5 Selected Publications

1. D. M. Gavrila. A Bayesian, Exemplar-based Approach to Hierarchical Shape Matching.. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.29, no.8 (August), 2007.

2. D. M. Gavrila and S. Munder. Multi-Cue Pedestrian Detection and Tracking from a Moving Vehicle. International Journal of Computer Vision, Springer Verlag, vol.73, no.1 (June), pp.41-59, 2007.

3. S. Munder and D. M. Gavrila. An Experimental Study on Pedestrian Classification. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.28, nr 11, pp. 1863-1868, 2006. 

4. D. M. Gavrila, The Visual Analysis of Human Movement: A Survey, Computer Vision and Image Understanding,  Academic Press, vol. 73, nr. 1, pp. 82-98, 1999.

5. D. M. Gavrila and L. S. Davis, 3D Model-based Tracking of Humans in Action: a Multi-view Approach, Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 73-80, San Francisco, U.S.A., 1996.

1. S. Munder, C. Schnörr and D.M. Gavrila. Pedestrian Detection and Tracking Using a Mixture of View-Based Shape-Texture Models. IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2008.

2. D. M. Gavrila. A Bayesian, Exemplar-based Approach to Hierarchical Shape Matching.. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.29, no.8 (August), 2007.

3. D. M. Gavrila and S. Munder. Multi-Cue Pedestrian Detection and Tracking from a Moving Vehicle. International Journal of Computer Vision, Springer Verlag, vol.73, no.1 (June), pp.41-59, 2007.

4. S. Munder and D. M. Gavrila. An Experimental Study on Pedestrian Classification. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.28, nr 11, pp. 1863-1868, 2006. 

5. W. van der Mark and D. M. Gavrila. Real-Time Dense Stereo for Intelligent Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 7, nr 1, pp.38-50, March 2006.

6. D. M. Gavrila, Sensor-based Pedestrian Protection, IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol.16, nr.6, pp.77-81, 2001.

7. D. M. Gavrila, U. Franke, S. Görzig and C. Wöhler, Real-time Vision for Intelligent Vehicles, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, vol.4, nr.2, pp.22-27, June, 2001.

7. D. M. Gavrila, The Visual Analysis of Human Movement: A Survey, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Academic Press, vol. 73, nr. 1, pp. 82-98, 1999.

9. U. Franke, D. M. Gavrila, S. Görzig, F. Lindner, F. Paetzold and C. Wöhler, Autonomous Driving goes Downtown, IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol.13, nr.6, pp. 40-48, 1998.

10. D. M. Gavrila and F. C. A. Groen, 3-D Object recognition from 2-D Images using Geometric Hashing, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 13, nr. 4, pp. 263-278, 1992.

1. U. Franke, D. M. Gavrila, A. Gern, S. Görzig, R. Janssen, F. Paetzold and C. Wöhler, From Door to Door - Principles and Applications of Computer Vision for Driver Assistant Systems, chapter 6 in Intelligent Vehicle Technologies, eds. L. Vlacic and F. Harashima and M. Parent, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 2001

2. Y. Yacoob, L. Davis, M. Black, D. M. Gavrila, T. Horprasert and C. Marimoto, Looking at People in Action - An Overview, in Computer Vision for Human-Machine Interaction, eds. R. Cipolla and A. Pentland, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

3. U. Franke, D. M. Gavrila, S. Görzig, F. Lindner, F. Paetzold and C. Wöhler, Bildverstehen im Innerstädtischen Verkehr (in German), in Autonome Mobile Systeme, eds. H. Wörn, R. Dillmann and D. Heinrich, Springer Verlag, 1998.

4. D. M. Gavrila, 3-D Model-based Tracking of Humans in Action, in Advances in Image Understanding, eds. K. Bowyer and N. Ahuja, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996.

5. D. M. Gavrila, R-Tree Index Optimization, in Advances in GIS Research, eds. T. Waugh and R. Healey, Taylor and Francis, 1994. Also, CS-TR-3292, University of Maryland, College Park, 1994.

• D. M. Gavrila, Vision-based 3-D Tracking of Humans in Action, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 1996.

1. M. Enzweiler and D. M. Gavrila. A Mixed Generative-Discriminative Framework for Pedestrian Classification. Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Anchorage, USA, 2008.

2. W. Zajdel, D. Krijnders, T. Andringa and D.M. Gavrila. CASSANDRA: Audio-Video Sensor Fusion for Aggression Detection. IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS), London (UK), 2007. BEST PAPER AWARD

3. J. Giebel, D. M. Gavrila and C. Schnörr. A Bayesian Framework for Multi-Cue 3D Object Tracking, Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision, Prague, Czech Republic, 2004.

4. D. M. Gavrila and J. Giebel, Virtual Sample Generation for Template-based Shape Matching, Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol. I, pp. 676-681, Kauai, U.S.A., 2001.

5. D. M. Gavrila, M. Kunert and U. Lages, A multi-sensor approach for the protection of vulnerable traffic participants - the PROTECTOR project, Proc. of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, vol. 3, pp. 2044-2048, Budapest, Hungary, 2001.

