Publications

Parameter Estimation for Markov Random Fields:

bullet L. Younes: Couplage de l'estimation et du recuit pour des champs de Gibbs. C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris, t. 303 , série I, No. 13 (1986).
bullet L. Younes: Estimation and annealing for Gibbsian fields. Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, vol 24 No 2 269-294 (1988)
bullet L. Younes: Parameter estimation for imperfectly observed Gibbsian fields. Prob. Theory and Rel. fields 82, 625--645 (1989)
bullet L. Younes: Maximum likelihood estimation for Gibbs fields. Spatial Statistics and Imaging: Proceedings of an AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference , A. Possolo (editor), Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Hayward, California (1991)
bullet L. Younes: Parameter estimation for imperfectly observed Gibbs fields and some comments on Chalmond's EM Gibssian algorithm . Proceedings of ``stochastic models, statistical methods and algorithms in image analysis'' , Ed. P. Barone and A. Frigessi, Lecture Notes in Statistics, Springer (1992)
bullet A. Frigessi, C.-R. Hwang, L. Younes: Optimal Spectral Structure of Reversible Stochastic Matrices, Monte Carlo Methods and the Simulation of Markov Random Fields, Annals of Applied probability , Vol 2. No 3, 610-628 (1992)
bullet L. Younes: Stochastic gradient strategies for Markov random fields. SPIE conference on Bayesian inference for inverse problems (1998)
bullet L. Younes: On the convergence of Markovian stochastic algorithms with rapidly decreasing ergodicity rates Stochastics and Stochastics Reports, 65, 177-228 (1999)
bullet L. Younes: Calibrating parameters of cost functionals in Computer vision (proceedings of ECCV 2000)

 

Synchronous random fields and Boltzman Machines

bullet R. Azencott, A. Doutriaux, L. Younes: Synchronous Boltzmann machines and outline based image classification, in Proc. Int. Neural Network Conf. Paris Juil. 90 , IEEE, Kluwer Ac. Publ., Boston (1990)
bullet R. Azencott, A. Doutriaux, L. Younes: Synchronous Boltzmann machines and curve identification tasks. Network~: computations in Neural Networks. 4 461-480 (1993)
bullet L. Younes: Synchronous Boltzmann machines can be universal estimators Applied Mathematics Letters Vol 9 No 3 (1996)
bullet L. Younes: Synchronous Image restoration. Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference of Computer Vision, Stockholm J.O. Eklundh (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Comp. Sci. 80 1, Springer Verlag (1994)
bullet L. Younes: Learning algorithms for Boltzmann machines and extended models Proceedings of the 12th ICPR, Jerusalem (1994)
bullet L. Younes: Synchronous modeling in Image analysis proceedings du congres de l'institut international de statistique, Pekin, 1995 .
bullet L. Younes: Representation of Gibbs fields by synchronous random fields . Markov Processes and Related fields 2, 285-316 (1996)
bullet L. Younes: Synchronous random fields and Image restoration.  IEEE TPAMI 20, 4, 1998
bullet L. Younes: Monte Carlo maximization of likelihood: A convergence study (Unpublished 2000)

 

