Erik Learned-Miller Erik G. Learned-Miller
Professor and Chair of the Faculty
The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

140 Governors Drive, Office 200
Amherst, MA 01003

E-mail: elm at cs.umass.edu
Computer Vision Lab

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  • On September 1, 2022, I started my new position as Chair of the Faculty in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences. I continue to co-direct the Computer Vision Lab with Subhransu Maji.

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  • Matheus Gadelha, Aruni RoyChowdhury, Gopal Sharma, Subhransu Maji, Rui Wang, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Liangliang Cao, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Label-efficient learning on point clouds using approximate convex decompositions.
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
    [pdf]

  • Aruni RoyChowdhury, Xiang Yu, Kihyuk Sohn, Erik Learned-Miller, and Manmohan Chandraker.
    Improving recognition with unlabeled faces in the wild.
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
    [pdf]

  • Huaizu Jiang, Ishan Misra, Marcus Rohrbach, Erik Learned-Miller, and Xinlei Chen.
    In Defense of grid features for visual question answering.
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 10 pages, 2020.
    [pdf]

  • Huaizu Jiang, Deqing Sun, Varun Jampani, Zhaoyang Lv, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jan Kautz.
    SENSE: A shared encoder network for scene-flow estimation.
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 10 pages, 2019.
    [pdf]

  • Aruni RoyChowdhury, Prithvijit Chakrabarty, Ashish Singh, SouYoung Jin, Huaizu Jiang, Liangliang Cao, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Automatic adaptation of object detectors to new domains using self-training.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 11 pages, 2019.
    [pdf]

  • Hang Su, Varun Jampani, Deqing Sun, Orazio Gallo, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jan Kautz.
    Pixel Adaptive Convolutional Neural Networks.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 10 pages, 2019.
    [pdf]

  • SouYoung Jin*, Aruni RoyChowdhury*, Huaizu Jiang, Ashish Singh, Aditya Prasad, Deep Chakraborty, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Unsupervised hard example mining from videos for improved object detection.
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 18 pages, 2018.
    * = Equal Contribution
    [pdf]

  • Huaizu Jiang, Gustav Larsson, Michael Maire, Greg Shakhnarovich, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Self-supervised relative depth learning for urban scene understanding.
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 16 pages, 2018.
    [pdf]

  • Pia Bideau, Aruni RoyChowdhury, Rakesh Menon, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    The best of both worlds: Combining CNNs and geometric constraints for hierarchichal motion segmentation.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 10 pages, 2018.
    [pdf]

  • Huaizu Jiang, Deqing Sun, Varun Jampani, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Erik Learned-Miller, Jan Kautz.
    Super SloMo: High quality estimation of multiple intermediate frames for video interpolation.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 12 pages, 2018.
    [pdf]

  • SouYoung Jin, Hang Su, Chris Stauffer, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    End-to-end face detection and cast grouping in movies using Erdos-Renyi clustering.
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 10 pages, 2017.
    [pdf] [Project page]

  • Huaizu Jiang and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Face detection with the Faster R-CNN.
    IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FandG), 6 pages, 2017.
    [pdf]

  • Pia Bideau and Erik Learned-Miller.
    A detailed rubric for motion segmentation.
    ArXiv preprint, 16 pages, 2016.
    [arXiv] [Project Page]

  • Pia Bideau and Erik Learned-Miller.
    It's moving! A probabilistic model for causal motion segmentation in moving camera videos.
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 16 pages, 2016.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller, Gary B. Huang, Aruni RoyChowdhury, Haoxiang Li, and Gang Hua.
    Labeled Faces in the Wild: A Survey.
    In Advances in Face Detection and Facial Image Analysis,, edited by Michal Kawulok, M. Emre Celebi, and Bogdan Smolka, Springer, pages 189-248, 2016.
    [Springer Page] [Draft pdf]

  • Aruni RoyChowdhury, Tsung-Yu Lin, Subhransu Maji, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    One-to-many face recognition with bilinear CNNs.
    Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2016.
    [pdf]

  • Hang Su, Subhransu Maji, Evangelos Kalogerakis, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Multi-view convolutional neural networks for 3D shape recognition.
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 9 pages, 2015.
    [project] [pdf]

  • Laura Sevilla-Lara, Deqing Sun, Erik G. Learned-Miller and Michael J. Black.
    Optical flow estimation with channel constancy.
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014.
    [pdf]

