``Nonparametric Training of Snakes to Find Indistinct Boundaries,'' by Samuel D. Fenster, Chun-Bin Gary Kuo and John R. Kender. Oral presentation at CVPR workshop Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Imaging Analysis, Kauai, Hawaii, Dec. 2001. [Abstract] [PDF, 418K] [compressed PostScript, 191K]

``A Comparative Technique and Performance Results on Novel Learned Snakes in Two Dissimilar Medical Domains,'' by Samuel D. Fenster and John R. Kender. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, v. II pp. 706-713. June 2000, Hilton Head. [Abstract] [PDF, 289K] [compressed PostScript, 252K]

Training, Evaluation and Local Adaptation in Deformable Models, doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2000. [Abstract] [PostScript, 20 Meg] [gzipped PostScript, 5.6 Meg] [PDF, 16 Meg]

``Sectored Snakes: Evaluating Learned-Energy Segmentations,'' by Samuel D. Fenster and John R. Kender. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, v. 23 #9 pp. 1028-1034, Sep. 2001. Originally appeared in Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 420-426, Bombay, India, Jan. 1998. Also in Proc. DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pp. 1193-1199, Nov. 1998, Monterey. [Abstract] [Long version, PostScript, 2 Meg] [Short version, PostScript, 1 Meg]

``Reinterpreting Physically-Motivated Modeling,'' by Terrance E. Boult, Samuel D. Fenster and Thomas O'Donnell. In Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Monterey, CA, Nov. 1994. [Abstract] [PostScript]

A version of the above paper appeared as
``Physics in a Fantasy World vs. Robust Statistical Estimation,'' by Terrance E. Boult, Samuel D. Fenster and Thomas O'Donnell. In proceedings of the NSF/ARPA Workshop on 3-D Object Representation for Computer Vision, New York, NY, Dec. 5-7, 1994. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1995, v. 994: Object Representation in Computer Vision, p. 277, Springer.

``Dynamic Attributes, Code Generation and the IUE,'' by Terrance E. Boult, Samuel D. Fenster and Jason W. Kim. In Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Monterey, CA, Nov. 1994. [Abstract] [PostScript]

An explanation of Dynamic Attributes in the Image Understanding Environment, from the 1992 IUE manual.