yung Lin, Chitra Dorai, Milind Naphade, Apostol Natsev, Chalapathy Neti, Harriet Nock, Ishan Sachdev, John Smith, Yi Wu, Belle Tseng, Dongqing Zhang, “IBM Research TRECVID-2003 Video Retrieval System”, in Proc. of NIST TRECVID 2003, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD.
8. A. Amir, Alon Efrat, Jussi Myllymaki, Lingeshwaran Palaniappan and Kevin Wampler, "Buddy tracking - efficient proximity detection among mobile friends", Infocom 2004. (earlier version: IBM Research Report, RJ10250 Computer Science, August 8, 2002)
9. Lior Zimet, Sean Kao, A. Amir and Alberto sangiovanni-Vincentelli, “An Embedded System for an Eye Detection Sensor”, CVPRIP 2003, September 25-28, 2003, Cary, NC.
10. Lior Zimet, Sean Kao, A. Amir and Alberto sangiovanni-Vincentelli, “A Real Time Embedded System for an Eye Detection Sensor”, In Proc. of Computer Vision And Pattern Recognition CVPR-2003 Demo Session, Wisconsin, June 16-22 2003.
11. Bill Adams, A. Amir, Chitra Dorai, Sugata Ghosal, Giridharan Iyengar, Alejandro Jaimes, Christian Lang, Ching-Yung Lin, Apostol Natsev, Milind Naphade, Chalapathy Neti , Harriet J. Nock, Haim H. Permuter, Raghavendra Singh, John R. Smith, Savitha Srinivasan, Belle L. Tseng, Ashwin T. V.z , Dongqing Zhang, “IBM Research TRECVID-2002 Video Retrieval System”, in NIST TRECVID-2002 Video Track, Maryland Nov. 20-22, 2002.
12. C. H. Morimoto, A. Amir and M. Flickner, “Detecting Eye Position and Gaze from a Single Camera and 2 Light Sources”, in Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, ICPR-2002, August 2002, Québec City, Canada.
13. C. H. Morimoto, A. Amir and M. Flickner, “Free Head Motion Eye Gaze Tracking Without Calibration”, in Proc. of ACM Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI-2002, pp. 586-587, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2002.
14. C. M. Taskiran,, A. Amir, E. J. Delp and D. Ponceleon, “Automated Video and Speech Summarization at Sentence Level”, in Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2002, SPIE Vol. #4676, pp.371-382, January 21-25, 2002, San Jose.
15. J. Smith, S. Srinivasan, A. Amir, S. Basu, G. Iyengar, C. Yung, M. Naphade, D. Ponceleon, B. Tseng, "Integrating Feaures, Models, and Semantics for TREC Video Retrieval", in NIST TREC-10 Video Track, Maryland Nov. 9-13, 2001.
16. E. Brown, S. Srinivasan, A. Coden, D. Ponceleon, J. Cooper, A. Amir, J. Pieper, “Towards Speech as a Knowledge Resource,” in Proc. of the Tenth Int. Conf. On Information and Knowledge Management, ACM-CIKM-2001, pp. 526-528, November 5-10 2001, Atlanta GA.
17. A. Amir, A. Efrat and S. Srinivasan, “Advances in Phonetic Word Spotting”, in Proc. of the Tenth Int. Conf. On Information and Knowledge Management, ACM-CIKM-2001, pp. 580-582, November 5-10 2001, Atlanta GA. Also IBM Research Report RJ 10215 (95089) August 29, 2001.
18. A. Amir, G. Ashour and S. Srinivasan, “Towards Automatic Real Time Preparation of On-Line Video Proceedings for Conference Talks and Presentations”, in Video Use in Office and Education, Thirty-Fourth Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Sciences, HICSS-34, Maui, January 2001.
19. G. Ashour, A. Amir, D. Ponceleon and S. Srinivasan, Architecture for varying multimedia formats, Proceedings on ACM Multimedia 2000, ACM-MM 00 p.85-88, Los Angeles, CA, 10/30–11/3/2000.
20. W. Niblack, S. Yue, R. Kraft, A. Amir and N. Sundaresan, “Web-Based Searching and Browsing of Multimedia Data”, IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 00, New York, 7/30- 8/2/2000.
21. P. Van Beek, I. Sezan, D. Ponceleon and A. Amir, “Content Description for Efficient Video Navigation, Browsing and Personalization”, in IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Library CBAVIL 00, held at the IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 13-15, 2000.
22. S. Srinivasan, D. Ponceleon, A. Amir, B. Blanchard, D. Petkovic, “Engineering the Web for Multimedia”, in Web Engineering Workshop (WEBE-2000), WWW-9, Amsterdam, 5/15-19/2000.
23. A. Amir, D. Ponceleon, B. Blanchard, D. Petkovic, S. Srinivasan, and G. Cohen, “Using Audio Time Scale Modification for Video Browsing”, Video Use in Office and Education, Thirty-Third Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Sciences, HICSS-33, Maui, January 2000. Best Paper Award.
24. D. Ponceleon, A. Amir, S. Srinivasan, T. Syeda-Mahmood and D. Petkovic, CueVideo: automated multimedia indexing and retrieval (demo session), Proceedings of the seventh ACM Int. Conf. on Multimedia, ACM-MM 99 Vol.2, P.199, 10/30–11/5/1999, Orlando, Florida.