  • Gary B. Huang and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Labeled Faces in the Wild: Updates and new reporting procedures.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report UM-CS-2014-003, 5 pages, 2014.
    [pdf]

  • Andrew Kae, Benjamin Marlin, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    The shape-time random field for semantic video labeling.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014.
    [pdf]

  • Manjunath Narayana, Allen Hanson, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Background subtraction: separating the modeling and the inference.
    Machine Vision and Applications (MVAP), vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1163-1174, 2014.
    [Springer Publication Page]

  • Manjunath Narayana, Allen Hanson, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Coherent motion segmentation in moving camera videos using optical flow orientations.
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013.
    [pdf] [Supplementary Material]

  • Benjamin Mears, Laura Sevilla Lara and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Adaptive kernels for improved local patch alignment.
    Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2013.
    [pdf]

  • Jacqueline Feild, Erik Learned-Miller and David A. Smith.
    Using a probabilistic syllable model to improve scene text recognition.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013.
    [pdf]

  • Jacqueline Feild and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Improving open-vocabulary scene text recognition.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013.
    [pdf]

  • Yahan Zhou, Jacqueline Feild, Rui Wang, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Scene text segmentation via inverse rendering.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013.
    [pdf]

  • Andrew Kae*, Kihyuk Sohn*, Honglak Lee and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Augmenting CRFs with Boltzmann machine shape priors for image labeling.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013.
    *The first and second authors made equal contributions and should be considered co-first authors.
    [pdf]

  • Gary B. Huang, Marwan Mattar, Honglak Lee, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Learning to align from scratch.
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) , 2012.
    [pdf]

  • Jacqueline Feild and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Scene text recognition with bilateral regression.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report UM-CS-2012-021, 15 pages, 2012.
    [pdf]

  • Manjunath Narayana, Allen Hanson, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Improvements in joint domain-range modeling for background subtraction.
    Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2012.
    [pdf]

  • Marwan Mattar, Allen Hanson, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Unsupervised joint alignment and clustering using Bayesian nonparametrics.
    Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2012.
    [pdf]

  • Gary B. Huang, Andrew Kae, Carl Doersch, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Bounding the probability of error for high precision optical character recognition.
    Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Volume 13, pp. 363-387, 2012.
    [pdf]

  • Gang Hua, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Erik Learned-Miller, Yi Ma, Matthew Turk, David J. Kriegman, and Thomas S. Huang.
    Introduction to the special section on real-world face recognition.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 1921-1924, 2011.
    [pdf]

  • Laura Sevilla Lara and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Distribution Fields.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report UM-CS-2011-027, 18 pages, 2011.
    [pdf]

  • Vidit Jain and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Online domain-adaptation of a pre-trained cascade of classifiers.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.
    [pdf]

  • David L. Smith, Jacqueline Feild, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Enforcing similarity constraints with integer programming for better scene text recognition.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.
    [pdf]

  • Andrew Kae, David A. Smith and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Learning on the fly: A font-free approach towards multilingual OCR.
    International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), Vol. 14, No. 3, 13 pages, 2011.
    [pdf]

  • Vidit Jain and Erik Learned-Miller.
    FDDB: A benchmark for face detection in unconstrained settings.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report UM-CS-2010-009, 11 pages, 2010.
    [pdf]

  • Andrew Kae, Gary B. Huang, Carl Doersch, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Improving state-of-the-art OCR through high-precision document-specific modeling.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010.
    [pdf]

  • Andrew Kae, Gary B. Huang, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Bounding the probability of error for high precision recognition.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report UM-CS-2009-031, 12 pages, 2009.
    [pdf]

  • Jerod Weinman, Erik Learned-Miller and Allen Hanson.
    Scene text recognition using similarity and a lexicon with sparse belief propagation.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Special Issue on Probabilistic Graphical Models, Vol. 31, No. 10, pp. 1733-1746, 2009.
    [pdf]

  • Gary B. Huang, Marwan Mattar, Tamara Berg, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Labeled faces in the wild: A database for studying face recognition in unconstrained environments.
    In The Workshop on Faces in Real-Life Images at European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008.
    [pdf]

  • Gary B. Huang, Michael J. Jones, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    LFW results using a combined Nowak plus MERL recognizer.
    In The Workshop on Faces in Real-Life Images at European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008.
    [pdf]

  • Jerod Weinman, Erik Learned-Miller, and Allen Hanson.
    A discriminative semi-Markov model for robust scene text recognition.
    In International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008.
    [pdf]

  • Gary B. Huang, Manjunath Narayana, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Towards unconstrained face recognition.
    In The Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision IEEE CVPR, 2008.
    [pdf]

  • Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
    Learning to locate informative features for visual identification.
    International Journal of Computer Vision: Special Issue on Learning and Vision, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 3-24, May, 2008.
    [pdf]

  • Tamara L. Berg, Alex C. Berg, Jaety Edwards, Michael Maire, Ryan White, Yee Whye Teh, Erik Learned-Miller, and David Forsyth.
    Names and faces.
    To appear International Journal of Computer Vision, 2008.

