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 The following are the major areas of research in our group (clicking on the links will show a list of representative papers): Below is a complete list of our group's publications in reverse chronological order. For (as yet) unpublished stuff, see Technical Reports.

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

  • Jean Ponce.
    On Computing Metric Upgrades of Projective Reconstructions Under the Rectangular Pixel Assumption.
    Proc. of the SMILE Workshop on 3D Structure from Multiple Images of Large-Scale Environments, Dublin, Ireland, June 2000.
    Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2018, M. Pollefeys, L. Van Gool, A. Zisserman and A. Fitzgibbon (Eds.), pp. 52-67.

  • David Renaudie, David J. Kriegman and Jean Ponce.
    Duals, Invariants, and the Recognition of Smooth Objects from their Occluding Contour.
    Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, Dublin, Ireland, June 2000.
    Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1842, D. Vernon (Ed.), Vol. 1., pp. 784-798.

  • Jean Ponce, Yakup Genc and Steve Sullivan.
    Constructing Geometric Object Models from Images.
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 2000, pp. 871-878.

  • Attawith Sudsang and Jean Ponce.
    A New Approach to Motion Planning for Disc-Shaped Robots Manipulating a Polygonal Object in the Plane.
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 2000, pp. 1068-1075.

  • Sébastien Blind, Christopher McCullough, Srinivas Akella and Jean Ponce.
    A Reconfigurable Parts Feeder with an Array of Pins: A Method and a Machine.
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 2000, pp. 147-153.

  • Ilan Shimshoni and Jean Ponce.
    Probabilistic 3D Object Recognition.
    the International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 51-70, January 2000.

  • Attawith Sudsang, Jean Ponce and Narayan Srinivasa.
    Grasping and In-Hand Manipulation: Geometry and Algorithms.
    Algorithmica, Vol. 26, pp. 466-493, January 2000.

  • Sébastien Blind, Christopher McCullough, Srinivas Akella and Jean Ponce.
    Manipulating Parts with an Array of Pins: A Method and a Machine.
    Robotics Research: The Ninth International Symposium, J.M. Hollerbach and D.E. Koditscheck (Eds.), Springer Verlag, pp. 123-130, 2000.

1999

  • Yakup Genc and Jean Ponce.
    Point- and Line-Based Parameterized Image Varieties for Image-Based Rendering.
    Vision Algorithms: Theory and Practice (Proceedings of the International Workshop on Vision Algorithms, Corfu, Greece, September 1999),
    Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1883, B. Triggs, A. Zisserman and R. Szeliski (Eds.), pp. 132-148.

  • Sung-il Pae and Jean Ponce.
    Toward a Scale-Space Aspect Graph: Solids of Revolution.
    Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Fort Collins, Colorado, June 1999, Vol II, pp. 196-201.

  • Yakup Genc, Jean Ponce, Yoram Leedan and Peter Meer.
    Parameterized Image Varieties and Estimation with Bilinear Constraints.
    Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Fort Collins, Colorado, June 1999, Vol II, pp. 67-72.
    Abstract.

  • Attawith Sudsang, Jean Ponce, Mark Hyman and David J. Kriegman.
    On Manipulating Polygonal Objects with Three 2-DOF Robots in the Plane.
    Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Detroit, Michigan, May 1999, pp. 2227-2233.

  • Tanuja Joshi, Narendra Ahuja and Jean Ponce.
    Structure and Motion Estimation from Dynamic Silhouettes under Perspective Projection.
    the International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 31-50, February 1999.

  • Jean Ponce, Martha Cepeda, Sung-il Pae and Steve Sullivan.
    Shape Models and Object Recognition.
    in Shape, Contour and Grouping in Computer Vision, D.A. Forsyth, J.L. Mundy, V. Gesu and R. Cipolla, (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1681, pp. 31-55, 1999.

  • J. Ponce.
    Manipulation and Grasping.
    in The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences, R. Wilson and F. Keil (eds.), MIT Press, pp. 508-511, 1999.

