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DRAGUTIN PETKOVIC

 

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BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

-         D. Petkovic: "Panel of Experts: The future of video databases", (one of the expert contributions) in "Handbook of Video Databases", O. Marques, B. Furht, ed., CRC Press, 2003 (invited)

-         M. Flickner et al.: "Query by Image and Video Content: The QBIC Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval, Mark Maybury,Ed., AAAI Press, MIT Press, 1997, PP 7-22.

-         R. Barber et al: "Query by Content for Large On-Line Image Collections", In "A Guided Tour of Multimedia Systems and Applications", Ed. B. Furht, M. Milenkovic, IEEE, 1995

-         W.E. Blanz, D. Petkovic, J.L.C. Sanz: "Algorithms and Architectures for Machine Vision", a chapter in "Handbook of Signal Processing", C. H. Chen Editor, Marcell Decker, 1988, also RJ 6230

-         E. Blanz, J. L. C. Sanz, D. Petkovic, "Low Level Image Segmentation: Theory, Architecture, and Experimentation", a book chapter in "Advances in Machine Vision", J. Sanz (editor), Springer Verlag, 1988

-         J.Sklansky, D.Petkovic:"Two-Resolution Detection of Lung Tumors In Chest Radiographs", Multiple Resolution Image Processing, ed. by A.Rosenfeld, Academic Press, New York, 1984

 

 

INVITED PAPERS

-         T. Syeda - Mahmood, D. Petkovic: "On describing color and shape information in images", in Journal of Visual Communications 2000

-         Dejan Diklic, Dragutin Petkovic, Ron Danielson: "Selection of best keyframes from video based on image content", 32nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 1998.

-         D. Petkovic: "Challenges and Opportunities in Search and Retrieval for Media Databases", invited position paper for Panel on Content Based Retrieval, CVPR98, Santa Barbara, June 1998

-         H. Zhang, P. Aigrain, D. Petkovic editors: "Representation and Retrieval of Visual Media: A State-of-the-Art Review", MM Tools and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 3, No. 3, November 1996.

-         D. Petkovic, J. Wilder: "Machine Vision in the 1990s: Applications and How to Get There", (report from the panel discussion) Int. Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, Springer Verlag, Vol 4. 1991.

-         D. Petkovic:" The Need for Accuracy Verification of Machine Vision Algorithms and Systems", invited paper for panel discussion at CVPR89, proceedings CVPR89, San Diego, CA, June 1989.

-         D.Petkovic, B.Dom, J.Sanz, J.Mandeville: "Verifying the Accuracy of Machine Vision Systems/Algorithms", 22nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Asilomar, October 1988

-         E. Hinkle, J. L. C. Sanz, D. Petkovic, A.K.Jain, "PPPE: New Life for Projection-Based Image Processing", invited paper for a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Processing, No. 4, 1987.

 

 

JOURNAL PAPERS

-         M. Flickner et al.: "Query by Image and Video Content: The QBIC System", IEEE Computer, Special Issue on Content Based Retrieval, September 1995, pp. 23-32.

-         With W. Niblack et all.: "Efficient and Effective Querying by Image Content", special issue on "Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Database Technology" in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, No. 3, 1994.

-         W. Niblack, M. Flickner, R. Barber, P. Yanker, D. Petkovic: "Find Me the Pictures That Look Like This: IBM's Image Query Project", Advanced Imaging, April 1993.

-         W. E. Blanz, C. B. Shung, C. E. Cox, W. Greainer, B. E. Dom, D. Petkovic:"Design and Implementation of a Low-level Image Segmentation Architecture - LISA", Int. Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, Springer Verlag, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1993.

-         W. Niblack, D. Petkovic: " On Improving the Accuracy of Hough Transform", with W. Niblack, accepted for Int. J. on Machine Vision and Applications, Springer Verlag, 1988

-         J.Sanz, D.Petkovic: "Machine Vision Algorithms for Automated Inspection of Disk Heads", RJ 5165, 1986, IEEE PAMI, Nov. 1988.

-         D.Petkovic, W.Niblack, M.Flickner:"Projection-Based High Accuracy Measurements of Straight Line Edges", International Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, Springer-Verlag, 1988.

-         J. L. C. Sanz, I. Dinstein, D. Petkovic, "A new algorithm for computing multi-colored masks in general purpose pipeline image processing architectures", Communications of the A. C. M., Vol. 30, N. 4, April 1987

-         D.Petkovic, E.Hinkle: " A Rule-Based System for Verifying Engineering Specifications in Industrial Visual Inspection Applications ", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, March 1987.

-         B.Furht, D.Petkovic:"A Procedure for Multimicroprocessor System Testing During Development", Microprocessor and Microsystems, Vol.5, No.7, Sept. 1981

 

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

-         D. Petkovic, G. Thompson, R. Todtenhoefer: "Assessment and Comparison of Local and Global SW Engineering Practices in a Classroom Setting", The Thirteenth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Madrid, Spain, June 2008

-         Dragutin Petkovic, Rainer Todtenhoefer, Gary Thompson: "Teaching Practical Software Engineering and Global Software Engineering: Case Study and Recommendations", 36th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October, 2006, San Diego , CA .

