Publications by E.M. Petriu at the DISCOVER Laboratory

Journals

J. Zhou, F. Malric, E.M. Petriu, N.D. Georganas, "Uniform Hardness Perception in 6-DOF Haptic Rendering", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 60, Issue 1, pp. 214-225, 2011
N. Sakr, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, E.M. Petriu, "Multimodal Vision-Haptic Perception of Digital Watermarks Embedded in 3D Meshes", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, (accepted, to appear), 2009
A.M. Cretu, P. Payeur, E.M. Petriu, "Neural Gas and Growing Neural Gas Networks for Selective 3D Sensing: A Comparative Study", Sensors & Transducers Journal, Vol. 5, pp. 119-134, 2009
A. El-Sawah, N.D. Georganas, E.M. Petriu, "A Prototype for 3-D Hand Tracking and Posture Estimation", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 57, No. 8, pp. 1627-1636, 2008
Q. Chen, N.D. Georganas, E.M. Petriu, "Hand gesture recognition using Haar-like features and a stochastic context-free grammar", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 57, No. 8, pp. 1562-1571, 2008
M.D. Cordea, E.M. Petriu, D.C. Petriu, "Three-Dimensional Head Tracking and Facial Expression Recovery Using an Anthropometric Muscle-Based Active Appearance Model", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 57, No. 8, pp. 1578-1588, 2008
A.M. Cretu, P. Payeur, E.M. Petriu, "Neural Network Mapping and Clustering of Elastic Behavior from Tactile and Range Imaging for Virtualized Reality Applications", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 57, No. 9, pp. 1918-1928, 2008
A.M. Cretu, E.M. Petriu, G.G. Patry, "Neural-Network-Based Models of 3-D Objects for Virtualized Reality: A Comparative Study", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 99-111, 2006
A.M. Cretu, E.M. Petriu, "Neural-Network -Based Adaptive Sampling of Three-Dimensional-Object Surface Elastic Properties", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 483-492, 2006
M.D. Cordea, E.M. Petriu, "A 3-D Anthropometric-Muscle-Based Active Appearance Model", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 91-98, 2006
P. Payeur, C. Pasca, A.M. Cretu, E.M. Petriu, "Intelligent Haptic Sensor Intelligent Haptic Sensor System for Robotic Manipulation", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 1583-1592, 2005
X. Yang, D.C. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, E.M. Petriu, "Hierarchical Animation Control of Avatars in 3D Virtual Environments", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 1333-1341, 2005
S. Biswas, S.R. Das, E.M. Petriu, "An Adaptive Compressed MPEG-2 Video Watermarking Scheme", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 1853-1861, 2005
P. Lavoie, D. Ionescu, E.M. Petriu, "3-D Object Model Recovery from 2-D Images Using Structured Light", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 437-443, 2004
E.M. Petriu, S.K.S. Yeung, S.R. Das, A.M. Cretu, H.J.W. Spoelder, "Robotic Tactile Recognition of Pseudorandom Encoded Objects", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 53, No. 5, pp. 1425-1432, 2004
E.M. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, R. Abielmona, A. Stewart, "Robotic SensorAgents", IEEE Instrum. Meas. Mag., Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 46-51, 2004
T.E. Whalen, D.C. Petriu, X. Yang, E.M. Petriu, M.D. Cordea, "Capturing Behaviour for the Use of Avatars in Virtual Environments", CyberPsychology & Behavior, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 537-544, 2003
E.M. Petriu, "Neural Networks for Measurement and Instrumentation in Virtual Environments", Neural Networks for Instrumentation, Measurement and Related Industrial Applications, (S. Ablameyko, L. Goras, M. Gori, V. Piuri - Eds.), NATO Science Series, Series III: Computer and System Sciences, IOS Press, Vol. 185, pp. 273-290, 2003
E.M. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, "Computer-Controlled Human Operators", IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement. Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 35-38, 2002
