Margrit Betke 
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Margrit Betke |
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| Short Bio | |
| Education: | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. |
| Research: | Computer Vision, in particular, Human-Computer Interfaces, Medical Image Processing, Intelligent Vehicles, Video-sensor Networks, Statistical Object Recognition, and Thermal Video Analysis of Bats |
| Students: | PhD students: Esra Ataer Cansizoglu, Samuel Epstein, John Magee, William Mullally, Zheng Wu. BA student: Eric Immermann. Current and former students. |
| Teaching: |
Artificial Intelligence (CS 440/640) in Fall 2007, Mon, Wed, Fri 1-2 pm. Image and Video Computation (CS 585) in Spring 2009, Tue, Thu 12:30-2 pm, room TBA Seminar on Video-Based Human-Computer Interfaces (CS 591) in Fall 2001. Directed Study in Image and Video Computing: CAS CS 492 or GRS CS 979, ongoing. |
| Office Hours: | Fall 2008: Mondays 1-2, Thursdays 2-3 and 4-5. Or email for an appointment. |
| Awards: |
Margrit Betke was one of two academics to win the "Top 10 Women to
Watch in New England" Award. Press Release:
doc,
pdf,
BU's Student Newspaper.
Her students have won several research awards: Caitlin Connor (Clare Booth Luce Undergraduate Summer Research Fellow, 2008), Angshuman Bachgi (BU President's Award 2005), Diane Hirsh (NASBR's Lubee Award 2003), Stephen Crampton (BU's Chancellor's Award 2003), and Harrison Hong (BU's Provost Award 2002). |
| In the Press: |
Camera Mouse:
Kablenet,
Belfast Telegraph,
MassHighTech,
Bradford Telegraph & Argus
Empathic Painting: BBC, ABC News, SydneyMH, The Hindu, Aljazeera, Turkish Daily News, DigitalWorld Tokyo, Inky, TecChannel - München, PCWorld - Romania. News, France, Frontpage - Netherlands GazetaWeb - Brazil |
| Free Software: |
Camera Mouse - a program that
enables a person with severe disabilities to control the mouse pointer
on the computer screen just by moving the head. Animate! -- a program that enables people with disabilities to create animations of an anthropomorphic figure. |
| Patent: |
"Method
and system for the detection, comparison and volumetric quantification
of pulmonary nodules on medical computed tomography scans."
Inventors Margrit Betke and Jane P. Ko.,
US Patent 7,206,462, issued on April 17, 2007.
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M. Betke, D. E. Hirsh, N. C. Makris, G. F. McCracken, M. Procopio, N. I. Hristov, S. Tang, A. Bagchi, J. Reichard, J. Horn, S. Crampton, C. J. Cleveland, and T. H. Kunz. "Thermal Imaging Reveals Significantly Smaller Brazilian Free-tailed Bat Colonies than Previously Estimated." Journal of Mammalogy, 89(1):18-24, February 2008. Abstract. Pdf file.
J. Wang, V. Athitsos, S. Sclaroff, and M. Betke. "Detecting Objects of Variable Shape Structure with Hidden State Shape Models." IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 30(3):477-492, March 2008. Abstract. pdf.
N. I. Hristov, M. Betke, and T. H. Kunz, "Applications of thermal infrared imaging for research in aeroecology." Integrative and Comparative Biology. Advance Access published on June 20, 2008. Abstract.
P. Federico, T. G. Hallam, G. F. McCracken, S. Purucker, W. Grant, A. N. Sandoval, J. Westbrook, R. Medellin, C. Cleveland, C. G. Sansone, J. D. López Jr., M. Betke, A. Moreno-Valdez, T. H. Kunz, "Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) as insect pest regulators in transgenic and conventional cotton crops." Ecological Applications. 18(4):826-837, June 2008. Abstract, pdf.
J. J. Magee, M. Betke, J. Gips, M. R. Scott, B. N. Waber, "A human-computer interface using symmetry between eyes to detect gaze direction," IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics: 38(6):1-14, November 2008.
Z. Wu, M. Betke, J. Wang, V. Athitsos, and S. Sclaroff, "Tracking with Dynamic Hidden-State Shape Models," Proceedings of The 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008), October 12-18, 2008, Marseille, France. Springer-Verlag.
M. Betke, "Camera-based Interfaces and Assistive Software for People with Severe Motion Impairments," Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on "Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence" (AITAmI'08), Patras, Greece. 21st-22nd of July 2008. Co-located event of ECAI 2008. J.C. Augusto, D. Shapiro and H. Aghajan (Eds.). ISBN: 978-960-6843-07-5.
T. H. Kunz, M. Betke, and N. I. Hristov. Methods for assessing abundance of bats. In T. H. Kunz and S. Parsons, editors, Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2008. In press.
T. H. Kunz, J. C. Chau, Z. Wu, L. Hong, J. D. Reichard, M. Betke, and T.D.C. Little. "A Novel, Remote-Controlled BatCam for Censusing Small Colonies of Bats." 38th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research (NASBR 2008), Scranton, PA, October 2008. Abstract.
N. I. Hristov, M. Betke, and T. H. Kunz. "Applications of Thermal Infrared Imaging in Field Biology." Symposia and Oral Abstracts. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 47(Supplement 1):e1--e152, December 2007. Oral presentation at The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, SICB 2008, San Antonio, TX, January 2-6, 2008. Abstract.
W.-B. Kim, C. Kwan, I. Fedyuk, and M. Betke. "Camera Canvas: Image Editor for People with Severe Disabilities." Department of Computer Science Technical Report BUCS-2008-010, Boston University. May 2008. Abstract. pdf.
M. Betke. "Camera-based Interfaces and Assistive Software for People with Severe Motion Impairments." Department of Computer Science Technical Report BUCS-2008-025, Boston University. October 1, 2008. Abstract. ps. pdf.
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