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Publications, Mel Siegel

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• Tactile sensing by the sole of the foot: Part 2: Calibration and real time processing
  A. Kalamdani, C.H. Messom, and M. Siegel
  3rd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents 2006, December, 2006.
  Download: pdf [934 KB] copyrighted

• Tactile sensing by the sole of the foot: part i: apparatus and initial experiments toward obtaining dynamic pressure maps useful for stabilizing standing, walking, and running of humanoid robots
  A. Kalamdani, C.H. Messom, and M. Siegel
  IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications, 2006, November, 2006, pp. 147-151. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1687 KB] copyrighted

• Sensor Fusion for Context Understanding
  H. Wu, M. Siegel, and S. Ablay(Motorola)
  Proceedings of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Anchorage, AK, USA, May 21-23, 2002, May, 2002.
  Download: pdf [74 KB] copyrighted

• Sensor Fusion Using Dempster-Shafer Theory
  H. Wu, M. Siegel, R. Stiefelhagen, and J. Yang
  Proceedings of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Anchorage, AK, USA, May 21-23, 2002, May, 2002.
  Download: pdf [154 KB] copyrighted

• Driving in Traffic: Short-Range Sensing for Urban Collision Avoidance
  C. Thorpe, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, R. MacLachlan, C. Mertz, M. Siegel, A. Suppe, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Proceedings of SPIE: Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology IV, Vol. 4715, April, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [57 KB], ps.gz [61 KB] copyrighted

• Dependable Perception for Robots
  C. Thorpe, O. Clatz, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, R. MacLachlan, J.R. Miller, C. Mertz, M. Siegel, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Proceedings of International Advanced Robotics Programme IEEE, Robotics and Automation Society, Seoul, Korea, May, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [590 KB], ps.gz [908 KB] copyrighted

• Sensor-friendly vehicle and roadway systems
  P. Griffiths, D. Langer, J.A. Misener, M. Siegel, and C. Thorpe
  Proceedings of the 18th Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IMTC '01), Vol. 2, May, 2001, pp. 1036 -1040. [Abstract]
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• Benefits Estimation of Sensor-Friendly Vehicle and Roadway Cooperative Safety Systems
  J. Misener, C. Thorpe, R. Ferlis, R. Hearne, M. Siegel, and J. Perkowski
  March, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [106 KB] copyrighted

• Correlation of accelerometer and microphone data in the "coin tap test"
  H. Wu and M. Siegel
  IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 49, No. 3, June, 2000, pp. 493 - 497. [Abstract]
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• Odor-based incontinence sensor
  H. Wu and M. Siegel
  Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Vol. 1, May, 2000, pp. 63 - 68. [Abstract]
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• Just enough reality: comfortable 3-D viewing via microstereopsis
  M. Siegel and S. Nagata
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 10, No. 3, April, 2000, pp. 387 - 396. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [463 KB] copyrighted

• Vehicle sound signature recognition by frequency vector principal component analysis
  H. Wu, M. Siegel, and P. Khosla
  IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 48, No. 5, October, 1999, pp. 1005 - 1009. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [103 KB] copyrighted

• Kinder Gentler Stereo
  M. Siegel, Y. Tobinaga, and T. Akiya
  Proc. SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems VI, Vol. 3639A, January, 1999, pp. 18 - 27. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2420 KB], ps.gz [3492 KB] copyrighted

• In situ calibration for quantitative ultrasonic imaging
  M. Siegel and T. Ault
  IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, September, 1998, pp. 9 - 10, 12-13, 16, 18. [Abstract]
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• Remote Enhanced Visual Inspection of Aircraft by a Mobile Robot
  P. Gunatilake and M. Siegel
  Proceedings of the 1998 IMTC Conference, IEEE, May, 1998, pp. 49 - 58. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [996 KB], ps.gz [3219 KB] copyrighted

• Vehicle Sound Signature Recognition by Frequency Vector Principle Component Analysis
  H. Wu, M. Siegel, and P. Khosla
  Proceedings of the 15th Annual IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May, 1998.
  Download: pdf [212 KB], ps.gz [109 KB] copyrighted

• Robotic Assistants for Aircraft Inspectors
  M. Siegel, P. Gunatilake, and G. Podnar
  Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, March, 1998, pp. 16 - 30.
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• Improved Rendering of Parallax Panoramagrams for a Time-Multiplexed Autostereoscopic Display
  A. Kalai and M. Siegel
  Proceedings of the 1998 SPIE/IS&T Conference, Vol. 3295A, January, 1998, pp. 211 - 217. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1004 KB], ps.gz [1236 KB] copyrighted

