1. A. Bowden, M. D. Todorov and N. M. Sirakov, 2014, Implementation
of the Euler - Lagrange and Poisson Equations to Extract One Connected Region,
American Institute of Physics (AIP) 1629, pp.400-407, doi: 10.1063/1.4902301
2. M. Mete, N. M. Sirakov, 2014, Optimal Set of Features for Accurate
Skin Cancer Diagnosis, IEEE ICIP 2014, International Conference of Image
Processing 2014, Paris, Oct. 28-30, 2014, pp. 2256-2260. #39 out of 3,500
CS conferences, Microsoft Research, ISBN: 978-1-4799-5750-7.
3. Christian F. Hempelmannb, Abdullah N. Arslana, Salvatore Attardoc, Grady
Price Blount, Nikolay Metodiev Sirakov, 2014, Assessing the Threat
of Firearms: New Threat Formula, Resources, and Ontological Linking Algorithms,
Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion and Target Recognition XXIII,
In Ivan Kadar Ed., Proc. SPIE, Vol. 9091, 9091OU-1-12,ISBN: 9781628410280.
4. M.Todorov, N.M.Sirakov, S.Suh, 2013, Fast Splitting Scheme
to Minimize New Energy Functional Containing Schroedinger Equation Solution,
Proc. AMiTANS2013, In M. Todorov Ed., American Institute of Physics, V.1561,
378 (2013), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4827250 http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/proceeding/aipcp/1561;jsessionid=2hg7nkug8pr9j.x-aip-live-02;
Indexed by Thomson Reuters.
5. Arslan, Abdullah N., Christian F. Hempelmann, Carlo Di Ferrante, Salvatore
Attardo, and Nikolay Metodiev Sirakov. 2013. "From Shape to Threat:
Exploiting the Convergence Between Visual and Conceptual Organization for
Weapon Identification and Threat Assessment." Invited Paper. Recipient of
the Lockheed-Martin Best Paper Award. In: Sadjadi, Firooz A. and Abhijit
Mahalanobis. Eds. Automatic Target Recognition XXIII. Proc. of SPIE 0277-768X,
V. 8744. Bellingham, WA: SPIE. 87440P. pp. 1-15. doi: 10.1117/12.2015591.
http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1690743
6. M. Mete , Y. Ou, N. M. Sirakov, 2012, Skin Lesion Feature Vector
Space With A Metric To Model Geometric Structures Of Malignancy, R.P. Barneva
et al. (Eds.): IWCIA 2012, LNCS 7655, Springer Verlag, pp. 285-297, 2012.
7. Quang Tung Thieu, Marie Luong, Jean-Marie Rocchisani, Nikolay Sirakov,
Emanuelle Viennet, 2012, Local and Global Fuzzy Gaussian Distribution
Energy Minimization of a Convex Active Contour Model, R.P. Barneva et al.
(Eds.): IWCIA 2012, LNCS 7655, Springer Verlag, pp. 285-297, 2012.
8. Abdullah, A., Sirakov, N.M., Attardo, S., 2012, "Weapon
Ontology Annotation Using Boundary Describing Sequences", IEEE SSIAI, Santa
Fe, New Mexico, April 22-24, 2012, pp.101-104, IEEE Catalog #: CFP12401-USB,
ISBN: 978-1-4673-1829-7, Published by IEEE XPlore, Peer reviewed conf. past
rate of acceptance 60%.
9. N. M. Sirakov, M. Mete , S. C. Nara, 2011, Automatic Boundary
Detection And Symmetry Calculation In Dermoscopy Images of Skin Lesions,
IEEE ICIP2011, Brussels, Belgium, Sep. 11-14, 2011, pp.1637-1640, IEEE catalog
#: CFP11CIP-USB, ISBN: 978-1-4577-1302-6, IEEE XPlore. Ranked #39 among
3,511 CS conferences. Microsoft Research.
10. Sirakov, N. M., Suh, S., Attardo, S., 2011, "Integration
of low level and ontology derived features for automatic weapon recognition
and identification" in Automatic Target Recognition XXI, edited by Firooz
A. Sadjadi, Abhijit Mahalanobis, Proc. SPIE Vol. 8049 (SPIE, Bellingham,
WA 2011) 80490X.