  • Gary B. Huang, Manu Ramesh, Tamara Berg and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Labeled Faces in the Wild: A database for studying face recognition in unconstrained environments.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report 07-49, 11 pages, 2007.
    [pdf]

  • Gary B. Huang, Vidit Jain, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Unsupervised joint alignment of complex images.
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
    [pdf]

  • Vidit Jain, Erik Learned-Miller, and Andrew McCallum.
    People-LDA: Anchoring topics to people using face recognition.
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
    [pdf]

  • Jerod Weinman, Erik Learned-Miller, and Allen Hanson.
    Fast lexicon-based scene text recognition with sparse belief propagation.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2007.
    [pdf]

  • David Walker Duhon, Jerod Weinman and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Techniques and applications for persistent backgrounding in a humanoid torso robot.
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2007.
    [pdf]

  • Marwan Mattar and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Improved generative models for continuous image features through tree-structured non-parametric distributions.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report 06-57, 10 pages, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Dov Katz, Emily Horrell, Yuandong Yang, Brendan Burns, Thomas Buckley, Anna Grishkan, Volodymyr Zhylkovskyy, Oliver Brock, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    The UMass mobile manipulator UMan: An experimental platform for autonomous mobile manipulation.
    In Workshop on Manipulation in Human Environments, at Robotics: Science and Systems, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Vidit Jain, Andras Ferencz and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Discriminative training of hyper-feature models for object identification.
    Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Volume 1, pp. 357-366, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller, Qifeng Lu, Angela Paisley, Peter Trainer, Volker Blanz, Katrin Dedden, and Ralph E. Miller.
    Detecting acromegaly: Screening for disease with a morphable model.
    Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Volume 2, pp. 495-503, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Jerod Weinman and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Improving recognition of novel input with similarity.
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 1, pp. 308-315, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller.
    Data driven image models through continuous joint alignment.
    In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 28:2, pp. 236-250, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Gary Huang, Erik Learned-Miller and Andrew McCallum.
    Cryptogram decoding for optical character recognition.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report 06-45, 12 pages, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Jerod J. Weinman, Allen Hanson and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Joint feature selection for object detection and recognition.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report 06-54, 8 pages, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
    Building a classification cascade for visual identification from one example.
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 286-293, 2005.
    [pdf]

  • Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller and Jitendra Malik.
    Learning hyper-features for visual identification.
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, pp. 425-432, 2005.
    [pdf]

  • Dimitri A. Lisin, Marwan A. Mattar, Matthew B. Blaschko, Mark C. Benfield, and Erik G. Learned-Miller.
    Combining local and global features for object class recognition.
    In Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition at IEEE CVPR, 2005.
    [pdf]

  • Marwan A. Mattar, Allen R. Hanson, and Erik G. Learned-Miller.
    Sign classification using local and meta-features.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired (in conjunction with CVPR), 2005.
    [pdf]

  • Marwan A. Mattar, Allen R. Hanson, and Erik G. Learned-Miller.
    Sign classification for the visually impaired.
    University of Massachusetts Technical Report 05-14, 2005.
    [pdf]

  • Tamara Berg, Alex Berg, Jaety Edwards, Michael Maire, Ryan White, Yee Whye Teh, Erik Learned-Miller and David Forsyth.
    Names and faces in the news.
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vol. 2, pp. 848-854, 2004.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller and Christophe Chefd'hotel.
    Practical non-parametric density estimation on a transformation group for vision.
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 2, pp. 114-121, 2003.
    [pdf]

  • Kinh Tieu and Erik Miller.
    Unsupervised color constancy.
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 15, pp. 1303-1310, 2003.
    [pdf]

