Lee Iverson

Lee Iverson
Assistant Professor

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Research

My main areas of research cover computer vision, computer graphics, geographical visualization, GIS systems, networked information systems, and systems for human-centered collaboration. If that sounds like a wide range, then I suppose it is, but there is a general theme of making systems more intelligent and better able to interact with their users. That can mean systems that see what you see, or depict information in ways that correspond to your normal perceptions. It can also mean systems that allow a user to interact with information in ways that naturally reflect their own knowledge. Too broad? Yeah, maybe. I guess a shorter summary would suggest that I want to build systems that allow people to work together more effectively.

Projects:

NODAL: A System for Ubiquitous Collaboration
SRI's Digital Earth Project, which includes:

UBC Robocup: Thunderbots

Affiliations

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Contact Info

address:	Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of British Columbia 2356 Main Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada MCLD 431
phone:	Office: (604) 822-3381 Fax: (604) 822-5949
e-mail:	leei at ece.ubc.ca
old homepage:	http://www.ai.sri.com/~leei

Recent Publications

L. Iverson (2004). "Digital Library Service Models and NODAL". In Proceedings of JCDL 2004, Tucson AZ, June 8-10, 2004. (Poster (big!), Paper).
L. Iverson (2004). "NODAL: Structure and Reference for Web Documents". Submitted to Intl. Web Engineering Workshop 2004, Santa Cruz CA, August 2004. (PDF).
L. Iverson (2004). "Data-Knowledge-Context: An Application Model for Collaborative Work" (in preparation) (PDF).

Selected Publications

Y. Leclerc, M. Reddy, L. Iverson, and A. Heller (2001). "The GeoWeb — A New Paradigm for Finding Data on the Web". In Proceedings of the International Cartographic Conference (ICC2001), Beijing, 6-10 August 2001. [PDF]

M. Reddy, L. Iverson, and Y. G. Leclerc (2000). "Under the Hood of GeoVRML 1.0". In Proceedings of Web3D-VRML 2000: The Fifth Symposium on the Virtual Reality Modeling Language. Monterey, California. February 21-24, pp. 23-28. (Best Paper Award) [PDF]

M. Reddy, Y. G. Leclerc, L. Iverson, and N. Bletter (1999). "TerraVision II: Visualizing Massive Terrain Databases in VRML". IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Special Issue on VRML), 19(2) pp. 30-38. [PDF]

Y. Leclerc, M. Reddy, L. Iverson, N. Bletter (1999). "Digital Earth: Building the New World", In proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM'99), pp. 250-262. 1-3 September. Dundee, Scotland. [PDF]

L. Iverson and Zucker S. W. (1995) "Logical/Linear Operators for Image Curves," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 17(10) pp. 982-996, 1995. [PS]

W. Neuenschwander, P. Fua, L. Iverson, G. Székely, and O. Kubler (1994) "Ziplock Snakes". International Journal of Computer Vision, 1994. [PS]

P. Breton, L. Iverson, M. Langer, and S.W. Zucker (1992) "Shading Flows and Scenel Bundles: A new approach to shape from shading," Second European Conference on Computer Vision, 1992.

S.W. Zucker, L. Iverson, and A. Dobbins (1992) "Connectionism and the Computational Neurobiology of Curve Detection," in S. Davis (ed.) Connectionism: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press 1992.

S.W. Zucker, L. Iverson, and A. Dobbins (1990) "On the neural computations of curve detection," in R. Eckmiller (ed.) Advanced Neural Computers, Elsevier Science Publ., 1990.

S.W. Zucker, L. Iverson, and A. Dobbins (1990) "On the neural computations underlying curve detection," Neural Networks for Sensory and Motor Systems, Dusseldorf, March, 1990.

S.W. Zucker, and L. Iverson (1988) "Computational networks in early vision: From orientation selection to optical flow," in Eckmiller, R., and C. v.d. Malsberg, Neural Computers, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988.

L. Iverson and S.W. Zucker. (1987) "Orientation selection to optical flow: A computational perspective," Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision, November 30-December 2, 1987.

S.W. Zucker, and L. Iverson. (1987) "From orientation selection to optical flow," Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing 37, January 1987.

E. Cohen, E. Smith and L. Iverson (1986) "Constraint-based tiled windows," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 6(5), May 1986.