1998

  • B. Vijayakumar, David J. Kriegman and Jean Ponce.
    Invariant-Based Recognition of Complex Curved 3D Objects from Images Contours.
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 287-303, December 1998.

  • Attawith Sudsang, Jean Ponce and Narayan Srinivasa.
    Grasping and In-Hand Manipulation: Experiments with a Reconfigurable Gripper.
    Special issue of Advanced Robotics: Selected Papers from IROS'97, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 509-533, December 1998.

  • Steve Sullivan and Jean Ponce.
    Automatic Model Construction, Pose Estimation, and Object Recognition from Photographs Using Triangular Splines.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 20, No. 10, pp. 1091-1096, October 1998.

  • S. Sullivan and J. Ponce.
    Automatic Model Construction, Pose Estimation, and Object Recognition from Photographs using Triangular Splines.
    Presented at ICCV 1998, January 1998, India.
    Abstract.

  • Jean Ponce and Yakup Genc.
    Epipolar Geometry and Linear Subspace Methods: A New Approach to Weak Calibration.
    International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 223-243, July/August 1998.

  • Attawith Sudsang and Jean Ponce.
    On Grasping and Manipulating Polygonal Objects with Disc-Shaped Robots in the Plane.
    Proc. of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Leuven, Belgium, May 1998, pp. 2740-2746.
    Abstract.

  • Y. Genc and J. Ponce.
    Parameterized Image Varieties: A Novel Approach to the Analysis and Synthesis of Image Sequences.
    Proc. of the 1998 International Conference on Computer Vision, Bombay, India, January 1998, pp. 11-16.
    Abstract.

  • Steve Sullivan and Jean Ponce.
    Automatic Model Construction, Pose Estimation, and Object Recognition from Photographs using Triangular Splines.
    Proc. of the 1998 International Conference on Computer Vision, Bombay, India, January 1998, pp. 510-516.

1997

  • Attawith Sudsang, Narayan Srinivasa and Jean Ponce.
    On Planning Immobilizing Grasps for a Reconfigurable Gripper.
    Proc. of the 1997 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Grenoble, France, September 1997, pp. 106-113.
    Abstract.

  • Attawith Sudsang and Jean Ponce.
    In-Hand Manipulation: Geometry and Algorithms.
    Proc. of the 1997 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Grenoble, France, September 1997, pp. 98-105.
    Selected as one of the excellent papers of IROS'97 by the IROS program committee.
    Abstract.

  • Tanuja Joshi, B. Vijayakumar, David J. Kriegman and Jean Ponce.
    Hot Curves for Modelling and Recognition of Smooth Curved 3D Objects.
    Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 479-498, July 1997.

  • Alison Noble, Dale Wilson, and Jean Ponce.
    On Computing Aspect Graphs of Smooth Shapes from Volumetric Data.
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding, special issue on Biomedical Image Analysis, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 179-192, May 1997.

  • Ilan Shimshoni and Jean Ponce.
    Finite-Resolution Aspect Graphs of Polyhedral Objects.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 315-327, April 1997.

  • Jean Ponce, Steve Sullivan, Attawith Sudsang, Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, and Jean-Pierre Merlet.
    On Computing Four-Finger Equilibrium and Force-Closure Grasps of Polyhedral Objects.
    the International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 11-35, February 1997.
    Abstract.

  • A. Sudsang, J. Ponce and N. Srinivasa.
    Algorithms for Constructing Immobilizing Fixtures and Grasps of Three-dimensional Objects.
    In J.-P. Laumont and M. Overmars, editors, Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics II, pages 363-380. AK Peters, Ltd., 1997.
    Abstract.

  • David Forsyth, Jitendra Malik, Margaret Fleck and Jean Ponce.
    Primitives, Perceptual Organization and Object Recognition.
    Submitted to Vision Research (special issue on Models of Recognition), February 1997.
    Abstract.