25. A. Amir, A. Efrat, P. Indyk and H. Samet, “Efficient Spatial Data Structures for Dilation, Location and Proximity Problems”, 40th Annual Symposium on Foundation of Computer Science, FOCS-99, pp. 160-170, October 1999, New York.
26. C.H. Morimoto, D. Koons, A. Amir, and M. Flickner, “Keeping an Eye for HCI”, XII Brazilian Symp. In Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Campinas, Brazil, October 1999.
27. C.H. Morimoto, D. Koons, A. Amir, and M. Flickner, “Frame Rate Pupil Detector and Gaze Tracker”, ICCV'99 FRAME-RATE workshop, September 1999, Corfu.
28. Amir, A., Srinivasan, S., Ponceleon, D., and Petkovic, D., “CueVideo: Automated Indexing of Video for Searching and Browsing”, In Proceedings of ACM-SIGIR-99, pp. 326, Berkeley, CA, Aug 99.
29. S. Srinivasan, D. Ponceleon, A. Amir and D. Petkovic, “What is in That Video Anyway? In Search of Better Browsing”, 6th IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Sys., ICMCS-99 6/7-11/99, Florence, Italy.
30. C. Morimoto, D. Koons, A. Amir and M. Flickner, “Real-Time Detection of Eyes & Faces”, in Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, PUI-98, San Francisco, Nov. 1998.
31. D. Ponceleon, S. Srinivasan, A. Amir, D. Petkovic and D. Diklic, “Key to Effective Video Retrieval: Effective Cataloguing and Browsing”, Proc. of ACM MM 98, pp.99-107, Bristol, UK, 1998.
32. A. Amir and M. Lindenbaum, “Ground From Figure Discrimination”, in Proc. of IEEE CS Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR-98, pp. 521-527, Santa Barbara, CA, 1998 (TR CIS-9706, Technion IIT, May 1997).
33. C. Morimoto, D. Koons, A. Amir and M. Flickner, “Pupil Detection and Tracking Using Multiple Light Sources”, Workshop on Advances in Facial Image Analysis and Recognition Technology, Fifth European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 98, Freiburg, June 1998. IBM Research Report RJ 10117 (91933), Apr. 15, 1998.
34. A. Amir and M. Lindenbaum, “Grouping-Based Hypotheses Verification In Object Recognition”, presented in the 3rd Int. Workshop on Visual Form, May 1997, Capri, Italy, and in IEEE CS Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, POCV-98 (post CVPR-98), June 1998, Santa Barbara, CA
35. A. Amir, M. Lindenbaum, "Grouping Based Hypotheses Verification in Object Recognition", 13th Israeli Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, ICAICV-95, Tel-Aviv University, February 3 - 4, 1997. Also TR CIS-9518, Technion IIT, Oct. 1995.
36. A. Amir and M. Lindenbaum, “Quantitative Analysis of Grouping Processes”, in Proc. ECCV-96, volume 1, pages 371-384, Cambridge, England, Apr. 1996.
37. A. Amir and M. Lindenbaum, “A Generic Grouping Algorithm, its Quantitative Analysis, and Some Implementations”, Int. Workshop on Computer Vision and Applied Geometry, CVAG-95 Nordfjordeid, Norway, Aug. 1995.
Other Disclosures and Technical Reports
1. A. Amir, A. Roytman, M. Bachiani, U. Chaudhari, R. Hoory, M. Picheny, B. Ramabhadran, O. Siohan, Z. Sivan, “IBM WebSphere Voice Server & Speech Analytics - Strategy and Architecture”, IBM White Paper, July 2005 (IBM Confidential).
2. A. Amir, H. Permuter and S. Srinivasan, “Soft Boolean Speech Retrieval”, disclosure.
3. A. Amir and D. Beymer, “Surveillance Optical Imaging Device with face detection and automatic settings”, disclosure.
4. A. Amir and Nimrod Megiddo, “Authenticating electronic mail address and tracking their distribution”, ARC8-2001-0207, disclosure.
5. M. Denesuk, A. Amir, R. Kraft, B. Blanchard, G. Ashour, “Bandwidth Optimization for The Distribution of Media Content”, ARC8-2000-0323, disclosure.
6. Amir, D. Ponceleon, A. Amir and D. Petkovic, “Content Based Video Summarization", ARC8-1998-0232, disclosure.
7. A. Amir “A Quantitative Approach to Perceptual Grouping in Computer Vision”, D.Sc. thesis, Computer Science Dept., Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel, May 1997.
8. A. Amir, A. Efrat and H. Samet, “Dilation and Quadtrees - Theoretical and Practical Results”, TR, CIS-9626, Technion IIT, Dec. 1996.
9. A. Amir and M. Lindenbaum, “The Construction and Analysis of a Generic Grouping Algorithm”, TR, CIS-9418, Technion IIT, Nov. 1994. Revised Nov. 1995. Revised June 1996.
10. A. Amir, “Depth From Structured Light And Axial Motion”, M.Sc. thesis, CS Dept., Technion IIT, Nov. 1992. (Hebrew)