CS 440/640 Lecture Materials: AI Research at Boston University

AI at BU: University-wide AI Research Initiative

My AI Research Groups:

1) AI & Emerging Media at BU
We just received two prestigious awards:

• BU Research and NSF on our project to use AI to analyze news on various platforms and in numerous languages.
• Google Research Award to analyze bias in news.

2) Image and Video Computing Group in CS

3) Robotics: Neuroscience-Inspired Perception, Navigation, and Spatial Awareness for Autonomous Robots
We just received a large grant involving BU and MIT.

My Specific Research Groups:

Camera Mouse

Brain Image Analysis Group (SAR)

Ear Biometrics Research Group (MED)

Improving Student Learning: Video analysis of facial expressions (Amherst and Worcester)

Arabic Documents & Blind Individuals (Egypt)

ExerciseCheck (SAR, Hariri)

Previous Research

Medical Image Analysis and and Lung Cancer Detection

Cell image analysis project

Video analysis of group behavior of animals and ecology. Update: Need students interested in drone flight analysis.

Proficio: Robotic arm for physical therapy.

Margrit Betke, Professor Computer Science Department Boston University 111 Cummington Street (campus map) Boston, MA 02215 Email: betke @ bu.edu URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/betke Phone: 617-353-8919