Publications
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D. Leung and S. Newsam, "Can off-the-shelf object detectors be used to extract geographic information from geo-referenced social multimedia?" ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS): Workshop on Location Based Social Networks,, 2012 (accepted).
N. Graves and S. Newsam, "Visibility cameras: Where and how to look," ACM International Conference on Multimedia: Workshop on Multimedia Analysis for Ecological Data, 2012 (accepted).
D. Leung and S. Newsam, "Exploring geotagged images for land-use classification," ACM International Conference on Multimedia: Workshop on Geotagging and Its Applications in Multimedia, 2012 (accepted).
Y. Yang and S. Newsam, "Geographic image retrieval using local invariant features," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2012. [pdf]
Y. Yang and S. Newsam, "Estimating the spatial extents of geospatial objects using hierarchical models," IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2012. [pdf]
J. L. Phillips, M. E. Colvin, and S. Newsam, "Validating clustering of molecular dynamics simulations using polymer models," BMC Bioinformatics, 2011. [pdf]
Y. Yang and S. Newsam, "Spatial pyramid co-occurrence for image classification," IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2011. [pdf]
N. Graves and S. Newsam, "Using visibility cameras to estimate atmospheric light extinction," IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2011. [pdf]
S. Newsam, "Crowdsourcing what is where: Community-contributed photos as volunteered geographic information," IEEE Multimedia: Special Issue on Mining Community-Contributed Multimedia , 17(4), pp. 36–45, 2010. [pdf]
J. Yamada, J. L. Phillips, S. Patel, G. Goldfien, A. Calestagne-Morelli, H. Huang, R. Reza, J. Acheson, V. V. Krishnan, S. Newsam, A. Gopinathan, E. Y. Lau, M. E. Colvin, V. N. Uversky, and M. F. Rexach, "A bimodal distribution of two distinct categories of intrinsically-disordered structures with separate functions in FG nucleoporins," Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 9(10), pp. 2205–2224, 2010. [pdf]
Yi Yang and Shawn Newsam, "Bag-Of-Visual-Words and Spatial Extensions for Land-Use Classification," ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), 2010. [pdf]
Shawn Newsam, Daniel Leung, Oscar Caballero, Justin Floreza, and Jesus Pulido, "CBGIR: Content-Based Geographic Image Retrieval (Demo Paper)," ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), 2010. [pdf]
Daniel Leung and Shawn Newsam, "Proximate Sensing: Inferring What-Is-Where From Georeferenced Photo Collections," IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010 (accepted for oral presentation). [pdf]
Daniel Leung and Shawn Newsam, "Proximate Sensing Using Georeferenced Community Contributed Photo Collections," ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS): Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN’09), 2009. [pdf]
Joshua L. Phillips, Edmond Y. Lau, V.V. Krishnan, Michael Rexach, Shawn Newsam, and Michael E. Colvin, "Dynamics Analysis of Unstructured FG-Nucleoporins," Annual Symposium of The Protein Society, 2009. Winner of a Best Student Poster Award.
J. Phillips, M. Colvin, E. Lau, and S. Newsam, "Analyzing Dynamical Simulations of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Using Spectral Clustering," IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine: Workshop on Computational Structural Bioinformatics, pp. 17-24, 2008. [pdf]
L. Xie, A. Chiu, and S. Newsam, "Estimating Atmospheric Visibility Using General-Purpose Cameras," Advances in Visual Computing 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Vol. 5359, Springer, 2008, pp. 356-367. [pdf]
S. Newsam and Y. Yang, "Integrating Gazetteers and Remote Sensed Imagery," ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), 2008. [pdf]
Y. Yang and S. Newsam, "Comparing SIFT Descriptors and Gabor Texture Features for Classification of Remote Sensed Imagery," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2008. [pdf]
S. Newsam and Y. Yang, "Geographic Image Retrieval Using Interest Point Descriptors," Advances in Visual Computing 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Vol. 4842, Springer, 2007, pp. 275-286. [pdf]
S. Newsam and Y. Yang, "Comparing Global and Interest Point Descriptors for Similarity Retrieval in Remote Sensed Imagery," ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), Seattle, November 2007. [pdf]
J. Wright, S. Carpin, A. Cerpa, G. Gavilan, M. Kallmann, C. Laird, K. Laird, S. Newsam, and D. Noelle, "Collaboratory: An Open Source Teaching and Learning Facility for Computer Science and Engineering Education," International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Scienceand Computer Engineering (FECS), Las Vegas, June 2007. [pdf]
S. Newsam. “Hierarchical Texture Motifs," SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging–Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems VI , San Jose, January 2007. [pdf]
S. Newsam, E. Pernice, J. Jasinski, and V. Leppert, "Using Transmission Electron Microscopy to Quantify the Spatial Distribution of Nanoparticles Suspended in a Film," SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging–Computational Imaging V, San Jose, January 2007. [pdf]
S. Newsam, K. Novini, B. Rich, A. Rinna, and H. J. Forman, "Measuring Respiratory Burst in Alveolar Macrophages," Workshop on Multiscale Biological Imaging, Data Mining & Informatics, Santa Barbara, September 2006. [pdf]
B. S. Manjunath, G. M. Haley, W. Y. Ma, and S. D. Newsam, "Multiband Techniques for Texture Classification and Segmentation," in Handbook of Image and Video Processing, Second Edition, Ed. A. Bovik, Academic Press, 2005.
