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• David Walker Duhon, Jerod Weinman and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Techniques and applications for persistent backgrounding in a humanoid torso robot.
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2007.
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• Kinh Tieu and Erik Miller.
  Unsupervised color constancy.
  In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 15, pp. 1303-1310, 2003.
  [pdf]

• Erik Miller and Kinh Tieu.
  Color eigenflows: Statistical modeling of joint color changes.
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Volume 1, pp. 607-614, 2001.
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• Erik Miller, Kinh Tieu and Eric Grimson.
  Lighting invariance through joint color change models.
  Proceedings of Workshop on Identifying Object Across Variations in Lighting: Psychophysics and Computation, at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001.
  [pdf]

• Erik Miller, Kinh Tieu and Chris Stauffer.
  Learning object-independent modes of variation with feature flow fields.
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AI-Memo: AIM-2001-021, 9 pages, 2001.
  [pdf]

• Marwan Mattar, Michael G. Ross and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Non-parametric curve alignment.
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2009.
  [pdf]

• Gary B. Huang, Vidit Jain, and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Unsupervised joint alignment of complex images.
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
  [pdf]

• Erik Learned-Miller.
  Data driven image models through continuous joint alignment.
  In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 28:2, pp. 236-250, 2006.
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• Erik Miller, Nick Matsakis, and Paul Viola.
  Learning from one example through shared densities on transforms.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 1, pp. 464-471, 2000.
  [pdf]

• Lilla Zollei, Erik Learned-Miller, Eric Grimson, and William Wells.
  Efficient population registration of 3D data.
  In Workshop on Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications: Current Techniques and Future Trends, at the International Conference of Computer Vision (best paper award), 2005.
  [pdf]

• Erik Learned-Miller and Vidit Jain.
  Many heads are better than one: Jointly removing bias from multiple MRs using nonparametric maximum likelihood.
  In Proceedings of Information Processing in Medical Imaging, pp. 615-626, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Erik Learned-Miller and Parvez Ahammad.
  Joint MRI bias removal using entropy minimization across images.
  In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, pp. 761-768, 2005.
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• Chris Stauffer, Erik Miller and Kinh Tieu.
  Transform-invariant image decomposition with similarity templates.
  In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 14, pp. 1295-1302, 2002.
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• Erik Learned-Miller and Joseph DeStefano.
  A probabilistic upper bound on differential entropy.
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 54, Number 11, pp. 5223-5230, 2008.
  [pdf]

• Erik Learned-Miller.
  Data driven image models through continuous joint alignment.
  In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 28:2, pp. 236-250, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Erik Miller, Nick Matsakis, and Paul Viola.
  Learning from one example through shared densities on transforms.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 1, pp. 464-471, 2000.
  [pdf]

• Erik Miller.
  A new class of entropy estimators for multi-dimensional densities.
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2003.
  [pdf]

• Erik Learned-Miller and Parvez Ahammad.
  Joint MRI bias removal using entropy minimization across images.
  In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, pp. 761-768, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Erik Learned-Miller and Vidit Jain.
  Many heads are better than one: Jointly removing bias from multiple MRs using nonparametric maximum likelihood.
  In Proceedings of Information Processing in Medical Imaging, pp. 615-626, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Lilla Zollei, Erik Learned-Miller, Eric Grimson, and William Wells.
  Efficient population registration of 3D data.
  In Workshop on Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications: Current Techniques and Future Trends, at the International Conference of Computer Vision (best paper award), 2005.
  [pdf]

• Erik Learned-Miller and John W. Fisher, III.
  ICA using spacings estimates of entropy.
  Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Volume 4, pp. 1271-1295, 2003.
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• Simon Warfield, Jan Rexilius, Petra Huppi, Terrie Inder, Erik Miller, William Wells, Gary Zientara, Ferenc Jolesz, and Ron Kikinis.
  A binary entropy measure to assess nonrigid registration algorithms.
  Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), pp. 266-274, 2001.
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• Joseph DeStefano, Qifeng Lu, and Erik Learned-Miller.
  A probabilistic upper bound on differential entropy.
  UMass Amherst Technical Report 05-12, 2005.
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• Erik Learned-Miller.
  Hyperspacings and the estimation of information theoretic quantities.
  UMass Amherst Technical Report 04-104, 2004.
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• Gary B. Huang, Michael J. Jones, and Erik Learned-Miller.
  LFW results using a combined Nowak plus MERL recognizer.
  In The Workshop on Faces in Real-Life Images at European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008.
  [pdf]