6. D. M. Gavrila, Pedestrian Detection from a Moving Vehicle, Proc. of European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 37-49, Dublin, Ireland, 2000

7. D. M. Gavrila and V. Philomin, Real-time Object Detection for Smart Vehicles, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 87-93, Kerkyra, Greece, 1999.

8. D. M. Gavrila, Multi-feature Hierarchical Template Matching Using Distance Transforms, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 439-444, Brisbane, Australia, 1998.

9. D. M. Gavrila and L. S. Davis, 3-D Model-based Tracking of Humans in Action: a Multi-view Approach, Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 73-80, San Francisco, U.S.A., 1996.

10. D. M. Gavrila, Hermite Deformable Contours, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 130-135, Vienna, Austria, 1996.

1. M. Enzweiler, P. Kanter and D. M. Gavrila. Monocular Pedestrian Recognition Using Motion Parallax..IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2008.

2. M. Mählisch, M. Oberländer, O. Löhlein, D. M. Gavrila and W. Ritter. A Multiple Detector Approach to Low-Resolution FIR Pedestrian Recognition. Proc. of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Las Vegas, USA, 2005.

3. D. M. Gavrila, J. Giebel and S. Munder. Vision-based Pedestrian Detection: the PROTECTOR System, Proc. of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Parma, Italy, 2004.

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4. H. Sunyoto, W. van der Mark and D. M. Gavrila. A Comparative Study of Fast Dense Stereo Vision Algorithms, Proc. of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Parma, Italy, 2004.

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5. P. Marchal, D. M. Gavrila, L. Letellier, M.-M. Meinecke, R. Morris and M. Töns. SAVE-U: An innovative sensor platform for Vulnerable Road User protection, Proc. of the World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Madrid, Spain, 2003.

6. R. Cicilloni, S. J. Deutschle, K. M. Oltersdorf and D. M. Gavrila. Results of Vulnerable Road User Protection Systems in PROTECTOR. Proc. of the World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Madrid, Spain, 2003.

7. M.-M. Meinecke, M. Obojski, M. Töns, R. Dörfler, P. Marchal, L. Letellier, D. M. Gavrila and R. Morris. Approach for Protection of Vulnerable Road Users using Sensor Fusion Techniques, Proc. of the International Radar Symposium, Dresden, Germany, 2003.

8. C. von Bank, D. M. Gavrila and C. Wöhler. A Visual Quality Inspection System Based on a Hierarchical 3D Pose Estimation Algorithm, DAGM Symposium für Mustererkennung, Magdeburg, Germany, 2003.

9. J. Giebel and D. M. Gavrila. Multimodal Shape Tracking using Point Distribution Models. Proc. of DAGM Symposium für Mustererkennung, Zürich, Switzerland, 2002.

10. D. M. Gavrila and J. Giebel. Shape-based Pedestrian Detection and Tracking. Proc. of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Paris, France, 2002.

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11. S. Hezel, D. M. Gavrila, A. Kugel and R. Männer. FPGA-based Template Matching using Distance Transforms. Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, Napa, U.S.A., 2002.

12. D. M. Gavrila, J. Giebel and H. Neumann, Learning Shape Models from Examples, Proc. of the 23rd DAGM Symposium für Mustererkennung, pp.369-376, Springer Verlag, Munich, Germany, 2001

13. U. Franke, D. M. Gavrila and S. Görzig,  Vision-based Driver Assistance in Urban Traffic, Proc. of World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Turin, Italy, 2000.

14. D. M. Gavrila, U. Franke, S. Görzig and C. Wöhler, Visual Object Recognition for Intelligent Vehicles, Proc. of the 9-th Aachen Colloquium, vol. I, pp. 589-598, Aachen, Germany, 2000.

15. D. M. Gavrila, The Analysis of Human Motion and its Application for Visual Surveillance, Proc. of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, pp. 3-5, Fort Collins, U.S.A., 1999.

16. D. M. Gavrila, Traffic Sign Recognition Revisited, Proc. of the 21st DAGM Symposium für Mustererkennung, pp. 86-93, Springer Verlag, Bonn, Germany, 1999.

17. D. M. Gavrila and V. Philomin, Real-time Object Detection using Distance Transforms, Proc. of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, pp. 274-279, Stuttgart, Germany, 1998.

18. D. M. Gavrila and L. S. Davis, Tracking Humans in Action: A 3-D Model-based Approach, Proc. of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pp. 737-746, Palm Springs, U.S.A., 1996.

19. D. M. Gavrila and L. S. Davis, 3-D Model-based Tracking of Human Upper Body Movement, Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Computer Vision, pp. 253-258, Coral Gables, U.S.A., 1995.

20. D. M. Gavrila and L. S. Davis, Towards 3-D Model-based Tracking and Recognition of Human Movement, Proc. of the IEEE International Workshop on Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 272-277, Zurich, Switzerland, 1995.

21. D. M. Gavrila and L. S. Davis, Fast Correlation Matching in Large (Edge) Image Databases, Proc. of the 23rd AIPR Workshop, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 1994. Also, CS-TR-3334, University of Maryland, College Park, 1994.