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Brendan McCane

Publications

To Appear

2009

  1. Brendan McCane, "Introductory Programming with Python", Kiwi PyCon, Christchurch, November, 2009. Python Monograph Series, Volume 1 (2009), Paper number 18.
  2. Joost Vromen, Brendan McCane, "Red Blood Cell Segmentation from SEM Images", Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, Wellington, November 2009.
  3. Ignas Kukenys, Brendan McCane, Tim Neumegen, "Training support vector machines on large sets of image data", Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Xi'An, China, September 2009.
  4. A.A. Navarro Newball, G. Wyvill, B. McCane, "Object Interaction using Tabulated Spheres Subsets", Conference on Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, Cardiff University, June 2009, pp 57-60.
  5. S.C.B. Lam, B. McCane, R. Allen, "Automated Tracking in Digitized Videofluoroscopy Sequences for Spine Kinematic Analysis", Image and Vision Computing. Vol 27, 2009, pp 1555-1571. Published online: Download.
  6. A. Angelidis, B. McCane, "Fur Simulation with Spring Continuum", The Visual Computer, Vol 25(3), pp 255-265, March 2009. local pdf. Official download.

2008

  1. I. Kukenys, B. McCane, "Classifier Cascades for Support Vector Machines", Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, 2008, doi: 10.1109/IVCNZ.2008.4762088.
  2. B. McCane, M.H. Albert, "Distance Functions for Categorical and Mixed Variables", Pattern Recognition Letters, 29:7, pp 985-993, May 2008. doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2008.01.021 pdf.
  3. K. Rezajooi, M. Moumene, B. McCane and A. T. H. Casey, "Potential adverse effects of incorrect centre of rotation placement in cervical disc arthroplasty devices" abstract published in, Proceedings of the 152 Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons, British Journal of Neurosurgery, Volume 22, Issue 4 August 2008 , pages 463 - 483. Best Oral Presentation (K. Rezajooi).
  4. A.A. Navarro Newball, G. Wyvill, Brendan McCane, "Efficient Mesh Generation Using Subdivision Surfaces", Systema y Telematica, Vol 6(12), pp 111-126, December 2008.

2006

  1. B. McCane, T. King, J.H. Abbott, "Calculating the 2D motion of lumbar vertebrae using splines.", Journal of Biomechanics, 39:14, pp 2703-2708, doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2005.09.015. pdf.
  2. J H Abbott, Julie M Fritz, Brendan McCane, Barry Shultz, Peter Herbison, Brett Lyons, Georgia Stefanko and Richard M Walsh, "Lumbar segmental mobility disorders: comparison of two methods of defining abnormal displacement kinematics in a cohort of patients with non-specific mechanical low back pain", BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006, 7:45, doi:10.1186/1471-2474-7-45, 19 May 2006. Web access.

2005

  1. J H Abbott, Brendan McCane, Peter Herbison, Graeme Moginie, Cathy Chapple, Tracy Hogarty, "Lumbar segmental instability: a criterion-related validity study of manual therapy assessment", BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 6:56, November, 2005, doi:10.1186/1471-2474-6-56. Web access.
  2. B. McCane, J. Haxby Abbott and T. King, "On Calculating the Finite Centre of Rotation for Rigid Planar Motion", Medical Engineering and Physics, 27(1), pp 75-79, 2005. pdf, journal website.
  3. B. McCane (ed), Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ), 512p, 2005. ISBN 0-473-10523-3. Webpage: http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/ivcnz05/programme.html.

2004

  1. B. McCane and T. Caelli, "Diagnostic Tools for Evaluating and Updating Hidden Markov Models," Pattern Recognition, 37(7), pp 1325-1337, 2004. pdf.
  2. J. Mackie and B.McCane, "Finger Detection with Decision Trees", proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2004, pp 399-403. pdf.
  3. A. Wood, B, McCane and S. King, "Ray Tracing Arbitrary Objects on the GPU", proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2004, pp 327-332. pdf.
  4. B. McCane, K. Novins and M. Albert, "Optimizing Cascade Classifiers", pdf, unpublished manuscript.

2003

  1. T. Caelli and B. McCane, "Components analysis of hidden Markov models in computer vision," presented at 12th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Mantova, Italy, 2003, pp. 510-515. postscript, pdf.
  2. B. McCane and K. Novins, "On Training Cascade Face Detectors," presented at Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, Palmerston North, 2003, pp. 239-244. postscript, pdf.
  3. S. King, A. Knott, and B. McCane, "Language-Driven Nonverbal Communication in a Bilingual Conversational Agent," presented at 16th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, 2003, pp. 17-22.

2002

  1. McCane, B., B. Galvin, et al. (2002). Algorithmic Fusion for More Robust Feature Tracking. International Journal of Computer Vision 49(1): 79-89.
  2. Vittrup, M., M. K. D. Sorensen, et al. (2002). Pose Estimation by Applied Numerical Techniques Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2002 (IVCNZ2002), Auckland.