• Gary B. Huang, Marwan Mattar, Tamara Berg, and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Labeled faces in the wild: A database for studying face recognition in unconstrained environments.
  In The Workshop on Faces in Real-Life Images at European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008.
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• Erik Learned-Miller, Peter Trainer, Angela Paisley, Volker Blanz, and Ralph Miller.
  Acromegalic features: Recognition by physicians versus a computer model.
  In The Program and Abstracts Book of the 90th Meeting of the Endocrine Society, San Francisco, June, 2008.

• Gary B. Huang, Manjunath Narayana, and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Towards unconstrained face recognition.
  In The Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision IEEE CVPR, 2008.
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• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
  Learning to locate informative features for visual identification.
  International Journal of Computer Vision: Special Issue on Learning and Vision, Volume 77, Number 1, pp. 3-24, May, 2008.
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• Tamara L. Berg, Alex C. Berg, Jaety Edwards, Michael Maire, Ryan White, Yee Whye Teh, Erik Learned-Miller, and David Forsyth.
  Names and faces.
  To appear International Journal of Computer Vision, 2008.
  

• Gary B. Huang, Manu Ramesh, Tamara Berg and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Labeled Faces in the Wild: A database for studying face recognition in unconstrained environments.
  UMass Amherst Technical Report 07-49, 11 pages, 2007.
  [pdf]

• Gary B. Huang, Vidit Jain, and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Unsupervised joint alignment of complex images.
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
  [pdf]

• Vidit Jain, Erik Learned-Miller, and Andrew McCallum.
  People-LDA: Anchoring topics to people using face recognition.
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
  [pdf]

• Vidit Jain, Andras Ferencz and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Discriminative training of hyper-feature models for object identification.
  Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Volume 1, pp. 357-366, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Erik Learned-Miller, Qifeng Lu, Angela Paisley, Peter Trainer, Volker Blanz, Katrin Dedden, and Ralph E. Miller.
  Detecting acromegaly: Screening for disease with a morphable model.
  Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Volume 2, pp. 495-503, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
  Building a classification cascade for visual identification from one example.
  In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 286-293, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller and Jitendra Malik.
  Learning hyper-features for visual identification.
  In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, pp. 425-432, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Erik Learned-Miller, Qifeng Lu, Angela Paisley, Peter Trainer, Volker Blanz, Katrin Dedden, and Ralph Miller.
  Early diagnosis of acromegaly by facial pattern recognition.
  Abstract for The Ninth International Pituitary Congress, San Diego, CA, 2005.

• Qifeng Lu, Erik Learned-Miller, Angela Paisley, Peter Trainer, Volker Blanz, Katrin Dedden, and Ralph Miller.
  Detecting acromegaly: Screening for diseases with a morphable model.
  UMass Amherst Technical Report 05-37, 2005.
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• Manjunatha Jagalur, Chris Pal, Erik Learned-Miller, R. Thomas Zoeller and David Kulp.
  Analyzing in situ gene expression in the mouse brain with image registration, feature extraction and block clustering.
  BMC Bioinformatics, 8(Suppl 10):S5, 2007.
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• Manjunatha N. Jagalur, Chris Pal, Erik Learned-Miller, R. T. Zoeller and David Kulp.
  The processing and analysis of in situ gene expression images of the mouse brain.
  Workshop on New Problems and Methods in Computational Biology, at Neural Information Processing Systems, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
  Learning to locate informative features for visual identification.
  International Journal of Computer Vision: Special Issue on Learning and Vision, Volume 77, Number 1, pp. 3-24, May, 2008.
  [pdf]

