Machine Vision Inspection, e.g. Omron or Cognex, (Natick, MA)
Robotics:
Face Recognition:
Critical 2020 Article.
Historic system from the 1996s, based on Alex Pentland and Matthew Turk's work: ViiSAGE
Now industry leader:
NEC Face Recognition
Medical Image Analytics:
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) for Hospitals: In 2017, IBM
bought
Merge Healthcare Inc (which bought
Boston-based Amicas in 2010) and their PACS system.
IBM Watson Imaging Patient Synopsis: AI-enabled solutions for medical imaging
Microscopy image analysis, e.g., for embryology or human semen analysis,
Proiser
Optical Character Recognition: Edit, convert, and compare scanned documents and "born-digital" PDFs
Intelligent Vehicles and Self-driving Cars:
Search by Image: Google,
Boston University's Image Rover
Search by Video Google
Generating Images: Playground AI, DALL-E2 by OpenAI, Midjourney
Assistive Technologies: Camera Mouse 2018. New Camera Mouse 2024.
Interactive Retail Experiences & Museums: Sensing Place Interactive
Entertainment & Gaming: J Allard and the Xbox, controlling a humanoid robot with Microsoft Kinect.
Colleagues at Boston University working on computer vision:
Image and Video Computing Research Group in CS:
Betke, Plummer, Saenko and Sclaroff
New faculty members who will join IVC in 2024:
Deepti Ghadiyaram and
Boqing Gong
Visual Information Processing Lab: Konrad and Ishwar
Medical Image Analysis: Kolachalama Lab,
Batman Lab
Some of my ongoing research projects:
AI-Aphasia Research, Group meetings, spring 2024, Wed 3-4 zoom
AI for Diagnosing Infant Pneumonia in Resource Limited Settings,
spring 2024, Fri 9 am on zoom
Artificial Intelligence & Emerging
Media (AIEM): Group meetings, spring 2024, Thu 9-10 EST on zoom (link managed by Ge Gao).
Computer
Vision for Student Learning with Online Tutors: Weekly meetings, spring 2024, Mon 2-3 pm EST, zoom
Video-based interfaces for people with disabilities, Camera Mouse, Eye Tracking, spring 2024, Fri 1-2 pm. Zoom.
Pose estimation, spring 2024, Mon 12:15 pm. My zoom room.
Some of my past research projects:
Medical Image Analysis and Cancer detection
Cell image analysis
Group behavior of animals
Assistive technology
Some of my former research assistants, now highly successful in industry or academia:
Angshuman Bagchi: AI Tools & Business Software (Sigma Computing)
Danna Gurari: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human Computation, Assistive Technology (University of Colorado)
Mehrnoosh Sameki: Responsible AI Tools (Microsoft Azure AI)
Diane Theriault: Video Analysis of Group Behavior, 3D Tracking, Microscopy Imaging (Google)
Jingbin Wang: Artificial Intelligence Products (Google)
Zheng Wu: Selfdriving Cars (AutoX)
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Margrit Betke, Professor
Computer Science Department
Boston University
URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/betke
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