Biographical Sketchs

Professor Mubarak Shah

Education

Ph.D. (Computer Engineering), December 1986; Wayne State University.
M. S. (Computer Engineering), May 1982; Wayne State University.
B.E. (Electronics), December 1979; National College of Engineering of Technology, Pakistan.

Academic Experience

1991-Present: Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Central Florida.

1986-1991: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Central Florida.

Current Research Interests

Motion-Based Recognition, Shape from shading, Structure from motion, Gesture Recognition, Sensor Fusion, Hardware Implementation of Vision Algorithms.

NSF FUNDING

1. Workshop on Computer Vision in Pakistan, (NSF), $15,000, July 1994-June 1995.
2. Movement Analysis, (NSF), $229,245, May 1993-April 1996.
3. Equipment for Research in Special Purpose VLSI Architecture, with Amar Mukherjee and Mostafa Bassiouni, (NSF), $52,000, January 1993-December 1993.
4. Science in Developing Countries: Computer Vision Research Participation in Pakistan, (NSF), $7,600, December 1992-December 1993.
5. Equipment for Research in Image Understanding and Image Compression for Dynamic Scenes, with Mostafa Bassiouni and Takis Kasparis, (NSF), $53,000, June 1992-May 1993.
6. Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision, with Kevin Bowyer, (NSF), $200,000, June 1992-May 1994.
7. Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision, with Kevin Bowyer, Krishnan Ganapathi, (NSF), $104,930, June 1991-May 1992.
8. Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision, with Kevin Bowyer, Krishnan Ganapathi, (NSF), $105,000, June 1990-May 1991.
9. Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision, with Kevin Bowyer, Krishnan Ganapathi, National Science Foundation (NSF), $76,000, June 1989-May 1990.
10. Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision, (NSF), $44,000, June 1987-May 1988.

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Five Publications Related To This Project

For purposes of this proposal, ``most closely related'' has been interpreted simply as recent publications co-authored with past REU participants. The undergraduate co-authors' names appear in bold face.

1. James Davis and Mubarak Shah, ``Visual Gesture Recognition'', Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol 141, No. 2, April 1994. (Mr. James Davis participated in the REU program in the 1993/94. He has been admitted to MIT for graduate work with full support. )
2. James Cryer, Ping-Sing Tsai and Mubarak Shah, ``Integration of Shape From X Modules: Combining Stereo and Shading'', IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York City, June 15-17, 1993. (Mr. James Cryer was 1989/90 REU participant, he entered graduate school at UCF.)
3. Krishnan Rangarajan, Bill Allen, and Mubarak Shah, ``Matching Motion Trajectories'', Pattern Recognition, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp 595-610, April, 1993. (Mr. Bill Allen participated in the REU program in 1991/92; he entered the graduate program at UCF.)
4. Kristine Gould, Krishnan Rangarajan, and Mubarak Shah ``Detection and Representation of Events in Motion Trajectories'', chapter in Advances in Image Analysis, editors: Y. Mahdavieh, Y., and Gonzalez, R., SPIE Optical Engineering Press, 1992. (Ms. Kristine Gould was 1987/88 REU participant. She received a fellowship from the State of Florida for her M.S., which she completed in 1991.)
5. Hackett, J., Lavoie, M., and Shah, M., ``Three Dimensional Object recognition using multiple sensors'', Journal of Information Science and Technology, October, 1992. (Mr. Jay Hackett was 1987/88 REU participant; Mr. M. Lavoie was 1990/91 REU participant. Jay finished his M.S. in 1990, and is working full time, and is a part time doctoral student. Mr. Lavoie was admitted to graduate School at UNC. )