M.D. Cordea, D.C. Petriu, E.M. Petriu, N.D. Georganas, T.E. Whalen, "3D Head Pose Recovery for Interactive Virtual Reality Avatars", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, August 2002
M.D. Cordea, E.M. Petriu, N.D. Georganas, D.C. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, "Real-Time 2½D Head Pose Recovery for Model-Based Video-Coding", IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 1007-1013, September 2001
H.J.W. Spoelder, F.M. Vos, E.M. Petriu, F.C.A. Groen, "Some Aspects of Pseudo Random Binary Array Based Surface Characterization", IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 1331-1336, 2000
E.M. Petriu, M.D. Cordea, D.C. Petriu, "Virtual Prototyping Tools for Electronic Design Automation", IEEE Instrum. Meas. Mag, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 28-31, 1999

Conferences and Workshops

Y. Zhao, X. Shen, N.D. Georganas, E.M. Petriu, "Part-based PCA for Facial Feature Extraction and Classification", Proc. HAVE 2009 - IEEE Int. Workshop on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and Games, pp. 99-104, Lecco, Italy, November 2009
X. Wang, N.D. Georganas, E.M. Petriu, "Fiber-level Structure Recognition of Woven Textile", Proc. HAVE 2009 - IEEE Int. Workshop on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and Games, pp. 117-122, Lecco, Italy, November 2009
N. Sakr, J. Zhou, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, E.M. Petriu, "Network Traffic Reduction in Six Degree-of-Freedom Haptic Telementoring Systems", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 2525-2530, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A., October 11-14, 2009
J. Zhou, F. Malric, E.M. Petriu, N.D. Georganas, "Compensating Device Inertia for 6-DOF Haptic Rendering", Proc. of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'09), pp. 12-17, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A, October 11-14, 2009
Q. Chen, F. Malric, Y. Zhang, M. Abid, A. Cordeiro, E.M. Petriu, N.D. Georganas, "Interacting with Digital Signage Using Hand Gestures", in Proc. ICIAR 2009, LNCS 5627, pp. 347-358, Halifax, NS, Canada, July 2009
A.M. Cretu, P. Payeur, E.M. Petriu, "Selective Elasticity Data Acquisition on 3D Deformable Objects for Virtualized Reality Applications", Proc. 2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments, pp. 14-19, Nashville, TN, USA, April 2009
N. Sakr, J. Zhou, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, E.M. Petriu, "Robust Perception-based Data Reduction and Transmission in Telehaptic Systems", Proc. of World Haptics, Third Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, pp. 214-219, Salt Lake City, USA, March 2009
A. Kazantsev, E.M. Petriu, "Robust Pseudo-Random Coded Colored Structured Light Technique for 3D Object Model Recovery", Proc. ROSE 2008 - IEEE Int. Workshop on Robotic and Sensors Environments, pp. 150-155, Ottawa, ON, Canada, October 2008
A.M. Cretu, E.M. Petriu, P. Payeur, "Evaluation of Growing Neural Gas Networks for Selective 3D Scanning", Proc. ROSE 2008 - IEEE Int. Workshop on Robotic and Sensors Environments, pp. 108-113, Ottawa, ON, Canada, October 2008
J. Zhou, X. Shen, E.M. Petriu, N.D. Georganas, "Linear Velocity and Acceleration Estimation of 3 DOF Haptic Interfaces", Proc. HAVE 2008 - IEEE Int. Workshop on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and their Applications, pp. 137-142, Ottawa, ON, Canada, October 2008
Q. Chen, M.D. Cordea, E.M. Petriu, I. Rudas, A. Varkonyi-Koczy, T.E. Whalen, "Hand-Gesture and Facial-Expression Human-Computer Interfaces for Intelligent Space Applications", Proc. MeMeA 2008 - IEEE Int. Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications, pp. 1-6, Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 2008
J. Zhou, E.M. Petriu, X. Shen, F. Malric, N.D. Georganas, "Modelling Contact Forces for 3D Interactive Peg-in-Hole Virtual Reality Operations", Proc. IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), pp. 1397-1402, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2008
P. Lavoie, D. Ionescu, E.M. Petriu, "Constructing 3D Virtual Reality Objects from Images of Real Objects Using NURBS", Proc. VECIMS 2007, IEEE Intl. Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement System., 8 pages, Ostuni, Japan, June 2007