2001

  1. McCane, B., Novins, K., Crannitch, D. and Galvin, B. (2001) On Benchmarking Optical Flow, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 84(1), 126-143. pdf
  2. Da, L., McCane, B. and Wei, P. (2001). "Character Preclassification Based on Fuzzy Typographical Analysis" In 6th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, IEEE, Seattle, USA.
  3. Novins, K. and McCane, B. (2001) Incorporating Primary Source Material into the Undergraduate Computer Vision Curriculum, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 15, 775-787.
  4. Pengelly, J., McCane, B. and Nicol, J. (2001). "Computerized Evaluation of Mammography Phantom Image Quality" In Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2001, Dunedin, pp. 345-350.
  5. Da, L., McCane, B. and Wei, P. (2001). "A Topographic Segmentation Method for Merged Character Images" In Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2001, Dunedin, pp. 207-212.
  6. McCane, B. (2001). Real Time Deformable Template Tracking In International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Technical Sketch, IEEE, Hawaii. Here are some example avi movies: body tracking, eye tracking, eye tracking, example minimisation.

2000

  1. B. McCane, "Snakes and Spiders", Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 652-655, Barcelona, Spain, 2000. Download postscript
  2. K. Novins and B. McCane, "Teaching Computer Vision Using Primary Source Material", Proceedings of Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Undergraduate Education and Image Computation, pp. , Hilton Head, South Carolina, 2000.

1999

  1. A. Erickson, B. McCane, and K. Novins, "Face and Eye Tracking", Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, pp. 139-144, Christchurch, 1999.
  2. D. Mason, B. McCane, and K. Novins, "Generating motion fields for the evaluation of optical flow algorithms on complex scenes", Proceedings of Computer Graphics International (CGI) '99, pp. 65-69, Canmore, 1999.
  3. B. Galvin, B. McCane, and K. Novins, "Robust Feature Tracking", Proceedings of Fifth International/National Conference on Digital Image Computing, Techniques and Applications, pp. 232-236, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. Download postscript
  4. B. Galvin, B. McCane, and K. Novins, "OSCAR: Object Segmentation using Correspondence and Relaxation", Proceedings of Proceedings of the Second International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM) '99, pp. , Ottawa, Canada, 1999.
  5. B. Galvin, B. McCane, and K. Novins, "Virtual Snakes for Occlusion Analysis", Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 294-299, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA., 1999.

1998

  1. B. Galvin, B. McCane, K. Novins, D. Mason, and S. Mills, "Recovering Motion Fields: An Evaluation of Eight Optical Flow Algorithms", Proceedings of Ninth British Machine Vision Conference, pp. 195-204, Southhampton, United Kingdom, 1998.
  2. B. Galvin, K. Novins, and B. McCane, "Motion-Based Segmentation Using Active Contours", Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, pp. 346-351, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 1998.
  3. B. McCane, T. Caelli, and O. d. Vel, "Inducing Complex Spatial Descriptions in Two Dimensional Scenes", in Learning and Reasoning with Complex Representations, vol. 1359, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, G. Antoniu, A. K. Ghose, and M. Truszczynski, Eds. Cairns: Springer, 1998, pp. 123-132. Also in: Workshop on Inducing Complex Representations: Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1996.
  4. B. McCane, K. Novins, and B. Galvin, "On the Evaluation of Optical Flow Algorithms", Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, pp. 1563-1567, Singapore, 1998. Download postscript.

1997

  1. B. McCane, T. Caelli, and O. d. Vel, "Learning to recognise 3D objects using sparse depth and intensity information", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 11, pp. 909-931, 1997.
  2. B. McCane and T. Caelli, "Fuzzy Conditional Rule Generation for the Learning and Recognition of 3D Objects from 2D Images", in Machine Learning and Image Interpretation, Advances in Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence, T. Caelli and W. F. Bischof, Eds.: Plenum Press, 1997, pp. 17--65. .
  3. B. McCane and T. Caelli, "Multi-scale adaptive segmentation using edge and region based attributes", Proceedings of First International Conference on Knowledge-based Intelligent Electronic Systems, pp. 72-80, Adelaide, South Australia, 1997.
  4. B. Galvin and B. McCane, "On the creation of dense depth fields from long image sequences", Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, pp. 373-378, Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland, 1997. Download PDF.
  5. B. McCane, "On the evaluation of image segmentation algorithms", Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, pp. 455-460, Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland, 1997. Download postscript.

Earlier

  1. B. McCane, T. Caelli, and O. d. Vel, "Recognising 3D Machine Objects using a Fuzzy Machine Learning Approach", Proceedings of Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Poster Proceedings, pp. 77-85, Cairns, 1996.
  2. B. McCane, T. Caelli, and O. d. Vel, "A Fuzzy Machine Learning Approach to Recognising 3D Objects in 2D Scenes", Proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 106-110, Singapore, 1995.