  • Chris Stauffer, Erik Miller and Kinh Tieu.
    Transform-invariant image decomposition with similarity templates.
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 14, pp. 1295-1302, 2002.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller.
    Learning from one example in machine vision by sharing probability densities.
    Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller and Kinh Tieu.
    Color eigenflows: Statistical modeling of joint color changes.
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Volume 1, pp. 607-614, 2001.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller, Kinh Tieu and Eric Grimson.
    Lighting invariance through joint color change models.
    Proceedings of Workshop on Identifying Object Across Variations in Lighting: Psychophysics and Computation, at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller, Nick Matsakis, and Paul Viola.
    Learning from one example through shared densities on transforms.
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 1, pp. 464-471, 2000.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller.
    Alternative tilings for improved surface area estimates by local counting algorithms.
    In Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Volume 74, pages 193-211, 1999.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller and Paul Viola.
    Ambiguity and constraint in mathematical expression recognition.
    Proceedings of the National Conference of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 784-791, 1998.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller.
    An analysis of surface area estimates of binary volumes under three tilings.
    Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
    [pdf]

Information Theory
Machine Learning
  • Haw-Shiuan Chang, Erik Learned-Miller, and Andrew McCallum.
    Active bias: Training a more accurate neural network by emphasizing high variance samples.
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) , 2017.
    [arXiv]

  • Andrew Kae*, Kihyuk Sohn*, Honglak Lee and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Augmenting CRFs with Boltzmann machine shape priors for image labeling.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013.
    *The first and second authors made equal contributions and should be considered co-first authors.
    [pdf]

  • Gary B. Huang, Marwan Mattar, Honglak Lee, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Learning to align from scratch.
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) , 2012.
    [pdf]

  • Marwan Mattar, Allen Hanson, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Unsupervised joint alignment and clustering using Bayesian nonparametrics.
    Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2012.
    [pdf]

  • Gary B. Huang, Andrew Kae, Carl Doersch, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Bounding the probability of error for high precision optical character recognition.
    Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Volume 13, pp. 363-387, 2012.
    [pdf]

  • Vidit Jain and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Online domain-adaptation of a pre-trained cascade of classifiers.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.
    [pdf]

  • Gary B. Huang and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Learning class-specific image transformations with higher-order Boltzmann machines.
    In Workshop on Structured Models in Computer Vision at IEEE CVPR, 2010.
    [pdf]

  • Andrew Kae and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Learning on the fly: Font free approaches to difficult OCR problems.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2009.
    [pdf]

  • Jerod Weinman, Erik Learned-Miller and Allen Hanson.
    Scene text recognition using similarity and a lexicon with sparse belief propagation.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Special Issue on Probabilistic Graphical Models, Vol. 31, No. 10, pp. 1733-1746, 2009.
    [pdf]

  • Marwan Mattar, Michael G. Ross and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Non-parametric curve alignment.
    International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2009.
    [pdf]

  • Andras Ferencz, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jitendra Malik.
    Learning to locate informative features for visual identification.
    International Journal of Computer Vision: Special Issue on Learning and Vision, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 3-24, May, 2008.
    [pdf]

  • Vidit Jain, Erik Learned-Miller, and Andrew McCallum.
    People-LDA: Anchoring topics to people using face recognition.
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
    [pdf]

  • Michael Wick, Michael G. Ross and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Context-sensitive error correction: Using topic models to improve OCR.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2007.
    [pdf]

  • Jerod Weinman, Erik Learned-Miller, and Allen Hanson.
    Fast lexicon-based scene text recognition with sparse belief propagation.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2007.
    [pdf]

  • Vidit Jain, Andras Ferencz and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Discriminative training of hyper-feature models for object identification.
    Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Volume 1, pp. 357-366, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Ron Bekkerman, Mehran Sahami and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Combinatorial Markov random fields.
    Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) 17, pp. 30-41, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Jerod Weinman and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Improving recognition of novel input with similarity.
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 1, pp. 308-315, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller.
    Data driven image models through continuous joint alignment.
    In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 28:2, pp. 236-250, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Jerod J. Weinman, Allen Hanson and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Joint feature selection for object detection and recognition.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report 06-54, 8 pages, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller.
    Hyperspacings and the estimation of information theoretic quantities.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report 04-104, 2004.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller and John W. Fisher, III.
    ICA using spacings estimates of entropy.
    Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Volume 4, pp. 1271-1295, 2003.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller and Christophe Chefd'hotel.
    Practical non-parametric density estimation on a transformation group for vision.
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 2, pp. 114-121, 2003.
    [pdf]

