Technical Writings by T. P. available on this site
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| 2012 | Why Machine Vision Is So Hard: Slides from a seminar given in the Fall of 2012. |
| 2008 | Limitation of CBIR - ICPR08 plenary talk: Given on Dec. 9, 2008 at the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tampa, Florida. |
| 2008 | Why Artificial Intelligence is very Hard: Slides from a seminar given at Bilkent University, Ankara on Sept. 22, 2008. |
| 2004 | The Rise and Fall of Unix: Based on a guest lecture in a SBU course on the History of Computing (CSE301). (Given twice, in October 2004 and in March 2005). |
| 2002 | Computers versus Humans: A paper comparing Artificial and Human Intelligence addressed to the educated layperson. It is based on a lecture given at the Stony Brook Emeriti Faculty meeting of November 1, 2002. |
| 2000 | K.S. Fu prize lecture: My personal history in the field of Pattern Recognition. Lecture given at ICPR 2000 in Barcelona, Spain. |
| 2014 | T. Pavlidis "The Challenge of General Machine Vision" Journal of Signal, Image and Video Processing, Jan. 2014 (in press). Invited paper. Current Version Link to publisher's website |
| 2009 | T. Pavlidis "The Number of All Possible Meaningful
or Discernible Pictures" Pattern Recognition Letters,
vol. 30, pp. 1413-1415. Available on line at publisher's site since
July 12, 2009. |
| 2009 | T. Pavlidis "Why Meaningful Automatic Tagging of Images is Very Hard" Proceedings ICME2009, pp. 1432-1435. Link to Slides |
| 2008 | Content-based Image Retrieval Collection Several Files (June 2007 to July 2009) |
| 2007 | A Solution to a Practical Machine Vision Problem and its Broader Implications (Version of September 2007) |
| 2003 | pack4png: A Preprocessor for PNG or GIF Compression A method for transforming images before applying PNG or GIF compression, implementing in effect lossy PNG (or GIF) compression (July 2003). See also the software section. |
| 1990 | Integrating Region Growing and Edge Detection: Link to scanned copy (PDF, 2.3MB) of a paper by T. Pavlidis and Y-T. Liow published in the IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI-12 (1990), pp. 225-233. |
| 2012 | My Life and Research Philosophy as part of the
series "Getting to Know ... IAPR fellows." Feature article
in the January 2012 IAPR Newsletter. The
newsletter can be found at: [HTML]
http://www.iapr.org/members/newsletter/Newsletter12-01/ or at |
| 2009 | Why Machine Intelligence is so Hard Mostly links to lectures although I hope one day to convert the material into a true essay. |
| 2006 | Problems with XML / XSL A rather trivial case study (February 2006) |
| 2005 | A bug(?) in Norton Internet Security: A critical discussion of the Norton advertisement filter that classifies images as advertisements simply on the basis of their dimensions. (Posted Octover 2005.) |
| 2005 | The story of Symbol Technologies: How a great company fell on hard times by ignoring technology issues. (First posted August 2005.) |
Last Update: September 26, 2013.
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