Publications

• J. Wang and L. Yin, “Static Topographic Modeling for Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis”, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Special Issue on HCI),Vol. 108,No. 1-2, Oct. 2007.  p19 -34. Elsevier Science.
• S. Von Duhn, L. Yin, M. Ko, and T. Hung, “Multiple-View Face Tracking For Modeling and Analysis Based On Non-Cooperative Video Imagery”, IEEE CVPR 7th International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS2007), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2007, Minneapolis, MN. June, 2007.
• Matt Berger and Lijun Yin, “Wavelet-Based Stratified Irradiance Caching for Efficient Indirect Illumination”, 3rd International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2007). Nov., 2007. Lake Taheo, CA. Lectuer Notes Series in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.
• X. Wei , P. Longo, and L. Yin, ”Automatic Facial Pose Determination of 3D Range Data for Face Model and Expression Identification”, IEEE/IAPR International Conference on Biometrics, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 2007. 
• S. Von Duhn, M. Ko, L. Yin, T. Hung, and X. Wei, “Three-view surveillance video based face modeling for recognition”,  IEEE Biometrics Symposium at the Biometric Consortium Conference, Baltimore, MA, Sept. 2007.
• Y. Sun and L. Yin, "Genetic algorithm based approach for 3D face recognition using geometric face modeling and labeling", 3D Imaging for Safety and Security (Part I: Biometrics, Book Chapter 4), p95-118 (edited by A. Koschan, M. Pollefeys, and M. Abidi). Spinger, 2007
  
• J. Wang, L. Yin, and J. Moore, “Using Geometric Property of Topographic Manifold to Detect and Track Eyes for Human Computer Interaction”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communication, and Applications, Vol.3, No. 4, December 2007. (article 21: page 1 -19).
• L. Yin, X. Wei, P. Longo, and A. Bhuvanesh, “Analyzing Facial Expressions Using Intensity-Variant 3D Data for Human Computer Interaction”, 18^th IEEE/IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Hong Kong, Aug. 20 - 24, 2006. p1248 – 1251. (Best  Paper Award)
• L. Yin and M. Yourst, "Hyper-Resolution: image detail reconstruction through parametric edges",  Computers and Graphics, Vol. 29, No. 6, Elsevier Science, Dec. 2005. p946-960. (Second Best Paper Award of the Year 2005 of the Journal of Computers and Graphics).
• L. Seversky and L. Yin, “Real-time Spatial Relationship Based 3D Scene Composition of Unknown Objects”, ACM SIGGRAPH (poster program), Boston, MA, 2006.
• J. Wang, L. Yin, X. Wei, and Y. Sun, "3D facial expression recognition based on primitive surface feature distribution", IEEE International Conference on  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006), New York, NY, June, 2006. IEEE Computer Society. p1399-1406
  
• Y. Sun and L. Yin, Evaluation of 3D Facial Feature Selection For Individual Facial Model Identification, ICPR 2006, Hong Kong. Aug, 2006
• L. Yin, X. Wei, Y. Sun, J, Wang, and M. Rosato, "A 3D facial expression database for facial behavior research", IEEE 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG06), Southampton, UK, April 2006. IEEE Computer Society TC PAMI.  p211-216
  
• L. Yin and X. Wei, "Multi-scale feature based expression modeling", IEEE 7th  International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG06), Southampton, UK, April 2006. IEEE Computer Society TC PAMI. p603-608
  
• J. Smith and L. Yin,  "Efficient hand gesture rendering and recognition using a simple gesture library",  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. (ICME06), Toronto. June, 2006. p1857-1860
• X. Wei and L. Yin, “Sequence Based Face Characterization Using Factorized Feature Points”, First International workshop on Face Processing For Security, June 7-9, 2006. Quebec City, Canada (in conjunction with conference on Computer & Robot Vision (CRV'06)
• M. Berger and L. Yin, "Automatic camera navigation for time-variant objects", ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 (poster program), Los Angelas, CA..
  