Five Other Publications

1. Donna Williams, and Mubarak Shah,``Normalized Edge Detection '', CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing, Volume 55, pp 311-318, July 1993.
2. Mubarak Shah, Krishnan Rangarajan, and Ping-Sing Tsai, ``Motion Trajectories '', IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, August, 1993.
3. Krishnan Rangarajan, and Mubarak Shah, ``Interpretation of Motion Trajectories Using Focus of Expansion'', IEEE Transaction on PAMI, Volume 14, No. 12, pp 1205-1210, 1992.
4. Krishnan Rangarajan, and Mubarak Shah, ``Establishing Motion Correspondence '', Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, July 1992, pp 56-73.
5. Donna Williams, and Mubarak Shah, ``A Fast Algorithm for Active Contours and Curvature Estimation '', Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Vol 55, No.1, January 1992, pp 14-26.

Names of graduate advisors

• Professor Ramesh Jain
• Professor Arun Sood
• Professor George Lee

Research Collaborators Other Than Cited in the Publication List

None.

Kevin Wilson Bowyer

Degrees

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Duke University, 1980.
• B.S. in Economics, George Mason University, 1976.
  

Professional Experience

 
1989- 		 Associate Professor

      		 Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
      University of South Florida
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1991  		 Visiting Associate Professor

      		 Department of Electrical Engineering,
      University of Washington
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1984-1989 		 Assistant Professor

      		 Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
       University of South Florida
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1983-1984		  Research Faculty

 		  Institute for Informatics, Swiss Federal Technical Institute (ETH-Zurich)
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1980-1983		  Research Assistant Professor

 		 Department of Computer Science, Duke University

Honors and Awards

Teaching Incentive Program Award, USF College of Engineering, 1994.
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, USF College of Engineering, 1991.

Professional activities

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
• Editorial Board, CVGIP: Image Understanding.
• North American Editor, Image and Vision Computing.
• Associate Editor, Machine Vision & Applications.
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

Five Recent Publications Related to Proposed Project

The names of co-authors who had participated in the REU program in previous years are shown in bold type.

1. Sutton, Melanie, Stark, L. and Bowyer, K. Reasoning about function to achieve generic recognition of rigid 3-D shapes, accepted to appear in Pattern Recognition. Melanie Sutton participated in the 1991/92 REU program and is now in the Ph.D. program at USF.
2. Bowyer, K.W., Sallam, Maha, Eggert, D. and Stewman, J.H. Computing the generalized aspect graph for objects with moving parts, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 15 (6), 605-610, (June 1993). Maha Sallam participated in the 1990/91 REU program and will soon receive her Ph.D. from USF.
3. Woods, K.S., Doss, Chris, Bowyer, K.W., Solka, J.L., Priebe, C.E. and Kegelmeyer, W.P. Comparitive evaluation of pattern recognition techniques for detection of microcalcifications in mammography, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 7 (6), 1417-1436, (December 1993). Christopher Doss participated in the 1993/94 REU program and is now in the graduate program at North Carolina State University.
4. Hoover, Adam, Jean-Baptiste, Gillian, Goldgof, D. and Bowyer, K.W. A methodology for evaluationg range image segmentation techniques, 1994 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Sarasota, Florida (December 1994). Adam Hoover participated in the 1991/92 REU program and is now in the Ph.D. program at USF. Gillian Jean-Baptiste participated in the 1993/94 REU program and is currently an undergraduate at USF.
5. Sallam, Maha, Hubiak, Gary, Bowyer, K. and Clarke, L. Screening mammogram images for abnormalities developing over time, IEEE 1992 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando, Florida (October 1992), 1270-1272. Maha Sallam participated in the 1990/91 REU program and will soon receive her Ph.D. from USF. Gary Hubiak participated in the 1992/93 REU program and is now employed with Texas Instruments.

