Nokia Research Center

Publications

Theses

M. Tico, "On Design and Implementation of Fingerprint-Based Biometric Systems", Dr.Tech. dissertation, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, Nov. 2001.

M.Tico, "Extraction and analysis of shape characteristics", Ph.D. dissertation, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Dec. 1999.

M. Tico, "Natural language understanding using semantic networks", MSc thesis, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 1993.

Articles in journals and conferences

"The Frankencamera: an experimental platform for computational photography" In ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Papers (Los Angeles, California, July 26 - 30, 2010).

Marius Tico, Pauli Kuosmanen, "Fingerprint Matching using an Orientation-Based Minutia Descriptor", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp 1009-1014, August 2003.

Marius Tico, Vesa Onnia, Pauli Kuosmanen, "Fingerprint Image Enhancement based on Second Directional Derivative of the Digital Image", EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, No. 10, pp. 1135 - 1144, October 2002.

Marius Tico, Pauli Kuosmanen, Jukka Saarinen, "Wavelet Domain Features for Fingerprint Recognition", Electronics Letters, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 21-22, January 2001.

Marius Tico, Pauli Kuosmanen, "A Remote Authentication System Using Fingerprints", International Journal of Image and Graphics, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 425-446, 2003.

Marjo Markkula, Marius Tico, Bemmu Sepponen, Katja Nirkkonen and Eero Sormunen, "A Test Collection for the Evaluation of Content-Based Image Retrieval Algorithms - A User and Task-Based Approach", Information Retrieval (Kluwer), no. 3, pp. 275-294, vol. 4, 2001.

Corneliu Rusu, Marius Tico, Pauli Kuosmanen and Edward J. Delp, "Classical Geometrical Approach to circle fitting - review and new developments", Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 179-193, January 2003.

Marius Tico, Natasha Gelfand, Kari Pulli "Motion Blur Free Exposure Fusion", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Sep. 26-29, 2010, Hong Kong.

Marius Tico, Kari Pulli "Image enhancement method via blur and noisy image fusion", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Nov. 7-10, 2009, Cairo, Egypt.  

Marius Tico, "Adaptive block-based approach to image stabilization", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), October 12-15, 2008, San Diego.

Marius Tico, "Multiframe image denoising and stabilization", The 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), August 25-29, 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Marius Tico, M. Vehvilainen, "Robust method of digital image stabilization", in Proc. of 3rd International Sumposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), Malta, Mar. 2008.

Marius Tico, Markku Vehvilainen, "Image stabilization based on fusing the visual information in differently exposed images", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sept. 16-19, 2007.

Marius Tico, Markku Vehvilainen, "Robust image fusion for image stabilization", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. I, pp.565-568, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 15-20, 2007.

Marius Tico, Markku Vehvilainen, "Motion deblurring based on fusing differently exposed images", in Proc. of SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, USA, Jan 28-Feb 1, 2007.

Jani Boutellier, Olli Silvén, Marius Tico, Markku Vehviläinen, "Creating Panoramas on Mobile Phones", in Proc. of SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, USA, Jan 28-Feb 1, 2007.

Jani Boutellier, Olli Silven, L. Korhonen, Marius Tico, "Evaluating stitching quality", Internatinal Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP2007), Barcelona, Spain, March 8-11, 2007.

Marius Tico, Sakari Alenius, Markku Vehvilainen, "Method of motion estimation for image stabilization", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 2, pp. 277-280, Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006.

Marius Tico, Mejdi Trimeche, Markku Vehvilainen, "Motion blur identification based on differently exposed images", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Atlanta, GA, USA, October 8-11, 2006.

Marius Tico, Markku Vehvilainen, "Estimation of motion blur point spread function from differently exposed image frames", in Proc. of the 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Florence, Italy, September 4-8, 2006.

Mejdi Trimeche, Marius Tico, Moncef Gabbouj, "Dense Optical Flow Field Estimation using LMS Filtering", in Proc. of the 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO),Florence, Italy, September 4-8, 2006.

