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Robert Pless is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio in computer science and medicine. Their scholarly work spans multiple areas including computer vision, artificial intelligence, epidemiology, and genetics.

The scientist's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Summary of the NACI Statement on Public Health Level Recommendations on the Use of Pneumococcal Vaccines in Adults, Including the Use of 15-valent and 20-valent Conjugate Vaccines (2023) in Canada Communicable Disease Report
  • Comparing Deep Learning Approaches for Understanding Genotype × Phenotype Interactions in Biomass Sorghum (2022) in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Visualizing Paired Image Similarity in Transformer Networks (2022) in 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • DP2-Pub: Differentially Private High-Dimensional Data Publication With Invariant Post Randomization (2023) in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Hard negative examples are hard, but useful (2020) in arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert Pless include:

  • Abby Stylianou
  • Aleksandra Wierzbowski
  • Nadia Shakoor
  • Todd C. Mockler
  • Ashleigh R. Tuite

They have contributed multiple publications in several venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Canada Communicable Disease Report
  • Relevé des maladies transmissibles au Canada
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Robert Pless's research focuses primarily on the fields of computer science and medicine. Within these fields, their work further concentrates on subfields such as computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, epidemiology, genetics, and general health professions.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Face Recognition and Analysis
  • Smart Agriculture and AI
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data

Best Publications

  • Integrated coverage and connectivity configuration in wireless sensor networks

    Xiaorui Wang;Guoliang Xing;Yuanfang Zhang;Chenyang Lu

  • Extrinsic calibration of a camera and laser range finder (improves camera calibration)

    Qilong Zhang;R. Pless

  • Integrated coverage and connectivity configuration for energy conservation in sensor networks

    Guoliang Xing;Xiaorui Wang;Yuanfang Zhang;Chenyang Lu

  • Capillary and arteriolar pericytes attract innate leukocytes exiting through venules and 'instruct' them with pattern-recognition and motility programs

    Konstantin Stark;Annekathrin Eckart;Selgai Haidari;Anca Tirniceriu

  • Using many cameras as one

    R. Pless

  • Deep Feature Interpolation for Image Content Changes

    Paul Upchurch;Jacob Gardner;Geoff Pleiss;Robert Pless

  • Consistent Temporal Variations in Many Outdoor Scenes

    N. Jacobs;N. Roman;R. Pless

  • Manifold clustering

    R. Souvenir;R. Pless

  • On greedy geographic routing algorithms in sensing-covered networks

    Guoliang Xing;Chenyang Lu;Robert Pless;Qingfeng Huang

  • Geolocating Static Cameras

    N. Jacobs;S. Satkin;N. Roman;R. Speyer

  • Improved Embeddings with Easy Positive Triplet Mining

    Hong Xuan;Abby Stylianou;Robert Pless

  • Minimum power configuration in wireless sensor networks

    Guoliang Xing;Chenyang Lu;Ying Zhang;Qingfeng Huang

  • The global network of outdoor webcams: properties and applications

    Nathan Jacobs;Walker Burgin;Nick Fridrich;Austin Abrams

  • Co-Grid: an efficient coverage maintenance protocol for distributed sensor networks

    Guoliang Xing;Chenyang Lu;Robert Pless;Joseph A. O'Sullivan

  • A Survey of Manifold Learning for Images

    Robert Pless;Richard Souvenir

  • Fault tolerant K -center problems

    Samir Khuller;Robert Pless;Yoram J. Sussmann

  • Hard negative examples are hard, but useful

    Hong Xuan;Abby Stylianou;Xiaotong Liu;Robert Pless

  • Deep Randomized Ensembles for Metric Learning

    Hong Xuan;Richard Souvenir;Robert Pless

  • Evaluation of local models of dynamic backgrounds

    R. Pless;J. Larson;S. Siebers;B. Westover

  • Detecting independent motion: the statistics of temporal continuity

    R. Pless;T. Brodsky;Y. Aloimonos

  • Impact of sensing coverage on greedy geographic routing algorithms

    G. Xing;C. Lu;R. Pless;Q. Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Guoliang Xing
Guoliang Xing Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yiannis Aloimonos
Yiannis Aloimonos University of Maryland, College Park
Chenyang Lu
Chenyang Lu Washington University in St. Louis
Mike J. Dixon
Mike J. Dixon University of Waterloo
Cornelia Fermüller
Cornelia Fermüller University of Maryland, College Park
Samir Khuller
Samir Khuller Northwestern University
Philip V. Bayly
Philip V. Bayly Washington University in St. Louis
Joseph A. O'Sullivan
Joseph A. O'Sullivan Washington University in St. Louis
Helen Piwnica-Worms
Helen Piwnica-Worms The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Susan K. Dutcher
Susan K. Dutcher Washington University in St. Louis

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