Danna Gurari and Seule Ki Kim won a "Best Paper Award" for "SAGE: An
Approach and Implementation Empowering Quick and Reliable Quantitative Analysis
of Segmentation Quality" at the IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer
Vision (WACV) in Clearwater, Florida, in January 2013. This was one of two
awards selected among 161 submitted and 75 accepted papers at WACV.
Samuel Epstein won a 2011 Solomonoff Student Prize at
the Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI),
August 2011 for the co-authored paper "An Information Theoretic
Representation of Agent Dynamics as Set Intersections," August
2011.
MA student Christopher Kwan won the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences Award on his work entitled "Camera
Canvas: Image Editing Software for People with Disabilities," Boston
University Science Day, March 2011.
Christopher Kwan won the 2nd Place Poster
Award at the Boston University Undergraduate Research Symposium for the
presentation {\em Camera Canvas: Image Editing Software for People with
Disabilities} in Fall 2010.
UROP News.
David House won the "Best Poster Award" at the Boston University
Undergraduate Research Symposium, for the presentation of ``Image
Analysis of Microorganisms: Developing a System for Tracking Cell
Populations'' in Fall 2009.
BU CAS Magazine article.
Caitlin Connor won the Clare Booth Luce Undergraduate Summer
Research Fellow award in 2008.
Maria Shugrina won the Boston University "College Prize for
Excellence in Computer Science" in May 2007.
Benjamin Waber won the Boston University Computer Science
Department "Research Achievement Award " in May 2006.
Michael Chau won the Boston University "College Prize for
Excellence in Computer Science" in May 2005.
Angshuman Bagchi won the President's Award at BU's Science and
Engineering Day 2005 for "Tracking Large Variable Numbers of Objects
in Clutter," selected from more than 150 contributions to Boston
University's
Science and Technology Day, March 2005.
Diane Hirsh won the Lubee Bat Conservancy
Award at the 33rd Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research
for the outstanding oral presentation on "Censusing Brazilian
Free-tailed Bats Using Infrared Thermal Imaging and Computer Vision
Methods," October 2003.
She also won the Boston
University Computer Science Department "Academic Achievement Award" in
May 2004.
Stephen Crampton won the Chancellor's Award for
"Counting Fingers in Real Time: A Webcam-based Human-Computer
Interface with Game Applications" among 165 contributions to Boston
University's Science
and Technology Day, March 2003.
Harrison Hong won the Provost's Award for "Automatic 3D Registration
of Lung Surfaces in Computed Tomography Scans" among more than 120
contributions for Boston University's Science and
Technology Day, March 2002.
Zheng Wu,
PhD thesis on "Occlusion Reasoning for Multiple Object Visual
Tracking," September 2012.
Now postdoc in my group.
John Magee,
PhD thesis on "Adaptable Interfaces for People with Motion Disabilities," September 2011.
Now at Clark University, Worcester, MA
William Mullally,
PhD thesis on "Image Registration and Computational Modeling of the Lung,"
May 2009. Until recently Reveal Imaging Technologies, Inc., Bedford,
MA, now Software Design Engineer at KEYW Corporation, North Andover, MA
Jingbin Wang. PhD
thesis on "Object segmentation using shape constraints," May 2007.
Now Software Engineer at Google, Mountain View, CA.
My MA Thesis Students
Seule Ki Kim, MA thesis on "Integrating Computer Vision Techniques into a
Touch Pad System," May 2013.
Wajeeha Akram, MA thesis on "Designing and Evaluating Computer
Vision Based Interfaces for Users with Disabilities," June
2007. Then CS professor in Pakistan. Now in London.
Lisa Premerlani, MA thesis on
"Stereoscopic Reconstruction and Analysis of Infrared Video of Bats,"
May 2007. Now at MIT Lincoln Labs.
Angshuman Bagchi
MA thesis on "A Clustered Data Association Technique for Expedited
Multi Target Tracking," September 2006. Now at Bloomberg.
Johanna Brewer
MA thesis on "Real-Time 4D Tumor Tracking and Modeling from Internal
and External Fiducials in Fluoroscopy," September 2004. Now in PhD
program at UC Irvine.
Stephen Crampton
MA thesis on "Counting Fingers in Real Time Using Computer-Vision
Techniques," September 2004. Now
computer science teacher at The Dwight-Englewood School,
Englewood, NJ.
John J. Magee MA
thesis on "A Real-Time Human-Computer Interface Based on Gaze
Detection from a Low-Grade Video Camera," May 2004. Now in BU's PhD
program.
Harrison Hong, MA
thesis and journal paper on "Landmark Detection in the Chest
and Registration of Lung Surfaces with an Application to
Nodule Registration," May 2003. Now at Revealimaging
Technologies, Inc.
William Mullally,
MA thesis and journal paper on "Segmentation and Registration of
Nodules in Chest Computed Tomography," May 2003. Now in BU's PhD
program.
