Research

My primary research interests are in computer vision and human-computer interaction, particular in augmented reality, computational photography, multimodal interaction, and mobile computing.

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For current publications and research projects, see the Four Eyes Lab site

Select older publications

• M. Turk, "Perceptive media: machine perception and human computer interaction," Chinese Journal of Computers, Vol. 23, No. 12, pp. 1235-1244, 2000.

• P. Hong, M. Turk, and T. Huang, "Constructing finite state machines for fast gesture recognition," Proc. ICPR, Barcelona, Spain, September 2000.

• M. Turk and G. Robertson, "Perceptual User Interfaces," Communications of the ACM, March 2000.

• P. Hong, M. Turk, and T. Huang, "Gesture modeling and recognition using finite state machines," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition, Grenoble, France, March 2000.

• N. Jojic, M. Turk, and T. Huang, "Tracking self-occluding articulated object in dense disparity maps," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Corfu, Greece, September 1999.

• M. Turk, "Moving from GUIs to PUIs," Proc. Fourth Symposium on Intelligent Information Media, Tokyo, Japan, December 1998.   (also Microsoft Research Technical Report #MSR-TR-98-69)

• N. Jojic, M. Turk, and T. Huang, "Tracking articulated objects in stereo image sequences," Proc. IT Workshop on Detection, Estimation, Classification, and Imaging, Sante Fe, NM, Feb 24-25, 1999.

• R. Cutler and M. Turk, "View-based Interpretation of Real-time Optical Flow for Gesture Recognition," Proc. 1998 IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, April 14-16, 1998, Nara, Japan.

• M. Turk, "Visual Interaction With Lifelike Characters," Proc. IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Killington, Vermont, October 13-16, 1996.

• A. Pentland, T. Darrell, M. Turk, and W. Huang, "A Simple, Real-Time Range Camera," Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1989.

• M. Turk"A Fine-Motion Planning Algorithm," Proc. SPIE 0579, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision IV, December 1985.

PhD Thesis:

• M. Turk, "Interactive Time Vision: Face Recognition as a Visual Behavior," PhD thesis, MIT Media Lab, September 1991.

Eigenfaces:

• M. Turk and A. Pentland, "Face recognition using eigenfaces," Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Maui, Hawaii, 1991.

• M. Turk and A. Pentland, "Eigenfaces for recognition," Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 71-86, Winter 1991.

• A. Pentland, T. Starner, N. Etcoff, A. Masoiu, O. Oliyide, and M. Turk, "Experiments with Eigenfaces," Looking at People Workshop, IJCAI'93, Chambery, France, August 1993.  

Mobile Robotics (DARPA ALV project):

• M. Turk, D. Morgenthaler, K. Gremban, and M. Marra, "VITS - a vision system for autonomous vehicle navigation," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 10, No. 3, May 1988.

• M. Turk, D. Morgenthaler, K. Gremban, M. Marra, "Video road-following for the Autonomous Land Vehicle," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Raleigh, N. C., April, 1987.

• M. Turk and M. Marra, "Color road segmentation and video obstacle detection," SPIE Mobile Robots I, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 1986.

• J. Lowrie, M. Thomas, K. Gremban, M. Turk, "The Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV) preliminary road-following demonstration," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Cambridge, MA, December, 1985.