List of Publications


This list is arranged in reverse chronological order. More information about a publication (if available) can be obtained by clicking on the title.

Geometric Anticipation: Assisting Users in 2D Layout Tasks
by J. Stumpfel, J. Arvo and K. Novins. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 345-347, January, 2006.

Fluid Sketching of Directed Graphs
by J. Arvo and K. Novins. Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC), pp. 81-86, January, 2006.

An Exploration of Semidefinite Programming Applied to Rigid Motion Factorization
by K. Novins and J. Arvo. Image and Vision Computing (IVCNZ), pp. 126-131, November, 2005.

Appearance-Preserving Manipulation of Hand-Drawn Graphs
by J. Arvo and K. Novins. Graphite, pp. 61-68, November, 2005.

Strider: A Simple and Effective Terrain Navigation Controller
by J. van der Linden, J. Li, R. Lobb, K. Novins and B. Wuensche. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ), pp. 95-100, November, 2004.

Improved Billboard Clouds for Extreme Model Simplification
by I.-T. Huang, K. Novins and B. Wuensche. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ), pp. 255-260, November, 2004.

On Training Cascade Face Detectors
by Brendan McCane, and Kevin Novins. Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2003, pp. 239-244, November 2003.

State of the Art: HCI in New Zealand.
by Apperley, M., Carter, P., Churcher, C., Cockburn, A., Jones, M., Lobb, B., Novins, K., Phillips, C. and Wong, W. Proceedings of INTERACT 2003, Zurich, October 2003.

Filling the Gaps: A Research-Driven Approach to Learning Computer Graphics
by Kevin Novins. Computers and Graphics 27: 347-351, 2003.

Polygon Recognition in Sketch-Based Interfaces with Immediate and Continuous Feedback
by Peter Agar and Kevin Novins. Proceedings of GRAPHITE 2003, pp. 147-150, February 2003.

Drawing Freehand Conic Sections with Immediate Recognition and Morphing
by Rishab Sethi and Kevin Novins. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, pp. 23-28, November 2002.

SIGGRAPH as Textbook: Learning Skills for Undergraduates
by Kevin Novins. SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications , pp. 33-46, New York: Association for Computing Machinery, July 2002.

A Student Centered Approach to Acquiring Background Knowledge in Computer Vision
by Kevin Novins and Sui-Ling Ming-Wong. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Combined Research-Curriculum Development in Computer Vision, December 2001.

Incorporating Primary Source Material into the Undergraduate Computer Vision Curriculum
by Kevin Novins and Brendan McCane. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 15(5), pp. 775-787, August 2001.

What do you Think You're Doing?: Measuring Perception in Fish Tank Virtual Reality
by Michael Treadgold, Kevin Novins, Geoff Wyvill and Brian Niven. Proceedings of Computer Grahpics International 2001, pp. 325-328, IEEE Press, July 2001.

Aiding Manipulation of Handwritten Mathmatical Expressions through Style Preserving Morphs
by Richard Zanibbi, Kevin Novins, James Arvo and Katherine Zanibbi Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2001, pp. 127-134, Canadian Information Processing Society, June 2001.

Equation Entry and Editing via Handwriting and Gesture Recognition
by Steve Smithies, Kevin Novins and James Arvo. Behaviour and Information Technology 20(1), pp. 53-67, January 2001.

Fluid Sketches: Continuous Recognition and Morphing of Simple Hand-Drawn Shapes
by James Arvo and Kevin Novins. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) '00, pp. 73-80, ACM Press, November 2000.

Correcting Brightness Discontinuities in Fish Tank Virtual Reality Systems
by Michael Treadgold, Kevin Novins and Geoff Wyvill. Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) 2000, pp. 84-89, University of Waikato, November 2000.

Design of a Block Level Debugger
by Mathew Pitchforth, Kevin Novins and Geoff Wyvill. Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) 2000, pp. 13-18, University of Waikato, November 2000.

Motion Segmentation in Long Image Sequences
by Steven Mills and Kevin Novins. Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) '00, September 2000.

Teaching Computer Vision using Primary Source Material
by Kevin Novins and Brendan McCane. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Undergraduate Education (UEIC) '00, June 2000.

Smart Text: A Synthesis of Recognition and Morphing
by James Arvo and Kevin Novins. AAAI Smart Graphics Symposium, March 2000.

Robust Feature Tracking
by Ben Galvin, Brendan McCane and Kevin Novins. Proceedings of the Fifth International/National Conference on Digitial Image Computing Techniques and Applications (DICTA) '99, December 1999

Graph-Based Object Hypothesis
by Steven Mills and Kevin Novins. New Zealand Journal of Computing, 7(2):21-29, November 1999.

OSCAR: Object Segmentation using Correspondence and Relaxation
by Ben Galvin, Brendan McCane and Kevin Novins. Proceedings of the Second International Conferenceo n 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM) '99, October 1999

Face and Eye Tracking
by Andrew Erickson, Brendan McCane and Kevin Novins. Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 1999, pp. 139-144, Canterbury: Landcare Research New Zealand, August 1999.

The Morphological Cross-Dissolve
by Kevin Novins and James Arvo. SIGGRAPH '99 Conference Abstracts and Applications, p. 257, New York: Association for Computing Machinery, August 1999.