Jason Ruel, MA thesis
on "Tracking and Predicting of Tumor Motion in the Abdomen," August
2003. Now at University of Washington.
My MA Project Students
Zhongchen Shen, "Video-based Detection of the Orientation of a Drivers Head
by Measuring the Shadow of the Nose," May 2013.
Gordon Towne, "Error Analysis and Design Considerations for
Stereo Vision Systems Used to Analyze Animal Behavior," May 2012.
To be published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Visual
Observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior (VAIB 2012),
to be held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on
Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012) Tsukuba, Japan, November, 2012.
Luis Carrasco, "Picture
Identification by Mining Existing Image Search Platforms,"
January 2012.
Alex Leyong Tan, "A Gesture-based Human-computer Interface of Google
Earth using the Kinect Game Console,"
September 2011.
Tianqiang Liu, "Hand Dection
and Tracking with Multiple Dynamic Hidden State Shape Models,"
September 2011.
Chris Kwan, "Camera Canvas:
Image Editing Software for People with Disabilities," May 2011. Now Software
Engineer at Lattice Engines.
Jiaxu Fu, "3D Camera Mouse by Virtual Tracking of 3D Face Features Using
Stereo Cameras," May 2011. Co-advisor: Janusz Konrad
Byung Hyung Kim, "Interactive Art Using a Camera-based Hands Tracking
Tool for Interaction between Humans and Computers," September 2010.
Chao Chung Hsieh, "Intelligent Video-Based Tracking Systems," September 2010.
Shuo Zeng, "Diagnostic Image Analysis of the Chest:
Feature-based Registration Techniques," May 2010. Co-advisor: Thomas Little
Hari Mohan, "Visual Tracking at Sea using the Covariance Tracking
Algorithm," May 2010. Co-advisor: Thomas Little
Yun Wang, "Visual Tracking at Sea using the Mean Shift Algorithm,"
May 2010. Co-advisor: Thomas Little
Harshith Chennamaneni, "MCC: A Multi-Camera Capture System for
Human-Computer Interaction," January 2010.
Esra Ataer Cansizoglu, "An Information Fusion Approach for Multiview
Feature Tracking," May 2009. Now at Northeastern University.
Jawad Mahmood, MA project on "Facial Modeling: Progeny Phenotype
Revelation," January 2009. Co-advisor: M. Alanyali.
Kevin Hu,
MA project on "Segmentation of the minor fissure on
CT," May 2007. Now at Bloomberg.
Marianne Procopio, MA
project on "Bat Flight Analysis: Further Insight into the Emergence of
Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats," May 2007. Now at MIT Lincoln Labs.
Jared Wickman, MA
project on "Graphical User Interface Layouts and the Camera Mouse,"
May 2007.
Benjamin N. Waber, MA project on "Web Mediators for Accessible
Browsing," May 2006. Now at MIT.
Laura Tiberii, MA project on "A Customizable Camera-based Human
Computer Interaction System Allowing People with Disabilities
Autonomous Hands-free Navigation of Multiple Computing Tasks," May
2006. Now at Raytheon.
Mikhail Gorman, MA project on "MusicMaker: A Camera-based Music
Making Tool for Physical Rehabilitation," January 2006. Now at
Bluestreak.
Omar Al-Hinai, MA project on "Real-time suppression of tremor
motion from Camera Mouse signal using finite impulse response
filters," September 2005. Now at Aramco.
Vladimir Rydzevsky, MA project on "Computing a Uniform Scaling
Parameter for 3D Registration of Lung Surfaces," September 2005.
Michael Chau, MA project on "Real Time Eye Tracking and Blink
Detection with USB Cameras," May 2005. He won the "College Prize for
Excellence in Computer Science" in May 2005. He is now an Analyst at
Goldman Sachs in New York.
Eddie Lee, MA project and NASBR conference abstract on "Bats in
Motion: Stereo Object Recognition and Trajectory Analysis of Flying
Bats," May 2005.
Michelle Paquette, MA project on "IWebExplorer: A Web browser
designed for use with an eye controlled mouse device," May 2005. Now
Software Engineer/Developer at Fidelity Investments in Boston.
Eugen Tsykinovskyy, MA project on "Segmentation of the
Respiratory Vessel Tree on CT," May 2005.
Shuang Tang, MA project and NASBR conference abstract on
"Challenges of censusing colonies of Brazilian free-tailed bats at
Eckert James River, Frio, and Davis Blowout caves using infrared
thermal imaging and initial censusing results," January 2005.
Kashan Arshad, MA project on "Dimensionality Reduction and
Efficient Retrieval of Medical Images from Large
Databases," September 2004.
Thomas Castelli, MA project on "Facial Feature Tracking and
Detection of Facial Occlusion due to Hand Gestures, "
August 2003. Now at Raytheon, Marlborough, MA.
Ramasri Raghavan, MA project on "Analysis on Karyotype Images,"
2002-2003. Now in Apex, NC.
