Sancho McCann : Publications

Journal papers

David Meger, Per-Erik. Forssén, Kevin Lai, Scott Helmer, Sancho McCann, Tristram Southey, Matthew Baumann, James J. Little, and David G. Lowe. “Curious George: An Attentive Semantic Robot”. In Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, Volume 56, Number 6, pp. 503—511. June 2008. [pdf]

Conference papers

Sancho McCann and David G. Lowe. “Spatially Local Coding for Object Recognition.” ACCV, 2012. [pdf][poster][project page]

Sancho McCann and David G. Lowe. “Local Naive Bayes Nearest Neighbor for Image Classification.” CVPR, 2012. [pdf] [project page]

David Meger, Per-Erik Forssén, Kevin Lai, Scott Helmer, Sancho McCann, Tristram Southey, Matthew Baumann, James J. Little, David G. Lowe and Bruce Dow. “Curious George: An Attentive Semantic Robot.” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2007 Workshop: From sensors to human spatial concepts, November, 2007. [pdf]

Sancho McCann and Jacky Baltes. “Towards Automatic Image Modification as an Empirical Test of Image Segmentation.” In Proc. 9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2006. [pdf]

Sancho McCann and Jacky Baltes. “Abarenbou – A Small Vision-Based Humanoid Robotic Research platform.” In Proc. of the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS), 2005. [pdf]

Non-refereed contributions

Sancho McCann and David G. Lowe. “Local Naive Bayes Nearest Neighbor for Image Classification”, Technical Report TR-2011-11, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 2011. [@ UBC] [@ arXiv] [project page]

Sancho McCann and David G. Lowe. “Object Categorization Using Sparse Nearest Neighbor Distances for Improved Accuracy and Scalability”, 1st IEEE Workshop on Kernels and Distances for Computer Vision, 2011. [poster] [project page]

Scott Helmer, David Meger, Pooja Viswanathan, Sancho McCann, Matthew Dockrey, Pooyan Fazli, Tristram Southey, Marius Muja, Michael Joya, Jim J. Little, David G. Lowe, and Alan K. Mackworth. “Semantic Robot Vision Challenge: Current State and Future Directions,” IJCAI-09 Workshop on Competitions in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, 2009. [pdf]

Scott Helmer, David Meger, Per-Erik Forssén, Sancho McCann, Tristram Southey, Matthew Baumann, Kevin Lai, Bruce Dow, James J. Little, and David G. Lowe. “Curious George: The UBC Semantic Robot Vision System.” AAAI Tech Report numbered IAAAI-WS-08-XX, October, 2007. [pdf]

Scott Helmer, David Meger, Per-Erik Forssén, Tristram Southey, Sancho McCann, Pooyan Fazli, James J. Little, and David G. Lowe. “The UBC Semantic Robot Vision System.” AAAI07: Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition, Abstract. pp. 1983—1984. July, 2007. [pdf]

Paul Furgale, Sancho McCann, Jim Majewski, Andrew Bugera, and Kory Zelickson. “Team Manitoba 2006 AUVSI Student Competition Project Description.” Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI): 4th Annual Student Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Competition, Lexington Park, MD, 2006 [pdf]