  • Ilan Shimshoni and Jean Ponce.
    Recovering the Shape of Polyhedra Using Line-Drawing Analysis and Complex Reflectance Models.
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding, special issue on Physics-Based Vision, Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 296-310, February 1997.

1996

1995

  • Jean Ponce and Bernard Faverjon.
    On Computing Three-Finger Force-Closure Grasps of Polygonal Objects.
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 868-881, December 1995.

  • J. Ponce, A. Sudsang, S. Sullivan, B. Faverjon, J.-D. Boissonnat, and J.-P. Merlet.
    Algorithms for Computing Multi-Finger Force-Closure Grasps of Polyhedral Objects.
    in Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, K. Goldberg, D. Halperin, J.-C. Latombe, and R. Wilson (eds.), AK Peters, Ltd., pp. 167-184, 1995.

  • M. Hebert, J. Ponce, T.E. Boult, and A. Gross (eds.),
    Object Representation in Computer Vision,
    Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 994, 1995.

  • Jean Ponce, Joel Burdick, and Elon Rimon.
    Computing the Immobilizing Three-Finger Grasps of Planar Objects.
    Proc. of the 1995 Workshop on Computational Kinematics, Nice, France, 1995, pp. 281-300.
    Abstract.

  • B. Vijayakumar, David J. Kriegman, and Jean Ponce.
    Invariant-Based Recognition of Complex Curved 3D Objects from Image Contours..
    Proc. of the 1995 International Conference on Computer Vision, Cambridge, MA, June 20-23, 1995, pp. 508-514.
    Abstract.

  • Tanuja Joshi, Narendra Ahuja, and Jean Ponce.
    Structure and Motion Estimation from Dynamic Silhouettes under Perspective Projection.
    Beckman Institute Tech. Report UIUC-BI-AI-RCV-95-02.
    Also in Proc. of the 1995 International Conference on Computer Vision, Cambridge, MA, June 20-23, 1995, pp. 290-295.
    Abstract.

  • Ilan Shimshoni and Jean Ponce.
    Probabilistic 3D Object Recognition.
    Proc. of the International Conference on Computer Vision, Cambridge, MA, June 20-23, 1995, pp. 488-493.
    Abstract.

  • Attawith Sudsang and Jean Ponce.
    New Techniques for Computing Four-Finger Force-Closure Grasps of Polyhedral Objects.
    Proc. of the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Nagoya, Japan, May 21-27, 1995, pp. 1355-1360.
    Abstract.

  • Steve Sullivan, Alison Noble, and Jean Ponce.
    On Reconstructing Curved Object Boundaries from Sparse Sets of X-Ray Images.
    Proc. of the 1995 Conference on Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, and Robotics in Medicine, Nice, France, April 3-6, 1995, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 905, N. Ayache (Ed.), pp. 385-391.

1994

  • Steve Sullivan, Lorraine Sandford, and Jean Ponce.
    Using Geometric Distance Fits for 3D Object Modelling and Recognition.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 12, pp. 1183-1196, December 1994.

  • Tanuja Joshi, Narendra Ahuja, and Jean Ponce.
    Towards Structure and Motion Estimation from Dynamic Silhouettes.
    Proc. of the 1994 IEEE Workshop on Motion of Nonrigid and Articulate Objects, Austin, TX, November 11-12, 1994, pp. 166-171.
    Abstract.

  • Tanuja Joshi, Jean Ponce, B. Vijayakumar. and David J. Kriegman.
    HOT Curves for Modelling and Recognition of Smooth Curved 3D Objects.
    Proc. of the 1994 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, WA, June 21-23, 1994, pp. 876-880.
    Abstract.

  • Ilan Shimshoni and Jean Ponce.
    Recovering the Shape of Polyhedra Using Line-Drawing Analysis and Complex Reflectance Models.
    Proc. of the 1994 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, WA, June 21-23, 1994, pp. 514-519.
    Abstract.

