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department name USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Research Interests

My research interests span a broad spectrum of the Image Understanding field. The issues of representation and matching lie at the core of it, leading to the following questions:

  • how can we infer descriptions of objects (world-centered) from images (viewer-centered)?
  • how can we "recognize" objects we have never seen before?
In addition, I am interested in the design and implementation of very reliable vision systems to accomplish difficult tasks, using imperfect modules. I am also interested in establishing bridges between Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.

Research Projects
     
Common Name Project Title Sponsoring Agency
     
NEI/NIH Midlevel Vision Systems for Low Vision National Institute of Health
DOJ Recognition of Non-Cooperative Individuals at Distance Using 3D Face Biometrics National Institute of Justice
MURI Spatio-Temporal Nonlinear Filtering with Applications to Information Assurance and Counter Terrorism Brown University
KAL VAT: Video Assisted Tracking Airbus France
NIH/Doheny Objective Diagnosis and Qualification of Retinal Disease Doheny Eye Institute
IMSC Goose Bumps! The Science of Fear Exhibit Science Museum of Minnesota
CIA 3-D Models of Faces from Uncontrolled Video National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NSF Difficult Problems in Stereo and Motion Analysis National Science Foundation
ETRI ETRI-Visual Sensing for Natural Human-Robot Interaction  Electronics & Telecom. Research Inst.-Korea
VACE Robost and Scalable Recognition of Objects and Events in a Video Department of Interior/National Business Center
ONR Robust Object and Event Recognition for Large Scale Persistent Survelliance Office of Naval Research

 

  
 
 
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