• Synthesis of a High Resolution 3D-Stereoscopic Image from a High Resolution Monoscopic Image and a Low Resolution Depth Map
  S. Kim, M. Siegel, and J. Son
  Proceedings of the 1998 SPIE/IS&T Conference, Vol. 3295A, January, 1998, pp. 76 - 86. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [703 KB], ps.gz [1610 KB] copyrighted

• Enhanced Remote Visual Inspection of Aircraft Skin
  M. Siegel and P. Gunatilake
  Proceedings of the Intelligent NDE Sciences for Aging and Futuristic Aircraft Workshop, September, 1997, pp. 101 - 112. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2129 KB], ps.gz [4689 KB] copyrighted

• Measurement Issues in Quantitative Ultrasonic Imaging
  M. Siegel and T. Ault
  Proc. of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May, 1997, pp. 16-19. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [24 KB], ps.gz [43 KB] copyrighted

• Remote Inspection Technologies for Aircraft Skin Inspection.
  M. Siegel and P. Gunatilake
  Proc. ET & VS - IM, IEEE, May, 1997, pp. 69 - 78. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1444 KB], ps.gz [2065 KB] copyrighted

• Compression and Interpolation of 3D-Stereoscopic and Multi-View Video
  M. Siegel, S. Sethuraman, J.S. McVeigh, and A. Jordan
  Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems IV, Vol. 3012, February, 1997, pp. 227 - 238.
  Download: pdf [521 KB], ps.gz [890 KB] copyrighted

• Image Understanding Algorithms for Remote Visual Inspection of Aircraft Surfaces
  P. Gunatilake, M. Siegel, A. Jordan, and G. Podnar
  Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection V, Vol. 3029, February, 1997, pp. 2 - 13.
  Download: pdf [1573 KB], ps.gz [3308 KB] copyrighted

• Image Enhancement and Understanding for Remote Visual Inspection of Aircraft Surface
  P. Gunatilake, M. Siegel, A. Jordan, and G. Podnar
  Nondestructive Evaluation of Aging Aircraft, Airports, and Aerospace Hardware, Vol. 2945, December, 1996, pp. 416 - 427.
  Download: pdf [1115 KB], ps.gz [1850 KB] copyrighted

• The Video Z-buffer: A Concept for Facilitating Monoscopic Image Compression by Exploiting the 3-D Stereoscopic Depth Map
  S. Sethuraman and M. Siegel
  October, 1996.
  Download: pdf [32 KB], ps.gz [30 KB] copyrighted

• Tree-structured Vector Restoration Coding of Video
  J.S. McVeigh, S. Wu, M. Siegel, and A. Jordan
  May, 1996.
  Download: pdf [23 KB], ps.gz [36 KB] copyrighted

• Adaptive Reference Frame Selection for Generalized Video Signal Coding
  J.S. McVeigh, M. Siegel, and A. Jordan
  Digital Video Compression: Algorithms and Technologies 1996, Vol. 2668, February, 1996, pp. 441 - 449.
  Download: pdf [113 KB], ps.gz [542 KB] copyrighted

• Algorithm for automated eye strain reduction in real stereoscopic images and sequences
  J.S. McVeigh, M. Siegel, and A. Jordan
  Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, Vol. 2657, February, 1996, pp. 307 - 316.
  Download: pdf [342 KB], ps.gz [1291 KB] copyrighted

• Geometry of Binocular Imaging III: Wide-Angle and Fish-Eye Lenses
  V.S. Grinberg and M. Siegel
  Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems III, Vol. 2653, February, 1996, pp. 146 - 153.
  Download: pdf [115 KB], ps.gz [196 KB] copyrighted

• Segmentation Based Coding of Stereoscopic Image Sequences
  S. Sethuraman, M. Siegel, and A. Jordan
  Digital Video Compression: Algorithms and Technologies 1996, Vol. 2668, February, 1996, pp. 420 - 429.
  Download: pdf [91 KB], ps.gz [227 KB] copyrighted

• Intermediate view synthesis considering occluded and ambiguously referenced image regions
  J.S. McVeigh, M. Siegel, and A. Jordan
  Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 9, 1996, pp. 21 - 28.
  Download: pdf [221 KB], ps.gz [689 KB] copyrighted

• Vector Restoration for Video Coding
  J.S. McVeigh, S. Wu, M. Siegel, and A. Jordan
  Proc. ICIP-95, Vol. 1, October, 1995, pp. 93 - 96.
  Download: pdf [90 KB], ps.gz [638 KB] copyrighted

