Joseph M. Francos's Homepage
E-mail :francos@ee.bgu.ac.il
Research Interests:
image registration, estimation of
object deformations from images, parametric modeling and estimation
of 2-D random fields, random fields theory, and texture analysis and
synthesis.
Address:
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
Ben-Gurion University,
Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.
[1] J. M. Francos, A. Z. Meiri and B. Porat, ``A Unified Texture Model Based
on a 2-D Wold Like Decomposition," IEEE Trans. Signal Process.,
vol. 41, pp. 2665-2678, August 1993.
[2] J. M. Francos,
``Orthogonal Decompositions of
2-D Random Fields and their Applications in 2-D Spectral Estimation,"
invited chapter, Signal Processing and Its Applications
Volume, Handbook of Statistics , N. K. Bose and C. R. Rao (eds.),
North-Holland Publishing Comp., 1993, pp. 207-227.
[3] J. M. Francos, A. Z. Meiri and B. Porat,
``A Wold-Like Decomposition of 2-D Discrete Homogeneous
Random Fields,"
Annals Appl. Prob., vol. 5, pp. 248-260, February 1995.
[4] J. M. Francos, B. Porat and A. Z. Meiri,
``Orthogonal Decompositions of 2-D Nonhomogeneous
Discrete Random Fields,"
Math. Control, Sig. Syst., vol. 8, pp. 375-389, October 1995.
[5] J. M. Francos, A. Narasimhan and J. W. Woods,
``Maximum Likelihood Parameter
Estimation of the Harmonic, Evanescent
and Purely
Indeterministic Components of Discrete
Homogeneous Random Fields,"
IEEE Trans.
Info. Theory, vol. 42, pp. 916-930, May 1996.
[6] J. M. Francos, A. Narasimhan and J. W. Woods,
``Maximum Likelihood Parameter Estimation of Discrete
Homogeneous Random Fields with Mixed Spectral
Distributions,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 44 , pp. 1242-1255, May
1996.
[7] J. M. Francos, A. Narasimhan and J. W. Woods,
``Maximum Likelihood Parameter Estimation of
Textures Using a Wold Decomposition Based Model,"
IEEE Trans.
Image Process., vol. 4, pp. 1655-1666, December
1995.
[8] R. Krishnamurthy, J. W. Woods, and J. M. Francos,
``Adaptive Restoration of Textured Images with Mixed Spectra Using a
Generalized
Wiener Filter,"
IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 5, pp. 648-652, April 1996.
[9] B. Friedlander and J. M. Francos,
``Estimation of Amplitude and Phase Parameters of Multi-Component
Signals,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 43 ,
pp. 917-926, April
1995.
[10] J. M. Francos and B. Friedlander,
``Bounds for Estimation of Multi-Component
Signals with Random Amplitude and Deterministic Phase,"
IEEE Trans. Signal
Process., vol. 43, pp. 1161-1172, May 1995.
[11] B. Friedlander and J. M. Francos,
``On the Accuracy of Estimating the Parameters of a Regular Stationary
Process,"
IEEE Trans. Info. Theory.,
vol. 42, pp. 1202-1211, July 1996.
[12] J. M. Francos and B. Friedlander,
``Bounds for Estimation of Complex Exponentials in Unknown Colored
Noise,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Process.,
vol. 43 , pp. 2176-2185,
September 1995.
[13] R. Sriram, J. M. Francos, and W. A. Pearlman,
``Texture Coding Using a Wold Decomposition Based Model,"
IEEE Trans.
Image Process., vol. 5, pp. 1382-1386, September
1996.
[14] B. Friedlander and J. M. Francos,
``An Estimation Algorithm for 2-D Polynomial Phase Signals,"
IEEE Trans. Image
Process., vol. 5, pp. 1084-1087, June 1996.
[15] J. M. Francos,
``Bounds on the Accuracy of Estimating the Parameters of Discrete
Homogeneous Random Fields with Mixed Spectral
Distributions,"
IEEE Trans. Info. Theory., vol. 43, pp. 908-922, May 1997.
