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Scott Cohen
Senior Computer Scientist
I am a researcher at Adobe Systems, Incorporated working in the areas of computer vision and image processing. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1999 where my advisor was Professor Leonidas Guibas. I also earned a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1993. I did two summer internships in 1993 and 1994 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Alan Hindmarsh, where I worked on the CVODE ordinary differential equation solver.
I joined Adobe in July 1999 after completing my doctorate degree. A major focus of my work at Adobe has been selection in images and videos. For example, I made fundamental technology contributions to the Photoshop Quick Selection Tool which uses a brush-based interface to allow users to make a very good selection quickly, and to the Photoshop Refine Edge dialog which allows users to refine a selection to capture fine details such as hair and fur. My technical work for both of these selection features was done with my frequent Adobe collaborator Gregg Wilensky. I have also been a frequent collaborator with Brigham Young University, most recently with Professor Bryan Morse and his Ph.D. student Brian Price on interactive selection in video and images, and image matting.
My research interests include interactive image and video segmentation, image and video matting, stereo, upsampling, and deblurring.
Publications |
Coupled Dictionary Training for Image Super-Resolution
Yang, J., Wang, Z., Lin, Z., Cohen, S., and Huang, T. (May 01, 2012)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, to appear, 2012.
StereoCut: Consistent Interactive Object Selection in Stereo Image Pairs
Price, B. L., and Cohen, S. (Nov 21, 2011)
In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2011. (dataset)
Simultaneous Foreground, Background, and Alpha Estimation for Image Matting
Price, B., Morse, B., and Cohen, S. (Feb 01, 2010)
In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010.
Geodesic Graph Cut for Interactive Image Segmentation
Price, B., Morse, B., and Cohen, S. (Feb 01, 2010)
In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010.
Color Adjacency Modeling for Improved Image and Video Segmentation
Price, B., Morse, B., and Cohen, S. (Feb 01, 2010)
In Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2010.
LIVEcut: Learning-based Interactive Video Segmentation by Evaluation of Multiple Propagated Cues
Price, B.L., Morse, B.S., and Cohen, S. (Sep 02, 2009)
In Proc. International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009.
Fast and Adaptive Color-to-Grayscale Conversion
Ruzon, M.A., Cohen, S., Wilensky, G. and Newell, M. (Jan 31, 2006)
SIGGRAPH '06: ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches, p. 124
Background Estimation as a Labeling Problem
Cohen, S. (Oct 10, 2005)
ICCV 2005: Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, vol. 2, pp. 1034-1041
The Earth Mover's Distance under Transformation Sets
Cohen, S. and Guibas, L. (Sep 19, 1999)
ICCV 1999: Seventh IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
Finding Color and Shape Patterns in Images
Cohen, S. (May 03, 1999)
Technical Report STAN-CS-TR-99-1620. This is my thesis work. (pdf)
The Earth Mover's Distance: Lower Bounds and Invariance under Translation
Cohen, S. and Guibas, L. (Nov 04, 1997)
Technical Report STAN-CS-TR-97-1597. (pdf)
Systems of Bilinear Equations
Cohen, S. and Tomasi, C. (Apr 22, 1997)
Technical Report STAN-CS-TR-97-1588. (pdf)
Partial Matching of Planar Polylines Under Similarity Transformations
Cohen, S. and Guibas, L. (Jan 01, 1997)
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 777-786
CVODE, a Stiff/Nonstiff ODE Solver in C
Cohen, S.D. and Hindmarsh, A.C. (Jan 31, 1996)
Computers in Physics, 10(2):138-143
CVODE User Guide
Cohen, S.D. and Hindmarsh, A.C. (Aug 31, 1994)