-         D. Petkovic, G. Thompson, R. Todtenhoefer: "Teaching Practical Software Engineering and Global Software Engineering: Evaluation and Comparison", The Eleventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, University of Bologna , Italy 26-28 June 2006

-         Berndt Jung, Ilmi Yoon, Hendra Lim, F. A. Ramirez-Weber, Dragutin Petkovic: "Annotizer: User-friendly WWW Annotation System for Collaboration in Research and Education Environments", The IASTED International Conference on Web Technolgies, Applciations and Services, WTAS 2006, July 17-19, 2006, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

-         D. Petkovic, G. Thompson, R. Todtenhoefer: "Teaching Practical Software Engineering and Global Software Engineering: Evaluation and Comparison", The Eleventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, University of Bologna, Italy 26-28 June 2006

-         Prof. F. A. Ramirez-Weber, D. Petkovic, I. Yoon, B. Jung, H. Lim, K. Harwold: "The Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Database as an Online Annotated Resource for Collaborations in Research and Education", Poster at the Meeting of American Society for Cell Biology, San Francisco, December 2005

-         Lj. Buturovic, S. Cohen, Z. He, M. Eggenberger, D. Nacci, D. Petkovic, "Supervised Classification of Genetic Sequences for Population Analysis," Proc. 7th International Meeting on Single Nucleotide Polymorphism and Complex Genome Analysis (Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK), 2005, p. 43.

-         D. Petkovic, E. Lank, F. A. Ramirez *, S. Raghavendra, F. Chen, S. Pathuri, C. Pekiner, J. Fergoso, A. Hsieh, A. Marquez. : "Asynchronous Multimedia Annotations for Web-Base Collaboration in Biology Education", SPIE, San Jose, January 2005

-         E. Lank, D. Petkovic, F. A. Ramirez-Weber*, J. Hafernik*, J. Hsieh, J. Maag, S. Pathuri, C. Pekiner, S. Raghavendra BioMedia: " Multimedia Information Systems for Biology Research, Education and Collaboration", SPIE, San Jose, January 2004

-         Srinivasan, S., Petkovic D., Ponceleon, D., and Viswanathan, M.: "Query Expansion for Imperfect Speech: Applications in Distributed Learning", In CBAIVL-2000, IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

-         Srinivasan S., Ponceleon D., Amir A., Blanchard, B., and Petkovic D.: "Engineering the WWW for Multimedia", WEBE-2000, Third Workshop on Web Engineering, May 2000, Amsterdam

-         Srinivasan S., Petkovic D.: "Phonetic Confusion Matrix Based Spoken Document Retrieval", Proceedings of SIGIR'2000

-         Ponceleon D., Amir A., Petkovic D.: "What is in that video anyway? In search of Better Browsing", In Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. On Multimedia Computing and Systems, pp/ 388-392, Florence, Italy, June 1999

-         Srinivasan S., Ponceleon D. and Petkovic D.:"Towards Robust Features for Classifying Audio in the CueVideo System", In Proceedings of ACM Conf. On Multimedia, 00. 399-407, Orlando, Fl, November 1999

-         Amir A., Ponceleon D., Blanchard B., Petkovic D., Srinivasan S., and Cohen G.: "Using Audio Time Scale Modification for Video Browsing", HICSS-33, Hawaii, Jan. 2000. Best Paper Aaward

-         Amir A., Srinivasan, S., Ponceleon D., and Petkovic D.: "CueVideo: Automated Indexing of Video for Searching and Browsing", In Proceeedings of SIGIR'99, Berkeley CA, August 1999

-         D. Ponceleon, S. Srinivashan, A. Amir, D. Petkovic, D. Diklic: "Key to Effective Video Retrieval: Effective Cataloguing and Browsing", Proc.of ACM Multimedia '98 Conference, September 1998.

-         W. Niblack, X. Zhu, J. Hafner, T. Breuel, D. Ponceleon, D. Petkovic, M. Flickner, E. Upfal, S. Nin, S. Sull, B. Dom, B.-L. Yeo, S. Srinivasan, D. Zivkovic, and M. Penner "Updates to the QBIC System", SPIE Electronic Imaging, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI, Jan 1998.

-         B. Holt, K. Weiss, W. Niblack, M. Flickner, D. Petkovic: "The QBIC Project in the Department of Art and History at UC Davis", Digital Collections, ASIS97, Washington D.C. 1997

-         With M. Carey et al: "Towards Heterogeneous Multimedia Information Systems: The Garlic Approach", accepted for RAID-95.

-         D. Petkovic et al:" Query by Image Content and Its Applications", Distributed MM Systems and Applications, August 1994, Hawaii.

-         With B. Dom et al: "Algorithms for Automatic Disk Head/Slider Inspection", Int. Conf. on pattern Recognition, ICPR94, Jerusalem, 1994.

-         With W. Niblack et al: "INdexing for Complex Queries on a Query-By-Content Image Database", Int. Conf. on pattern Recognition, ICPR94, Jerusalem, 1994.

