Margrit Betke is a Professor of Computer Science at Boston University, where she
co-leads the Image and Video Computing Research Group. She conducts research in
computer vision, in particular, the development of methods for detection,
segmentation, registration, and tracking of objects in visible-light, infrared,
and x-ray image data. She has worked on gesture, vehicle, and animal tracking,
video-based human-computer interfaces, statistical object recognition, and
medical imaging analysis. She has published over 80 original research papers.
She earned her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. Prof. Betke has received the
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2001 for
developing "Video-based Interfaces for People with Severe Disabilities." She
co-invented the "Camera Mouse," an assistive technology used worldwide by
children and adults with severe motion impairments. While she was a Research
Scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, she
co-developed the first patented algorithms for detecting and measuring pulmonary
nodule growth in computed tomography. She is a IEEE Senior member and was one of
two academic honorees of the "Top 10 Women to Watch in New England Award" by
Mass High Tech in 2005. She currently leads a 5-year research program to
develop intelligent tracking systems that reason about group behavior of people,
bats, birds, and cells.
Margrit Betke is part of team awarded a 5-year $7.5 million ONR
MURI grant to develop unmanned aircraft inspired by the flight
mechanics and flight behavior of bats, birds, and insects. BU
CAS News, September 2010
Prof. Betke's research has been supported by the NSF grants
0910908,
0855065,
0713229,
0093367,
0308213,
0326483,
0329009,
0202067, and
9871219:
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HCC: Large: Intelligent Tracking Systems that Reason about Group
Behavior,
0910908, $ 2,858,292 for 5 years (PI).
Project
website.
- II-EN: Infrastructure for Gesture Interface Research Outside the
Lab, 0855065
(Co-PI)
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HCC: Intelligent Interfaces to Empower People with Disabilities to
Participate in the Information Society,
0713229 (PI)
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CAREER: Video-Based Computer Interfaces for People with Severe
Disabilities,
0093367 (PI)
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Mining and Indexing Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Video Databases of
Human Motion,
0308213 (Co-PI)
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ITR: Advanced Imaging and Information Technology for Assessing the
Ecological and Economic Impact of Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats on
Agroecosystems,
0326483 (Co-PI)
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Pattern Discovery in Signed Languages and Gestural Communication,
0329009 (Co-PI)
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CISE Research Infrastructure: SENSORIUM: Research Infrastructure for Managing Spatio-Temporal Objects in Video Sensor Network,
0202067 (Co-PI)
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MRI: Research Laboratory for Computer Science,
9871219 (PI)
Prof. Betke's research has also been supported by grants from the
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, The Naval Undersea Warfare
Center, and Bat Conservation International in 2009, a grant from the
US Fish and Wildlife in 2008, The Whitaker Foundation, 2001-2004, and
a subcontract from MIT Lincoln Laboratory under a US Air Force prime
contract in 2005.