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 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.
Jingbin Wang. PhD
thesis on "Object segmentation using shape constraints," May 2007.
Now Software Engineer at Google, Mountain View, CA.
My MA Thesis Students
Wajeeha Akram, MA thesis on "Designing and Evaluating Computer
Vision Based Interfaces for Users with Disabilities," June
2007. Now CS professor in Pakistan.
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
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:
Jacqueline
Crescimanno, undergraduate research assistant (NSF-REU) on "bat
imaging project," Summer 2008.
Caitlin Connor,
undergraduate research assistant (UROP) on Camera Mouse project,
Summer 2008.
David House,
undergraduate research assistant (UROP) on cell image analysis project,
Summer 2008.
Emily Yu,
undergraduate research assistant on Camera Mouse project, Summer 2008.
Supported by the CRA-W Distributed Mentoring Program and student at
Williams College.
Eric Immermann,
undergraduate research assistant on "bat imaging project," Spring and
Summer 2007.
Maria Shugrina,
undergrduate 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.