Matti Niskanen, Olli Silven, Marius Tico, "Video Stabilization Performance Assesment", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Toronto, Canada, July 9-12, 2006.

Marius Tico, Markku Vehvilainen, "Video stabilization algorithm based on constraint Kalman filtering", Nokia Exchange of Research and Development Conference (NERD), Helsinki, Finland, April 4-6, 2006.

Marius Tico, Markku Vehvilainen, "Multi-frame digital image stabilization system", Nokia Exchange of Research and Development Conference (NERD), Helsinki, Finland, April 4-6, 2006. (Best Paper Award)

Marius Tico, Markku Vehvilainen, Jukka Saarinen, "A method of fingerpint image enhancement based on second directional derivatives", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 2, pp. 985-988, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, March 18-23, 2005.

Marius Tico, Markku Vehvilainen, "Constraint motion filtering for video stabilization", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 3, pp. 569-572, Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2005.

Marius Tico, Markku Vehvilainen, "Constraint translational and rotational motion filtering for video stabilization", in Proc. of the 13th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO),Antalya, Turkey, September 4-8, 2005.

Marius Tico, "Automatic Fingerprint Recognition" (Plenary Talk), Workshop on Biometric Verifiers, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 26-29, 2005.

Antti Eronen, Matti S. Hämäläinen, Marius Tico "Automated MIDI Player Testing", Nokia Exchange of Research and Development Conference (NERD), Helsinki, Finland, 2004.

Marius Tico, Corneliu Rusu, Pauli Kuosmanen, Edward J. Delp, "Circle fitting by iterative inversion", in Proc. of the 11th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), vol. III, pp.255-258, Toulouse, France, September 3-6, 2002.

Jouni Malinen, Vesa Onnia, Marius Tico, "Fingerprint classification based on multiple discriminant analysis", International Conference on Neural Information Processing, (ICONIP2002), November 18-22, 2002, Singapore.

Vesa Onnia, Marius Tico, "Adaptive binarization method for fingerprint images", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 4, pp. 3692-3695, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 13-17, 2002.

Jarno Seppänen, Mikko Heikkinen, Timo Kosonen, Marius Tico and Matti Hämäläinen, "Next-Generation Software MIDI Synthesis with the Herbie MIDI Engine", Nokia Exchange of Research and Development Conference (NERD), Helsinki, Finland, October 7-11, 2002.

Marius Tico, Pauli Kuosmanen, "Weighted Least Squares Method for the Approximation of Directional Derivatives", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 3, pp. 1681-1684, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, May 7-11, 2001.

Marius Tico, Eero Immonen, Pauli Ramo, Pauli Kuosmanen, Jukka Saarinen, "Fingerprint Recognition using Wavelet Features", in Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol.2, pp. 21-24, Sydney, Australia, May 6-9, 2001.

Marius Tico, Pauli Kuosmanen, "New Approach of Automated Fingerprint Matching", in Proc. of SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Systems and Image Processing Methods, Real-Time Imaging V, vol. 4303, pp. 115-126, San Jose, California, USA, January 20-26, 2001.

Pauli Rämö, Marius Tico, Vesa Onnia, Jukka Saarinen, "Optimized singular point detection algorithm for fingerprint images", The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, (ICIP), pp. 242-245, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 7-10, 2001.

Vesa Onnia, Marius Tico, "Feature Selection Method Using Neural Network", The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Thessaloniki, Greece, October 7-10, 2001.

Marius Tico, Pauli Kuosmanen, "An Algorithm for Fingerprint Image Postprocessing", in Proc. of 34th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR), vol. 2, pp. 1735-1739, Pacific Grove, California, USA, October , 2000.

Marius Tico, Taneli Haverinen, Pauli Kuosmanen, "A Method of Color Histogram Creation for Image Retrieval", in Proc. of Nordic Signal Processing Symposium (NORSIG), pp. 157-160, Kolmarden, Sweden, June 13-15, 2000.

Adrian Burian, Marius Tico, Mikko Lehtokangas, Pauli Kuosmanen, Jukka Saarinen, "Support Vector Method for Minutiae Detection in Fingerprint Images", in Proc. of the 10th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), vol. 1, pp. 569-572, Tampere, Finland, 2000.

