Matthew E. Brand
MERL Research / Technical StaffMERL Fellow
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1994
Phone: (617) 621-7500
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Matt studies unsupervised learning from sensory data. His results include spectral solutions for reconstructing manifolds from samples, decision theoretic elevator group control, a linear-time online SVD, recovery of non-rigid 3D shape from ordinary video, and an entropy optimization framework for learning. He has received best paper awards in computer vision (CVPR2001) and scheduling (ICAPS2003).
Research Areas:
AlgorithmsDigital Communications
Imaging
Mechatronics
Publications:
Brand, M.; Chen, D., “Parallel Quadratic Programming for Image Processing”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116089, pps. 2261-2264, September 2011 (IEEE Xplore , TR2011-064) |
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Tian, D.; Vetro, A.; Brand, M., “A Trellis-based Approach for Robust View Synthesis”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116623, pp. 605-608, September 2011 (IEEE Xplore, TR2011-065) |
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Brand, M.; Shilpiekandula, V.; Bortoff, S.A., “A Parallel Quadratic Programming Algorithm for Model Predictive Control”, World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Vol. 18, Part 1, August 2011 (IFAC World Congress, TR2011-056) |
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Ramalingam, S.; Bouaziz, S.; Sturm, P.; Brand, M., “SKYLINE2GPS: Localization in Urban Canyons Using Omni-skylines”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), ISSN 2153-0858, pp. 3816-3823, October 2010 (IEEE Xplore, TR2010-097) |
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Ramalingam, S.; Bouaziz, S.; Sturm, P.; Brand, M.E., “Geolocalization using Skylines from Omni-Images”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV), DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2009.5457723, pp. 23-30, September 2009 (IEEE Xplore, TR2009-067) |
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Brand, M.E., “Image and Video Retargetting by Darting”, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), ISBN: 978 3 642 02610 2, Vol. 5627, pp. 33-42, July 2009 (Spring Berlin / Heidelberg, TR2009-032) |
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Brand, M.; Maymounkov, P.; Molisch, A.F., “Routing with Probabilistic Delay Guarantees in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks”, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), ISSN: 1930-529X, pp. 1-6, November 2008 (IEEE Xplore, TR2008-077) |
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Brand, M.; Molisch, A.F., “Delay-Energy Tradeoffs in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks with Partial Channel State Information”, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), ISSN 1930-529X, pp 1-6, November 2008 (IEEE Xplore, TR2008-078) |
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Brand, M.; Pletscher, P., “A Conditional Random Field for Automatic Photo Editing”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), ISSN 1063-6919, pp. 1-7, June 2008 (IEEE Xplore, TR2008-035) |
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Nikolova, E.; Kelner, J.; Brand, M.; Mitzenmacher, M., “Stochastic Shortest Paths Via Quasi-convex Maximization”, European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), ISBN:3-540-38875-3, pp. 552 - 563, September 2006 (ACM Portal, TR2006-128) |
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Nikolova, E.; Brand, M.; Karger, D.R., “Optimal Route Planning under Uncertainty”, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), June 2006 (ICAPS 2006, TR2006-060) |
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Brand, M., “Fast Low-Rank Modifications of the Thin Singular Value Decomposition”, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Vol. 415, Issue 1, pp. 20-30, May 2006 (Elsevier Science Direct, TR2006-059) |
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Brand, M., “Nonrigid Embeddings for Dimensionality Reduction”, European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), ISBN: 3-540-29243-8, Vol. 3720, October 2005 (Springer, TR2005-117) |
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Vlasic, D.; Brand, M.; Pfister, H.; Popovic, J., “Face Transfer with Multilinear Models”, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), ISSN: 0730=0301, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 426-433, July 2005 (ACM Press, TR2005-048) |
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Brand, M., “A Direct Method for 3D Factorization of Nonrigid Motion Observed in 2D”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2005 (CVPR 2005, TR2005-052) |
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Brand, M., “A Random Walks Perspective on Maximizing Satisfaction and Profit”, SIAM Conference on Optimization, May 2005 (SIAM 2005, TR2005-050) |
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Nikovski, D.; Brand, M., “Exact Calculation of Expected Waiting Times for Group Elevator Control”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, ISSN: 0018-9286, Vol. 49, Issue 10, pp. 1820-1823, October 2004 (IEEE Xplore, TR2004-148) |
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Nishiuma, N.; Goto, Y.; Kumazawa, H.; Nikovski, D.; Brand, M., “Traffic Prediction using Singular Value Decomposition”, World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS), October 2004 (World Congress on ITS) |
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Brand, M., “From Subspaces to Submanifolds”, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), September 2004 (BMVC 2004, TR2004-134) |
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Brand, M.; Kang, K.; Cooper, D.B., “Algebraic Solution for the Visual Hull”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2004 (CVPR 2004, TR2004-101) |
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Brand, M.; Antone, M.; Teller, S., “Spectral Solution of Large-Scale Extrinsic Camera Calibration as a Graph Embedding Problem”, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2004 (ECCV 2004, TR2004-100) |