[16] B. Friedlander and J. M. Francos,
``Model Based Phase Unwrapping of 2-D Signals,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 44,
pp. 2999-3007, December 1996.
[17] J. M. Francos and B. Friedlander,
``Two-Dimensional Polynomial Phase Signals: Parameter Estimation
and Bounds," Multidimensional Systems and Signal Process., vol. 9, No.
2, pp. 173-205, 1998.
[18] J. M. Francos and B. Friedlander,
``Parameter Estimation of Two-Dimensional Moving Average Random Fields,"
IEEE Trans. Signal
Process., vol. 46, pp. 2157-2165, August
1998.
[19] J. M. Francos and B. Friedlander,
``Optimal Parameter Selection in the
Phase Differencing Algorithm for 2-D Phase Estimation and
Unwrapping,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 47, pp. 273-279, January 1999.
[20] J. M. Francos and B. Friedlander,
``Parameter Estimation of 2-D
Random Amplitude Polynomial
Phase Signals,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 47, pp. 1795-1810,
July 1999.
[21] J. M. Francos, ``The Evanescent Field
Transform for Efficient Estimation of
Homogeneous Random Fields with Mixed Spectral Distributions,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 47, pp. 2167-2180, August 1999.
[22] J. M. Francos and H. Permuter, ``Parametric Estimation of
the Orientation of Textured Planar
Surfaces,"
IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 10, pp. 403-418, March 2001.
[23] H. Permuter and J. M. Francos, ``Estimating the
Orientation of Planar
Surfaces: Algorithms and Bounds,"
IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, vol. 46, pp. 1908-1920, August 2000.
[24] G. Cohen and J. M. Francos, ``Least Squares Estimation of Two-Dimensional
Regression
Models in Colored Noise," Jou. Multiv. Anal., vol.82, pp. 431-444, August 2002.
[25] J. M. Francos,
``An Exact Cramer-Rao Bound on the Estimation of
Complex Valued Homogeneous Random Fields,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 50, pp. 710-724,
March 2002.
[26] G. Cohen and J. M. Francos, ``Least Squares Estimation of 2-D Sinusoids in Colored Noise:
Asymptotic Analysis," IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, vol. 48, pp. 2243-2252, August 2002.
[27] J. M. Francos and A. Nehorai, ``Interference Mitigation in STAP using the Two-Dimensional Wold Decomposition Model,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 51, pp. 2461-2470, October 2003.
[28] G. Cohen and J. M. Francos, ``On the Spectral Representation and Ergodicity of Evanescent Random Fields,"
Prob. Theory & Related Fields , vol. 127, pp. 277-304, August 2003.
[29] M. Kliger and J. M. Francos, ``MAP Model Order Selection Rule for 2-D Sinusoids in White Noise,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 53, pp. 2563-2575, July
2005.
[30] M. Kliger and J. M. Francos, ``Strong Consistency of the Over- and Under-Determined LSE of 2-D Sinusoids in White Noise,"
IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, vol. 51, pp. 3314-3321, September
2005.
[31] H. Permuter, J. M. Francos and I. Jermyn, ``A Study of Gaussian Mixture Models of Colour and Texture Features for Image
Classification and Segmentation,"
Pattern Recognition vol.
39, pp. 695-706, February 2006.
[32] M. Kliger and J. M. Francos, ``Asymptotic Normality of the Sample Mean and Covariances of Evanescent Fields in Noise,"
Jou. Multiv. Anal., vol. 98, pp. 1853-1875, 2007.
[33] M. Kliger and J. M. Francos, ``Strong Consistency of a Family of Model Order Selection Rules for Estimating 2-D Sinusoids
in Noise," Statistics and Probability
Letters, vol. 78, pp. 3075-3081, 2008.
[34] M. Kliger and J. M. Francos, ``On the Rank of the Covariance Matrix of an Evanescent Field,"
Jou. Multiv. Anal., 2009.
[35] S. Z. Kovalsky, R. Hagege, G. Cohen, and J. M. Francos, ``Estimation of joint
geometric and radiometric image deformations,"
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal.
Mach. Intell., 2010.