V. Hinic, E.M. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, "Human-Computer Symbiotic Cooperation in Robot-Sensor Networks", Proc. IMTC/2006, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., Warsaw, Poland, May 2007
Q. Chen, N.D. Georganas, E.M. Petriu, "Real-time Vision-based Hand Gesture Recognition Using Haar-like Features", IMTC 2007, Warsaw, Poland, May 2007
A. El-Sawah, N.D. Georganas, E.M. Petriu, "Calibration and Error Model Analysis of 3D Monocular Vision Model Based Hand Posture Estimation", Proc. IMTC/2006, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., Warsaw, Poland, May 2007
E.M. Petriu, P. Payeur, A.M. Cretu, "Haptic Human Interfaces for Robotic Telemanipulation", Proc. SACI 2007, 4th Int. Symp’ Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, pp. 53-58, Timisoara, Romania, May 2007
R. Abielmona, E.M. Petriu, V.Z. Groza, "Tree-In-Motion Mapping: A Multi-Agent Solution for Environment Monitoring", Proc. SACI 2007, 4th Int. Symp’ Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, pp. 177-182, Timisoara, Romania, May 2007
M.D. Cordea, E.M. Petriu, D.C. Petriu, "3D Head Tracking and Facial Expression Recovery using an Anthropometric Muscle-Based Active Appearance Model", Proc. IMTC/2006, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., Warsaw, Poland, May 2007
A. El-Sawah, C. Joslin, N.D. Georganas, E.M. Petriu, "A Framework for 3D Hand Tracking and Gesture Recognition using Elements of Genetic Programming", Proc. VideoRec'07: Int. Workshop on Video Processing and Recognition, pp. 495-502, Montreal, Que, Canada, May 2007
B. Abou Merhy, P. Payeur, E.M. Petriu, "Application of Segmented 2D Probabilistic Occupancy Maps for Mobile Robot Sensing and Navigation", Proc. IMTC/2006, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., pp. 2342-2347, Sorrento, Italy, April 2006
R. Abielmona, E.M. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, "Multi-Agent System Information Fusion for Environment Monitoring", Proc. IMTC/2006, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., pp. 1774-1779, Sorrento, Italy, April 2006
A.M. Cretu, J. Lang, E.M. Petriu, "A Composite Neural Gas-Elman Network that Captures Real-World Elastic Behavior of 3D Objects", Proc. IMTC/2006, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., pp. 1063-1068, Sorrento, Italy, April 2006
A.M. Cretu, J. Lang, E.M. Petriu, "Adaptive Acquisition of Virtualized Deformable Objects with a Neural Gas Network", Proc. HAVE 2005 - IEEE Intl. Workshop on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and their Applications, pp. 165-170, Ottawa, ON, Canada, October 2005
T.E. Whalen, D.C. Petriu, L. Yang, E.M. Petriu, "Interactive Scripts for Haptic Virtual Environments", Proc. HAVE 2005 - IEEE Intl. Workshop on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and their Applications, pp. 143-147, Ottawa, ON, Canada, October 2005
R. Abielmona, E.M. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, "Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Framework for Environment Monitoring Applications", Proc. VECIMS'05, IEEE Intl. Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, pp. 151-156, Giardini Naxos, Italy, July 2005
R. Liscano, E.F. Sadok, E.M. Petriu, "Mobile Wireless RSA Overlay Network as Critical Infrastructure for National Security", Proc. IMS 2005-IEEE Intl.Workshop on Measurement Systems for Homeland Security, Contraband Detection and Personal Safety, pp. 96-102, Orlando, FL, USA, March 2005
Q. Chen, X. Yang, E.M. Petriu, "Watershed Segmentation for Binary Images with Different Distance Transforms", Proc. IEEE Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications, Ottawa, ON, Canada, October 2004
J.C. Delannoy, E.M. Petriu, "Modeling Moment of Inertia for Virtual Environments", Proc. VECIMS'04, IEEE Intl. Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, pp. 142-146, Boston, MA, USA, July 2004
M.D. Cordea, E.M. Petriu, "A 3D-Anthropometric-Muscle-Based Active Appearance Model", Proc. VECIMS'04, IEEE Intl. Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, pp. 88-93, Boston, MA, USA, July 2004
