CS 640 Lecture Materials: AI Research at Boston University

AI at BU: University-wide AI Research Initiative Other AI faculty:

• Kayhan Batmanghelich (ML, medical image analysis, bioinformatics)
• Margrit Betke (computer vision, AIEM, medical image analysis, assistive technology and HCI, ML)
• Iddo Drori (ML)
• Prakash Ishwar (ML, computer vision)
• Vijaya Kolachalama (ML applied to medicine)
• Najoung Kim (NLP)
• Janusz Konrad (computer vision)
• Brian Kulis (ML)
• Dokyun Lee (ML applied to e-commerce, consumer analytics, marketing, information systems)
• Bryan Plummer (computer vision)
• Kate Saenko (computer vision, ML, on leave at Facebook this year)
• Venkatesh Saligrama (ML)
• Dean Stan Sclaroff (computer vision)
• Gianluca Stringhini (applied ML, networks)
• Roberto Tron (robotics, computer vision)
• Emily Whiting (graphics, fabrication)
• Derry Wijaya (NLP, AIEM)

Image and Video Computing Group in CS

My AI Research Teams and Projects Active in Fall 2023:

AI & Emerging Media at BU: Wed 9 am, zoom

• NSF on our project to use AI to analyze news on various platforms and in numerous languages.
• Open Framing: Interactive ML tool for multilingual media frame analysis of user-provided data. Try it out!
• Google Research Award to analyze bias in news.

Robotics: Neuroscience-Inspired Perception, Navigation, and Spatial Awareness for Autonomous Robots
We received a large grant involving BU and MIT. My team's focus is animal and human pose and activity recognition. OptiPose. ExerciseCheck.

Camera Mouse

AI-Aphasia Research, Group meetings, summer 2023 Thu 3-4, zoom

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

Pneumonia detection in lung ultrasound video with deep learning

My Previous Research

Cell image analysis project

Video analysis of group behavior of animals

Medical Image Analysis and and Lung Cancer Detection

Ear Biometrics Research

Proficio: Robotic arm for physical therapy.

Margrit Betke, Professor Computer Science Department Boston University Boston, MA 02215 Email: betke @ bu.edu URL: https://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/betke