Marius Tico, Pauli Kuosmanen, "A Multiresolution Method for Singular Points Detection in Fingerprint Images", The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS), vol. 4, pp. IV183 - IV186,Orlando, Florida, May 30-June 2, 1999.

Marius Tico, Pauli Kuosmanen, "A Topographic Method for Fingerprint Segmentation", The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, (ICIP), vol. 1, pp. 36-40, Kobe, Japan, October 24-28, 1999.

Marius Tico, Corneliu Rusu, Pauli Kuosmanen, "A Geometric Invariant Representation for The Identification of Corresponding Points", The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, (ICIP), vol. 2, pp. 462-466, Kobe, Japan, October 25-28, 1999.

Marius Tico, Taneli Haverinen, Pauli Kuosmanen, "An Unsupervised Method of Rough Color Image Segmentation", The 33rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, (ASILOMAR), vol. 1, pp. 58-62, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, October,1999.

Marius Tico, Pauli Kuosmanen, "An Efficient Sparse Data Filtering Method for Image Histogram Comparison", The 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, (SCIA), pp. 715-722, Greenland, June 7-11, 1999.

Heikki Huttunen, Marius Tico, Corneliu Rusu, Pauli Kuosmanen, "Ordering Methods for Multivariate RCRS Filters", in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, (NSIP), vol. 2, pp. 506-510, Antalya, Turkey, June 20-23, 1999.

Emil Voiculescu, Marius Tico, "Simulation of Power Converters for Step Motors and Solenoid Drive by using the SYSTEP Dedicated Software", in Proc. of 28th Symposium of Incremental Motion Control System and Devices, San Jose, CA, USA, July, 1999.

Eero Sormunen, Marjo Markkula, Marius Tico, "Kuvatiedonhaun visuaaliset menetelmät ja niiden evaulointi", Tiedosta Ja Tiedon Tutkimuksesta, vol. 2, pp. 99-111, Tampere, Finland 1999.

Marius Tico, Corneliu Rusu, "Point Pattern Matching using a Genetic Algorithm and Voronoi Tessellation", in Proc. of 9th European Signal Processing Conference, (EUSIPCO), pp. 1589-1592, vol. 3, Rhodes, Greece, 8-11 Sept. 1998.

Emil Voiculescu, Marius Tico, "Introducing the SYSTEP Software Package for Step Motor Systems Simulation", The 26th Symposium of Incremental Motion Control System and Devices (IMCSD), pp. 29-45, San Jose, CA, USA, July, 1997.

Emil Voiculescu, Radu Munteanu, Marius Tico, "Simulating Stepper Motors Chopper Drives", The 25th Symposium of Incremental Motion Control System and Devices (IMCSD), pp. 295-305, San Jose, CA, USA, June 295-305, 1996.

Dorin Petreus, Emil Voiculescu, Marius Tico, "Stepper Motor Drive with Power Factor Correction", The 25th Symposium of Incremental Motion Control System and Devices (IMCSD), pp. 295-305, San Jose, CA, USA, June 399-408, 1996.

Emil Voiculescu, Marius Tico, "Computer Design of Solenoid Drives", The 24th Symposium of Incremental Motion Control System and Devices (IMCSD), pp. 11-21, San Jose, CA, USA, June 6-8, 1995.

Books

Jani Boutellier, Olli Silven, Marius Tico, and Lassi Korhonen, "Objective Evaluation of Image Mosaics", Book Chapter in "Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications" J. Braz et al. (Eds.), pp. 107–117, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

Emil Voiculescu, Marius Tico, Tiberiu Marita, Advanced Electronic Circuits Modelling and Simulation, UTPress, Romania, 1999.

Corneliu Rusu, Marius Tico, Vasile Crisan, Computer Peripheral Devices, EXE Publisher House Romania, 1995.

Patents

Patents (8)

granted patents and patent applications in the areas of image / video processing, and synthetic audio technology