S. Newsam, "Seeing and Reading Red: Hue and Color-word Correlation in Images and Attendant Text on the WWW," ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Sixth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining, Chicago, August 2005. [pdf]
S. Newsam and C. Kamath, "Comparing Shape and Texture Features for Pattern Recognition in Simulation Data," SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems IV, San Jose, January 2005. [pdf]
C. Kamath, A. Gezahegne, S. Newsam, and M. Roberts, "Salient Points for Tracking Moving Objects in Video," SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Image and Video Communications and Processing, San Jose, January 2005. [pdf]
S. Newsam, L. Wang, S. Bhagavathy, and B. S. Manjunath, "Using Texture to Analyze and Manage Large Collections of Remote Sensed Image and Video Data," Journal of Applied Optics: Information Processing, Volume 43, Issue 2, pp. 210–217, January 2004. [pdf]
E. Cantu-Paz, S. Newsam, and C. Kamath, "Feature Selection in Scientific Applications," ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Seattle, August 2004. [pdf]
S. Newsam and B. S. Manjunath, "Normalized Texture Motifs and Their Application to Statistical Object Modeling," IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, Washington, D. C., June 2004. [pdf]
S. Newsam and C. Kamath, "Retrieval Using Texture Features in High Resolution Multi-spectral Satellite Imagery," SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology VI , Orlando, April 2004. [pdf]
S. Newsam, J. Tesic, L. Wang, and B. S. Manjunath, "Issues in Managing Image and Video Data (Invited Paper)," SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia, San Jose, January 2004. [pdf]
S. Newsam, L. Wang, S. Bhagavathy, and B. S. Manjunath, "Using Texture to Annotate Remote Sensed Datasets (Invited Paper)," International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, Special Session on Texture Analysis and Synthesis , Volume 1, Issue 18-20, pp. 72–77, Rome, September 2003. [pdf]
S. Newsam, S. Bhagavathy, and B. S. Manjunath, "Object Localization Using Texture Motifs and Markov Random Fields," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Volume 2, pp. 1049–1052, Barcelona, September 2003. [pdf]
J. Tesic, S. Newsam, and B. S. Manjunath, "Mining Image Datasets Using Perceptual Association Rules," SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Workshop on Mining Scientific and Engineering Datasets, pp. 71–77, San Francisco, May 2003. [pdf]
S. Newsam, S. Bhagavathy, and B. S. Manjunath, "Modeling Object Classes in Aerial Images Using Hidden Markov Models," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Volume 1, pp. 860–863, Rochester, September 2002. [pdf]
J. Tesic, S. Newsam, and B. S. Manjunath, "Scalable Spatial Event Representation," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Volume 2, pp. 229–232, Lausanne, August 2002. [pdf]
S. Bhagavathy, S. Newsam, and B. S. Manjunath, "Modeling Object Classes in Aerial Images Using Texture Motifs," IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Volume 2, pp. 981–984, Quebec, August 2002. [pdf]
S. Newsam, S. Bhagavathy, L. Fonseca, C. Kenney, and B. S. Manjunath, "Object Based Representations of Spatial Images," Acta Astronautica, Volume 48, Issue 5-12, pp. 567–577, June 2001. [pdf]
S. Newsam, B. Sumengen, and B. S. Manjunath, "Category-based Image Retrieval (Invited Paper)," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Special Session on Multimedia Indexing, Browsing and Retrieval, Volume 3, pp. 596–599, Thessalonika, October 2001. [pdf]
P. Wu, B. S. Manjunath, S. Newsam, and H. D. Shin, "A Texture Descriptor for Browsing and Similarity Retrieval," Journal of Signal Processing: Image Communication, Volume 16, Issue 1-2, pp. 33–43, September 2000. [pdf]
S. Newsam, S. Bhagavathy, L. Fonseca, C. Kenney, and B. S. Manjunath, "Object Based Representations of Spatial Images (Invited Paper)," International Aeronautical Congress, Rio de Janeiro, October 2000. [pdf]
P. Wu, B. S. Manjunath, S. D. Newsam, and H. D. Shin, "A Texture Descriptor for Image Retrieval and Browsing," IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries, pp. 3–7, Fort Collins, June 1999. [pdf]