  • Kinh Tieu and Erik Miller.
    Unsupervised color constancy.
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 15, pp. 1303-1310, 2003.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller and John W. Fisher, III.
    ICA using spacings estimates of entropy.
    Fourth International Symposium on Independent Components Analysis and Blind Signal Separation, 2003.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller.
    Learning from one example in machine vision by sharing probability densities.
    Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
    [pdf]

  • Chris Stauffer, Erik Miller and Kinh Tieu.
    Transform-invariant image decomposition with similarity templates.
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 14, pp. 1295-1302, 2002.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller, Kinh Tieu and Chris Stauffer.
    Learning object-independent modes of variation with feature flow fields.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AI-Memo: AIM-2001-021, 9 pages, 2001.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller, Nick Matsakis, and Paul Viola.
    Learning from one example through shared densities on transforms.
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 1, pp. 464-471, 2000.
    [pdf]

Medicine and Medical Imaging
  • Ke Xiao, Erik Learned-Miller, Evangelos Kalogerakis, James Priest, Madalina Fiterau.
    Machine Learning for Automated Mitral Regurgitation Detection from Cardiac Imaging.
    Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2023.
    [pdf]

  • Ralph E. Miller, Erik Learned-Miller, Peter Trainer, Angela Paisley and Volker Blanz.
    Early diagnosis of acromegaly: computers vs clinicians.
    Clinical Endocrinology, Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 226-231, 2011.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller, Peter Trainer, Angela Paisley, Volker Blanz, and Ralph Miller.
    Acromegalic features: Recognition by physicians versus a computer model.
    In The Program and Abstracts Book of the 90th Meeting of the Endocrine Society, San Francisco, June, 2008.

  • Erik Learned-Miller, Qifeng Lu, Angela Paisley, Peter Trainer, Volker Blanz, Katrin Dedden, and Ralph E. Miller.
    Detecting acromegaly: Screening for disease with a morphable model.
    Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Volume 2, pp. 495-503, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller, Qifeng Lu, Angela Paisley, Peter Trainer, Volker Blanz, Katrin Dedden, and Ralph Miller.
    Early diagnosis of acromegaly by facial pattern recognition.
    Abstract for The Ninth International Pituitary Congress, San Diego, CA, 2005.

  • Erik Learned-Miller and Parvez Ahammad.
    Joint MRI bias removal using entropy minimization across images.
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, pp. 761-768, 2005.
    [pdf]

  • Lilla Zollei, Erik Learned-Miller, Eric Grimson, and William Wells.
    Efficient population registration of 3D data.
    In Workshop on Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications: Current Techniques and Future Trends, at the International Conference of Computer Vision (best paper award), 2005.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller and Vidit Jain.
    Many heads are better than one: Jointly removing bias from multiple MRs using nonparametric maximum likelihood.
    In Proceedings of Information Processing in Medical Imaging, pp. 615-626, 2005.
    [pdf]

  • Qifeng Lu, Erik Learned-Miller, Angela Paisley, Peter Trainer, Volker Blanz, Katrin Dedden, and Ralph Miller.
    Detecting acromegaly: Screening for diseases with a morphable model.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report 05-37, 2005.
    [pdf]

  • Simon Warfield, Jan Rexilius, Petra Huppi, Terrie Inder, Erik Miller, William Wells, Gary Zientara, Ferenc Jolesz, and Ron Kikinis.
    A binary entropy measure to assess nonrigid registration algorithms.
    Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), pp. 266-274, 2001.
    [pdf]

  • Simon Warfield, Petra Huppi, Terrie Inder, Erik Miller, William Wells, Gary Zientara, Ferenc Jolesz, and Ron Kikinis.
    An intrinsic coordinate system of the developing human brain.
    Fifth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA, page 28, 2001.
    [pdf]

  • Douglas Cohen, Jonathan Lustgarten, Erik Miller, Alexander Khandji and Robert Goodman.
    Effects of coregistration of MR to CT images on MR stereotactic accuracy.
    Journal of Neurosurgery, Volume 82, pp. 772-779, 1995.