  • Jean Ponce, David H. Marimont, and Todd A. Cass.
    Geometric Methods for Relative Reconstruction from Weakly Calibrated Images.
    Proc. of the 1994 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Diego, CA, May 8-13, 1994, pp. 1169-1174.

  • Jean Ponce, David H. Marimont, and Todd A. Cass.
    Analytical Methods for Uncalibrated Stereo and Motion Reconstruction.
    Proc. of the 1994 European Conference on Computer Vision, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2-6, 1994,
    Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 800, J.-O. Eklundh (Ed.), Vol. 1., pp. 463-470.

  • G. Taubin, F. Cukierman, S. Sullivan, J. Ponce, and D.J. Kriegman.
    Parameterized Families of Polynomials for Bounded Algebraic Curve And Surface Fitting.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 287-303, March 1994.

  • I. Shimshoni and J. Ponce.
    Finite Resolution Aspect Graphs of Polyhedral Objects.
    Proc. IEEE Workshop on Qualitative Vision, 1994. Abstract.

1993

  • Jean Ponce, Darrell Stam, and Bernard Faverjon.
    On Computing Force-Closure Grasps of Curved Two-Dimensional Objects.
    the International Journal of Robotics Research, MIT Press, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 263-273, June 1993.

  • Jean Ponce, David J. Kriegman, Sylvain Petitjean, Steven Sullivan, Gabriel Taubin, B. Vijayakumar.
    Representations and Algorithms for 3D Curved Object Recognition.
    in Three-Dimensional Object Recognition Systems, P. Flynn and A. Jain (eds.), Elsevier Press, pp. 327-352, 1993.

  • Steve Sullivan, Jean Ponce, and Lorraine Sandford.
    On Using Geometric Distance Fits to Estimate 3D Object Shape, Pose, and Deformation from Range, CT, and Video Images.
    Proc. of the 1993 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York City, NY, June 15-17, 1993, pp. 110-116.

  • David J. Kriegman, B. Vijayakumar, and Jean Ponce.
    Reconstruction of HOT curves from Image Sequences.
    Proc. of the 1993 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York City, NY, June 15-17, 1993, pp. 20-26.
    Abstract.

  • J. Ponce, S. Sullivan, J-D. Boissonnat, J-P. Merlet.
    On Characterizing and Computing Three- and Four-Finger Force-Closure Grasps of Polyhedral Objects.
    Proc. of the 1993 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2-7, 1993, pp. 821-827.

1992

  • Sylvain Petitjean, Jean Ponce, and David J. Kriegman.
    Computing Exact Aspect Graphs of Curved Objects: Algebraic Surfaces.
    the International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 231-255, Kluwer Academic Publishers, December 1992.

  • D. Stam, J. Ponce, and B. Faverjon.
    A System for Planning and Executing Two-Finger Force-Closure Grasps of Curved 2D Objects.
    Proc. of the 1992 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Raleigh, NC, July 1992, pp. 210-217.

  • G. Taubin, F. Cukierman, S. Sullivan, J. Ponce, and D.J. Kriegman.
    Parameterizing and Fitting Bounded Algebraic Curves and Surfaces.
    Proc. of the 1992 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Champaign, IL, June 1992, pp. 103-108.

  • Jean Ponce, Sylvain Petitjean, and David J. Kriegman.
    Computing Exact Aspect Graphs of Curved Objects: Algebraic Surfaces.
    Proc. of the 1992 European Conference on Computer Vision, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, May 1992, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 588, G. Sandini (Ed.), pp. 599-614.

  • David J. Kriegman, B. Vijayakumar, and Jean Ponce.
    Constraints for Recognizing and locating Curved 3D Objects from Monocular Image Features.
    Proc. of the 1992 European Conference on Computer Vision, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, May 1992,
    Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 588, G. Sandini (Ed.), pp. 829-833.