-         With B. Dom et al: "The Disaster Detector: An Automatic Disk Head/Slider Inspection System", SPIE 1994, February, San Jose.

-         W. Niblack, R. Barber, W. Equitz, M. Flickner, E. Glasman, D. Petkovic, P. Yanker: "The QBIC Project: Querying Images by Content Using Color, Texture and Shape", SPIE, San Jose, February 1993.

-         R. Barber, W. Equitz, M. Flickner, W. Niblack, D. Petkovic: "Efficient Query by Image Content for Very Large Image Databases", COMPCON Spring, San Francisco, February 1993.

-         W. B. Baringer, R. W. Brodersen, D. Petkovic: "Computer Vision Hardware using Radon Transform", Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, Hawaii, June 1991

-         W. E. Blanz, B. Shung, C. Cox, W. Greiner, B. Dom, D. Petkovic: "Design and Implementation of a Low-level Image Segmentation Architecture - LISA" ICPR90, Atlantic City

-         C .B. Shung, W. E. Blanz, D. Petkovic: "Real-time Decision Analysis - Algorithms, Architectures and Implementation", Time-Varying Image Processing and Moving Object Recognition,2, Proc. II Int. Workshop, Florence, Italy, May, 1989

-         Wayne Niblack, D. Damian, D. Petkovic: "Experiments and Evaluations of Rule Based Methods for Image Analysis", RJ 5975 (59437) 11/20/87, presented in CVPR, Ann Arbour, June 1988.

-         Wayne Niblack, D.Petkovic: "On Improving the Accuracy of the Hough Transform: Theory, Simulation, and Experiments", presented in CVPR, Ann Arbour, June 1988.

-         W.Baringer, R.Brodersen, D.Petkovic, J.Sanz: "Machine Vision Applications and ASICs of the Parallel Pipeline Projection Engine", 1988 Workshop on VLSI Signal Processing, November 1988, Monterey.

-         E. Blanz, J. L. C. Sanz, D. Petkovic, "Control-Free Low Level Image Segmentation: Theory, Architecture, and Experimentation", International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 87, London, June 1987

-         W.B.Baringer (UC Berkeley), B.C.Richards (UC Berkeley), R.W. Brodersen (UC Berkeley), J.L.C. Sanz, D.Petkovic: " A VLSI Implementation of PPPE for Real-Time Image Procesisng in Radon Space - Work in Progress", accepted for IEEE Workshop on Comp. Arch. for pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Seattle, WA, October 1987, pp. 88-93.

-         D.Petkovic, J.Sanz, K.Mohiuddin, M.Flickner, E.Hinkle, C.Cox, K.Wong, "An experimental system for disk head inspection ", presented at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1986, Paris, also RJ 4942

-         J. L. C. Sanz, D. Petkovic, K. Wong, "Image analysis algorithms for automated visual inspection of thin-film disk heads", presented at International Conference Advances on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Pisa - Italy, December 1985. Included in the proceedings of the conference, published by North Holland

-         D.Petkovic, J.L.Sanz, I.Dinstein, "On applications of multi-colored polygonal masks and their computation in image processing pipeline architectures", IEEE Workshop on Computer Architecture for Pattern Analysis and Image Database Management, Florida, November 1985

-         D.Petkovic, K.Mohiudin, "Combining component features from multiple frame images", IEEE Workshop on Computer Architecture for Pattern Analysis

-         B.Furht, D.Petkovic:" The Design of a Multimicroprocessor System and its Applications in Digital Signal Processing", Proceedings of MIMI, Mexico, April 1981.

-         B.Furht, S.Matic, M.Carapic, D.Petkovic, Jankovic Dj.:" Universal Microcomputer System for Automatic Error Correction", Proc. of Int. Microcomputers, Minicomputers, Microprocessors, Geneva, Switzerland, 1979.

-         D.Petkovic, Z.Bozovic:" Automatic Measurements of ST Elevations", Proceedings of the Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1978.

 

 

ISSUED PATENTS


Dr. Dragutin Petkovic
dpetkovic@yahoo.com

# PAT. NO. Title
1 7,577,722 Provisioning of computer systems using virtual machines
2 7,318,053 Indexing system and method for nearest neighbor searches in high dimensional data spaces
3 6,760,536 Fast video playback with automatic content based variable speed
4 6,636,238 System and method for linking an audio stream with accompanying text material
5 6,591,007 Method and apparatus for representing colored surfaces via a surface color code book
6 6,185,527 System and method for automatic audio content analysis for word spotting, indexing, classification and retrieval
7 6,182,069 Video query system and method
8 6,166,735 Video story board user interface for selective downloading and displaying of desired portions of remote-stored video data objects
9 6,078,925 Computer program product for database relational extenders
10 6,047,291 Relational database extenders for handling complex data types
11 5,799,310 Relational database extenders for handling complex data types
12 5,793,358 Method and means for managing a luminescent laptop keyboard
13 5,751,286 Image query system and method
14 5,579,471 Image query system and method
 

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