Selected Publications Since 2005 (may be out of date)

Over 145 refereed journal and conference papers, 3 books, 10 book chapters. Please, request the full CV to access all publications (jacobs@inf.ufrgs.br),  or access CV (Lattes Brazilian standard format) or  ResearchGate.

1. Books

  1. J. Scharcanski, E. Du, H. Proença. (Editors). Signal and Image Processing for Biometrics. To appear, Springer, 2014.

  2. J. Scharcanski and E. Celebi. (Editors). Computer Vision Techniques for the Diagnosis of Skin Cancer. Springer (Series in BioEngineering), 288 pgs., 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-39607-6.

  3. J. Scharcanski, V. Trevisan. (Editors). Advances on Graph Theory and Applications [CD-ROM], SBC, [2008], ISBN: 858842507-6.

2. Refereed Articles in Journals

  1. Barcellos, P.; Bouvie, C.; Escouto, F. L.; Scharcanski, J. A Novel Video Based System for Detecting and Counting Vehicles at User-Defined Virtual Loops. Expert Systems with Applications, in press, 2014.

  2. Behaine, C. A.; Scharcanski, J. Remote Visual Monitoring of Analog Meter Displays Using Deformable Models. IET Science, Measurement and Technology Journal, in press, 2014.

  3. Cavalcanti, P.; Scharcanski, J. A Coarse-to-Fine Approach for Segmenting Melanocytic Skin Lesions in Standard Camera Images. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol. 112, No. 3, pp. 684-93, 2013.

  4. Scharcanski, J.; Schardosim, L.; Santos, D.; Stuchi, J. Motion Detection and Compensation in Infrared Retinal Image Sequences. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Vol. 37, pp. 377-385, 2013.

  5. Vignolo, L.; Milone, D.; Scharcanski, J. Feature Selection for Face Recognition Based on Multi- Objective Evolutionary Wrappers. Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 40, No. 13, pp. 5077-5084, 2013.

  6. Cavalcanti, P.; Scharcanski, J.; Baranoski, G. A Two-Stage Approach for Discriminating Melanocytic Skin Lesions Using Standard Cameras. Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 40, No. 10, pp. 4054-4064, 2013.

  7. Minotto, V.; Lopes, C. B.; Scharcanski, J.; Jung, C. R.; Lee, B. Audiovisual Voice Activity Detection Based on Microphone Arrays and Color Information. IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 147-156, 2013.

  8. Welfer, D.; Scharcanski, J.; Marinho, D. A Morphologic Two-Stage Approach for Automated Optic Disk Detection in Color Eye Fundus Images. Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 476-485, 2013.

  9. Behaine, C. A.; Scharcanski, J. Enhancing the Performance of Active Shape Models in Face Recognition Applications. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 61, No. 8, pp. 2330 - 2333, 2012.

  10. Wong, A.; Scharcanski, J. Dynamic Fisher-Tippett Region Merging Approach to Transrectal Ultrasound Prostate Lesion Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 900-907, 2011.

  11. Gavião, W.; Scharcanski, J.; Frahm, J.; Pollefeys, M. Hysteroscopy Video Summarization and Browsing by Estimating the Physician's Attention on Video Segments. Medical Image Analysis, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 160 - 176, 2012.

  12. Wong, A.; Scharcanski, J,; Fieguth, P. Automatic Skin Lesion Segmentation via Iterative Stochastic Region Merging. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 929-936, 2011.

  13. Scharcanski, D.; Oliveira, B. A.; Cavalcanti, P. G. Yari, Y. A Particle Filtering Approach for Vehicular  Tracking Adaptive to Occlusions. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 381 - 389, 2011.

  14. S. da Silva; J. Scharcanski. Video Segmentation Based on Motion Coherence of Particles in a Video Sequence. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 1036-1049, 2010.

  15. A, Wong; J. Scharcanski. Phase-Adaptive Superresolution of Mammographic Images using Complex Wavelets. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 1140-1146.

  16. C. R. Jung; J. Scharcanski. Sharpening Dermatological Color Images in the Wavelet Domain. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 4-13, 2008.

  17. S. Felipussi; J. Scharcanski; J. Comba. Measuring Statistical Geometric Properties of Tomographic Images of Soils. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 57, No. 11, pp. 2502-2512, 2008.

  18. J. Scharcanski. A Wavelet-Based Approach for Analyzing Industrial Stochastic Textures with Applications. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part A), Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 10 - 22, January 2007.

  19. J. Scharcanski. Stochastic Texture Analysis for Measuring Sheet Formation Variability in Industry. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 1778 -1785, Oct. 2006.

  20. J. Scharcanski. A Wavelet-Based Approach for Analyzing Industrial Stochastic Textures with Applications. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part A), July 2005.

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