• Vidit Jain, Erik Learned-Miller, and Andrew McCallum.
  People-LDA: Anchoring topics to people using face recognition.
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
  [pdf]

• Gary B. Huang, Vidit Jain, and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Unsupervised joint alignment of complex images.
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
  [pdf]

• Vidit Jain, Andras Ferencz and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Discriminative training of hyper-feature models for object identification.
  Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Volume 1, pp. 357-366, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller and Jitendra Malik.
  Learning hyper-features for visual identification.
  In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, pp. 425-432, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
  Building a classification cascade for visual identification from one example.
  In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 286-293, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Erik Learned-Miller and John W. Fisher, III.
  ICA using spacings estimates of entropy.
  Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Volume 4, pp. 1271-1295, 2003.
  [pdf]

• Erik Miller and John W. Fisher, III.
  ICA using spacings estimates of entropy.
  Fourth International Symposium on Independent Components Analysis and Blind Signal Separation, 2003.
  [pdf]

• Erik Miller and John W. Fisher, III.
  Independent components analysis by direct entropy minimization.
  UC Berkeley Technical Report CSD-03-1221, 25 pages, 2003.
  [pdf]

• Gary B. Huang, Manu Ramesh, Tamara Berg and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Labeled Faces in the Wild: A database for studying face recognition in unconstrained environments.
  UMass Amherst Technical Report 07-49, 11 pages, 2007.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
  Learning to locate informative features for visual identification.
  International Journal of Computer Vision: Special Issue on Learning and Vision, Volume 77, Number 1, pp. 3-24, May, 2008.
  [pdf]

• Vidit Jain, Erik Learned-Miller, and Andrew McCallum.
  People-LDA: Anchoring topics to people using face recognition.
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
  [pdf]

• Vidit Jain, Andras Ferencz and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Discriminative training of hyper-feature models for object identification.
  Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Volume 1, pp. 357-366, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller and Jitendra Malik.
  Learning hyper-features for visual identification.
  In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, pp. 425-432, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
  Building a classification cascade for visual identification from one example.
  In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 286-293, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
  Learning to locate informative features for visual identification.
  International Journal of Computer Vision: Special Issue on Learning and Vision, Volume 77, Number 1, pp. 3-24, May, 2008.
  [pdf]

• Vidit Jain, Andras Ferencz and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Discriminative training of hyper-feature models for object identification.
  Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Volume 1, pp. 357-366, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Erik Miller, Nick Matsakis, and Paul Viola.
  Learning from one example through shared densities on transforms.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 1, pp. 464-471, 2000.
  [pdf]

• Erik Miller.
  Learning from one example in machine vision by sharing probability densities.
  Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
  Building a classification cascade for visual identification from one example.
  In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 286-293, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller and Jitendra Malik.
  Learning hyper-features for visual identification.
  In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, pp. 425-432, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Erik Miller, Kinh Tieu and Chris Stauffer.
  Learning object-independent modes of variation with feature flow fields.
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AI-Memo: AIM-2001-021, 9 pages, 2001.
  [pdf]

• Erik Miller and Kinh Tieu.
  Color eigenflows: Statistical modeling of joint color changes.
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Volume 1, pp. 607-614, 2001.
  [pdf]

• Manjunatha Jagalur, Chris Pal, Erik Learned-Miller, R. Thomas Zoeller and David Kulp.
  Analyzing in situ gene expression in the mouse brain with image registration, feature extraction and block clustering.
  BMC Bioinformatics, 8(Suppl 10):S5, 2007.
  [pdf]

• Manjunatha N. Jagalur, Chris Pal, Erik Learned-Miller, R. T. Zoeller and David Kulp.
  The processing and analysis of in situ gene expression images of the mouse brain.
  Workshop on New Problems and Methods in Computational Biology, at Neural Information Processing Systems, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Lilla Zollei, Erik Learned-Miller, Eric Grimson, and William Wells.
  Efficient population registration of 3D data.
  In Workshop on Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications: Current Techniques and Future Trends, at the International Conference of Computer Vision (best paper award), 2005.
  [pdf]

• Douglas Cohen, Jonathan Lustgarten, Erik Miller, Alexander Khandji and Robert Goodman.
  Effects of coregistration of MR to CT images on MR stereotactic accuracy.
  Journal of Neurosurgery, Volume 82, pp. 772-779, 1995.

