Papers

Journal Articles

Automated Detection of Unusual Events on Stairs
Jasper Snoek, Jesse Hoey, Liam Stewart, and Richard S. Zemel and Alex Mihailidis
Image and Vision Computing, Vol 27 (1-2), January 2009.

The COACH prompting system to assist older adults with dementia through handwashing: An efficacy study.
Alex Mihailidis and Jennifer N Boger and Tammy Craig and Jesse Hoey.
BMC Geriatrics 2008, 8:28

The use of an intelligent prompting system for people with dementia
Alex Mihailidis, Jen Boger, Marcelle Candido and Jesse Hoey
ACM Interactions Vol 14, No 4, pp.34-37, ACM Press, July+August 2007
you can get the paper from ACM Portal

Value-Directed Human Behavior Analysis from Video Using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
Jesse Hoey and James J. Little,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Vol 29, No 7, pp.1118-1132, July 2007
you can retrieve the paper (pdf 3.1Mb)

An Intelligent Powered Wheelchair to Enable Mobility of Cognitively Impaired Older Adults: an Anticollision System
Alex Mihailidis, Pantelis Elinas, Jen Boger, and Jesse Hoey
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 15(1) (2007), pp.136-143.

A Planning System Based on Markov Decision Processes to Guide People with Dementia Through Activities of Daily Living.
Jen Boger, Jesse Hoey, Pascal Poupart, Craig Boutilier, Geoff Fernie, and Alex Mihailidis
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, 10(2), 323-333, 2006.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

2007

Assisting Persons with Dementia during Handwashing Using a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process
Jesse Hoey, Axel von Bertoldi, Pascal Poupart, and Alex Mihailidis,
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Vision Systems ICVS 2007, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2007.
Winner! IAPR Best Paper Award
you can retrieve the paper (pdf 1.7Mb)

2006

Tracking using Flocks of Features, with Application to Assisted Handwashing
Jesse Hoey
In Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland
you can retrieve the paper gzipped ps(9.5Mb) or pdf (1.8Mb)

Automated Detection of Unusual Events on Stairs
Jasper Snoek, Jesse Hoey, Liam Stewart, and Richard S. Zemel
In Proceedings of 3rd Canadian Conference on Computer Vision (CRV) 2006, Quebec City, Quebec.
you can retrieve the paper gzipped ps(6Mb) or pdf (5.9Mb)

An Analytic Solution to Discrete Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
Pascal Poupart, Nikos Vlassis, Jesse Hoey, and Kevin Regan
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pages 697-704, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 2006.
you can retrieve the paper PDF (179 K)

2005

A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Task Assistance for Persons with Dementia
Jen Boger, Pascal Poupart, Jesse Hoey, Craig Boutilier, Geoff Fernie and Alex Mihailidis,
In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Edinburgh, July 2005
you can retrieve the paper (gzipped ps 257Kb) or (pdf 123Kb)

Solving POMDPs with Continuous or Large Discrete Observation Spaces
Jesse Hoey and Pascal Poupart
In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Edinburgh, July 2005
you can retrieve the paper (gzipped ps 238Kb) or (pdf 173Kb)

2004

Value Directed Learning of Gestures and Facial Displays
Jesse Hoey and James J. Little,
In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2004, Washington, DC (29%)
you can retrieve the paper gzipped ps(3.7M) or pdf (850K)

Decision Theoretic Modeling of Human Facial Displays
Jesse Hoey and James J. Little,
In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2004, Prague, CZ
you can retrieve the paper gzipped ps(2.6M) or pdf (580K)

A Decision Theoretic Approach for Task Coordination in Social Robots
Pantelis Elinas, Enrique Sucar, Alberto Reyes, Jesse Hoey.
To appear in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication,
September 2004, Kurashiki, Okayama Japan
you can retrieve the paper gzipped ps (2.9M), or pdf (243k)

