Eric N. Mortensen

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Address: 1148 Kelley Engineering Center
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-5501

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Address:	1148 Kelley Engineering Center School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-5501
Office: Phone: Fax: e-mail:	2123 Kelley Engineering Center (541) 737-9207 (541) 737-1300 enm@eecs.orst.edu

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University.

My research interests include interactive vision and graphics techniques, image and video segmentation and composition, feature detection/description/matching, object recognition, and image-based modeling.

Teaching:

Winter 2008:

CS 261 - Data Structures

Fall 2007:

CS 261 - Data Structures
CS 395 - Interactive Multimedia

Spring 2007:

CS 559 - Advanced Topics: 3-D Vision

Winter 2007:

CS 261 - Data Structures
CS 555 - Signal and Image Processing

Fall 2006:

CS 395 - Interactive Multimedia

Spring 2006:

CS 559 - Advanced Topics in Graphics & Vision: Object Recognition

Winter 2006:

CS 261 - Data Structures
CS 556 - Computer Vision

Fall 2005:

CS 395 - Interactive Multimedia

Winter 2005:

CS 261 - Data Structures
CS 559 - Advanced Topics in Graphics & Vision: 3-D Vision

Fall 2004:

CS 555 - Signal and Image Processing

Publications:

Theses

E. N. Mortensen, Simultaneous Multi-Frame Subpixel Boundary Definition using Toboggan-Based Intelligent Scissors for Image and Movie Editing, Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Dec. 2000.
E. N. Mortensen, Adaptive Boundary Detection Using `Live-Wire' Two-Dimensional Dynamic Programming, Masters Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Aug. 1995.

Journals

E. N. Mortensen, "Vision-Assisted Image Editing", Computer Graphics, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 55-57, Nov. 1999. (Invited Paper)
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E. N. Mortensen and W. A. Barrett, "Interactive Segmentation with Intelligent Scissors," Graphical Models and Image Processing, Vol. 60, No. 5, pp. 349-384, Sept. 1998.
Abstract - PDF
W. A. Barrett and E. N. Mortensen, "Interactive Live-Wire Boundary Extraction," Medical Image Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 331-341, Sept. 1997. (Invited Paper)

Refereed Proceedings

E. N. Mortensen, H. Deng, and L. Shapiro, "A SIFT Descriptor with Global Context," in Proc. IEEE: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '05), Vol. I, pp. 184-190, San Diego, CA, June 2005.
E. N. Mortensen and J. Jia, "A Bayesian Network Framework for Real-time Object Selection," in Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV '04), Washington, DC, June 2004.
E. N. Mortensen, W. Yan, and W. A. Barrett, "Edge Modeling for Analysis and Manipulation of Object Boundaries," in Proc. of Vision Interface (VI '03), pp. 243-250, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2003.
E. N. Mortensen and W. A. Barrett, "A Confidence Measure for Boundary Detection and Object Selection," in Proc. IEEE: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '01), Vol. I, pp. 477-484, Lihue, HI, Dec. 2001.
B. S. Morse, T. C. Howard, S. D. Larson, M. R. Bastian, and E. N. Mortensen "Color Quantization and Dithering Gamuts," in Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP '99), pp. 124-128, Nassau, Bahamas, Oct. 1999.
E. N. Mortensen and W. A. Barrett, "Toboggan-Based Intelligent Scissors with a Four Parameter Edge Model," in Proc. IEEE: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '99), Vol. II, pp. 452-458, Fort Collins, CO, June 1999.
Abstract - PDF

Also available: a 2½ minute Quicktime/Sorensen movie (21.5M) with audio which demonstrates the improvements to Intelligent Scissors.
W. A. Barrett and E. N. Mortensen, "Fast, Accurate, and Reproducible Live-Wire Boundary Extraction," in Visualization in Biomedical Computing (VBC `96), pp. 183-192, Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 1996.
E. N. Mortensen and W. A. Barrett, "Intelligent Scissors for Image Composition," in Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH `95), pp. 191-198, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 1995.
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W. A. Barrett, E. N. Mortensen and E. Bess, "Interpolation by Directed Distance Morphing," in Visualization in Biomedical Computing (VBC `94), Vol. 2359, pp. 110-121, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Oct. 1994.
W. A. Barrett, E. N. Mortensen, and David C. Taylor, "An Image Space Algorithm for Morphological Contour Interpolation," in Graphics Interface (GI `94), pp. 16-24, Banff, Alberta, May 1994.
E. N. Mortensen and W. A. Barrett, "Morphological Interpolation Between Contours", in Proceedings of the SPIE-Medical Imaging VII 1993: Image Processing, Vol. 1898, pp.501-510, Newport Beach, CA, Feb. 1993.
E. N. Mortensen, B. S. Morse, W. A. Barrett, and J. K. Udupa, "Adaptive Boundary Detection Using `Live-Wire' Two-Dimensional Dynamic Programming," in IEEE Proceedings of Computers in Cardiology (CIC '92), pp. 635-638, Durham, NC, Oct. 1992.

Other Publications/Presentations

E. N. Mortensen, L. J. Reese, and W. A. Barrett, "Intelligent Selection Tools," in Proc. IEEE: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '00), Vol. II, pp. 776-777, Hilton Head, SC, June 2000. (Demonstration)
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E. N. Mortensen and L. J. Reese, "Intelligent Selection Tools," Computer Science Dept. Colloquium, Brigham Young Univ., March, 1999.
D. K. Tam, W. A. Barrett, B. S. Morse and E. N. Mortensen, "Breakpoint Skeletal Representation and Compression of Document Images," in IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC `98), pg. 75, Snowbird, UT, March 1998. (Poster)

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