Francis Quek

Patents

1997 Quek, F., "Content-Based Video Access System," Provisional US Patent, No. 60/053,353 led on 07/22/1997. PCT application Serial No. PCT/US98/15063 led on 07/22/1998. UIC le number: CQ037.

1998 Quek, F., "Cerebral Circulation Model and Applications", US provisional patentapplication Serial No. 60/073,580 led on 02/03/1998 US patent application Serial No. 09/243,870 led on 02/03/1999 PCT application Serial No. PCT/US99/75111 led on 02/03/1999 UIC le number: CR04.

Publications

Quek, F., and Fang, J., "An algorithm for gaze frame tracking in monocular video," In preparation, to be submitted to ICCV'99 International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems (RATFG-RTS'99) Corfu, Greece September 26-27, 1999

Quek, F., McNeill, D., Ansari, R., Ma, X., Robert Bryll, R., Duncan, S., and McCullough, K.E., "Gestural Cues for Conversational Interaction in Monocular Video," In preparation, to be submitted to ICCV'99 International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems (RATFG-RTS'99) Corfu, Greece September 26-27, 1999

Quek, F., Bryll, R., and Ma, X., "A parallel algorithm for dynamic gesture tracking," In preparation, to be submitted to ICCV'99 International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems (RATFG-RTS'99) Corfu, Greece September 26-27, 1999.

Quek, F., Kirbas, C., and Gong, X., "A review of vessel extraction techniques and algorithms," In preparation, to be submitted to ACM Computing Surveys.

Quek, F., and Gong, X., "Extraction of vascular trees: A wave propagation approach," In preparation, to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

Quek, F., Bryll, R., and Ma, X., "Content-Based Video Access," Submitted to ACM Multimedia Systems Journal.

Quek, F., Bryll, R., and Ma, X, "Vector Coherence Mapping: A parallel algorithm for image flow computation with fuzzy combination of multiple constraints," Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).

Quek, F., "An algorithm for the rapid computation of boundaries in run length encoded regions," Accepted, in press: Pattern Recognition Journal.

Quek, F., Kirbas, C. and Charbel, F., "AIM: Attentionally-based interaction model for the interpretation of vascular angiography," Accepted, in press: IEEE Transactions in Information Technology in Biomedicine.

Quek F., and Bryll, R., "Vector Coherence Mapping: A parallelizable approach to image flow computation," Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Vol. 2, Hong Kong, January, 1998, pp. 591--598.

Zhao, M., and Quek, F., "RIEVL: Recursive induction learning in hand gesture recognition," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 20, No. 11, November 1998, pp. 1174--1185

Chang, C.K., Cai, L., and Quek, F., "On formal meetings for net-centric web-based computing," Proceedings of the International Symposium for Internet Technology, ISIT'98, April, 1998, pp. 35--40.

Charbel, F., Shi, J., Quek, F. Zhao, M., and Misra, M., "Neurovascular flow simulation review," Neurological Research, Vol 20, No. 2, March 1998, pp. 107-115.

Chang C.K., Quek, F., Cai, L., Kim, S., and Kunzmann-Combelles, A., "A research on Collaboration Net," International Conference on Software Engineering, Morocco, Tunisia, 1997, pp. 228--233.

Quek, F., "Unencumbered Gestural Interaction," IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 4, No. 3, Winter 1996, pp. 36--47.

Quek, F., "Non-Verbal Vision-Based Interfaces," Keynote Speech, International Workshop in Human Interface Technology '95, IWHIT'95, October 12-13, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan.

Quek, F., "Eyes in the Interface," International Journal of Image and Vision Computing, Vol.13, Number 6, pp. 511-525, August, 1995.

Quek, F., Mysliwiec, T., and Zhao, M., "FingerMouse: A Freehand Pointing Interface," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 372-377, June 26-28, 1995.

Quek, F., "Toward a vision-based hand gesture interface," Proceedings of the Virtual Reality System Technology Conference, pp. 17-29, August 23-26, 1994, Singapore.

Quek, F., and Petro, M., "Human-Machine Perceptual Cooperation," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction INTERCHI'93: Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 123-130, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24--29, April 1993.

Quek, F., "Vision-Based Gesture Interpretation," Virtual Reality Fall 1993 Conference, New York, September 1993.

Quek, F., Jain, R., and Weymouth, T.E., "An abstraction-based approach to 3D Pose Determination from Range Images," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, vol. PAMI-15, no. 7, pp. 722-736, July 1993.

Goshtasby, A. and Quek, F., "Using Gaussians in image filtering and data approximation," IMACS World Congress, Atlanta, Georgia, July 4-8,Vol. 1, pp. 193-195, 1993.

Quek, F., "Hand gesture interface for human-machine interaction," Proceedings of the Virtual Reality'93 Conference, pp. 13-19, New York, 15-17, March 1993.

Quek, F., and Petro, M., "Interactive map conversion: Combining machine vision and human input," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Palm Springs, CA., pp. 255-264, Nov. 30-Dec. 2 1992.

Jain, R., Besl, P. and Quek, F., "Range data analysis," Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Second Edition, Shapiro, Stuart C. Ed. Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, pp. 1250-1265, 1992.

Shu, C-F., Jain, R., and Quek, F., "A linear algorithm for computing phase portraits of oriented textures," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 352-357, June 2-6, 1991.

Quek, F., On Three-Dimensional Object Recognition and Pose Determination: An Abstraction Based Approach, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 1990.

Alkon, D. L., Quek, F., and Vogl, T. P., "Computer modeling of associative learning," in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, D. Touretzky (ed.), 1989.

Alkon, D. L., Quek, F., and Vogl, T. P., "Computer modeling of associative learning," IEEE Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - Natural and Synthetic, December 1, 1988.

Quek, F., Jain, R., and Mitchell, B., "Tele-Perception," SPIE Conference on Space Station Automation IV, Vol. 1006, pp. 152-162, #1006-19, November 7-9, 1988.

Quek, F., Franklin, R., and Pont, F., "A decision system for autonomous robot navigation," SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, Vol. 579, pp. 377-388, #59-50, September 1985.

F. Quek, A Decision System For Autonomous Robot Navigation, M.S.E. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 1984.

Technical Reports

Zhao, M, and Quek, F., "RBI: A Rule-Based Induction Approach and Its Application in Hand Pose Recognition," VISLab. Technical Report, VISLab-95-001, June 1995.

Jacobus, C., Mitchell, B., Na, A., Quek, F., and Riggs, A. J., "Review of sensing requirements and technology alternatives for an orbital servicer application," CAMRSS Final Report, prepared for Fairchild Space Company for submission to Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, 205400-3-F CAMRSS-88-098, October 1988.