Shapes and Diffeomorphisms

bullet L. Younes: A distance for elastic matching in object recognition (summary) (Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences ).
bullet R. Azencott, F. Coldefy, L. Younes: A distance for elastic matching in object recognition Proceedings of 12th ICPR (1996)
bullet L. Younes: Computable elastic distances between shapes , SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics (1998)
bullet L. Younes: Optimal matching between shapes via elastic deformations Image and Vision Computing 17, 381-389 (1999)
bullet D. Béréziat, I. Herlin, L. Younes: Motion detection methods applied to meteorological images (1997)
bullet V. Camion, L. Younes: Geodesic Interpolating Splines (EMMCVPR 2001)
bullet M. Miller, L. Younes: Group actions, homeomorphisms, and matching: a general framework (International Journal of Computer Vision, 2001)
bullet A. Trouvé, L. Younes: On a class of diffeomorphic matching problems in one dimension (SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
bullet  A. Trouvé, L. Younes: Diffeomorphic matching problems in one dimension: designing and minimizing matching functionals (proceedings ECCV 2000)
bullet A. Trouvé, L. Younes:  Local geometry of deformable templates (2002)
bullet  M. Miller, A. Trouvé, L. Younes:  Geodesic shooting for computational anatomy (2003)
bullet  A. Trouvé, L. Younes: Metamorphoses Through Lie Group Action (2004).
bullet J. Glaunès, A. Trouvé, L. Younes: Diffeomorphic matching of distributions: A new approach for unlabelled point-sets and sub-manifolds matching (2004).
bullet L. Garcin, L. Younes: Geodesic Matching with Free Extremities (MIA 2004).
bullet L. Garcin, A. Rangarajan, L. Younes: Non-rigid Registration of Shapes via Diffeomorphic Point Matching (ICIP 2004).
bullet L. Garcin, L. Younes: Geodesic Image Matching: A Wavelet Based Energy Minimization Scheme (EMMCVPR'05).
bullet L. Younes: Combining Geodesic Splines and Affine Transformations (IEEE Trans. Image Processing).
bullet M. Vaillant, M. Miller and A. Trouvé, L. Younes: Statistics on Diffeomorphisms via Tangent Space Representation, Neuroimage (2005).
bullet D. Holm, T. Ratnanather, A. Trouvé, L. Younes: Soliton Dynamics in Computational Anatomy, Neuroimage (2005).
bullet Y. Cao, M. Miller, R. Winslow, L. Younes: Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Matching of Vector Fields, (IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging)
bullet J. Glaunès, A. Trouvé, L. Younes: Modeling Planar Shape Variation via Hamiltonian Flows of Curves (2005)
bullet L. Younes: Jacobi Fields in Groups of Diffeomorphisms and Applications (Quarterly J. of Applied Math, 2006)
bullet L. Wang, M. F. Beg, J. T. Ratnanather, C. Ceritoglu, L. Younes, Jo. Morrisk, Jo. Csernansky, ich. lerler. "Large Deformation Diffeomorphism and Momentum Based Hippocampal Shape Discrimination in Dementia of the Alzheimer Type". IEEE Trans. Med Imaging (2006)
bullet J. Glaunes, A. Qiu, M. Miller and L. Younes. "Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Curve Mapping". International Journal of Computer Vision (2007)
bullet Zhang, S., Ratnanather, T., Younes, L. and Zweck, J. . "Diffeomorphic surface flows: a novel method of surface evolution". SIAM J. Applied Math (2007)
bullet L. Younes, M. Miller, A. Qiu and R. Winslow. "Transport of Relational Structures in Groups of Diffeomorphisms". Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (2007)
bullet Hao Huang, Akria Yamamoto, Mir Ahamed Hossain, Laurent Younes, Susumu Mori. "Quantitative Cortical Mapping of Fractional Anisotropy in Developing Rat Brains". Journal of Neuroscience (2007)
bullet Laurent Younes, Peter Michor, Jayant Shah and David Mumford. "A Metric on Shape Space with Explicit Geodesics". Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Natur. Rend. Lincei (9) Mat. Appl (2007)
bullet Jun Ma, Michael I. Miller Alain Trouvé and Laurent Younes. "Bayesian template estimation in computational anatomy". Neuroimage (2008)
bullet A. Qiu, L. Younes, M. Miller, J. Csernansky. "Parallel transport in diffeomorphisms distinguishes the time-dependent pattern of hippocampal surface deformation due to healthy aging and the dementia of the Alzheimer's type". Neuroimage (2008)
bullet D. Holm, A. Trouvé and L. Younes . "The Euler Poincare Theory of metamorphosis". Quartely J. Applied Mathematics (2008)
bullet H-F. Chou and L. Younes. "Smoothing Directional Vector fields using dual norms". SIAM J. Image Analysis (2008)

 

 

Computer Vision and Object Recognition

bullet R. Azencott,  J. Wang, L. Younes: Texture classification using windowed Fourier filters (IEEE TPAMI) (1995).
bullet R. Azencott, L. Younes: An energy minimization method for matching and comparing structured object representations , Proceedings of EMMCVPR'97.
bullet T. Feldman, L. Younes: Homeostatic Image Perception: an Artificial System(2005).
bullet S. Gadat, L. Younes: A stochastic algorithm for feature selection in pattern recognition(2005).