  • Jean Ponce and Ilan Shimshoni.
    An Algebraic Approach to Line-Drawing Analysis in the Presence of Uncertainty.
    Proc. of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Nice, France, May 1992, pp. 1786-1791.

  • Jean Ponce, Anthony Hoogs, and David J. Kriegman.
    On Using CAD Models to Compute the Pose of Curved 3D Objects.
    Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing: Image Understanding, special issue on Directions in Automated CAD-Based Vision, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 184-197, Academic Press, March 1992.

  • Jean Ponce and David J. Kriegman.
    Toward 3D Curved Object Recognition from Image Contours.
    in Geometric Invariance in Computer Vision, J. Mundy and A. Zisserman (eds.), MIT Press, pp. 408-439, 1992.

  • Jean Ponce and David J. Kriegman.
    Elimination Theory and Computer Vision: Recognition and Positioning of Curved 3D Objects from Range, Intensity, or Contours.
    in Symbolic and Numerical Computation for Artificial Intelligence, B. Donald, D. Kapur and J. Mundy (eds.), Computational Mathematics and Applications Series, Academic Press, pp. 123-146, 1992.

1991

  • David J. Kriegman and Jean Ponce.
    A New Curve Tracing Algorithm and some Applications.
    in Curves and Surfaces, P.J. Laurent, A. Le Méhauté and L.L. Schumaker (eds.), Academic Press, New York, pp. 267-270, 1991.

  • David J. Kriegman and Jean Ponce.
    On Recognizing and Positioning Curved 3D Objects from Image Contours.
    in Selected Papers on Automatic Object Recognition, H. Nasrem (ed.), SPIE Milestones Series, SPIE Optical Engineering Series Press, pp. 213-223, 1991.
    (Reprinted from IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1990.)

  • Jean Ponce and Bernard Faverjon.
    On Computing Three-Finger Force-Closure Grasps of Polygonal Objects.
    Proc. of the 1991 International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Pisa, Italy, June 1991, pp. 1018-1023.

  • Jean Ponce, Anthony Hoogs, and David J. Kriegman.
    On Using CAD Models to Compute the Pose of Curved 3D Objects.
    Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Directions in Automated CAD-Based Vision, Maui, Hawaii, June 1991, pp. 136-145.

  • Bernard Faverjon and Jean Ponce.
    On Computing Two-Finger Force-Closure Grasps of Curved 2D Objects.
    Proc. of the 1991 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Sacramento, CA, April 1991, pp. 424-429.

1990

  • Jean Ponce.
    On Characterizing Ribbons and Finding Skewed Symmetries.
    Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 328-340, Academic Press, December 1990.

  • David J. Kriegman and Jean Ponce.
    On Recognizing and Positioning Curved 3D Objects from Image Contours.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 12, No. 12, pp. 1127-1137, December 1990.

  • David J. Kriegman and Jean Ponce.
    Computing Exact Aspect Graphs of Curved Objects: Solids of Revolution.
    the International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 119-135, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.

  • Jean Ponce.
    Straight Homogeneous Generalized Cylinders: Differential Geometry and Uniqueness Results.
    the International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 79-100, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.

  • Jean Ponce and David J. Kriegman.
    Computing Exact Aspect Graphs of Curved Objects: Parametric Surfaces.
    Proc. of the 1990 AAAI Conference, Boston, MA, July 1990, pp. 1074-1079.

1989

  • Jean Ponce and David J. Kriegman.
    An Algebraic Approach to Computer Vision.
    Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, special issue on Geometric Reasoning, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 105-136, Editions Hermes, December 1989.

  • David J. Kriegman and Jean Ponce.
    Computing Exact Aspect Graphs of Curved Objects: Solids of Revolution.
    Proc. of the 1989 IEEE Workshop on the Interpretation of 3D Scenes, Austin, TX, November 1989, pp. 116-122.

  • Jean Ponce and David J. Kriegman.
    On Recognizing and Positioning Curved 3D Objects from Image Contours.
    Proc. of the 1989 IEEE Workshop on the Interpretation of 3D Scenes, Austin, TX, November 1989, pp. 61-67.

