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Applications:

P.A. Larsen, J.B. Rawlings, and N.J. Ferrier, "An algorithm for analyzing noisy, in situ images of high-sapect-ratio crystals to monitor particle size distribution," Chemical Engineering Science, Vol 61/16, 2006, pp 5236-5248.
DOI information: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.03.035

Mosher, A, Klein, B.E.K., Klein, R., Ferrier,N.J., Knudtson, M.D. "Comparison of Retinal Vessel Measurements in Digital vs. Film Images," American Journal of Ophthalmology, (to appear), 2006.

Mosher and Ferrier Klein, B.E.K, Hubbard,L., Ferrier,N.J., Klein, R., Klein, D.J., Lee, K.E., Ewen, A., Jensen, K., Evans, M.D., "Detecting Progression of Nuclear Sclerosis: Human Grading Versus Semi-Automated Computer Grading," Journal of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 46(4) , pp. 1155-1162, 2005.

Kim, S.O., Solak, H.H., Stoykovich, M.P., Ferrier, N.J., de Pablo, J.J. and Nealey, P.F., "Epitaxial selfassembly of block copolymers on lithographically de?ned nanopatterned substrates," Nature, Vol. 424, pp. 411-414, 24 July 2003.

Noriega, M., Ferrier, N. and Osswald, T. "Inline Measurement of the Polymer Melting Behavior in Single Screw Extruders," Journal of Polymer Engineering, 24:6, 557, 2004.

Nembhard, H., Ferrier,N.J., Osswald, T., and SanzUribe, J.R., "An Integrated Model for Statistical and Vision Monitoring in Manufacturing Transitions," Journal of Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 19, 6, 461-476, 2003.

M. Gleicher, and N. Ferrier, "Evaluating video-based motion capture", Proceedings of Computer Animation, 19-21 June 2002, Page(s):75 - 80.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/CA.2002.1017510

Ferrier, N.J., Rowe, S., and Blake, A., "Real-time Traffic Monitoring,", IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Sarasota, FL, December 1994. PDF

Vision and Control:

C. M. Lu and N. J. Ferrier, A Digital Video System for the Automated Measurement of Repetitive Joint Motion, IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 8:3, pp. 399 404, Sept. 2004.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TITB.2004.832544

C. M. Lu and N. J. Ferrier, Automated analysis of repetitive joint motion, IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol 7, No. 4, pp 256-263, Dec. 2003.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TITB.2003.821309

C. M. Lu and N. J. Ferrier, Repetitive Motion Analysis: Segmentation, Identification, and Event Detection, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, 26:2 pp 258-264, 2004.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.1262196

Lu, C. and Liu, H. & Ferrier, N.J. "Multidimensional Motion Segmentation and Identification", Proceedings of the IEEE Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, Volume 2, 13-15 June 2000 Page(s):629 - 636
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/CVPR.2000.854931

J.C. Larsen, and N.J. Ferrier, "A case study in vision based neural network training for control of a planar, large deflection, flexible robot manipulator", Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. (IROS 2004). Volume 3, 28 Sept.-2 Oct. 2004 Page(s):2924 - 2929
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/IROS.2004.1389853

Borgstadt, J.A. and Ferrier, N.J. "Visual servoing: path interpolation by homography decomposition", Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on Volume 1, 2001 Page(s):723 - 730 vol.1
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ROBOT.2001.932636

Borgstadt, J. & Ferrier, N.J. "Interception of a Projectile Using a Human Vision-Based Strategy", IEEE Conf. on Robotics & Automation, April 2000. PDF

Movie of Trial 20

Ferrier, N.J., Visual Control of Robot Reaching, CDC, December 1998. PDF
Ferrier, N.J., Achieving a Fitts Law Relationship for Visual Guided Reaching, International Conference on Computer Vision, pages 903-910, January 1998. PDF

Copmuter Vision:

P. Ravindran, and N.J. Ferrier, "A simple linear method to obtain height ordering of scene points", Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2002. Volume 3, 11-15 Aug. 2002, Page(s):719 - 722
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICPR.2002.1048075

P. Ravindran, and N.J. Ferrier, "Plane based relative structure recovery", Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '02), Volume 3, 11-15 May 2002 Page(s):3056 - 3061
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ROBOT.2002.1013696

J. Neubert, and N. J. Ferrier, "Robust active stereo calibration," Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '02), Volume 3, 11-15 May 2002 Page(s):2525 - 2531
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ROBOT.2002.1013611