  • Robert Malison, Erik Miller, Robin Greene, Greg McCarthy, Dennis Charney and Robert Innis.
    Computer assisted coregistration of multislice SPECT and MR brain images by fixed external fiducials.
    Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, Volume 17, pp. 952-960, 1993.
Robotics
  • Li Yang Ku, Erik Learned-Miller and Rod Grupen.
    Modeling objects as aspect transition graphs to support manipulation.
    International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR), 16 pages, 2015.
    [pdf]

  • Li Yang Ku, Shiraj Sen, Erik Learned-Miller and Rod Grupen.
    Action-based models for belief-space planning.
    In Workshop on Information-Based Grasp and Manipulation Planning, at Robotics: Science and Systems, 6 pages, July, 2014.
    [pdf]

  • Li Yang Ku, Shiraj Sen, Erik Learned-Miller and Rod Grupen.
    The aspect transition graph: An affordance-based model.
    In Second Workshop on Affordances: Visual Perception of Affordances and Functional Visual Primitives for Scene Analysis, at the European Conference on Computer Vision, 7 pages, September, 2014.
    [pdf]

  • David Walker Duhon, Jerod Weinman and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Techniques and applications for persistent backgrounding in a humanoid torso robot.
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2007.
    [pdf]

  • Dov Katz, Emily Horrell, Yuandong Yang, Brendan Burns, Thomas Buckley, Anna Grishkan, Volodymyr Zhylkovskyy, Oliver Brock, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    The UMass mobile manipulator UMan: An experimental platform for autonomous mobile manipulation.
    In Workshop on Manipulation in Human Environments, at Robotics: Science and Systems, 2006.
    [pdf]

Statistics
  • My Phan, Philip Thomas, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Towards practical mean bounds for small samples.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021.
    [pdf][supplementary material][erratum]

  • Philip Thomas and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Concentration inequalities for conditional value at risk.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019.
    [pdf][erratum]

  • Erik Learned-Miller and Philip S. Thomas.
    A new confidence interval for the mean of a bounded random variable.
    ArXiv preprint, 27 pages, May 15, 2019.
    [arXiv]

  • Haw-Shiuan Chang, Erik Learned-Miller, and Andrew McCallum.
    Active bias: Training a more accurate neural network by emphasizing high variance samples.
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) , 2017.
    [arXiv]

  • Gary B. Huang, Andrew Kae, Carl Doersch, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Bounding the probability of error for high precision optical character recognition.
    Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Volume 13, pp. 363-387, 2012.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller.
    Data driven image models through continuous joint alignment.
    In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 28:2, pp. 236-250, 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Joseph DeStefano, Qifeng Lu, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    A probabilistic upper bound on differential entropy.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report 05-12, 2005.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller.
    Hyperspacings and the estimation of information theoretic quantities.
    UMass Amherst Technical Report 04-104, 2004.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Learned-Miller and John W. Fisher, III.
    ICA using spacings estimates of entropy.
    Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Volume 4, pp. 1271-1295, 2003.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller and Christophe Chefd'hotel.
    Practical non-parametric density estimation on a transformation group for vision.
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 2, pp. 114-121, 2003.
    [pdf]

  • Erik Miller.
    A new class of entropy estimators for multi-dimensional densities.
    International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2003.
    [pdf]

Systems
  • Zhipeng Tang, Fabien Delattre, Pia Bideau, Mark Corner, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    C-14: Assured timestamps for drone videos.
    The 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2020.
    [pdf]

  • Keen Sung, Marc Liberatore, Joydeep Biswas, Erik Learned-Miller, Brian Levine.
    Server-side traffic analysis reveals mobile location information over the internet.
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2018.
    [IEEE Explore]

  • Hamed Soroush, Keen Sung, Erik Learned-Miller, Brian Neil Levine, and Marc Liberatore.
    Disabling GPS is not enough: Cellular location leaks over the Internet.
    Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2013.
    [pdf]

  • Mastooreh (Negin) Salajegheh, Yue Wang, Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang, Erik Learned-Miller and Kevin Fu.
    Half-wits: Software techniques for low-voltage probabilistic storage on microcontrollers with NOR flash memory.
    ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. Special Issue on Probabilistic Embedded Computing, Vol. 12, No. 2s, Article 91, 25 pages, May, 2013.
    [pdf]

  • Robert Walls, Brian N. Levine, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Forensic triage for mobile phones with DEC0DE.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2011.
    [pdf]

  • Mastooreh (Negin) Salajegheh, Yue Wang, Kevin Fu, Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang, and Erik Learned-Miller.
    Exploiting Half-Wits: Smarter storage for low-power devices.
    9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) , 2011.
    [pdf]

  • John Tuttle, Robert J. Walls, Erik Learned-Miller, and Brian Neil Levine.
    Reverse engineering for mobile systems forensics with Ares.
    In Proceedings of the ACM: Workshop on Insider Threats, 2010.
    [pdf]