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Brand, M.E.; Nikovski, D.N., “Risk-Averse Group Elevator Scheduling”, Elevcon World Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies (ELEVCON), April 2004 (ELEVCON 2004, TR2004-045) |
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Brand, M.E.; Nikovski, D.N., “Optimal Parking in Group Elevator Control”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), ISSN: 1050-4729, Vol. 1, pp. 1002-1008, April 2004 (IEEE Xplore, TR2004-044) |
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Brand, M., “Minimax Embeddings”, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 2003 (NIPS 2003, TR2004-102) |
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Suzuki, N.; Iwata, M.; Sasakawa, K.; Komaya, K.; Nikovski, D.N.; Brand, M.E., “A Calculation Method of Car Arrival Time with Dynamic Programming in Elevator Group Control”, Conference of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, August 2003 |
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Brand, M.E., “Continuous Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Kernel Eigenmaps”, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), August 2003 (IJCAI 2003, TR2003-021) |
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Nikovski, D.N.; Brand, M.E., “Marginalizing Out Future Passengers in Group Elevator Control”, Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), ISBN: 0-127-05664-5, pp. 443-450, August 2003 (UAI 2003, TR2003-062) |
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Matusik, W.; Pfister, H.; Brand, M.E.; McMillan, L., “A Data-Driven Reflectance Model”, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), ISSN: 0730-0301, Vol. 22, Issue 3, pp. 759-769, July 2003 (MERL BRDF Database, TR2003-083) |
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Matusik, W.; Pfister, H.; Brand, M.; McMillan, L., “Efficient Isotropic BRDF Measurement”, Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW), ISSN: 1727-3463, pp. 241-247, June 2003 (ACM Digital Library, TR2003-080) |
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Nikovski, D.; Brand, M., “Non-Linear Stochastic Control in Continuous State Spaces by Exact Integration in Bellman's Equations”, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), June 2003 (ICAPS, TR2003-091) |
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Nikovski, D.; Brand, M., “Decision-Theoretic Group Elevator Scheduling”, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), June 2003 (ICAPS 2003, TR2003-061) |
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Brand, M., “Fast Online SVD Revisions for Lightweight Recommender Systems”, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), May 2003 (SDM 2003, TR2003-014) |
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Brand, M.; Huang, K., “A Unifying Theorem for Spectral Embedding and Clustering”, International Workshop On Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AI & Statistics), January 2003 (AI & Statistics 2003, TR2002-042) |
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Brand, M., “Charting a Manifold”, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 2002 (NIPS 15, Paper AA61, TR2003-013) |
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Brand, M.E., “Subspace Mappings for Image Sequences”, International Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing (SMVP), June 2002 (Final Program, TR2002-025) |
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Brand, M.E., “Incremental Singular Value Decomposition of Uncertain Data with Missing Values”, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Vol 2350, pps 707-720, May 2002 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, TR2002-024) |
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Brand, M.E., “Morphable 3D Models from Video”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), December 2001 (CVPR 2001, TR2001-037) |
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Brand, M.E.; Bhotika, R., “Flexible Flow for 3D Nonrigid Tracking and Shape Recovery”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), ISSN: 1063-6919, Vol. 1, pp. 315-322, December 2001 (IEEE Xplore, TR2001-038) |
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Brand, M.E.; Kettnaker, V., “Discovery and Segmentation of Activities in Video”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol 22, Issue 8, pps 844-851, August 2000 (IEEE Xplore) |
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Brand, M.E.; Hertzmann, A., “Style Machines”, ACM SIGGRAPH, ISBN: 1-58113-208-5, pps 183-192, July 2000 (Proc ACM Press, TR2000-014) |
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Brand, M.E., “Exploring Variational Structure by Cross-Entropy Optimization”, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June 2000 (ICML 2000) |
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Brand, M.E., “Shadow Puppetry”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Vol. 2, pp 1237-44, September 1999 (ICCV 1999) |
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Brand, M.E., “Voice Puppetry”, ACM SIGGRAPH, ISBN: 0-201-48560-5, pps 21-28, August 1999 (Proc ACM Press, TR1999-020) |
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Brand, M.E., “Structure Learning in Conditional Probability Models via an Entropic Prior and Parameter Extinction”, Neural Computation Journal, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 1155-1182, July 1999 (The MIT Press, TR1998-018) |
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Brand, M.E., “Structure and Parameter Learning via Entropy Minimization, with Applications to Mixture and Hidden Markov Models”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 3, pp. 1749-52, March 1999 (ICASSP 1999) |
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Brand, M.E., “Pattern Discovery via Entropy Minimization”, Uncertainty 99: International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, January 1999 (AISTATS 1999, TR1998-021) |
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Brand, M.E.; Shan, K., “Voice-Driven Animation”, Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI), November 1998 (PUI 1998 Papers, TR1998-020) |