Publications

International Conferences

• "Measuring the Pulse of the City through Shared Bicycle Programs" Froehlich, J., Neumann, J., and Oliver, N. (2008)  International Workshop on Urban, Community, and Social Applications of Networked Sensing Systems - UrbanSense08, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, November 4, 2008
• "Multimodal Photo Annotation and Retrieval on a Mobile Phone" Xavier Anguera, JieJun Xu and Nuria Oliver
  Proceedings of Int. Conf. Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR'08) 2008 Conference. Oct 2008
• "Mobile and Multimodal Personal Image Retrieval: A User Study" Xavier Anguera, Nuria Oliver and Mauro Cherubini
  Proceedings of Int. Workshop on Mobile Information Retrieval (MobIR'08), SIGIR 2008 Conference. July 2008
• "MAMI: Multimodal Annotations on a Camera Phone" Xavier Anguera and Nuria Oliver
  Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Mobile HCI (MobileHCI'08), Sept 2008
• "TripleBeat: Enhancing Exercise Performance with Persuasion" Rodrigo de Oliveira and Nuria Oliver
  Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Mobile HCI (MobileHCI'08), Sept 2008
• "RelAltTab: Assisting Users in Switching Windows" Nuria Oliver, M. Czerwinski, G. Smith and K. Roomp
  Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'08), Jan 2008
• "Health-OS: A Position Paper" D. Kirovski, Nuria Oliver, M. Sinclair and D.S. Tan.
  Proceedings of First Int. Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments (HealthNet'07), 2007
• "Enhancing Exercise Performance through Real-time Physiological Monitoring and Music: A User Study" Nuria Oliver and Lucas Kreger-Stickles
  Proceedings of Pervasive Health 2006. Innsbruck, Austria, Nov 2006
• "PAPA: Physiology and Purpose-Aware Automatic Playlist Generation" Nuria Oliver and Lucas Kreger-Stickles
  Proceedings of ISMIR 2006. Victoria, Canada, Oct 2006
• "MPTrain: A Music and Physiology-based Personal Trainer on your Mobile Phone"  Nuria Oliver and Fernando Flores-Mangas.
  Proceedings of Int. MobileHCI'06. Helsinki, Iceland, Sept 2006.
• "HealthGear: A Real-Time Wearable System for Monitoring and Analyzing Physiological Signals" Nuria Oliver and Fernando Flores-Mangas.
  Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06). MIT. Boston. USA. April 2006.
• "SWISH:Semantic Analysis of Window Titles and Switching History" Nuria Oliver, Greg Smith, Chintan Thakkar and Arun C. Surendran
  Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'06). Sydney. Australia. Jan 2006.
• "HealthGear: A Real-time Wearable System for Monitoring and Analyzing Physiological Signals" Nuria Oliver and Fernando Flores-Mangas. MSR Technical Report. May 2005.
• "A Comparison of HMMs and Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Recognizing Office Activities" Nuria Oliver and Eric Horvitz
  Proceedings of Int. Conf. on User Modeling (UM'05). Edinburgh, UK. Jul 2005.
• "Selective Perception Policies for Limiting Computation in Multimodal Systems: A Comparative Analysis" Nuria Oliver and Eric Horvitz
  Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'03). Vancouver, CA. Nov 2003.
• "GWindows:Robust Stereo Vision for Gesture-Based Control of Windows" Andrew Wilson and Nuria Oliver
  Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'03). Vancouver, CA. Nov 2003.
• "GWindows:Towards Robust Perception-Based UI" Andy Wilson and Nuria Oliver
  To appear in Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'03). Workshop on Computer Vision for CHI). Madison, WI. June 2003.
• "Layered Representations for Learning and Inferring Office Activity from Multiple Sensory Channels"
  Nuria Oliver, Eric Horvitz, and Ashutosh Garg
  Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'02). Pittsburgh, PA. October 2002.
• "MIHMMs: Mutual Information Hidden Markov Models"
  Nuria Oliver and Ashutosh Garg
  Proceed. of International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML'2002, Sydney,  Australia, July 2002
  Also presented at the Snowbird 2002 Learning Workshop, Snowbird (UT), April 2002
• "Curve Analogies"
  Aaron Hertzmann, Nuria Oliver, Steve Seitz and Brian Curless
  Proceed. of Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Italy, June 2002
  Technical sketch at Siggraph 2002
• "Hierarchical Representations for Inferring Office Activities from Multiple Sensory Channels"
  Nuria Oliver, Ashutosh Garg and Eric Horvitz
  Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR'01. Workshop on 'Cues in Communication'. Kauai, Hawaii. Dec 01
• "Image Analogies"
  Aaron Hertzman, Chuck Jacobs, Nuria Oliver, Brian Curless and David Salesin
  Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH'01. Los Angeles. August 01.
• "Graphical Models for Driver Behavior Recognition in a SmartCar" Nuria Oliver, and Alex Pentland Proceedings of IEEE Intl. Conference on Intelligent Vehicles 2000 Detroit. Michigan. October 00.
• "Driver Behavior Recognition and Prediction in a SmartCar" Nuria Oliver, and Alex Pentland. Proceedings of SPIE Aerosense2000 'Enhanced and Synthetic Vision' Orlando. Florida. April 00.
• "A Bayesian Synthetic Agent System for Modeling Human Interactions", Nuria Oliver, Barbara Rosario and Alex Pentland. Proceedings of Intl. Conference on Autonomous Agents AA99. Seattle. Washington. May 99.
• "A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interactions", Nuria Oliver, Barbara Rosario and Alex Pentland. Proceedings of Intl. Conference on Vision Systems ICVS99. Gran Canaria. Spain. January 99.
• "DyPERS: Dynamic Personal Enhanced Reality System", Bernt Schiele, Nuria Oliver, Tony Jebara and Alex Pentland. Proceedings of Intl. Conference on Vision Systems ICVS99. Gran Canaria. Spain. January 99.