Five Other Publications

1. Stark, L. and Bowyer, K. Function-based recognition for multiple object categories, Image Understanding 59 (1), 1-21, (January 1994).
2. Eggert, D.W., Bowyer, K.W., Dyer, C.R., Christensen, H.I. and Goldgof, D.B. The scale space aspect graph, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 15 (11), 1114-1130, (November 1993).
3. Eggert, D. and Bowyer, K.W. Computing the perspective projection aspect graph of solids of revolution, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 15 (2), 109-128, (February 1993).
4. Bowyer, K.W. and Astley, S. (editors). State of the Art in Mammographic Image Analysis, World Scientific, 1994.
5. Christensen, H.I., Bowyer, K.W. and Bunke, H. (editors). Active Robot Vision, World Scientific, 1993.

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors

• Professor C. Frank Starmer (Duke University)
• Professor Robert H. Jones (Duke University)
• Professor Merrell Patrick (Duke University)
• Professor Niklaus Wirth (ETH Zurich)

Louise Stark
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of the Pacific
Stockton, California 95211
(209) 946-3071 stark@napa.eng.uop.edu

Degrees

• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, 1990.
• M.S. in Computer Engineering, University of South Florida, 1987.
• B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of South Florida, 1986.
  

Professional Experience

 
1992- 		 Assistant Professor

      		Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of the
	Pacific
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1990-1992 		 Visiting Assistant Professor

      		 Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
      University of South Florida
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1986-1989    		Graduate Research Assistant

            		Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University
of South Florida
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1988         		Summer Research Participant

            		Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

            		Oak Ridge, TN
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1987         		Summer Graduate Research Fellow

            		Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss AFB, Rome, NY

Honors and Awards

Eberhardt Teacher/Scholar Award, University of the Pacific, 1994.

Professional activities

• Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition, Pergamon Press (journal of the Pattern Recognition Society).
• Special issue on Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision and Robotics, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 1994. (Guest editor with Kim Boyer and Horst Bunke)
• Conference chair (with Kim Boyer), SPIE Applications of AI XI: Machine Vision and Robotics, 1993 (Orlando, Florida).
• Program committee, IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1994 (Seattle, Washington).

Five Recent Publications Related to Proposed Project

The names of co-authors who had participated in the REU program in previous years are shown in bold type.

1. Sutton, Melanie, Stark, L. and Bowyer, K. Reasoning about function to achieve generic recognition of rigid 3-D shapes, accepted to appear in Pattern Recognition.
2. Green, K., Eggert, D. Stark, L. and Bowyer, K. Generic recognition of articulated objects by reasoning about functionality 1994 AAAI Workshop on Representing and Reasoning about Device Function, Seattle, Washington (July 1994), 56-64.
3. Stark, L. Recognizing Object Function Through Reasoning About 3-D Shape and Dynamic Physical Properties, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, Washington, (June 1994), 546-553.
4. Sutton, Melanie, Stark, L. and Bowyer, K.W. Function-based generic recognition for multiple object categories, in Three-dimensional Object Recognition Systems, A.K. Jain and P.J. Flynn, editors, Elsevier Science Publishers, (1993), 447-470.
5. Stark, L. Hoover, Adam, Goldgof, D.B. and Bowyer, K.W. Function-based object recognition from incomplete knowledge of object shape, AAAI Workshop on Reasoning About Function, Washington, D.C. (July 1993), 141-148.

Five Other Publications

1. Stark, L. and Bowyer, K. Function-based generic recognition for multiple object categories, CVGIP: Image Understanding. 59 (1), 1-21, (January 1994).
2. Cook, D.J., Woods, K., Hall, L.O., Stark, L. and Bowyer, K.W. Learning and combining fuzzy values for object recognition, AAAI Fall Symposium: Machine Learning in Computer Vision, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (October 1993), 139-143.
3. Stark, L. Hoover, Adam, Goldgof, D.B. and Bowyer, K.W. Function-based object recognition from incomplete knowledge of object shape, AAAI Workshop on Reasoning About Function, Washington, D.C. (July 1993), 141-148.
4. Stark, L., Hall, L.O. and Bowyer, K.W. An investigation of methods of combining functional evidence for 3-D object recognition, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 7 (3), 573-594, (June 1993).
5. Stark, L. and Bowyer, K.W. Function-based object recognition for multiple object categories, in Advances in Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition, H. Bunke, editor, World Scientific Publishing, 441-450, 1992.

