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Overview

Robert T. Collins is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily in engineering, computer science, and medicine, with a focus on several interconnected subfields.

The main fields of study for Collins include:

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Medicine

Within these areas, their work concentrates on specific subfields such as:

  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
  • Signal Processing

The key topics addressed by Collins involve a combination of biomechanical and computational approaches, including:

  • Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Gait Recognition and Analysis
  • Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
  • Human Motion and Animation

Collins has contributed to several research papers, predominantly published in widely recognized venues. Examples of recent publications are:

  • A Light-Weight Contrastive Approach for Aligning Human Pose Sequences (2023), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Image-Based Stability Quantification (2022), IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • Image-based Stability Quantification (2022), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • From Kinematics To Dynamics: Estimating Center of Pressure and Base of Support from Video Frames of Human Motion (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Table of Contents (2020), The Journal of the American Dental Association

The venues where Collins frequently publishes research include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • The Journal of the American Dental Association

Collins collaborates with several coauthors, notably including:

  • Jesse Scott
  • Yanxi Liu
  • B. Ravichandran
  • Christopher Funk
  • John H. Challis

Their body of work reflects a multidisciplinary approach targeting biomedical applications through computational techniques, focusing on human motion, stability, and gait analysis with applications in healthcare and rehabilitation.

Best Publications

  • Online selection of discriminative tracking features

    R.T. Collins;Yanxi Liu;M. Leordeanu

  • A System for Video Surveillance and Monitoring

    Robert T. Collins;Alan J. Lipton;Takeo Kanade;Hironobu Fujiyoshi

  • Mean-shift blob tracking through scale space

    R.T. Collins

  • Algorithms for cooperative multisensor surveillance

    R.T. Collins;A.J. Lipton;H. Fujiyoshi;T. Kanade

  • A space-sweep approach to true multi-image matching

    R.T. Collins

  • Silhouette-based human identification from body shape and gait

    R.T. Collins;R. Gross;Jianbo Shi

  • Introduction to the special section on video surveillance

    R.T. Collins;A.J. Lipton;T. Kanade

  • Three-dimensional scene flow

    S. Vedula;S. Baker;P. Rander;R. Collins

  • Vision-Based Analysis of Small Groups in Pedestrian Crowds

    Weina Ge;R. T. Collins;R. B. Ruback

  • Three-dimensional scene flow

    S. Vedula;P. Rander;R. Collins;T. Kanade

  • The Schema System

    B. Draper;R. Collins;J. Brolio;A. Hanson

  • A computational model for periodic pattern perception based on frieze and wallpaper groups

    Yanxi Liu;R.T. Collins;Y. Tsin

  • Multi-target Tracking by Lagrangian Relaxation to Min-cost Network Flow

    Asad A. Butt;Robert T. Collins

  • Marked point processes for crowd counting

    Weina Ge;Robert T Collins

  • Advances in Cooperative Multi-Sensor Video Surveillance

    Takeo Kanade;Robert T. Collins;Alan J. Lipton;Peter Burt

  • Gait Sequence Analysis Using Frieze Patterns

    Yanxi Liu;Robert T. Collins;Yanghai Tsin

  • A master-slave system to acquire biometric imagery of humans at distance

    Xuhui Zhou;Robert T. Collins;Takeo Kanade;Peter Metes

  • Vanishing point calculation as a statistical inference on the unit sphere

    R.T. Collins;R.S. Weiss

  • Deformed Lattice Detection in Real-World Images Using Mean-Shift Belief Propagation

    Minwoo Park;K. Brocklehurst;R.T. Collins;Yanxi Liu

  • Robust midsagittal plane extraction from normal and pathological 3-D neuroradiology images

    Yanxi Liu;R.T. Collins;W.E. Rothfus

  • A System for Video Surveillance and Monitoring CMU VSAM Final Report

    Takeo Kanade;Robert T. Collins;Alan J. Lipton;Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Frequent Co-Authors

Yanxi Liu
Yanxi Liu Pennsylvania State University
Takeo Kanade
Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University
Allen R. Hanson
Allen R. Hanson University of Massachusetts Amherst
Edward M. Riseman
Edward M. Riseman University of Massachusetts Amherst
Osman A. Basaran
Osman A. Basaran Purdue University West Lafayette
Martial Hebert
Martial Hebert Carnegie Mellon University
Jiebo Luo
Jiebo Luo University of Rochester
Simon Baker
Simon Baker Microsoft (United States)
Bruce A. Draper
Bruce A. Draper Colorado State University
Gary L. Miller
Gary L. Miller Carnegie Mellon University

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