Aleix  

The Ohio State University

 
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205 Dreese Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
2015 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210 USA

E-mail: aleix@ece.osu.edu

Phone: (614) 688-8225 or (614) 292-2571


Short Bio

Aleix M. Martinez is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU), where he is the founder and director of the the Computational Biology and Cognitive Science Lab. He is also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and to the Center for Cognitive Science. Prior to joining OSU, he was affiliated with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Purdue University and with the Sony Computer Science Lab. He has organized, chaired or been part of the program committee of several major conferences, and currently serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and of Image and Vision Computing. His most known works are in face recognition and pattern recognition, with his research having been cited over 2,000 times. He has served in the following NSF panels: Computer Vision, CAREER, and REU; and in the follwoing NIH panels: Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the Cognition and Perception study section.

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 Tutorials and seminars
 
Publications
 
Journal Publications

Features versus Context: An approach for precise and detailed detection and delineation of faces and facial features
L. Ding and A.M. Martinez
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, accepted

Rigid Structure from Motion from a Blind Source Separation Perspective
J. Fortuna and A.M. Martinez
International Journal of Computer Vision, accepted

Rotation Invariant Kernels and Their Application to Shape Analysis
O.C. Hamsici and A.M. Martinez
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 31, No. 11, pp. 1985-1999, 2009
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Emotion Perception in Emotionless Face Images Suggests a Norm-based Representation
D. Neth and A.M. Martinez
Journal of Vision, Volume 9, Number 1, Article 5, Pages 1-11, 2009
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Low-Rank Matrix Fitting Based on Subspace Perturbation Analysis with Applications to Structure from Motion
H. Jia and A.M. Martinez
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 31, No. 4, 2009
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Modelling and Recognition of the Linguistic Components in American Sign Language
L. Ding and A.M. Martinez
Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 27, No. 12, pp. 1826-1844, 2009
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Can low level image differences account for the ability of human observers to discriminate facial identity?
D.A. Wilbraham, J.C. Christensen, A.M. Martinez and J.T. Todd
Journal of Vision, Volume 8, Number 15, Article 5, Pages 1-12, 2008
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Who Is LB1? Discriminant Analysis for the Classification of Specimens
A.M. Martinez and O.C. Hamsici
Pattern Recognition, Vol. 41, pp. 3436-3441, 2008
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Using the information embedded in the testing sample to break the limits caused by the small sample size in microarray-based classification
M. Zhu and A.M. Martinez
BMC Bioinformatics, 9:280, 2008
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Bayes Optimality in Linear Discriminant Analysis
O.C. Hamsici and A.M. Martinez
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 647-657, 2008
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Pruning Noisy Bases in Discriminant Analysis
M. Zhu and A.M. Martinez
IEEE Transactions Neural Networks, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 148-157, 2008
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Spherical-Homoscedastic Distributions: The equivalency of spherical and Normal distributions in classification
O.C. Hamsici and A.M. Martinez
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 8(Jul):1583-1623, 2007
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Subclass Discriminant Analysis
M. Zhu and A.M. Martinez
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 28, No. 8, pp. 1274-1286, 2006
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A Weighted Probabilistic Approach to Face Recognition from Multiple Images and Video Sequences
Y. Zhang and A.M. Martinez
Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 626-638, 2006
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Where Are Linear Feature Extraction Methods Applicable?
A.M. Martinez and M. Zhu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 27, No. 12, pp. 1934-1944, 2005.
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Robust Motion Estimation under Varying Illumination
Y. Kim, A.M. Martinez and A.C. Kak
Image and Vision Computing, vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 365-375, 2005
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On Combining Graph-Partitioning with Non-Parametric Clustering for Image Segmentation
A.M. Martinez, P. Mittrapiyanuruk and A.C. Kak
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 95, No. 1, pp. 72-85, 2004
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Matching Expression Variant Faces
A.M. Martinez
Vision Research, Vol. 43, Issue 9, pp. 1047-1060, 2003
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Recognizing Imprecisely Localized, Partially Occluded and Expression Variant Faces from a Single Sample per Class
A.M. Martinez
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 748-763, 2002
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Clustering in Image Space for Place Recognition and Visual Annotations for Human-robot Interaction
A.M. Martinez and J. Vitria.
IEEE Transactions on System Man and Cybernetics B, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 669-682, 2001
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PCA versus LDA
A.M. Martinez and A.C. Kak
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 228-233, 2001
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Learning Mixture Models Using a Genetic Version of the EM Algorithm
A.M. Martinez and J. Vitria
Pattern Recognition Letters 21, pp. 759-769, 2000
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A New Approach to Object-Related Image Retrieval
A.M. Martinez and J.R. Serra
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing Vol.11, No. 3, pp. 345-363, 2000
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Conference Publications

Active Appearance Models with Rotation Invariant Kernels
O.C. Hamsici and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto (Japan), 2009