11. Sirakov, N.M., Kojouharov, H, Sirakova, N.N, 2010, Neutrophils and
Bacteria Tracking by Active Contours in Video Sequences, IEEE SSIAI 2010,
May 23-25, Austin, Texas, Pub. by IEEE Computer Society, pp.5-8, ISBN: 978-1-42447800-2,
IEEE Catalog No.:CFP10401-CDR, IEEE XPlore http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5483933&queryText%3Dsirakov%2C+n%26openedRefinements%3D*%26searchField%3DSearch+All
12. Sirakov N.M. 2010, An Active Vector Field for Boundary Extraction
of Objects with Complex Geometry, B. Zagar, A. Kuijper, H. Sahbi Ed, Proc
of the 7th Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications, SPPRA
2010, Austria, Innsbruck, February 17-19, ACTA Press, Anaheim-USA, Calgary-Canada,
Zurich-Swiss, pp. 189-195, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-88986-822-9 http://www.actapress.com/Abstract.aspx?paperId=38004
13. N.M.Sirakov, K. Ushkala, 2009, An Integral Active Contour Model for
Convex Hull and Boundary Extraction, G. Bebis et al. (Eds.), Lecture Notes
in Computer Science 5876, Springer Verlag, ISVC'2009, pp.1031-1040. Impact
Factor: 0.4, http://www.springerlink.com/content/850686u087855876/
14. Sang C.Suh, S. I. Saffer, S. G. Anaparthii, N. M. Sirakov, 2009, "Basics
of Concepts Representation for Document Summarization", INC, IMS and IDC,
2009 Fifth International Joint Conference on 25-27 Aug. 2009 Page(s):1374
- 1380, IEEE Xplore Digital Library , ISBN: 978-0-7695-3769-6 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5331413&queryText%3Dsirakov%2C+n%26openedRefinements%3D*%26searchField%3DSearch+All
15. Milanova, M., Sirakov N.M. 2008, Recognition of Emotional states in
Natural Human-Computer Interaction, Proc. of 8th IEEE Symposium on Signal
Processing and Information Technology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Dec. 16-19, 2008, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 186-191, ISBN: 978-1-4244-3555-5,
Library of Congress: 2008911171, posted by IEEE Xplore .
16. Sirakov, N.M. 2008, "Shape's Related 3D Objects Indexing and Image
Database Organization," IEEE SSIAI 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 24-26,2008,
pp.45-48, Rate of acceptance about 60%, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2297-5, IEEE Catalog
#: CFP08401; Library of Congress 2008902178, IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
17. Sirakov, N.M., 2007, Monotonic Vector Forces and Green's Theorem For
Automatic Area Calculation, Proc. IEEE ICIP2007, San Antonio, Sep. 2007,
Vol. IV, pp 297-300. Rate of acceptance about 45%, IEEE Xplore Digital Library,
IEEE Catalog No.: 07CH37925C ISBN:1-4244-1437-7. Ranked #39 among 3,511
CS conferences. Microsoft Research.
18. Sang Suh, Sirakov, N.M., 2007, Content Based Search in Web Archives,
WorldComp2007, Internet Computing (ICOMP'07), In H.R. Arabnia, V. Clincy,
J. Lu, J. Smid, A. Bahrani,O. Droegenhorn, G. Gravianis, S. Haseloff (Ed),
CSREA Press-USA, June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, pp. 9-15. ISBN-1-60132-044-2.
19. Sirakov, N.M., 2006, Automatic Concavity's Area Calculation Using Active
Contours and Increasing Flow, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing,
ICIP2006, Atlanta, October 2006, pp. 225-228. Rate of acceptance about 40%,
ISBN: 1-4244-0481-9. IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Ranked #39 among 3,511
CS conferences. Microsoft Research.
20. Sirakov, N.M., 2006, Multiple Surfaces Reconstruction from 2D Sections
Using an Increasing 2D Vector Flow, In H.R. Arabnia, Xiangjian He, T. Hintz,
D. Liu, K.S.Sim (Ed), CSREA Press-USA, June, 2006, Vol. II, pp.364-370.
ISBN: 1-932415-93-9, 1-932415-94-7. ww1.ucmss.com/books/LFS/CSREA2006/IPC4410.pdf
21. Sirakov, N.M., Simonelli, I., 2006, A New Automatic Concavities Extraction
Model, Published by IEEE, Computer Society, 2006, USA, 178-182. ISBN: 1-4244-0069-4,
Library of Congress #: 2005937121. IEEE Xplore Digital Library http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1633746
22. Sirakov, N., 2005, Heat Equation to 3D Image Segmentation, Proc of
The 9th World Multi-Conference on SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS,
In N. Calaos, W Lesso, W-J Tsaur, S. Jivkova, O Goriachkin (Ed), WMSCI 2005
July 10-13, 2005, Orlando, USA, pp.295-299, ISBN: 980-6560-57-4. Ranked
in the top 10% of the papers presented on 9th World Multiconference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2005).
23. Sirakov, N., 2005, A New Active Convex Hull Model for Image Database's
Search Space Partitioning, In H.R. Arabnia, Xiangjing He, Tom Hintz, Qiang
Wu (Ed), CSREA Press-USA, June, 2005, pp.134-140. ISBN: 1-932415-65-3 http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Sirakov:Nikolay_Metodiev.html
24. Sirakov, N.M., Mlsna, P., 2004. Search Space Partitioning Using Convex
Hull and Concavity Features for Fast Medical Image Retrieval, CD Proc of
2004 IEEE International Symposium on BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: From Nano to Macro,
April 15-18 2004, Arlington, Virginia, pp. 796-799. ISBN: 0-7803-8388-5,
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2004.1398658.
25. P. Mlsna, N.M. Sirakov, 2004, Intelligent Shape Features Extraction
and Indexing System for Fast Medical Image Retrieval, Proc. SSIAI., IEEE
Comp Society, US, pp. 172-176, 2004. ISBN:0-7803-8387-7 , http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/applicat813.html,
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