Margrit Betke 
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Margrit Betke |
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Computer Vision Links | Women in CS | Cues 2001 | CSR |
| 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, 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 2008, Tue, Thu 12:30-2 pm, MCS B33 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: | Spring 2008: Mondays 12:30-1:30, Tuesdays 11-12, 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.
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. 2008. In press.
P. J. McNerney, J. Konrad, and M. Betke, "Block-Based MAP Disparity Estimation under Alpha-Channel Constraints." IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 17(6):785-789, June 2007. pdf.
M. Gorman, A. Lahav, E. Saltzman, and M. Betke, "A Camera-based Music Making Tool for Physical Rehabilitation." Computer Music Journal, 31(2): 39-53, Summer 2007. pdf (restricted access).
Z. Wu et al., "Tracking with Dynamic Hidden-State Shape Models," Proceedings of The 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008), October 12-18, 2008, Marseille, France.
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), July 21-22, 2008, Patras, Greece.
M. Betke, D. E. Hirsh, A. Bagchi, N. I. Hristov, N. C. Makris, and T. H. Kunz. Tracking Large Variable Numbers of Objects in Clutter. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, MN, June 2007. 8 pp. pdf.
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.
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.
T. H. Kunz, N. I. Hristov, and M. Betke. "Seasonal Emergence Behavior of Brazilian Free-tailed Bats at Carlsbad Caverns." International Conference on Complex Systems ICCS 2007, October 28 - November 2, Boston, MA. Abstract.
L. Premerlani, M. Betke, S. Sclaroff, and T. H. Kunz. "Stereoscopic Reconstruction and Analysis of Infrared Videos of Bats." International Conference on Complex Systems ICCS 2007, October 28 - November 2, Boston, MA. Abstract.
N. I. Hristov, M. Betke, L. Premerlani, M. Procopio, and T. H. Kunz. "Thermal Imaging Reveals Highly Variable Nightly and Seasonal Activity Patterns of Brazilian Free-tailed Bats at Carlsbad Caverns." XIV International Bat Research Conference (IBRC) and the 37th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research (NASBR), Mérida, 19-23 August 2007.
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