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Support Vector Machines in Face Recognition with Occlusions
H. Jia and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Miami (FL), 2009
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Face Recognition with Occlusions in the Training and Testing Sets
H. Jia and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2008
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Precise Detailed Detection of Faces and Facial Features
L. Ding and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage (AK), 2008
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Spherical-homoscedastic Shapes
O.C. Hamsici and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 2007
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Sparse Kernels for Bayes Optimal Discriminant Analysis
O.C. Hamsici and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Workshop (CVPR), Minneapolis (MN), 2007  [Best paper award]
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Recovering the Linguistic Components of the Manual Signs in American Sign Language
L. Ding and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS), London (UK), 2007
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Selecting Principal Components in a Two-Stage LDA Algorithm
M. Zhu and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Patter Recognition (CVPR), New York (NY), 2006
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Three-dimensional Reconstruction of Shape and Motion for the Analysis of American Sign Language
L. Ding and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Workshop (CVPR) New York (NY), 2006
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A Blind Source Separation Approach to Structure from Motion
J. Fortuna and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, Chapel Hill (NC), 2006
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Perturbation Estimation of the Subspaces for Structure from Motion with Noisy and Missing Data
H. Jia, J. Fortuna and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, Chapel Hill (NC), 2006  [NSF award]
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Evaluation of the Modeling of Local Areas and Errors of Localization in FRGC’05
O.C. Hamsici and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Workshop (CVPR), 2005
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A Local Approach for Robust Optical Flow Estimation under Varying Illumination
Y. Kim, A.M. Martinez and A.C. Kak
Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2004
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Recognition of Expression Variant Faces Using Weighted Subspaces
Y. Zhang and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cambridge (UK),2004
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Optimal Subclass Discovery for Discriminant Analysis
M. Zhu and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (LCVPR), 2004
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From Static to Video: Face Recognition Using a Probabilistic Approach
Y. Zhang and A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Face Processing in Video (FPIV), 2004
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Template-based Recognition of Static Sitting Postures
M. Zhu, A.M. Martinez and H.Z. Tan
Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for Human Computer Interaction (CVPR-HCI), 2003
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Recognizing Expression Variant Faces from a Single Sample Image per Class
A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2003
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Purdue ASL Database for the Recognition of American Sign Language
A.M. Martinez, R.B. Wilbur, R. Shay and A.C. Kak
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), 2002
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Physical Correlates of Prosodic Structure in American Sign Language
R.B. Wilbur and A.M. Martinez,
Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS), 2002
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Recognition of Partially Occluded and/or Imprecisely Localized Faces Using a Probabilistic Approach
A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2000
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Semantic Access of Frontal Face Images: The expression-invariant problem
A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Images and Video Libraries, 2000
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Face Image Retrieval Using HMMs
A.M. Martinez
Proceedings of IEEE CVPR'99 (Workshop on Content-Based Access of Images and Video Libraries), 1999
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Semantic Access to a Database of Images: An approach to object-related image retrieval
A.M. Martinez and J.R. Serra.
Proceedings of IEEE Multimedia Systems (ICMCS'99), 1999
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Book Chapters

Face Recognition, Overview
A.M. Martinez
Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, to appear.

Face Recognition, Component-based
O.C. Hamsici and A.M. Martinez
Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, to appear.

A Biologically Inspired Model for the Simultaneous Recognition of Identity and Expression
D. Neth and A.M. Martinez
Biometrics: Theory, Methods, and Applications (Eds. N.V. Boulgouris, E. Micheli-Tzanakou & K.N. Plataniotis), Wiley, 2009.
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Subset Modeling of Face Localization Error, Occlusion, and Expression
A.M. Martinez and Y. Zhang
In Face Processing: Advance Modeling and Methods (Eds. R. Chellappa & W. Zhao), Academic Press, 2005.
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Physical Correlates of Prosodic Structure in American Sign Language
R.B. Wilbur and A.M. Martinez
In Chicago Linguistic Society, Vol. 38, 2002.
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Dimensionality Reduction for Face Recognition
A.M. Martinez and J. Vitria
In Advances in Visual Form Analysis (Eds. C.Arcelli, L.P. Cordella and G.S. di Baja), World Scientific, 1997.

Designing and Implementing Real Walking Agents Using Virtual Environments
A.M. Martinez and J. Vitria
In Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Eds. N.J. Manede and C. Pietro-Ferreira), Scitec Publications Ltd., 1996.

 

Recent Abstracts

Emotion Perception in Neutral Expressions
A.M. Martinez and D. Neth
Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Naples (FL), 2008

The Effect of Homeomorphic Image Transformations on Face Matching Performance
D.A. Wilbraham, J.C. Christensen, J.T. Todd and A.M. Martinez
Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Naples (FL), 2008

Face Configuration Biases the Perception of Facial Expressions
A.M. Martinez and D. Neth
Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota (FL), 2007

Human Face Matching Performance Is Robust to Task-Irrelevant Image Change
D.A. Wilbraham, A.M. Martinez and J.T. Todd
Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota (FL), 2007

Can Low Level  Image Differences Account for Face Discrimination Performance?
A.M. Martinez, D. Wilbraham, J.T. Todd and J. Christensen
Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota (FL), 2006

The Effects of Illumination and Expression Changes on the Recognition of Human Faces
D. Wilbraham, A.M. Martinez and J.T. Todd
Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota (FL), 2006

Physical Correlates of Prosodic Structure in ASL
R.B. Wilbur and A.M. Martinez
Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago (USA), 2002