Emily Stuckey, MA project on "Methods of Token-Based Authorship
Attribution for an English-Language Online Discussion Community," May
2003.
Haobing Wang, MA project on "Comparison of Methods to Predict
Abdominal Tumor Motion," May 2003. Now at Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Infirmary.
Robyn Cloud, MA project and workshop publication on
"Experiments with a Camera-Based
Human-Computer Interface System," May 2002. Now at Lockheed
Martin, Maryland.
Jonathan Lombardi, MA
project and workshop publication on "A Self-initializing Eyebrow
Tracker for Binary Switch Emulation," May 2002. Now at Massachusetts
General Hospital.
Yannis Minadakis
MA project on "GazePoint: Tracking Eye Movement to Determine
Gaze Direction," January 2003. Now at Teradyne.
My Undergraduate Research Students:
Seule Ki Kim and Eugene Yang, "Generating ground truth for cell
segmentation," Summer 2012.
Maxwell Porter, UROP project "Expanding a 3D Computer Model of Bats in Flight
Using Visible Light Footage," Summer 2012.
Jamal Rasheed, "Visualization of flight paths of bats," AY 2011-2012.
Gordon Towne, UROP project "Three Dimensional Reconstruction for
Intelligent Tracking Systems," Summer 2011.
Christopher Kwan, UROP project "Camera Canvas: Image Editing
Software for People with Disabilities," Summer 2010.
Gordon Towne, UROP project "A Computer Vision Aproach to Track Running
Performance," Summer 2010.
Eric Missimer, Summer 2009-Spring 2010 as undergrad and AY 2010/11 as PhD student.
Jacqueline
Crescimanno, undergraduate research assistant (NSF-REU) on "bat
imaging project," Summer 2008.
Caitlin Connor,
undergraduate research assistant (UROP) for the project "Automated
Initialization of HCl and Automated Recovery from Breakdwn of HCI
Features of Camera Mouse for Users with Severe Disabilities,"
Summer 2008.
David House,
undergraduate research assistant (UROP) for the project "Image
Analysis of Microogranisms: Developing a System for the Detection,
Segmentation, and Tracking of Cells and Cell Populations," Summer
2008-Spring 2010.
Emily Yu,
undergraduate research assistant on Camera Mouse project, Summer 2008.
Supported by the CRA-W Distributed Mentoring Program. Emily is a
student at Williams College.
Igor Fedyuk, Won-Beom Kim, Christopher Kwan, joint Directed Study
project (CAS CS 492) on "Camera Canvas: Image Editor for People with
Severe Disabilities," May 2008. pdf. Abstract.
Eric Immermann,
undergraduate research assistant on "bat imaging project," Spring and
Summer 2007.
Maria Shugrina,
undergraduate research assistant. Research project: "Empathic
Painting: Interactive stylization through observed emotional state."
Summer 2006, AY 2006/7.
Marianne Procopio, undergraduate research assistant on "bat
imaging project," 2004-2006.
Benjamin Waber, Directed study on "Video-based HCI system,"
academic year 2004/2005.
Diane E. Hirsh, BA thesis on "Evaluation of Computer Vision Methods for
Analyzing Infrared Thermal Video and Censusing Brazilian
Free-tailed Bats," May 2004. MA at MIT 2006. Now at BAE Systems.
Students involved in research via a "Directed Study"
Smita Deshpande, "RefLink: An Interface that Enables People with
Motion Impairments to Analyze Web Content and Dynamically Link to
References." Fall 2008. Joint paper published at The 9th
International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems
(PRIS
2009), Milan, Italy, May, 2009, pages 28-36, INSTICC Press,
pdf. Continues as research consultant and works at Motus Games.
My BA Thesis Students at Boston College
Jun Kawai, BA thesis on "Gaze Detection via Self-Organizing Gray-Scale
Units," May 1999, now at Sony, Japan.
Cleo V. Bertrand, BA thesis on "Computer Enhancement Techniques for CT
Scans," May 2000, now at NYU.
Peter Fleming, BA thesis on "The Camera Mouse," May 2000. Now at
Accenture.
John Magee, BA thesis on "Finding Eyes in Faces," May 2001. Now at BU.
William Mullally, BA thesis on "Region Classification for Factory
Circuit Board Error Detection," May 2001. Now at BU.
Kristen Grauman , BA
thesis on "Automatic Eye Blink Detection and Duration Analysis
in Real Time for Communication Purposes," May 2001. Now CS professor
at UT Austin.
Christopher Fagiani, BA thesis on "Evaluation of Tracking Methods for
Human Computer Interaction," May 2002.
Former student members of my Computer Vision Research Group at Boston
College
Cleo Bertrand (now at New York University)
Cahn Cao
Dewin Chandra (now at Arrowpoint, Boston)
Nicholas Dunn (BC Law, September 2005)
Chris Fagiani (now at NBC)
Peter Fleming (now at Accenture, formerly Andersen Consulting)