A.M. Cretu, E.M. Petriu, G.G. Patry, "A Comparison of Neural Networks Architectures for Geometric Modelling of 3D Objects", Proc. CIMSA'04 IEEE Intl. Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications, pp. 155-160, Boston, MA, USA, July 2004
C. Pasca, P. Payeur, E.M. Petriu, A.M. Cretu, "Intelligent Haptic Sensor System for Robotic Manipulation", Proc. IMTC/2004, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., pp. 279-284, Como, Italy, May 2004
Q. Chen, E.M. Petriu, X. Yang, "A Comparative Study of Fourier Descriptors and Hu's Seven Moments", Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE 2004, Vol. 1, pp. 103-106, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, May 2004
A.M. Cretu, E.M. Petriu, G.G. Patry, "Neural Network-Based Adaptive Sampling of 3D Object Surface Elastic Properties", Proc. IMTC/2004, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., pp. 285-290, Como, Italy, May 2004
X. Yang, D.C. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, E.M. Petriu, "Web-Based 3D Virtual Robot Remote Control System", Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE 2004, Vol. 2, pp. 955-958, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, May 2004
D. Laberge, J-F. Lapointe, E.M. Petriu, "An Auto-Calibrated Laser-Pointing Interface for Large Screen Displays", Proc. DS-RT 2003, The 7th Intl. Symp. on Distributed Simulations and Real-Time Applications, pp. 190-194, Delft, Netherlands, October 2003
Q. Chen, E.M. Petriu, "Optical Character Recognition for Model-based Object Recognition Applications", Proc. HAVE 2003 - IEEE Intl. Workshop on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and their Applications, pp. 77-82, Ottawa, ON, Canada, September 2003
A.M. Cretu, E.M. Petriu, G.G. Patry, "Neural Network Architecture for 3D Object Representation", Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and their Applications (HAVE'2003), pp. 31-36, Ottawa, ON, Canada, September 2003
J.C. Delannoy, E.M. Petriu, P. Wide, "Mechanics Modeling for Virtual Interactive Environments", Proc. HAVE 2003 - IEEE Intl. Workshop on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and their Applications, pp. 55-59, Ottawa, ON, Canada, September 2003
R. Abielmona, V.Z. Groza, E.M. Petriu, "Evolutionary Neural Network-Based Sensor Self-Calibration Scheme using IEEE 1451 and Wireless Sensor Networks", Proc. CIMSA'03 IEEE Intl. Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications, pp. 38-43, Lugano, Switzerland, July 2003
X. Yang, D.C. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, E.M. Petriu, "Script Language for Avatar Animation in 3D Virtual Environments", Proc. VECIMS'03, IEEE Intl. Symposium on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, pp. 101-106, Lugano, Switzerland, July 2003
E.M. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, R. Abielmona, "Autonomous Robotic Sensor Agents", Proc. ROSE'03, 1st IEEE Intl. Workshop on Robotic Sensing, Orebro, Sweden, June 2003
R. Abielmona, E.M. Petriu, V.Z. Groza, T.E. Whalen, "Can an Intelligent Society of Robots Survive in a Hostile Environment?", Proc. 2003 Canadian Conf. Elec. Comput. Eng., Montreal, QC, Canada, May 2003
E.M. Petriu, S.K.S. Yeung, S.R. Das, H.J.W. Spoelder, "Robotic Tactile Recognition of Pseudo Random Encoded Objects", Proc. IMTC/2003, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., pp. 1397-1404, Vail, CO, USA, May 2003
X. Yang, D.C. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, E.M. Petriu, "Avatar Animations in a 3D Virtual Environment", Proc. 2003 Canadian Conf. Elec. Comput. Eng., Montreal, QC, Canada, May 2003
Q. Zhou, H. Yu, D. Makrakis, N.D. Georganas, E.M. Petriu, "Quality of Service Support of Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment Applications in IP-Diffserv Networks", Proc. HAVE'2002 - IEEE Workshop on Haptic Virtual Environments and their Applications, pp. 97-102, Ottawa, ON, Canada, November 2002