• M. Berger,  L. Yin and J. Moore, "Active view optimization for viewing objects in motion",  International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lake Tahoe, Neveda, 2005.  p9-16. Lectuer Notes Series in Computer Science (LNCS 3804: Advances in Visual Computing), Springer-Verlag.
• L. Yin, A. Basu and J. Chang, “Scalable edge enhancement with automatic optimization for digital radiographic images”, Pattern Recognition, vol. 37, No. 7. p1407-1422, Elsevier Science. July 2004.
• Y. Sun and L. Yin, "3D face recognition using two views face modeling and labeling", IEEE CVPR05 Workshop on Advanced 3D Imaging for Safety and Security (A3DISS), San Diego, CA, 2005
• J. Wang and L. Yin, "Detecting and tracking eyes through dynamic terrain feature matching", IEEE CVPR05 Workshop on Vision for Human Computer Interaction (V4HCI) in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2005., San Diego, CA.
  
• J. Wang and L. Yin, "Eye detection under unconstrained background by the terrain feature", ICME2005. Amsterdan, Netherland.
• X. Wei, Z. Zhu, L. Yin and Q. Ji, “A real time face tracking and animation system”, First IEEE Workshop on Face Processing in Video, in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'04). (IEEE Computer Society), 2004
• L. Yin and J. Loi and W. Xiong, “Facial Expression Representation and Recognition Based on Texture Augmentation and Topographic Masking”, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2004 (SIGMM), New York, NY, Oct., 2004
• L. Yin and K. Weiss, “Generating 3D Views of Facial Expressions From Frontal Face Video Based on Topographic Analysis”, Proceedings of  ACM Multimedia 2004 (SIGMM), New York, NY, Oct., 2004
• X. Wei and Z. Zhu and L. Yin and Q. Ji, “Avatar mediated face tracking and lip reading for human computer interaction”, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2004 (SIGMM), New York, NY, Oct., 2004
• L. Yin, J. Loi, J. Jia and J. Morrissey,  “Topographic Based Facial Skin Color Transfer”, ACM SIGGRRAPH, August, 2004. (poster presentation)
• L. Yin,  K. Weiss and X. Wei, “Face Modeling From Frontal Face Image Based on Topographic Analysis”,  ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 (Posters program), August, 2004. Los Angeles, CA.
• J. Yao, Z. Zhang and L. Yin, "A multimodal approach to time-invariant scene retrieval from single overhead image", 6thACM SIGMM Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR'04) in conjuction with ACM MM04, New York, NY, 2004. p205-212
• L. Yin,  J. Loi and W. Xiong,  ”Facial Expression Analysis Based on Enhanced Texture and Topographical Structure”, invited paper by special session of automatic facial expression analysis”, invited paper by IEEE SMC04, Oct. 2004,  The Hague, Netherlands.
• J. Jia, L.Yin and J. Morrissey, “On the importance of skin color for other race effect”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME04), 2004. 
• X. Wei, Z. Zhu, L. Yin and Q. Ji, “Face Animation by real time feature tracking”, ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 (Posters program)  August, 2004. Los Angeles, CA.
  