• Robert Malison, Erik Miller, Robin Greene, Greg McCarthy, Dennis Charney and Robert Innis.
  Computer assisted coregistration of multislice SPECT and MR brain images by fixed external fiducials.
  Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, Volume 17, pp. 952-960, 1993.

• Dov Katz, Emily Horrell, Yuandong Yang, Brendan Burns, Thomas Buckley, Anna Grishkan, Volodymyr Zhylkovskyy, Oliver Brock, and Erik Learned-Miller.
  The UMass mobile manipulator UMan: An experimental platform for autonomous mobile manipulation.
  In Workshop on Manipulation in Human Environments, at Robotics: Science and Systems, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Marwan Mattar, Michael G. Ross and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Non-parametric curve alignment.
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2009.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
  Learning to locate informative features for visual identification.
  International Journal of Computer Vision: Special Issue on Learning and Vision, Volume 77, Number 1, pp. 3-24, May, 2008.
  [pdf]

• Marwan Mattar and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Improved generative models for continuous image features through tree-structured non-parametric distributions.
  UMass Amherst Technical Report 06-57, 10 pages, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Vidit Jain, Andras Ferencz and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Discriminative training of hyper-feature models for object identification.
  Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Volume 1, pp. 357-366, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Manjunatha N. Jagalur, Chris Pal, Erik Learned-Miller, R. T. Zoeller and David Kulp.
  The processing and analysis of in situ gene expression images of the mouse brain.
  Workshop on New Problems and Methods in Computational Biology, at Neural Information Processing Systems, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
  Building a classification cascade for visual identification from one example.
  In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 286-293, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller and Jitendra Malik.
  Learning hyper-features for visual identification.
  In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, pp. 425-432, 2005.
  [pdf]

• Erik Learned-Miller.
  Hyperspacings and the estimation of information theoretic quantities.
  UMass Amherst Technical Report 04-104, 2004.
  [pdf]

• Andrew Kae, Gary B. Huang, and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Bounding the probability of error for high precision recognition.
  UMass Amherst Technical Report UM-CS-2009-031, 12 pages, 2009.
  [pdf]

• Andrew Kae and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Learning on the fly: Font free approaches to difficult OCR problems.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2009.
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• Jerod Weinman, Erik Learned-Miller and Allen Hanson.
  Scene text recognition using similarity and a lexicon with sparse belief propagation.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Special Issue on Probabilistic Graphical Models, Vol. 31 No. 10, pp. 1733-1746, 2009.
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• Jerod Weinman, Erik Learned-Miller, and Allen Hanson.
  A discriminative semi-Markov model for robust scene text recognition.
  In International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008.
  [pdf]

• Michael Wick, Michael G. Ross and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Context-sensitive error correction: Using topic models to improve OCR.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2007.
  [pdf]

• Jerod Weinman, Erik Learned-Miller, and Allen Hanson.
  Fast lexicon-based scene text recognition with sparse belief propagation.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2007.
  [pdf]

• Gary C. Huang, Erik Learned-Miller, and Andrew McCallum.
  Cryptogram decoding for OCR using numerization strings.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2007.
  [pdf]

• Jerod Weinman and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Improving recognition of novel input with similarity.
  In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 1, pp. 308-315, 2006.
  [pdf]

• Jerod J. Weinman, Allen Hanson and Erik Learned-Miller.
  Joint feature selection for object detection and recognition.
  UMass Amherst Technical Report 06-54, 8 pages, 2006.
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• Gary Huang, Erik Learned-Miller and Andrew McCallum.
  Cryptogram decoding for optical character recognition.
  UMass Amherst Technical Report 06-45, 12 pages, 2006.
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• Erik Miller and Paul Viola.
  Ambiguity and constraint in mathematical expression recognition.
  Proceedings of the National Conference of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 784-791, 1998.
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