• "Graphical Models for Recognizing Human Interactions" , Nuria Oliver, Barbara Rosario and Alex Pentland. Proceedings of Intl. Conference on Neural Information and Processing Systems NIPS98. Denver. Colorado. Nov.-Dec. 98.

• "Graphical Models for Recognizing Human Interactions" Long version appears in PAMI
• "A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interactions", Nuria Oliver, Barbara Rosario and Alex Pentland. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision CVPR98 (Workshop on Interpretation of Visual Motion). Santa Barbara, CA, June 98.
• "Statistical Models of Human Behavior", Nuria Oliver. Proposal for phD General Exams. Media Laboratory, MIT. Sept 97
• "3D Modeling of Human Lip Motion", Sumit Basu, Nuria Oliver and Alex Pentland. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV98, Bombay, India).
• "Responsive Portraits", Flavia Sparacino, Nuria Oliver, Glorianna Davenport and Alex Pentland. International Symposium on Electronic Art, (ISEA97, Chicago, USA).
• "LAFTER:A Real-time Lips and Face Tracker with Facial Expression Recognition", Nuria Oliver, Alex Pentland and F. Berard. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision (CVPR97, S.Juan, Puerto Rico) and Pattern Recognition Pattern Recognition version (long) Winner of the Special Mention Award from the Pattern Recognition Society as an outstanding publication. Nov 2000.
• "Coupled hidden Markov models for complex action recognition", Matthew Brand, Nuria Oliver and Alex Pentland. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR97, S.Juan, Puerto Rico).
• "A Computer Vision System for Car Detection and Tracking", Nuria Oliver, M.S. Thesis in Electrical Engineering (Computer Vision group), ETSIT in Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Sept. 94

• "Towards Wearable Physiological Monitoring on a Mobile Phone" Nuria Oliver, Fernando Flores-Mangas and Rodrigo de Oliveira. In Mobile Health Solutions for Biomedical Applications (ISBN: 978-1-60566-332-6) IGI Global
• "HealthGear: Automatic Sleep Apnea Detection and Monitoring with a Mobile Phone"
  Nuria Oliver and Fernando Flores-Mangas
  Journal of Communications, 2 (2), March 2007 
• "Supporting Human Memory with a Personal Digital Lifetime Store. Chapter to appear in Personal Information Management: Challenges and Opportunities"
  Tan, D.S., Berry,  E., Czerwinski, M., Bell, G., Gemmell, J., Hodges, S., Kapur, N., Meyers, B., Oliver, N., Robertson, G., Wood, K.
  University of Washington Press. In Press at 2007
• "Selective Perception Policies for Guiding Sensing and Computation in Multimodal Systems: A Comparative Analysis"
  Nuria Oliver and Eric Horvitz
  Lectures Notes in Computer Science. Springer Verlag. Jan 2005
• "S-SEER: Selective Perception in a Multimodal Office Activity System"
  Nuria Oliver and Eric Horvitz
  Int. Journal on Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU 2005)
• "Layered Representations for Learning and Inferring Office Activity from Multiple Sensory Channels"
  Nuria Oliver, Ashutosh Garg and Eric Horvitz
  Int. Journal on Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU'04)
• "Sensory Augmented Computing: Wearing the Museum's Guide"
  Bert Schiele, Tony Jebara and Nuria Oliver.
  To Appear in IEEE Micro Journal
• "Natural Regularization in SVMs"
  Nuria Oliver, Bernhard Schoelkopf and Alex Smola.
  Appears in 'Advances in Large Margin Classifiers', Springer-Verlag. NIPS99 workshop on Geometry and Learning. Denver. Colorado. Dec 99
• "A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interactions"
  Nuria Oliver, Barbara Rosario and Alex Pentland.
  Appears in PAMI Special Issue on Visual Surveillance and Monitoring, Aug 00
• "LAFTER: A real-time lips and face tracker with facial expression recognition"
  Nuria Oliver, Francois Berard and Alex Pentland.
  Appears in Pattern Recognition, vol. 33 (2000), n. 8
• Winner of the Special Mention Award from the Pattern Recognition Society as an outstanding publication. Nov 2000.