Pre-2004

Bayesian Clustering of Optical Flow Fields
Jesse Hoey and James J. Little
In Proceedings IEEE 9th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2003, Nice, France (16%)
you can read the abstract or retrieve the paper (gzipped ps 2Mb) or (pdf 1.36Mb)

Clustering Contextual Facial Display Sequences
Jesse Hoey,
In Proceedings of IEEE 5th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Washington, DC, May 2002,
you can read the abstract or retrieve the paper gzipped ps (1.82M), or pdf (669k)
Or, you can read a longer technical report Clustering Facial Displays in Context (see below)

Waiting with Jose, a vision based mobile robot
Pantelis Elinas, Jesse Hoey, Darrell Lahey, Jeff Montgomery, Don Murray, Stephen Se, James J. Little,
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2002 (59%)
you can read the abstract or retrieve the paper gzipped ps (1.1 M) or pdf (807k)

Representation and Recognition of Complex Human Motion
Jesse Hoey and James J. Little
In Proceedings of CVPR 2000 , Hilton Head, SC (47%)
You can read the abstract or retrieve the paper ( gzipped postscript 308K or pdf 2.7 Mb )

APRICODD: Approximate policy construction using decision diagrams
Robert St-Aubin, Jesse Hoey and Craig Boutilier
In Advances in Neural Information Processing 13 ( NIPS 2000), Denver, CO, December 2000 (29%)
You can read the abstract or retrieve the paper ( gzipped postscript 57K or pdf 134 K )
Finally, you can read the longer tecnnical report Optimal and Approximate Stochastic Planning using Decision Diagrams

SPUDD: Stochastic Planning using Decision Diagrams
Jesse Hoey, Robert St. Aubin, Alan Hu and Craig Boutilier
Proceedings of UAI 99 , Stockholm, Sweden (51%)
You can read the abstract or retrieve the paper ( gzipped ps 69K or pdf 150K ).

Symposia and Workshop Papers

Automated upper extremity rehabilitation for stroke patients using a partially observable Markov decision process
Patricia Kan, Jesse Hoey and Alex Mihailidis.
AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium on AI in Eldercare: New Solutions to Old Problems. Arlington, VA, 2008.

POMDP models for Assistive Technology
Jesse Hoey, Pascal Poupart, Craig Boutilier and Alex Mihailidis,
In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on
Caring Machines: AI in Eldercare 2005
you can retrieve the paper (pdf 865Kb)

Obstacle Avoidance Wheelchair System
Jesse Hoey, Daniel Gunn, Alex Mihailidis, and Pantelis Elinas.
ICRA 2006 poster paper.
you can retrieve the paper (pdf 490Kb)

Semi-supervised learning of a POMDP model of Patient-Caregiver Interactions
Jesse Hoey, Pascal Poupart, Craig Boutilier and Alex Mihailidis,
In Proceedings of IJCAI Workshop "Modeling Others From Observations" (MOO '05)
you can retrieve the paper (gzipped ps 2.2Mb) or (pdf 1.0Mb)

Decision Theoretic Learning of Human Facial Displays
Jesse Hoey and James J. Little
Presented at NIPS 2003 Workshop on Open Challenges in Cognitive Vision
you can retrieve the paper (gzipped ps 2.6M) or (pdf 468k)
The original submission (small) can be accessed at: (gzipped ps 500K) or (pdf 200k)

Hierarchical unsupervised learning of facial expression categories
Jesse Hoey,
IEEE ICCV Workshop on detection and recognition of events in video (EVENT 01), Vancouver, BC, July 2001
you can read the abstract or retrieve the paper (gzipped ps 332K), or pdf (336K)

HOMER: Human Oriented MEssenger Robot
Pantelis Elinas, Jesse Hoey, and Jim Little.
In Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on
Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments,
Stanford CA, March 2003.
you can retrieve the paper gzipped ps (1.26M), or pdf (352k)