Graduate Advisor

• Professor Kevin Bowyer (University of South Florida)

Professor Niels J. da Vitoria Lobo

Education

- Ph.D., 
Computer Science Dept, University of Toronto, 1992.
Thesis: Computing egomotion, shape, and detecting independent motion from image motion.

- M.Sc., 
Computer Science Dept, University of Toronto, 1985.
- B.Sc. (Honours), 
Mathematics Dept, Dalhousie University, Canada, 1982.

Students

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Young H. Kwon, M.Sc. Thesis: ``Classifying human age from facial images'', completed December 1993.
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Jinxiong Chen, Ph.D. topic: ``Inexpensively animating fluids using physics'', expected graduation Sept 1995.
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Zarina Myles, Ph.D. topic: ``Interpreting defocussed visual motion'', expected graduation January 1996.
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Keith Hunter, Ph.D. topic: ``Correctly estimating noisy fractal dimensions'', expected graduation Jan 1997.
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Xiong Zhiguo, Ph.D. topic: ``Animating and recognizing the modal behavior of cloth and garments'', expected graduation December 1996.
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Robert Uhl, M.Sc topic: ``Recognizing police sketches of human faces", expected graduation December 1994.
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Jim Duke, M.Sc topic: ``Using particle systems to implement visual attention and control level of detail'', expected graduation September 1994.
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Warren Macchi, B.S. thesis topic: ``Modeling rough interreflections", completed July 1994.

Honours and Awards

- 1997 NSF Research Initiation Award

- 1990 Department of Computer Science Scholarship

- 1986 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship Digital Equipment Corporation Award of Merit for Best Graduating Student in Computer Science Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Undergraduate Research Award First Prize, ACM Regional Undergraduate Computing Competition

- 1982 Dalhousie Undergraduate Scholarship

Research Grants

  1994 - 1997    NSF Research Initiation Award, $100,000.00

Five Most Relevant Publications

1. Uhl R., da Vitoria Lobo N. and Kwon Y., ``Recognizing police sketches of faces", IEEE Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, Florida, (to appear, December 1994).
2. Kwon Y. and da Vitoria Lobo N. (1994), ``Detecting faces in images using templates", International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Israel, October 1994.
3. Kwon Y. and da Vitoria Lobo N. (1994), ``Age classification from facial images", IEEE Conf on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, June 1994, 762-767.
4. Kwon Y. and da Vitoria Lobo N. , ``A theory for age classification from facial images", Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: Image Understanding (submitted).
5. da Vitoria Lobo N. and Tsotsos J.K. (1991), ``Using collinear points to compute egomotion and detect nonrigidity," Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Maui, Hawaii, June 1991, pp. 344-350.

Five Other Publications

1. Chen J. and da Vitoria Lobo N., ``Real-time fluid modeling using Navier-Stokes equations", Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: Image Synthesis (to appear).
2. Macchi W. and da Vitoria Lobo N. (1994), ``Modeling rough interreflections", International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Israel, October 1994 (to appear).
3. da Vitoria Lobo N. and Tsotsos J.K. , ``Using collinear points to compute egomotion and detect nonrigidity," Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: Image Understanding (submitted).
4. da Vitoria Lobo N. and Tsotsos, J.K. (1991), ``Computing egomotion and shape from image motion using collinear points,'' Proceedings of the International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, May 1991.
5. da Vitoria Lobo N. and Tsotsos J.K. (1990), ``Shape from binocular disparity and incomplete knowledge of baseline parameters,'' Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, August 1990, pp. 201-203.

Name of graduate advisor

• John K. Tsotsos

Research Collaborators Other Than Cited in the Publication List

None.