• L.Yin, J. Jia and J. Morrissey, “Towards race-related face identification: research on skin color transfer”, IEEE 6th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2004), IEEE Computer Society. May 17-19, 2004.
• L. Yin and A. Basu, “Generating Realistic Facial Expressions with Wrinkles for Model Based Coding'', Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 84, No.2, November 2001. Academic Press. p201-240.
• L. Yin, A. Basu, S. Bernogger and A. Pinz, "Synthesizing a realistic facial animation using energy minimization for model based coding", Pattern Recognition, Vol.34, No.11, November 2001, Elsevier Science, pp2201-2213
• L. Yin and A. Basu,  "Integrating active face tracking with model based coding", Pattern Recognition Letter, vol.20, No.6, pp651-657, 1999.
• H. Ip and L. Yin,  "Constructing 3D Individualized Head Model From Two Orthogonal Views", The Visual Computer - the International Journal in Computer Graphics, Vol.12, No.5, Springer-Verlag, pp254-266, 1996.
• L. Yin, et al,  "Active Tracking and Cloning of Facial Expressions using Spatio-Temporal Information", International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol.12, No.3, Sept. 2003, World Science Press. p279-295
• L. Yin and M. Yourst, “3D face recognition based on high-resolution 3D face modeling from frontal and profile views”, ACM SIGMM 2003 Multimedia: Biometrics Methods and Applications Workshop in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2003, Berkeley, CA, November 2003. p1-8
• L. Yin, S. Deshpande and J. Chang, “Automatic lesion/tumor detection using intelligent mesh-based active contour”, IEEE ICTAI’03, Sacramento, CA, November, 2003. p390-397
• L. Yin and S. Royt, “Recognizing facial expressions using active textures with wrinkles”, IEEE Inter. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME03), Baltimore, MD, July 2003. (IEEE Computer Society) p177-180
• L. Yin, A. Abidin and J. Chang,  "Scalable image enhancement for head CT scans with reduced iodine", SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging, Feb. 2003. San Diego, CA. pp1017-1024
• L. Yin, et al,  “Active Tracking and Cloning of Facial Expressions using Spatio-Temporal Information”, 14th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI’02), Washington D.C., Nov. 2002. p347-354
• L. Yin, et al, “Color-based mouth shape tracking for synthesizing realistic facial expressions”, IEEE Inter. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP2002), Rochester, NY, Sept., 2002. p161-164
• L. Yin, J. Chang and A. Basu, “Synthesis-based scalable image enhancement for digital radiography”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2002), Rochester, NY, Sept., 2002. p973-976
• L. Yin, J. Chang and A. Abidin, “Automatically reducing iodine in contrast head CT scans by image processing”, 16th International Congress and Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS 2002), Paris, France, June, 2002. p1013
• L. Yin and A. Basu,  “Nose shape estimation and tracking for model-based coding”,  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP'2001), Salt Lake City, Utah,  May, 2001. pp1477-1480
• L. Yin and A. Basu, "Partial update of active textures for efficient expression synthesis in model-based coding", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME'2000), New York city, NY, July, 2000.    
• L. Yin and A. Basu, "Texture decomposition and correlation thresholding for realistic low-bitrate model-based coding", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP'2000), Istanbul, Turkey, June, 2000.      
• L. Yin and A. Basu, "Face model adaptation with active tracking", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'99), Kobe, Japan, Oct. 1999.
• L. Yin and A. Basu, "Realistic animation using extended adaptive mesh for model based coding", 2nd International Workshop on Energy Minimization Method in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR'99), Springer-Verlag Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, York, England, pp269-284, July, 1999.
• L. Yin and A. Basu,  "MPEG4 face modeling using fiducial points", Proceedings of 1997 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'97), pp109-112, Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 1997.
• S. Berggoner, L. Yin, A. Basu and A. Pinz, "Eye tracking and animation for MPEG4 coding", Proceedings of IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'98), pp1281-1284, Australia, Aug., 1998.

• Invited Talk: Kodak Research Center, Rochester, NY., and distinguished lecture of IEEE Signal Processing Section in Rochester, NY, 2007.
• Invited Talk: Air Force Research Lab at Write-Patterson, OH, March, 2005
• "A generic algorithm based feature selection approach for 3D face recognition", Biometrics Symposium, Washington DC, 2005 (sponsored by NIST, DOD, NSF, NIJ, NSA, etc.)
• "A face interface system  with tracking tracking and factorization". HCI International 2005, Las Vegas, NV
  
• Invited Talk: Selected Lectures for Presentation at Lockheed Martin, Owego, NY, 2004
• International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Homeland Security, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2003
• Ninth and Tenth Annual Clinical Campus Research Poster Session Collaboration for Health, SUNY Upstate University Clinical Campus at Binghamton, 2001 and 2002
• InfoCity'98, Shaw Exhibition Center, Edmonton, Canada, 1998.
• Poster and Demonstration (Project 5.2), The Second Annul Conference of Tele-Learning Network of Centers of Excellence, Toronto, Canada.1998.