Selected Publications

Walk06

E.L. Walker, "Integrated Research Components: A Practical and Effective Alternative to Senior Projects," accepted for publication, Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, October 2006.

Walk04

"Lego Mindstorms Robotics in a (Very) Small Liberal Arts College," in AAAI Symposium: Accessible Hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education, Stanford, CA, March 2004.

Walk03

E.L. Walker and O.A. Slotterbeck, "Supporting Large Projects in a Small College Computer Systems Management Program," Journal of Computing in Small Colleges , Volume 19, Number 1, pp. 62-72, October 2003.

Walk02a

E.L. Walker, "Image Retrieval on the Internet - How can Fuzzy Help?," in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society [NAFIPS '00], New Orleans, LA, pp. 526-528, June 2002.

Walk02b

E.L. Walker and O.A. Slotterbeck, "Incorporating Realistic Teamwork into a Small College Software Engineering Curriculum," Journal of Computing in Small Colleges , Volume 17, Number 6, pp. 115-123, May 2002.

Walk01

E.L. Walker, "'Robots: Fantasy and Reality' - A First-Year Colloquium," in Working Notes of the AAAI Symposium: Robotics and Education, Stanford, CA, March 2001.

Walk00

E.L. Walker and K. Okuma, "Automatic Extraction of Invariant Features for Object Recognition," in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society [NAFIPS '00], Atlanta, GA, pp. 163-167, June 2000.

Walk99a

E.L. Walker, "PipeLINK: Encouraging High School Girls to Pursue Computer Science through Mentoring" in NSF-Sponsored Workshop on Improving and Assessing the Impact of Programs to Encourage High School Girls to Pursue Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, Santa Clara, CA, August 1999.

Walk99b

E.L. Walker, "Combining Geometric Invariants with Fuzzy Clustering for Object Recognition," in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society [NAFIPS '99], New York, NY, pp.571-574, June 1999.

Walk99c

E.L. Walker and L. Browne, "Teaching Web Development with Limited Resources," in Proceedings of the Thirtieth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education [SIGCSE `99], pp. 12-16, New Orleans, LA, February 1999.

Walk98b

E.L. Walker, "A Laboratory-based Internet Course for Non-Majors," Journal of Computing in Small Colleges , Volume 13, Number 5, pp. 38-53, April 1998.

Walk97

E.L. Walker, "A Fuzzy Approach to Pose Determination," in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society [NAFIPS '97] Integrated Research Components: A Practical and Effective Alternative to Senior Projects, September 1997.

Rodg97

S.H. Rodger and E.L. Walker, "PipeLINK: Connecting Women and Girls in the Computer Science Pipeline," Journal of Computer Science Education, Vol. 11, No. 3, May 1997, pp. 25-29.

Walk96a

E.L. Walker, "Fuzzy Relations for Feature-Model Correspondence in 3D Object Recognition," in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society [NAFIPS '96] , June 1996, pp. 28-32.

Rodg96

S.H. Rodger and E.L. Walker, "Activities to Attract High School Girls to Computer Science", in Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education [SIGCSE `96], pp. 373-377, Philadelphia, PA, February 1996.

Hamm96

V. Hammond and E.L. Walker, "Teaching Bayesian Networks through Interactive Exploration," Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium [FLAIRS `96], Key West, FL, pp. 463-467, May 1996.

Walk96b

E.L. Walker, "A Geometric Representation for Functional Recognition" Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium [FLAIRS `96], Key West, FL, May 1996, in press.

Vast95

D.A. Vastola and E.L. Walker, "The Design and Implementation of an Interactive Learning Tool for Statistical Reasoning with Uncertainty," Computers & Education: An International Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 193-214, December 1995.

Vast95

D.A. Vastola and E.L. Walker, "Interactive Learning Tool for Statistical Reasoning with Uncertainty,"   ACM SIGART Expanded version available as Technical Report 95-4, Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Liu95

J.S. Liu, E.L. Walker, and J.L. Mundy, "Characterizing the Stability of 3D Invariants Derived from 3D Translational Symmetry," in Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision [ACCV `95], Singapore, December 1995. Invited paper.

Walk95

E.L. Walker, "Fuzzy Reasoning for Decision-Making in Object Recognition," in Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis and the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society [NAFIPS `95], pp. 163-168, College Park, MD: IEEE Computer Society Press, September 1995.

Walk94a

E.L. Walker, "The Use of Computers for Teaching Artificial Intelligence at Rensselaer," in Working Notes of the AAAI Symposium: Improving Instruction of Introductory Artificial Intelligence, pp. 47-50, New Orleans, LA, November 1994. accepted for publication, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, October 2006. E.L. Walker,

Kang94a

H.-B. Kang and E.L. Walker, "Multilevel Grouping:Combining Bottom-Up and Top-down Reasoning for Object Recognition," in Proceedings of the 12th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition [ICPR `94], Jerusalem, Israel: IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 559-562, October 1994.

Kang94b

H.-B. Kang and E.L. Walker, "Characterizing and Controlling Approximation in Hierarchical Perceptual Grouping," Fuzzy Sets and Systems 65: 187-223, August 1994.

Walk94b

E.L. Walker and H.-B. Kang, "Fuzzy Measures of Uncertainty in Perceptual Grouping," in Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems [FUZZ-IEEE `94], Orlando, FL: IEEE Press, pp. 2020-2024, June 1994.

Liu93

J.S. Liu, J.L. Mundy, and E.L. Walker, "Recognizing Arbitrary Objects from Multiple Projections," in Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision [ACCV `93], pp. 422-426, Osaka, Japan, November 1993.

Walk93

E.L. Walker, "Knowledge-Based Image Understanding Using Incomplete and Generic Models," in Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition `93 [CVPR `93], New York, New York: IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 699-700, June 1993.

Walk92

E.L. Walker and T. Hivnor, "Knowledge-Based 3D Reconstruction from Multiple Segmented Images," in Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XI: Neural, Biological, and 3-D Methods, pp. 409-417, Boston, MA, November 1992 (solicited paper).

Kang92

H.-B. Kang and E.L. Walker "Perceptual Grouping Based on Fuzzy Sets," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems [FUZZ-IEEE `92], San Diego, CA: IEEE Press, pp. 651-660, March 1992.

Walk91

E.L. Walker, "Applying Geometric Sensor and Scene Models for Range Image Understanding," in Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision X: Neural, Biological, and 3-D Methods, pp. 13-23, Boston, MA, November 1991 (solicited paper).

Walk90

E.L. Walker, "Exploiting Geometric Relationships for Object Modeling and Recognition," in Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision IX: Neural, Biological, and 3-D Methods, pp. 353-363, Boston, MA, November 1990 (solicited paper).

Walk88a

E.L. Walker, and M. Herman, "Geometric Reasoning for Constructing 3D Scene Descriptions from Images," Artificial Intelligence Vol. 37, pp 275-290, December 1988.

Walk88b

E.L. Walker, M. Herman, and T. Kanade, "A Framework for Representing and Reasoning about Three-dimensional Objects for Vision," AI Magazine Vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 47-58, Summer 1988.