• Software for 3D-TV and 3D-Stereoscopic Computer Workstations
  M. Siegel, V.S. Grinberg, A. Jordan, J.S. McVeigh, G. Podnar, S. Safier, and S. Sethuraman
  Proc. of the 1995 International Workshop on Stereoscopic and Three Dimensional Imaging, European Projects RACE II - DISTIMA and COST 230, September, 1995, pp. 251 - 260.
  Download: pdf [112 KB], ps.gz [40 KB] copyrighted

• 3D-Stereoscopic X Windows
  S. Safier and M. Siegel
  Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems II, Vol. 2409, February, 1995, pp. 160 - 167.
  Download: pdf [293 KB], ps.gz [962 KB] copyrighted

• A Multiresolutional Region Based Segmentation Scheme for Stereoscopic Image Compression
  S. Sethuraman, M. Siegel, and A. Jordan
  Digital Video Compression: Algorithms and Technologies 1995, Vol. 2419, February, 1995, pp. 265 - 274.
  Download: pdf [441 KB], ps.gz [645 KB] copyrighted

• Double Buffering Technique for Binocular Imaging in a Window
  J.S. McVeigh, V.S. Grinberg, and M. Siegel
  Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems II, Vol. 2409, February, 1995, pp. 168 - 175.
  Download: pdf [56 KB], ps.gz [123 KB] copyrighted

• Geometry of Binocular Imaging II: The Augmented Eye
  V.S. Grinberg, G. Podnar, and M. Siegel
  Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems II, Vol. 2409, February, 1995, pp. 142 - 149.
  Download: pdf [30 KB], ps.gz [45 KB] copyrighted

• A Multiresolution Framework for Stereoscopic Image Sequence Compression
  S. Sethuraman, M. Siegel, and A. Jordan
  Proc. ICIP-94, Vol. 2, November, 1994, pp. 361 - 365.
  Download: pdf [26 KB], ps.gz [24 KB] copyrighted

• Multiresolution based hierarchical disparity estimation for stereo image pair compression
  S. Sethuraman, A. Jordan, and M. Siegel
  March, 1994.
  Download: pdf [32 KB], ps.gz [33 KB] copyrighted

• Compression of stereo image pairs and streams
  M. Siegel, P. Gunatilake, S. Sethuraman, and A. Jordan
  Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems, Vol. 2177, February, 1994, pp. 258 - 268.
  Download: pdf [105 KB], ps.gz [144 KB] copyrighted

• Geometry of Binocular Imaging
  V.S. Grinberg, G. Podnar, and M. Siegel
  Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems, Vol. 2177, February, 1994, pp. 56 - 65.
  Download: pdf [29 KB], ps.gz [51 KB] copyrighted

• Gas Identification System Using Graded Temperature Sensor and Neural Net Interpretation
  L. Wong, T. Takemori, and M. Siegel
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-89-20, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 1989.
  Download: pdf [75 KB], ps.gz [71 KB] copyrighted

• Remote High Speed Measurement of Small Diameters by Optical Diffractometry and Interferometry
  M. Siegel
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-88-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1988.
  Download: pdf [133 KB], ps.gz [112 KB] copyrighted

• Intelligent Sensors for Atomization Processing of Molten Metals and Alloys
  G. Jiang, H. Henein, and M. Siegel
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-88-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1988. [Abstract]
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• Image Focusing in Space and Time
  M. Siegel
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-88-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1988.
  Download: pdf [38 KB], ps.gz [29 KB] copyrighted

• Physically based simulation model for acoustic sensor robot navigation
  R. Kuc and M. Siegel
  1987 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. PAMI-9, No. 6, November, 1987, pp. 766 - 778.

• Dual Gradient Thick-Film Metal Oxide Gas Sensors
  M. Siegel, L. Wong, R.J. Lauf, and B.S. Hoffheins
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers'87), June, 1987, pp. 599 - 604.
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• Automatic Robot Initialization Using a Planar Target Scanned by an Optical Reflection Sensor
  R.Q. Yang and M. Siegel
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-87-09, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1987. [Abstract]
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• Efficient representation of reflecting structures for a sonar navigation model
  R. Kuc and M. Siegel
  Proceedings of the 1987 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, March, 1987, pp. 1916 - 1923. [Abstract]
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• A Sorting System Using very Low Resolution Optical Sensor Array in Robot Fingertips
  R.Q. Yang and M. Siegel
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-86-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1986.
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• Physically-based Simulation Model for Acoustic Sensor Robot Navigation
  R. Kuc and M. Siegel
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-86-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1986. [Abstract]
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