[36] R. Hagege and J. M. Francos, ``Parametric Estimation of Affine Transformations: An Exact Linear Solution," Jou. of Math. Imaging and Vision , 2010.
[37] T. Nave, J. M. Francos and R. Hagege ``Object Registration Using Graph Representations of Images," Jou. of Concrete and Applicable Mathematics , vol. 8, pp. 448-454, 2010.
[38] S. Z. Kovalsky, G. Cohen, and J. M. Francos, ``Strongly consistent estimation
of the sample distribution of noisy continuous-parameter fields," IEEE Trans. Info. Theory , vol. 57, pp. 1637-1644, March 2011.
[39] K. Bentolila and J. M. Francos, ``Combined Affine Geometric Transformations and Spatially Dependent Radiometric
Deformations: A Decoupled Linear Estimation
Framework," IEEE Trans. on Image Process. vol. 20, pp. 2886-2895, October 2011.
[40] M. Kliger and J. M. Francos, ``A Strongly Consistent Model Order Selection Rule for Estimating the Parameters of 2-D Sinusoids in Colored Noise,"
IEEE Trans.
Info. Theory 2013
[41] R. Hagege and J. M. Francos, ``Linear Estimation of Time Warped Signals," IEEE Trans.
Info. Theory 2013
[42] J. Bentolila and J. M. Francos, ``Homography and Fundamental Matrix Estimation from Region Matches Using an Affine Error Metric,"
Jou. of Math. Imaging and Vision , vol. 49 (2), pp. 481-491, June 2014
[43] J. Bentolila and J. M. Francos, ``Conic Epipolar Constraints from Affine Correspondences," Computer Vision and Image Understanding , Feb. 2014
[44] R. Hagege and J. M. Francos, ``Universal Manifold Embedding for Geometrically Deformed Functions," IEEE Trans. Info. Theory , vol. 62, pp. 3676-3684, March 2016.
[45] Ran Sharon, Joseph M. Francos, and Rami R. Hagege, ``Geometry and Radiometry Invariant Matched Manifold Detection," IEEE Trans. Image Process. , vol. 26, pp. 4363-4376, September 2017.
[46] Y. Tocker, R. R. Hagege and J. M. Francos, ``Dynamic Spatial Predicted Background," IEEE Trans. Image Process., pp. 5517-5530, April 2020.
[47] Z. Yavo, Y. Haitman, J. M. Francos and L. L. Scharf, ``Matched Manifold Detection for Group-Invariant Registration and Classification of Images," IEEE Trans. Sig. Process., September 2021.
[48] Y. Haitman, J. M. Francos and L. L. Scharf, ``Grassmannian Dimensionality Reduction for Optimized Universal Manifold Embedding Representation of 3D Point Clouds," Proc. Int. Conf. Comp. Vision, ICCVW21 , pp. 4213-4221, October 2021.
[49] A. Efraim and J. M. Francos, ``Dual Transformation and Manifold Distances Voting for Outlier Rejection in Point Cloud Registration," Proc. Int. Conf. Comp. Vision, ICCVW21, pp. 4204-4212, October 2021.
[50] N. Lang and J. M. Francos, ``DeepUME: Learning the Universal Manifold Embedding for Robust Point Cloud Registration," Proc. Int. British Mach. Vision Conf., BMVC21, November 2021.
[51] A. Efraim and J. M. Francos, ``Estimating Rigid Transformations of Point Clouds Using the Universal Manifold Embedding with Application to Terrain Model Registration," Jou. of Math. Imaging and Vision, 64(3), pp. 343-363, May 2022.
[52] A. Efraim and J. M. Francos, ``On Minimizing the Probability of Large Errors in Robust Point Cloud Registration," IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 39 - 47, December, 2023.
[53] A Efraim and J. M. Francos, ``Robust Point Cloud Registration for Map-Based Autonomous Robot Navigation", EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process., vol. 57, Apri 2024.
[54] Y. Haitman, A. Efraim and J. M. Francos, ``UMERegRobust - Universal Manifold Embedding Compatible Features
for Robust Point Cloud Registration," Proc. ECCV 2024, pp. 358-374, October 2024.