J. Neubert, T. Hammond, N. Guse, Y. Do, Y. Hu, and N.J. Ferrier, "Automatic training of a neural net for active stereo 3D reconstruction," Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '01), Volume 2, 2001 Page(s):2140 - 2146
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ROBOT.2001.932923

Tactile/Finger/Haptic:

Ferrier, N.J., and Brockett, R. W., Reconstructing the Shape of a Deformable Membrane using Image Data, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 19, No. 9, September, 2000, pp. 795-816. PDF

Hristu, D., Ferrier, N.J.& Brockett, R.W. "The performance of a deformable-membrane tactile sensor: basic results on geometrically defined tasks", IEEE Conf. on Robotics & Automation, April 2000. PDF

Hristu, D. Morgansen, K., N. Ferrier and R. Brockett, "A Deformable 3D Shape Sensor" Video Proceedings of ICRA, May 1998.

Short Movie Clip

N. J. Droessler, D. K. Hall, M. E. Tyler, N. J. Ferrier, "Tongue-Based Electrotactile Feedback to Perceive Objects Grasped by a Robotic Manipulator: Preliminary Results", Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Volume 2, 25-28 Oct. 2001 Page(s):1404 - 1407 PDF

N.J. Ferrier, C. Lozano, and M. Tyler, "A tactile sensory-enhanced assistive robot," Proceedings of IEEE Sensors, Volume 2, 12-14 June 2002 Page(s):1631 - 1636
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICSENS.2002.1037368

Shkel Y., and Ferrier, N.J. "Electrostriction Enhancement of Solid-State Capacitance Sensing," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Volume 8, Issue 3, Sept. 2003 Page(s):318 - 325
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TMECH.2003.816805

Springer, S.L. & Ferrier, N.J. "A new method for design and control of haptic interfaces for display of rigid surfaces", ASME Int'l Mech. Eng. Congress and Expo, Nov. 1999. PDF

Springer, S.L. & Ferrier, N.J. "Design of a multi-finger haptic interface for teleoperational grasping"", ASME Int'l Mech. Eng. Congress and Expo, Nov. 1999. PDF

Springer, S. and Ferrier, N.J. "Design and control of a force-reflecting haptic interface for teleoperational grasping"", submitted to ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 1999. PDF

Other (older) Papers:

Ferrier, N.J., Active Control of Resolution for Stable Visual Tracking, in Workshop on Modelling and Planning for Intelligent Systems, Christensen, Bunke & Bolles, Editors, LLNCS, Springer-Verlag, 1999. PDF
Kim, K. and Ferrier, N.J., Distributed Control Scheme for Motor Networks with Communication-constrained channels, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1999. html

Novotny, P. and Ferrier, N.J., Using the Phong Illumination Model to Measure Distances using Infrared Sensors , IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1999.
Ferrier, N.J. Determining surface orientation from fixated eye position and angular visual extent, IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 1999. postscript version
Shkel, E. and Ferrier, N.J. Specifying and Verifying Visual Grasping Tasks, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque NM, pages 688--694, April 1997. postscript version
Ferrier, N.J. and Clark, J.J., "The Harvard Binocular Head," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and AI, March 1993, pp. 9--31.

Ferrier, N.J. and Clark, J.J., "The Harvard Binocular Head," in Active Robot Vision: Camera Heads, Model Based Navigation and Reactive Control, Christensen, Bowyer and Bunke, Eds., World Scientific Press, Chapter 1, pages 9--32, May 1993.

Clark, J.J. and Ferrier, N.J., "Attentive Visual Servo Control," in Active Vision, A. Blake and A. Yuille, Eds., MIT Press, Chapter 10, pages 137--154, December, 1992. postscript version

Clark, J.J. and Ferrier, N.J., "Modal Control of Attentive Vision System," Proc. of the 2nd Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision, Tampa, FL, pages 514-531, December 1988.

Clark, J.J. and Ferrier, N.J., "Control of Visual Attention in Mobile Robots," Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Scottsdale, AZ, April 1989.

Ferrier, N.J., "The Harvard Binocular Head," SPIE Applications of Artificial Intelligence X: Machine Vision and Robotics, pages 2--13, March 1992.

Ferrier, N.J. and Clark, J.J., "Optimal Motions for Active Sensing," ASME Int'l Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing, Burnaby, BC, pages 169--174, July 18--20, 1990.

Bestavros, A., Clark, J.J., and Ferrier, N.J., "Management of Sensori-Motor Activity in Mobile Robots," Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Cinncinati, OH, May 1990.

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