  • Jean Ponce, David Chelberg, Wallace Mann.
    Invariant Properties of Straight Homogeneous Generalized Cylinders and their Contours.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 11, No. 9, pp. 951-966, September 1989.

  • Jean Ponce.
    On Characterizing Ribbons and Finding Skewed Symmetries.
    Proc. of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Scottsdale, AZ, May 1989, pp. 49-54.

1988

  • Jean Ponce.
    Straight Homogeneous Generalized Cylinders: Differential Geometry and Uniqueness Results.
    Proc. of the 1988 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Ann Arbor, MI, June 1988, pp. 327-334.

1987

  • Jean Ponce, David Chelberg, David J. Kriegman, and Wallace Mann.
    Geometric Modeling with Generalized Cylinders.
    Proc. of the 1987 IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision, Miami, Florida, December 1987, pp. 268-270.

  • Jean Ponce and David Chelberg.
    Finding the Limbs and Cusps of Generalized Cylinders.
    the International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 195-210, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1987.

  • Jean Ponce and Michael Brady.
    Toward a Surface Primal Sketch.
    in Three-Dimensional Machine Vision, T. Kanade (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 195-240, 1987.

  • Jean Ponce, David Chelberg, and Wallace Mann.
    View-Independent Properties of the Projections of Generalized Cylinders.
    Proc. of the First International Conference on Computer Vision, London, England, June 1987, pp. 631-635.

  • Jean Ponce and Olivier Faugeras.
    An Object Centered, Hierarchical Representation for 3D Objects: the Prism Tree.
    Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 1-28, Academic Press, April 1987.

  • Jean Ponce and David Chelberg.
    Finding the Limbs and Cusps of Generalized Cylinders.
    Proc. of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Raleigh, NC, April 1987, pp. 62-67.

  • Jean Ponce and David Chelberg.
    Localized Intersections Computation for Solid Modeling with Straight Homogeneous Generalized Cylinders.
    Proc. of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Raleigh, NC, April 1987, pp. 1481-1486.

1985

  • Michael Brady, Jean Ponce, Alan Yuille, and Haruo Asada.
    Describing Surfaces.
    Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 1-28, Academic Press, August 1985.

  • Michael Brady, Jean Ponce, Alan Yuille, and Haruo Asada.
    Describing Surfaces.
    in Human and Machine Vision II, A. Rosenfeld (ed.), Academic Press, pp. 58-85, 1986. (Reprinted from Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing 1985.)

  • Jean Ponce and Michael Brady.
    Toward a Surface Primal Sketch.
    Proc. of the Second IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1985, pp. 420-425.

1984

  • Olivier Faugeras, Martial Hebert, Eric Pauchon, and Jean Ponce.
    Modélisation et Analyse de scènes en trois dimensions.
    Proc. of the Congrès AFCET de Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle, Paris, France, January 1984, pp. 295-314.

1983

  • Olivier Faugeras and Jean Ponce.
    Prism Trees, a Hierarchical Representation for 3D Objects.
    Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 1983, pp. 982-988.

1982

  • Olivier Faugeras, Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, François Germain, Martial Hebert, François Krizé, Philippe Mussi, Eric Pauchon, and Jean Ponce.
    Towards a Flexible Vision System.
    in Robot Vision Book, A. Pugh (ed.), IFS, UK, pp. 129-142, 1982.

  • Olivier Faugeras, Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, François Germain, Martial Hebert, François Krizé, Philippe Mussi, Eric Pauchon, and Jean Ponce.
    Towards a Flexible Vision System.
    Proc. of the International Symposium on Industrial Robots, Paris, France, 1982.

  • Martial Hebert and Jean Ponce.
    A New Method for Segmenting 3D Scenes into Primitives.
    Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Pattern Recognition, Munich, Germany, October 1982, pp. 836-838.