D. Laberge, J-F. Lapointe, E.M. Petriu, P. Boulanger, " 6-D Mouse for Virtual Environments", Proc. HAVE'2002 - IEEE Workshop on Haptic Virtual Environments and their Applications, pp. 37-41, Ottawa, ON, Canada, November 2002
E.M. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, V.Z. Groza, "Haptic Perception System for Robotic Tele-Manipulation", Proc. INES 2002, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems 2002, Opatija, Croatia, May 2002
V.Z. Groza, V. Cretu, M. Bogoevici, E.M. Petriu, "Distributed Virtual Instrumentation Architecture", Proc. SIcon'01 Sensors for Industry Conference, pp. 177-180, Rosemount, IL, USA, November 2001
M.D. Bondy, E.M. Petriu, M.D. Cordea, N.D. Georganas, D.C. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, "Model-based Face and Lip Animation for Interactive Virtual Reality Applications", Proc. ACM Multimedia 2001, Ottawa, ON, Canada, September 2001
H. Yu, Q. Zhou, D. Makrakis, N.D. Georganas, E.M. Petriu, "Quality of Service Support of Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment Applications in IP Networks", Proc. 2001 IEEE Pacific Rim Conf. Communications, Computers and Signal Processing - PACRIM 2001, pp. 196-199, Victoria, BC, Canada, July 2001
H. Yu, Q. Zhou, D. Makrakis, N.D. Georganas, E.M. Petriu, "Quality of Service Support of Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment Applications in IP Networks", Proc. 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Telecommunications 2001, Victoria, BC, Canada, June 2001
M.D. Cordea, E.M. Petriu, N.D. Georganas, D.C. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, "3D Head Pose Recovery for Interactive Virtual Reality Avatars", Proc. IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 2001
J.C. Oliveira, M. Hosseini, S. Shirmohammadi, M.D. Cordea, E.M. Petriu, D.C. Petriu, N.D. Georganas, "VIRTUAL THEATER for Industrial Training: A Collaborative Virtual Environment", Proc. 4th WORLD MULTICONFERENCE on Circuits, Systems, Communications & Computers (CSCC 2000), Greece, July 2000
E.M. Petriu, Z. Sakr, H.J.W. Spoelder, A. Moica, "Object Recognition Using Pseudo-random Color Encoded Structured Light", Proc. IMTC/2000, Proc. IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., pp. 1237-1241, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 2000
M.D. Cordea, E.M. Petriu, N.D. Georganas, D.C. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, "Real-Time 2½D Head Pose Recovery for Model-Based Video-Coding"", Proc. IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 2000
H.J.W. Spoelder, E.M. Petriu, T.E. Whalen, D.C. Petriu, M.D. Cordea, "Knowledge-Based Animation of Articulated Anthropomorphic Models for Virtual Reality Applications", Proc. IMTC/98, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., pp. 690-695, Venice, Italy, May 1999
N.D. Georganas, E.M. Petriu, M.D. Cordea, D. Ionescu, "Distributed Virtual Environments for Training and Telecollaboration", Proc. IMTC/99, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf., Venice, Italy, May 1999
E.M. Petriu, M.D. Cordea, D.C. Petriu, L. McNamee, "Modelling Issues in Virtual Prototyping Environments", Proc. VIMS'99, IEEE Workshop on Virtual and Intelligent Measurement Systems, pp. 1-5, Venice, Italy, May 1999
M.D. Cordea, E.M. Petriu, D.C. Petriu, "Object-Oriented Face Animation for Model-Based Video Compression Applications", Proc. ICT'98, Intl. Conf. Telecommunications, Vol. 1, pp. 246-249, Porto Caras, Greece, 1998
S.K.S. Yeung, E.M. Petriu, S.R. Das, "A Model-Based Method for the Tactile Recognition of 3-D Objects", Proc. MSO'97, IASTED Intl. Conf. Modelling, Simulation and Optimization, pp. 195-198, Singapore, 1997
M.H. Assaf, M.D. Cordea, M.D. Bondy, C.M. Nafornita, E.M. Petriu, H.J.W. Spoelder, "Image/Voice Modeling and Synchronization for Model-Based Video-Telephony", Proc. ET&VS-IM/97 IEEE Workshop on Emergent Technol. and Virtual Systems for Instrum. Meas., Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, 1997
S.K.S. Yeung, E.M. Petriu, "A Haptic Device with Collision Detection Response for Sculpting Virtual Objects", Proc. IMTC/97, IEEE Instrum. Meas.Technol. Conf., pp. 322-328, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 1997