Filtered Noise and the Fourth Dimension
by Geoff Wyvill and Kevin Novins. SIGGRAPH '99 Conference Abstracts and Applications, p. 242, New York: Association for Computing Machinery, August 1999.

Effective Volume Sampling of Solid Models using Distance Measures
by George Sealy and Kevin Novins. Proceedings of Computer Graphics International (CGI) 1999, pp. 12-19, Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press, June 1999.

Generating Motion Fields of Complex Scenes
by David Mason, Brendan McCane and Kevin Novins. Proceedings of Computer Graphics International (CGI) 1999, pp. 65-69, Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press, June 1999.

A Handwriting Based Equation Editor
by Steven Smithies, Kevin Novins and Jim Arvo. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI) '99, pp. 84-91, June 1999.

Virtual Snakes for Occlusion Analysis
by Ben Galvin, Brendan McCane and Kevin Novins. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Comptuer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume 2, pp. 294-299, Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press, June 1999.

On the Evaluation of Optical Flow Algorithms
by Brendan McCane, Kevin Novins and Ben Galvin. Fifth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARV), pp. 1563-1567, Singapore, 1998.

Motion-Based Segmentation Using Active Contours
by Ben Galvin, Kevin Novins and Brendan McCane. Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) '98, pages 346-351. University of Auckland CITR, November 1998.

Interval Computations in Computer Vision
by Steven Mills and Kevin Novins. Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) '98, pages 142-145. University of Auckland CITR, November 1998.

Recovering Motion Fields: An Analysis of Eight Optical Flow Algorithms
by Ben Galvin, Brendan McCane and Kevin Novins. Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Converence (BMVC) '98, September 1998.

Interactive Exploration of Spatially Distributed Near Infrared Reflectance Data
by Hayden Munro, Kevin Novins, George Benwell, and Alistair Mowat. Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on GeoComputation, GeoCOMP '97 August 1997.

Interactive Visualisation Tools for Analysing NIR Data
by Hayden Munro, Kevin Novins, George Benwell, and Alistair Mowat. In Proceedings of the Sixth Australian Conference on Computer- Human Interaction, OZCHI '96 IEEE Computer Society Press, November 1996.

Affine Reconstruction from Stereo Image Pairs
by Chris Butcher and Kevin Novins. In Image and Vision Computing New Zealand '96, pages 115-122, Landcare Research New Zealand, August 1996.

Soil Characterization for Spatially Explicit Regional Hydrological Modeling
by Jeffery Kern, Danny Marks and Kevin Novins. In International Conference on Vadose Zone Hydrology: Cutting Across Disciplines, pages 73-74. Kearney Foundation of Soil Science, September 1995.

Iso-Contour Volume Rendering
by James R. Arvo and Kevin L. Novins. In 1994 Symposium on Volume Visualization, pages 115-122, IEEE Computer Society, October 1994.

Towards Accurate and Efficient Volume Rendering (Ph.D. Thesis)
by Kevin L. Novins. Technical Report TR93-1395, Cornell University Department of Computer Science, Ithaca, New York, November 1993.

Adaptive Error Bracketing for Controlled-Precision Volume Rendering
by Kevin L. Novins, James R. Arvo, and David H. Salesin. Technical Report TR92-1312, Cornell University Department of Computer Science, Ithaca, New York, November 1992.

Controlled Precision Volume Integration
by Kevin L. Novins and James R. Arvo. In 1992 Boston Workshop on Volume Visualization, pages 83-89. ACM SIGGRAPH, October 1992.

Computed Tomography of the Heart by Ultrasound
by R. Pini, M. Costi, G.A. Mensah, L. Masotti, K. L. Novins, D. P. Greenberg, B. Greppi, M. Cerofolini, and R.B. Devereux. Computers in Cardiology 1992, pages 17-20. IEEE Computer Society, 1992.

Computation of Digitally Reconstructed Radiographs for use in Radiotherapy Treatment Design
by George W. Sherouse, Kevin L. Novins, and Edward L. Chaney. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, 18(3), March 1990.

An Efficient Method for Volume Rendering using Perspective Projection
by Kevin L. Novins, François X. Sillion, and Donald P. Greenberg. Computer Graphics, 24(5):95-102, November 1990.

Three-Dimensional Display Techniques in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
by Julian Rosenman, George W. Sherouse, Henry Fuchs, Stephen M. Pizer, Andrew L. Skinner, Charles E. Mosher, Kevin L. Novins, and Joel E. Tepper. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, 16(1):263-269, January 1989.

Fast Interactive Smooth-Shaded Rendition in Radiotherapy Treatment Design (Abstract)
by George W. Sherouse, Charles E. Mosher, Kevin L. Novins, Stephen M. Pizer, Henry Fuchs, and Edward L. Chaney. In Medical Physics, 14(3):459, 1987.

Virtual Simulation: Concept and Implementation
by George W. Sherouse, Charles E. Mosher Jr., Kevin L. Novins, Julian G. Rosenman, and Edward L. Chaney. In I. A. D. Brunvis et al., editors, The Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the use of Computers in Radiation Therapy), pages 433-436, North-Holland, 1987.

The Virtual Simulator
by Charles E. Mosher Jr., George W. Sherouse, Peter H. Mills, Kevin L. Novins, Stephen M. Pizer, Julian G. Rosenman, and Edward L. Chaney. In Proceedings of the 1986 Chapel Hill Workshop on Interactive 3D Graphics, October 1986.